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Elisabeth Gregor (née Moyle) (1665–1716) was a Cornish gentlewoman who composed a commonplace book of verse, bound with an annotated print copy of Edmund Waller’s poetry, now housed in Yale University’s Beinecke Library. In addition to her own manuscript composition, Gregor collected books, including a copy of Shakespeare’s Third Folio, currently a part of Meisei University’s holdings. Gregor played a foundational role in the creation of the library at Trewarthenick House (her family’s estate near Truro), where she established an atmosphere of reading and learning that generations of the Gregor family continued to enjoy after her death.
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Manuscripts
CRO G/1544. Will of Elizabeth Gregor, Widow. April 5, 1716. Cornwall Records Office.
CRO G/1964. Latin treatise on metaphysics. c. 1700. Cornwall Records Office.
CRO G/1966. Book of poems in Latin and English. c. 1710. Cornwall Records Office.
CRO G/1967. Volume, notes on various topics, sermon, charges, catalogue and method of studies. Eighteenth century. Cornwall Records Office.
CRO P38/1/1b. Register of Christenings, Marriages & Burials, belonging to the Parish of Cornelly, bought in the Year 1724. Cornwall Records Office.
Gregor, Elisabeth. 1684. Miscellany. MS pb 110. Osborn Collection. Beinecke Library, Yale University.
Hanmer, John. 1692. Pamphlet, sermon preached by John Hanmer. CRO G/1962. Cornwall Records Office.
STM/PR/5/21. Westminster Church of England Parish Registers. City of Westminster Archives Centre.
Printed Works
Gilbert, Davies. 1838. The Parochial History of Cornwall. 4 vols. London: J. B. Nichols and Son.
Jewers, Arthur John. 1889. Heraldic Church Notes from Cornwall. London: Mitchell & Hughes.
North, Christine. 1996. “Trewarthenick, Cornwall.” The Historian 50:13–15.
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Shakespeare, William. 1664. Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. 3rd ed. London. MR 1571. Meisei University.
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Kennedy, A. (2023). Gregor, Elisabeth. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_181-2
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