Books by Jan Ross

Local history of Walmley, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, United Kingdom. Covering the B75 postcode area in relation to its statutory listed buildings. Walmley House, War Memorial, Saint John's Church, Almshouses, New Hall Estate including Hall, College, Gardeners Cottage, Coach House, Lodge, Farm, Mill and Country Park. New Shipton Farm,Warren House Farm, Ford Keepers Cottage, Wincelle House, Wigginshill, Minworth Greaves, Langley Hall, Langley Heath Farm, Mary Ashford, Fox Hollies House, Forge Farm and Barn, Peddimore Hall and Farmhouse, Penns Hall, Reddicap Hill Cottage, Walmley School House, The ShrubberyText and Pictures

This volume in the definitive edition of Thomas Traherne contains his best-known works, Centuries of Meditations and Select Meditations.Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674), a clergyman of the Church of England during the Restoration, was little known until the early twentieth century, when his poetry and Centuries of Meditations were first printed. There have beensince only miscellaneous publications of his poetry and devotional writings. The Works of Thomas Traherne brings together for the first time all Traherne's extant works, including his notebooks, in a definitive, printed edition. The six works in this volume are taken from two manuscripts. The first, held at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (MS Eng. th. e. 50), contains Centuries of Meditations; the other, held at the BeineckeRare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (Osborn MS b. 308), is comprised of three works by Traherne, Select Meditations and two brief untitled treatises, "e;Being a Lover of the world"e; and "e;The best principle whereby a man can Steer his course"e;. It also includes two works by an unidentified writer, A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and A Meditation; neither work is of Traherne's making.