Parish and manor of Hengrave, 1421-1854
Scope and Contents
(p.1) MS copy of plan of Hengrave Park and estate, pen and watercolour, n.d.
(p.2) SIR THOMAS GAGE’s list of more uncommon plants in Hengrave parish (transcribed).
(p.9) SIR THOMAS GAGE’s church notes, observations on wall painting of St. Christopher in Hengrave church (transcribed).
Between pp.12-13, plates of three country houses: ‘Euston Hall in Suffolk the seat of His Grace the Duke of Grafton’. / ‘The seat of Bernard Howard Esqr. Fornham, near Bury, Suffolk’ (drawn by Pickett, engraved by Angus). / ‘Culford: the seat of the Marquis Cornwallis’.
Between pp.15-16, print: ‘Ruins of the Abbey of St. Edmund at Bury’ (Richard Godfrey, 1779).
Between pp.16-17, print: ‘North west view of the Abbey gate-way, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk’ (John Britton, 1811).
Between pp.17-18, print: ‘St James tower Bury’ (R. Sands, n.d.)
(p.18) Pen and wash drawing, seal of Edward the Confessor.
Between pp.20-21, print: ‘Seals’, including Abbot Hugh of St. Edmundsbury drawn W. Yates, engraved Francis Hery, published William Millar, 1804).
(p.41) Original protest of JOHANNA OF HENGRAVE, wife of RICHARD VEWETRE, against her will made in his favour under restraint, 21 DEC 1421 (Thingoe, p.177).
Between pp.42-43, pen and wash illustrations of coats of arms of Hethe family, by SIR THOMAS GAGE.
Between pp.45-46, print: Margaret mother of Henry VII, Countess of Richmond and Derby (J. Faber, 1714).
Between pp.48-49, print: ‘Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham’ (engraved J. Houbraken, Amsterdam, 1747, printed J.& P. Knapton, London, 1747).
Between pp.49-50, print: Edward Stafford Duke of Buckingham (J. Faber, 1714).
Between pp.52-53, MS pedigree of Kytson of Hengrave.
(p.53) Pen and wash illustration of the arms of Kytson.
Between pp.53-54: pen and wash illustration of portrait of SIR THOMAS KYTSON the elder.
Between pp.54-55: print: Thomas Wolsey (printed for Richard Chiswell, n.d.). (p.56). DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM’s receipt for £340 from SIR THOMAS KYTSON, 22 JUN 1520.
p.66. Warrant for Letters Patent for building of Hengrave Hall, 1525.
Between pp.66-67: pen and wash ‘Ancient plan of Hengrave Hall, Suffolk’, drawn by Robert Rushbrooke from a plan made in Queen Elizabeth’s reign.
Between pp.67-68, prints: ‘Hengrave Hall, (view of the central or entrance compartment) Suffolk’ (John Britton, 1809). / ‘A view of the south front of Hengrave Hall’ (J. Kendall, Bury St. Edmunds, n.d.).
Between pp.68-69, print: ‘Hengrave Hall, Suffolk’ (J.C. Smith for Architectural antiquities of Great Britain).
(p.78) JOHN GAGE, MS notes on changes to Hengrave, 1820s and 1830s.
(p.79) MS note by SIR THOMAS ROKEWODE GAGE about improvements in the Park, 1854.
Between pp.80-81, pen and grey wash drawing of Hall window at Hengrave.
Between pp.84-85, 85-86, 86-87, pen and wash drawings of coats of arms in Hengrave Hall, by SIR THOMAS GAGE.
Between pp.85-86, Note by JOHN GAGE of coats of arms added since 1822.
(pp.87-92) Description of portraits at Hengrave, and notes about paintings lost or destroyed.
Between pp.88-89, MS genealogy of Kytson and Gage ‘copied from a ped[igree] on paper drawn out by Mr. Francis Howard of the Order of St. Benedict in possession of Mr. Gage of Hengrave’, and continued by John Gage.
Between pp.90-91, print: ‘Mary Kirk, otherwise Miss Warmestre’ (E. Scriven, 1810, after a portrait by Lely).
Between pp.91-92, pencil drawing, Hengrave Church, interior, n.d. ‘Thomas Lord Clifford of Chudleigh’, print (E. Scriven, 1819, publ. James Carpenter, 1820), with MS note, ‘no connexion with this work’.
Dates
- Creation: 1421-1854
Creator
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Language of Materials
English
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