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Pictures from Francis Peck’s Desiderata; there are not many pictures in this book, and these are not all as good scans as I should like, unfortunately. I have the second edition, dated 1779. Francis Peck, M.A., was rector of Godeby near Melton in Leicestershire, according to the title page.
Title: Desiderata
City: London
Date: 1779
Total items: 7
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Woodcroft House Murder: Desktop Wallpaper Version]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Peck-Desiderata/wm/big/379-Woodcroft-House-bg-q50-267x200.jpg "[picture: Woodcroft House Murder: Desktop Wallpaper Version]")
Woodcroft House Murder: Desktop Wallpaper Version
See the main Woodcroft House plate for more information about this gruesome murder. [$]
![[picture: Woodcroft House in Etton Parish in Northamptonshire where Dr. Michael Hudson was murthered 6 June 1648]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Peck-Desiderata/wm/big/379-Woodcroft-House-q75-233x200.jpg "[picture: Woodcroft House in Etton Parish in Northamptonshire where Dr. Michael Hudson was murthered 6 June 1648]")
It seems that Dr. Hudson had tried to hide in a tower, but was caught; he tried to escape, and ended up dangling over the edge of the tower by his hands. His hands (or fingers, accounts vary) were cut off, and he fell to the moat. he was fished out and killed. He had been imprisoned in the Tower of London and escaped here, where he had been writing [...]House of Lords Journal Vol. 10 (8th June 1648) reprints a letter from Col. Wayte, that he has suppressed an Insurrection in Rutland, Lincolnshire, &c., and names this Dr. Michael Hudson (of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire) as one of the insurgents. This was during the English Civil War. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Burghley House from the Gardens]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Peck-Desiderata/wm/big/230-Burghley-house-from-the-gardens-q75-253x200.jpg "[picture: Burghley House from the Gardens]")
Burghley House from the Gardens
A spectacularly beautiful Elizabethan house, Burghley was built by William Cecil, the Lord High Treasurer of Queen Elizabeth I., between 1555 and 1587; William Cecil’s [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Frontispiece: Francis Peck, A.M.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Peck-Desiderata/wm/big/000-frontispiece-Francis-Peck-q75-146x200.jpg "[picture: Frontispiece: Francis Peck, A.M.]")
Frontispiece: Francis Peck, A.M.
The engraving was taken from life and shows Francis Peck standing, holding some of his own books, and wearing perhaps an academic gown. The inscription [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: View at Leicester]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Peck-Desiderata/wm/big/251-Newat-at-Leicester-q75-220x200.jpg "[picture: View at Leicester]")
Pictures from Francis Peck’s Desiderata; there are not many pictures in this book, and these are not all as good scans as I should like, unfortunately. I have the second edition, dated 1779. Francis Peck, M.A., was rector of Godeby near Melton in Leicestershire, according to the title page.
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