Manuscript Autobiography

Item author: Alexander Daniel
Item date: 17th century
Grant Value: 4,471
Item cost: 10,846
Item date acquired: 1998
Item institution: Cornwall Record Office - Kresen Kernow
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall

Contains a quantity of religious and other verse, some in cypher, copies of letters sent to friends, family and lawyers and many pages of autobiographical information. Daniel came of an important Cornish merchant family, being himself a farmer and trader in timber and pilchards. He fought for the King in the Civil War