Notes for a history of the Dering family [manuscript], compiled ca. 1631.

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Notes for a history of the Dering family [manuscript], compiled ca. 1631.

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Contents include extracts from and copies of public and private records bearing on the history of the Cinque Ports, of Kent and of his own family. In several places he outlines, as though for a preface, his reasons for undertaking a history, "to leave this lieger record to my posterity, thereby to make them to be active-minded in virtue" (Pt. I, p. 61). "What is history but the pedigree of the world and what history but insisteth upon the descent and succession of the eminent persons therein mentioned" (Pt. I, p. 92). Sir Edward Dering is careful to list his sources and had a warrant to search repositories.

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