Purveyor's memoranda book, Kent [manuscript], 1602-1628.

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Purveyor's memoranda book, Kent [manuscript], 1602-1628.

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Copies of 1602 agreement with royal household officials about purveyance, and of local arrangements compounding for a general tax in the county. Some accounts of sums collected from 1615 to 1628 (the collector for 1628 being Sir Edward Dering). In other hands: receipt of 1700 for wood sold, and table of increases in the composition from 1616 to 1640.

25 leaves.

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Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

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English antiquary and collector. He began collecting while at Rugby School and Oxford. On inheriting his father's estate at Middle Hill in Worcestershire, Phillipps embarked on a career of collecting manuscripts and books. His collection of manuscripts eventually numbered over 60,000 items. During Continental trips in the 1820s Phillipps bought heavily, and back in England he continued to do so, often buying up entire estate libraries at auction. He collected Eastern, Greek and Lat...

England. King's Household

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Dering, Edward, Sir, 1598-1644

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Sir Edward Dering (b. Tower of London, January 28, 1598-d. 1644) was a British politician and antiquarian. His inheritance enabled him to indulge his interest in collecting manuscripts. He became a member of Parliament, but his controversial platforms regarding church and state caused him to be imprisoned. He agreed to support the king, but was an ineffectual soldier, and gratefully retired to his antiquarian interests as well as publishing various speeches and correspondence....

Dering family,

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