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folk History and Topography, and works in illustration of them, has been seldom or ever collected.

His manuscript collection was extensive and highly valuable; and profusely enriched with works pertaining to his more favourite pursuit.

This "choice, curious, and extensive library" was dispersed by Mr. Evans, at two several periods in 1824. The first Part on Feb. 16, and eleven following days; and the Second Part on March 8, and seven following days. These catalogues contained 4264 lots; and the whole collection realised the sum of £.8,500.

The following enumeration of transcripts from Mr. Nassau's MSS. illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Suffolk, (the originals of which, amounting to thirty volumes, were not exposed to sale, but were reserved for the library of the family mansion at Easton,) with the sums they sold at, and the names of the purchasers, may not be uninteresting to inquirers into the topography of that county:

The History or Memoirs of Framlingham and Loes Hundred in Suffolk. Containing an Account of the Lords and Ladies thereof, with the most Remarkable Occurrences in Church and State, wherein they were concerned. Of Framlingham Town, Castle, Church, and Manor, with their respective Revenues. Of the Hundred of Loes, the Churches, Monasteries, Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry thereof, as well ancient as modern. With the Pretences of the Dean and Chapter of Ely to some Royal Privileges thereto belonging. Framlingham, An. Dom. 1712*." £35. 10s. Thorpe.

The writer of this brief sketch, who has pored over the productions of his pencil again and again with renewed delight, and in whose society he has spent many an agreeable hour, pays this last humble, but well-merited tribute of respect, to the memory of a most ingenious artist and an honest man.

* Robert Hawes, Gent. the compiler of this valuable and highly-interesting MS. was the eldest son of Henry Hawes, Gent. (a family which had been long seated at Brandeston in

A volume of MS. Collections relative to Suffolk. Transcripts of Old Charters and Curious Materials illustrative of the History of that County."

£.18. 7s. 6d. Thorpe.

"Liber Primus Curiæ Hundredi de Loes in Suff. incipit anno 9, desinit anno Jac. I. Regis." £.2. 28. Thorpe. This manuscript is a Minute-book of the Steward of the Hundred of Loes.

"Transcript of the Charter granted to Ipswich in 1634." £.2. Thorpe.

Suffolk,) by Mary, one of the daughters and co-heirs of John Smith, of Pyshalls, in the parish of Dennington in the same county. He was born in 1665, and brought up to the practice of the law; and in 1712 was appointed Steward to the Lordship or Manor of Framlingham by the Master and Fellows of Pembroke-hall, Cambridge. He married Sarah, the youngest daughter of George Sterling, of Charsfield, Esq. and, dying at Framlingham, was interred in the south aisle of the chancel of that Church, under a plain grey stone, on which is the following inscription:

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"Under this stone lies interr'd ye bodies of ROB HAWES, Attorney-at-Law, Gent. and SARAH his wife, both of this Parish. August ye 26, 1731, aged 66. October ye 11, 1731, aged 63." Mr. Hawes's History of the Hundred of Loes is a MS. of upwards of seven hundred pages, very neatly written; and illustrated in the body and the margin of the work with numerous drawings of Churches, Seats, Miniature Portraits, Ancient Seals, and of the Arms of the Nobility, Gentry, and Clergy of the Hundred, blazoned in their proper colours. It is dedicated to the Master and Fellows of Pembroke-hall, in the University of Cambridge, Lords of Framlingham and Loes Hundred, in the following words:

"Gentlemen; My only design at first was to reduce your Lordships or Manors of Framlingham and Saxted, according to the trust reposed in me, out of those confusions, wherein I found them, to a better order and method; but when once entered upon this work, curiosity soon led me further, and time and opportunity encouraged me to search into the antiquities of your whole Hundred of Loes.

"As to what concerns the Churches and Clergy, I am equally indebted to the generous assistance of those two worthy gentlemen, the Rev. Dr. Tanner*, Chancellor of Norwich, and Mr. *For an account of this learned man, see the "Literary Anecdotes," vol. VIII. p. 402.

"A Volume of MS. Collections relative to the Counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, with the Pedigrees." £.64. 18. Carpenter.

"Visitation of Suffolk in 1562, with Drawings." £.8. Thorpe. "Antiquitates Suffolcienses; or, Essay towards recovering some Account of the ancient Families of Suffolk, very fairly and legibly written.”

£.11. os. 6d. Thorpe. "Heraldic MS. with Drawings of Arms of Suffolk Families." £.7. 78. Triphook.

John Revet *, of Brandeston-hall in this Hundred; and in all other parts of this History or Memoirs, I was abundantly supplied with the materials from your own records and other manuscripts, as well as from Historians antient and modern.

"Out of all which it hath been my endeavour to collect, and (as far as in me lies) retrieve from oblivion, many considerable actions of your reverend and illustrious predecessors, both at Pembroke-hall and Framlingham Castle; the one being Domus Episcopum, and the other Sedes Principum, as well as of those persons who moved in a lower orb, the Gentry of this Hundred. "But with some digressions from the subject matter, about the growth of schism and heresy in their days, and the consequences thereof,-rebellion and sacrilege, originally sown in this kingdom by Papists and Puritans, which tares have taken such deep root, and thriven so much, as ill weeds generally do, that they are likely to grow up with the wheat, until (if the former choke not the latter before) the general harvest.

"I am sensible that a collection of this nature cannot but be liable, not only to some censures, for Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit, but also to many, though no wilful errors; and, therefore, my vouchers are all placed in the margin, that the credit of any story by me related may stand upon the authority of its author, and that by having a recourse to those authors themselves, it might be in your power more easily to correct any mistake of your steward and servant, ROBERT HAWES.

