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Add MS 27451
- Record Id:
- 032-002030892
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002030892
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x0002ea
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- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 27451
- Title:
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1. MEMORANDUM of plate of William Paston, left in pledge with Elizabeth Clere, of Ormesby; 24 Oct. 14 Edw. IV. [1474], f. 1. (Davis, no 95.2)
2. Indenture of plate delivered to John Russhe; 19 August, 1479 (Davis, no 942)
3. Anonymous memorandum [by one of the Paston family?] "to speke with William Byrde." xvth cent. f. 3. (Gairdner, 1084)
4. Inventory of plate of the Pastons, ? after 1479 (see "Paston Letters," ed. Gairdner, iii. p. 270), f. 4-10 (Davis, no. 923)
5. Deer account of Richard Chambyr, "Parker" of Framlingham Park, co. Suffolk; 24 Hen. VII.-5 Hen. VIII. [1509-1513]. Imperfect. f. 11.
6. Household-book of Sir Thomas L'Estrange of Hunstanton, co. Norfolk; 22 Apr. 1526-23 Mar. 1527, f. 26. Paper; xvth and xvith centt. Oblong Folio.
- Scope & Content:
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Paston family; of Norfolk: Correspondence and papers: tempp. Edw. IV.-Jas. II.
includes:
- f. 1 William Paston, son of Judge W Paston: Pledges of plate: 1470-1479.
- f. 1 Elizabeth Clere, wife of Robert Clere, of Ormesby: Pledging of plate by W. Paston to: 1474.
- f. 11 Framlingham Manor; Suffolk: Deer accounts of the parker: 1509-1520.
- f. 11 Richard Chambyr, Parker of Framlingham Park: Deer accounts: 1509-1520.: Imperf.
- f. 26 Sir Thomas L'Estrange, High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1532: Extracts from his account-books: 1522-1538.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002030892
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002030892
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 15th century-16th 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, not published by him but stored with the letters that were published in his Original Letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III , volume V (now Additional MSS 27443-27446) and with letters from the 16th and 17th centuries (now Additional MSS 27447-27448).
?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, part of a large collection of letters and papers from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries; sold by him to the British Museum on 13 October, 1866.
- Publications:
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Original Letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III..., ed. by John Fenn, 5 vols (London, Robinsons, 1787-1823), V (1823).
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1875, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1882), II, p. 321.
The Paston Letters, 1422-1509 A.D., ed. by James Gairdner, 4 vols (Westminster, 1900-1901); 6 vols (London and Exeter, 1904).
H.S. Bennett: The Pastons and their England: Studies in an Age of Transition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1937).
Norman Davis, 'A Scribal Problem in the Paston Letters', English and Germanic Studies, 4 (1952), 31-64.
David Stoker, ''Innumerable letters of good consequence in history': the discovery and first publication of the Paston letters', The Library, 6th series, 17 (1995), 107–55.
Colin Richmond, The Paston family in the fifteenth century, 3 vols (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996-2001).
The Paston women: Selected letters: trans. by Diane Watt (Cambridge; D.S. Brewer, 2004).
Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century, ed. by Norman Davis, 3 vols, Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series, 20-22 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [an edition of the texts in this and other manuscripts, with notes and additional bibliography].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Chambyr, Richard, Parker of Framlingham Park
Clere, Elizabeth, wife of Robert Clere, of Ormesby, 1384-1441
Fenn, John, Sir, antiquary, b 1739 d 1794
Framlingham Manor, Suffolk
L'Estrange, Thomas, High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1532
Paston, Family
Paston, William, son of Judge W Paston