GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001497
TitleEstate Notebook, records of various Essex families
ShelfmarkD/DHf E205
Creation Date1644 - 1710
RepositoryEssex Record Office
Contents NoteRecords compiled by Sir Thomas Bendish of Steeple Bumpstead before he took up a post as Ambassador in Turkey. It includes miscellaneous papers, including particulars of rents in 1644; notes on tenancies; poor relief; a list of money received in tithes; survey of farm land; debts owed by tenants and a copy of Bendish's will.
At the back in reverse are three diary entries on sickness in August 1640, of the building of a "dining chamber" and chapel and on his imprisonment in the Tower of London in March 1642/3. There is also a list of "maxims in divinity & reason". There are three inserted loose sheets of sermons notes, with diary entries from 1709 and 1710 written on their backs.
Material Features1 vol. Bound in a paper cover with some damage.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Bendish, Thomas
Provenance
Acquisition
Source of DataCatherine Evans
Other Note
Sermons ContainedSermon on Matthew 119:17 -- 3 ff. (unfoliated and unpaginated)
Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdJune 09, 2021
GEMMS record last editedJune 11, 2021