MANUSCRIPT. - Samuel SEYER. [An autobiographical manuscript written in ink covering the life of Bristol historian, schoolmaster and cleric Samuel Seyer. N.p.:] 1793-1801. Approximately 265pp., 4to (204 x 157mm.) A clearly written account of Samuel Seyer's life and family. (Occasional browning.) Contemporary limp calf (some surface rubbing and minor loss to spine). Note: the manuscript describes Seyer's upbringing in Gloucestershire, pastoral duties, his unhappy time at Oxford, a reference to Edmund Burke, the school he ran with day-scholars and borders, the flogging ('such are the pleasures of keeping a school'), recording all miscarriages and infant mortalities, the precarious lives of female relatives and friends, a reference to the Jacobites, the riots on Bristol Bridge and the full story of Sir William Desse (dancing master to the Royals) unmasked as a 'swindler', culminating in the night of the rebellion of the boys at his school intent on shooting him ('but only in the legs') due to the suffering and harsh discipline they endured. Samuel Seyer published a translation of Vida's 'The Game of Chess', works on Latin syntax and the principles of Christianity and two further works on the history and topography of Bristol.