12-09-2023, 03:08 PM
The Whirlpool of Misadventures, Letters of Robert Paston, 1st Earl of Yarmouth, 1663-1679
"Robert Paston (1631-1683), first earl of Yarmouth, was the most distinguished descendant of the Paston family, celebrated letter-writers of the fifteenth century. He became Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk in 1676, and he and his strong-minded wife moved in court circles. Paston’s correspondence documents the life of a Norfolk magnate in a period of political change when the Norfolk gentry divided for the first time along party lines. It also reveals a most likeable man of scholarly and scientific interests, who devoted years to the search for the philosopher’s stone which he saw as the solution to his mounting financial problems."
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/23973367.le...cial-ruin/
https://www.norfolkrecordsociety.org.uk/...955635755/
"Robert Paston (1631-1683), first earl of Yarmouth, was the most distinguished descendant of the Paston family, celebrated letter-writers of the fifteenth century. He became Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk in 1676, and he and his strong-minded wife moved in court circles. Paston’s correspondence documents the life of a Norfolk magnate in a period of political change when the Norfolk gentry divided for the first time along party lines. It also reveals a most likeable man of scholarly and scientific interests, who devoted years to the search for the philosopher’s stone which he saw as the solution to his mounting financial problems."
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/23973367.le...cial-ruin/
https://www.norfolkrecordsociety.org.uk/...955635755/