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| Title: | Guide to the Papers of the Dering Family, ca.1450-1680 |
| Preferred Citation: | Folger Shakespeare Library MS X.d.531 |
| Creator: | Dering family |
| Extent: | 1 box (21 items) |
| Repository: | Folger Shakespeare Library. |
| Abstract: | Items 1-7: Family and business papers, 1606-1638. These include a copy of a letter from the archbishop of Canterbury to Sir Daniel Donne about certain seats in Pluckley church, September 11, 1606, and a copy of a letter from the Privy Council concerning the laxness of the Commissioners for the loans in collecting the loans, June 3, 1627. Items 8-16: Genealogical papers and notes from the public records, ca.1450-ca.1640. These include a leaf from Sir Edward Dering, 1st bart, about the history of his family. Items 17-21: Papers of Sir Edward Dering, 2nd bart., ca.1676-1680. These include notes from a gazetteer giving facts about England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Holland, France, and the American plantations; proposals for reducing smuggling and notes of a speech, probably dating from the time when Sir Edward was a commissioner of the Customs, 1676-1679; and minutes of the Grand Committee of the House of Commons (at which he presided), meeting to consider His Majesty’s supply and the need for 90 ships of war [February 6, 1677/78?]. |
| Processed by: | Folger staff | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date completed: | ca. 1981 (original typescript finding aid on file) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Encoded by: | Initial tagging provided by Apex Data Services, February 2000; revisions made by Folger staff. Project partially funded by the Gladys Kreble Delmas Foundation, in collaboration with the Research Libraries Group. | ||||||||||||||||||
The Dering family papers were purchased by the Folger Shakespeare Library from the Sotheby’s sale of July 20-21, 1981 (lot 4).
Film Fo. 3118 (microfilm copy, reduction ratio 12:1, 8 feet)
The following LCSH and AAT headings are assigned to this collection.
| Dering family. |
| Dering family--Genealogy. |
| Nobility--Great Britain--History--17th century. |
| Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603. |
| Great Britain--History--Stuarts, 1603-1714. |
| Personal papers. |
| Manuscripts--English--Washington, D.C. |
| Dering family. |
| Dering, Edward, Sir, 1598-1644. |
| Dering, Edward, Sir, 1625-1684. |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. February 6, 1678. |
X.d.531 (1-21)
(1) Copy of a letter from Richard Bancroft, archbishop of Canterbury, to Sir Daniel Donne (dū), from Lambeth, September 11, 1606, concerning the controversy between Sir Anthony Dering and Mr. Bettenham of Pluckley about seats on the north side of the chancel of Pluckley church.
(2) 2 memoranda, March 8, 1628, concerning certain trees felled at Mr. Bettenham’s command.
(3) A brief note of all evidences delivered by Alice Tilghman, widow, to me [Sir Edward Dering] in August next after her husband’s death, 1635.
(4) Letter from Sir Edward Dering to Lady Margaret Wotton (1581-1659), from Ashfor[d] December 11, 1635, with a receipt for £200 lent by her to him. Drafts.
(5) Letter from Sir Edward Dering to his mother-in-law, Elizabeth, viscountess Cramond (d. 1651), from London, February 12, 1637/38, with his quitclaim. Drafts.
(6) Copy of a letter from the Privy Council to the Commissioners for the loans in the county of Kent, June 3, 1627, concerning the Commissioners’ laxness in collecting the loans. Cf Acts of the Privy Council, January-August 1627, p.142, March 18, 1626/27.
(7) Notes of assessments and fines levied by the Quarter Sessions, August 4, 1627-August 27, 1634, including sums levied in Smarden for the repair of [St.] Paul’s.
(8) Pedigree of Baron Roger Merley and Somerville. Item 10 of some collection. Ca. 1450. Mentions the advowson of the church at Stannington [Northumberland], given by Roger de Somerwyll’ (d. 1336). Mentions the Abbey grange of Hulwa.
(9) Notes taken from a chronicle, 46-57 [Henry III]. Not from Holinshed, Caxton, or Wynkyn de Worde.
(10) Note on the Plantagenets, 29 Henry VI-3 Henry VII.
(11-12) Copies of Letters Patent addressed to William Delapole, 13 Edward III, and of a warrant concerning an annual payment to Henry Le Scrope, son of Geoffrey, 48 Edward III.
(13) Notes taken from [The Blazon of gentrie, 1586, (STC 10824)], by [Sir John] Ferne.
(14) Notes from an heraldic book, pp. 18-19, 21, 29. Notes on crosses.
(15) Notes of personal names (from Atmeade to Whatelow) taken from an index to records of the 15th and 16th centuries, July 20, 1637.
(16) Leaf from Sir Edward Dering’s family history. Cf. Folger MS V.b.307, p. 61-63.
(17) Notes out of Cotton’s records, 1 Henry IV - 13 Edward IV
(18) Notes from Chapters [1?] - 4 of a gazetteer. Watermarks: ‘PG(?)’ and a bunch of grapes.
(19) Proposals for reducing smuggling, arranged under 13 heads, probably drawn up while he was a Commissioner of the Customs, January 8, 1676-1679. Refers to a Mr. Herm.
(20) Heads of a speech giving reasons why Mr. Johnson [possibly Nicholas Johnson, paymaster, General of the Guards and Garrisons (d. April 1682) or Nathaniel Johnson, a Commissioner of Hearth Money (knighted 1682)] should not be appointed receiver of the excise and customs longer than during the king’s pleasure, 1676-1679?, addressed “to your Lordship.” Speech headings:
| 1) No one should have the right of managing the king’s treasure longer than the king sees fit |
| 2) No design of supplanting [Mr. Johnson?] would not be to the King’s honor, to have a minister whom he cannot remove |
| 3) Against borrowing money of those who have receipts in their hands |
| 4) It is directly against the statute |
| 5) ...If Mr. Johnson ascends this board...he must yet continue receiver till his money is paid |
| 6) Royal (?) intent might be etc. yet an estate for the king to successors, when he hath himself but an estate for life (?) |
(21) Minutes of the Grand Committee of the House of Commons meeting to consider His Majesty’s supply and the need for 90 ships of war, [February 6, 1677/78]. Sir Edward Dering presided [as a Commissioner of the Treasury, March 26, 1679-June 24, 1684]. (See A. Grey, Debates of the House of Commons, V, 96-109, and Journals of the House of Commons, IX, 432-438, February 5-14, 1677/78).