Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Manlove, Edward
MANLOVE, EDWARD (fl. 1667), poet, a lawyer residing at Ashbourne in Derbyshire, published a rhymed chronicle of the ‘Liberties and Customs of the Lead Mines … composed in meeter’ for the use of the miners, London, 1653, 4to. It became a standard work of reference on the subject, being largely composed from the ‘Exchequer Rolls’ and from inquisitions taken in the various reigns (see Hist. of Ashbourn, 1839, pp. 90 sq.). From the title-page of the poem it is clear that Manlove filled the post of steward of barmote courts of the wapentake of Wirksworth, Derbyshire. An edition, to which is affixed a glossary of the principal mining and other obsolete terms used in the poem, was published by T. Tapping in 1851. In 1667 Manlove published ‘Divine Contentment; or a Medicine for a Discontented Man: a Confession of Faith; and other Poems’ (London, 8vo). A manuscript volume of ‘Essayes and Contemplations, Divine, Morall, and Miscellaneous, in prose and meter, by M[ark] H[ildesly],’ grandfather of Bishop Mark Hildesly [q. v.], and other members of Lincoln's Inn, dated 1694, was addressed by the editor to his friend ‘Philanthropus,’ i.e. Manlove (Harl. MS. 4726). The poet's son, Timothy Manlove, is separately noticed.
[Add. MS. 24188. f. 176 (Hunter's Chorus Vatum); Cat. of Harleian MSS.; Glover's Hist. of Derbyshire, vol. i. App. p. 108; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. (Bohn); Works in British Museum Library.]
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.193
N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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