"Framlingham, August 1, 1712."

A copy of this work was presented by the author to Pembroke-hall, which in return gave him a silver cup and cover, adorned with the arms of the Society; not, says the Latin inscription upon it, as an adequate reward of his merits, but as a memorial of their grateful acceptance of his favour. The inscription is as follows:

• The father of that eminent architect Nicholas Revet, Esq.

"MS. containing Pedigrees of eminent Families." £.5. 15s. 6d. Triphook.

"A Breviary of Suffolk, or a Plain and Familiar Description of the County, the Fruits, the Buildings, the People, and Inhabitants; the Customs, the Division Political and Ecclesiastical, Houses of Religion, with all their several valuations; the chiefest men of learning, as of Divines, Privycounsellors, Marshal-men, and Navigators of former times; with several other things of note and "Seneschallo suo

ROBERTO HAWES,
viro integerrimo,
antiquitatum

investigatori diligentissimo,
ob navatam

in Historia FRAMLINGHAMIENSI

conscribenda

egregiè ab eo operam,
Hoc Poculum

non quod meritis sit dignum satis præmium,
sed beneficij gratanter accepti μνημόσυνον,

donat

COMMUNITAS PEMBROCHIANA.

MDCCXXIV *."

A copy of this work was likewise presented by the author to his friend, John Revet, of Brandeston-hall, Esq. It was sold at the sale of his books by Mr. Saunders in April 1821, and was purchased for £.40 by Mr. Rodwell, bookseller in New Bondstreet, for Mr. Nassau. Mr. Revet's copy is now probably in the possession of the Earl of Rochford, as it was not the same as that sold at Mr. Nassau's sale.

Another copy of this work is said to be in the Public Library at Cambridge; a fourth in the collection of the Marquis of Hertford; a fifth in the possession of Mr. John King, of Ipswich, the respectable Editor of the Suffolk Chronicle, from the collection of Henry Jermyn, of Sibton, Esq. t; and a sixth is in the collection of the Writer of this notice.

• Loder's Framlingham, p. 396.

+ This gentleman was descended from a branch of the very antient family of Jermyn, of Rushbrooke-hall in Suffolk. He was a Barrister-atlaw, and resided at Sibton in that county, where he deceased on the 27th of November 1820, in the 53d year of his age.

In conjunction with David Elisha Davy, Esq. he had amassed considerable collections in illustration of the History, Topography, and Antiquities of Suffolk. His valuable library was dispersed by public auction; and the following is the title of the catalogue:

"A Catalogue of the valuable Library, containing upwards of 2000, Books, and also of a curious Collection of Engravings and Drawings

observation within this County of Suffolk. Robert Ryece *.” £.14. 3s. 6d. Thorpe.

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* Robert Ryece was born in ...... ton in Suffolk. He was placed for some years in the house of the celebrated Theodore Beza, at Geneva, for the completion of his education, and is described as an accomplished gentleman, and a great preserver of the antiquities of the County of Suffolk t." He set up in the Church of Preston the Royal Arms of England on a fair table; and in glass those of many of the most eminent Knights and Esquires of the county, most of which are still remaining. He deceased on the 15th of September 1638, and was interred in the chancel of the Church of Preston, but without any inscription to his memory.

made and designed for the Illustration of a County History, of the late Henry Jermyn, Esq. of Sibton Abbey in Suffolk; together with numerous Manuscripts, and various Miscellaneous Articles, to be sold by Auction, by Mr. King, on Monday, the 25th day of June 1821, and Three following days," 8vo.

The following is a list of the MSS. and Drawings which relate to Suffolk :
Drawings of the fourteen Churches in the Town of Ipswich, by Johnson.
Twenty-eight Churches of the Hundred of Samford, by the same.
Eight Churches of the Hundred of Colneis.

Twenty Churches of the Hundred of Carlford,
Nineteen Churches of the Hundred of Loes.
Fifteen Churches of the Hundred of Wilford.

History of Framlingham and four quarto MSS. comprising, with the printed work, a complete copy of Hawes's entire Collections for Suffolk History, with his notes and additions. Illustrated with many Drawings of Arms and Antiquities.

Twenty-three Churches of the Hundred of Plomesgate, by Johnson.
Twenty-seven Churches of the Hundred of Blything, by the same.
Eight Churches of the Hundred of Mutford.

Sixteen Churches of the Hundred of Lothingland.
Twenty-six Churches of the Hundred of Wangford.
Twenty-eight Churches of the Hundred of Hoxne.

Two quarto MSS. of Pedigrees of some Suffolk Families, with Drawings of their Arms.-MS. of the Lords of the Manor of Benhall, from the Conquest to 1803.

The Plan of the Remains of the antient City of Dunwich in 1587, published by Gardner in 1754, with an Original of that Plan of older date and on a larger scale, and some fine MS. and topographical notices.

Drawings of Monuments in Letheringham Church, previous to their demolition in 1789-when the Church was taken down-with a View of the present edifice.

Copy of the ancient Plan of Aldeburgh, made by Appleton in 1588; and of another made in 1594, with a modern Account of that Town. Copy of a very antient Plan of the Town and Parish of Gorleston in the County of Suffolk, and Lands therein.

Original Maps or Plans of the several Parishes of Kessingland, Carlton Coleville, Kirkley, Reyden, Frostenden, South Cove, Wrentham, Sotterley, Halverstreet, and Úggeshall, in three lots, with MS. references. Mr. Jermyn's MS. Collections for a History of the County of Suffolk were not offered for sale.

"MS. Collections for Suffolk," in the possession of the Writer of this Memoir.

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