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Add MS 27443-27446
- Record Id:
- 032-002030882
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002030882
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x0002e6
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 27443-27446
- Title:
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Paston Letters and Papers
- Scope & Content:
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Four volumes of correspondence and papers of members of the Paston family, 1425-1520.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002030882
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- Add MS 27443 : Paston Letters and Papers
Add MS 27444 : Paston Letters and Papers
Add MS 27445 : Paston Letters and Papers
Add MS 27446 : Paston Letters and Papers
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
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A collection of letters and papers, bound together in 4 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance: William Paston (b. 1653/4, d. 1732) 2nd Earl of Yarmouth, by descent through the Paston family.
Peter le Neve (d. 1729), collector and antiquary, purchased by him from William Paston (see Gairdner, Paston Letters (1900), I, p. 4).
Thomas Martin (d. 1771), antiquary of Palgrave, acquired by him as executor of Peter le Neve (see Gairdner, Paston Letters (1900) I, p. 4).
John Worth, chemist of Diss, sold by him in 1774 to John Fenn (see Gairdner, Paston Letters (1900) I, p. 6).
John Fenn (b. 1739, d. 1794), antiquary, the 5th of five volumes of Original Letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III...., prepared by him but published in 1823 by his nephew, Sarjeant Frere, after his death (now Additional MSS 27443-27446). Volume I and II of Fenn's original series were published in 1787, are now bound as four volumes, Additional MSS 43488-43491and volume III and IV were published in May 1789, now Additional MSS 34888 and 34889.
?John Frere (b. 1740, d. 1807), landowner and antiquary of Roydon Hall, brother-in-law of John Fenn and inheritor of his library, though his son, William Frere, was unable to find Fenn's manuscripts in the library in 1823 (see Davis, Paston Letters (2004), I, pp. xxviii-xxx).
Philip Frere (b. 1821), F.R.S., by descent and found by him at Dungate in Cambridgeshire in 1865; sold by him to the British Museum on 13 October, 1866.
- Information About Copies:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1875, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1882), II, p. 321.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Fenn, John, editor of the Paston Letters, 1739-1794
Frere, George Edward, of Roydon Hall, county Norfolk, b. 1821
Frere, John, brother-in-law of John Fenn, 1740-1807
Le Neve, Peter, herald and antiquary, 1661-1729 - Related Material:
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From the printed Catalogue of Additions (1877):
'ORIGINAL correspondence and papers of the family of Paston, of Paston, co. Norfolk, during thereigns of Edward IV.- Henry VII.; comprising, the letters published, but not in their integrity, in 1823, in Vol. v. of "Original Letters," edited by Sir John Fenn, together with. other papers. The whole collection has been lately printed in the "Paston Letters," by James Gairdner, 1872-1875. Four volumes. Paper; xvth and xvith centt. Folio.'