[ SYDENHAM HENRY AUGUSTUS HERVEY - EDITOR ] .

Bury St. Edmunds. St. James Parish Registers. Baptisms 1558 - 1800. Suffolk Green Books. No. XVII.

Bury St. Edmunds : Paul & Mathew, Butter Market, 1915. 0. Small 4to. 21.6cm x 18cm x 5.3cm [8.5" x 7" x 2"]. 4to. [4pp.]/pp.509/[1 p. - Adverts). A very good tight binding. Original green cloth with gilt titles to both front board and spine. Small one inch wide water splash to outer corner of front board. Corners and edges rubbed and bumped. Light foxing to endpapers. Printed title dated 1915. Preface signed: S.H.A.H. [ Sydenham Henry Augustus Hervey ] . Clean text throughout. VG.

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[ SYDENHAM HENRY AUGUSTUS HERVEY - EDITOR ] .

Bury St. Edmunds. St. James Parish Registers. Burials 1562 - 1800. Suffolk Green Books. No. XVII.

Bury St. Edmunds : Paul & Mathew, Butter Market, 1916. 0. Small 4to. 21.6cm x 18cm x 5.3cm [8.5" x 7" x 2"]. 4to. pp.viii./pp.435/[1 p. - Adverts). A very good tight binding. Original green cloth with gilt titles to both front board and spine. Small one inch wide water splash to outer corner of front board. Corners and edges rubbed and bumped. Light foxing to endpapers. Printed title dated 1915. Preface signed: S.H.A.H. [ Sydenham Henry Augustus Hervey ] . Clean text throughout. VG.

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[CLOWES, J.E].

Chronicles of the Old Congregational Church at Great Yarmouth 1642-1858.

Great Yarmouth: Printed for Private Circulation, 1906. 1st edition. Pp.74, browning to endpapers but otherwise clean throughout, small loss to corner of pp.39/40 Brown cloth, gilt title to front, boards rubbed with small bleached spots. G+.

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Book number: 48445

Catalogue: East Anglia: : Norfolk

Keywords: Chronicles Old Congregational Church Great Yarmouth William Bridge Nonconformity Parke Covenant Norwich Oxenbridge Church History Bridge Cromwell Separatistspresbyterians Congregationalist Bower 49872 East Anglia: : Norfolk

COLCHESTER CHARTER 800.

Colchester Charter 800: A Celebration 1189-1989.

Colchester: Revelstone Publishing, 1988. 1871817005. Published to celebrate the 800th Anniversary of Britain's Oldest Recorded Town. "not only traces a long and eventful history, it also charts the dramatic face of modern Colchester, its industry and trade, its people, its garrison, its sporting life, its role tomorrow." 29.5cms x 21cms. Pp.96, over 60 photographs and illustrations, many published for the first time, 16 major articles written by Colchester authors. Pbk. VG.

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Book number: 34465

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Keywords: Colchester Charter 800 Essex Town History Local History Ilustrated Britains Oldest Recorded Town 34683 East Anglia: : Essex

[ WILLIAM & THOMAS HARRISON / GEORGE WILLIS ] .

The Great Jennens Case : Being An Epitome Of The History Of The Jennens Family. Compiled On Behalf Of The Jennens Family By Messrs. Harrison & Willis.

Sheffield : Pawson & Brailsford, High Street And Mulberry St, 1879 . 0. A very good original binding, rebacked at somtime in the past. 8vo. 7.25" x 5" x 0.75" . [4pp.]/pp.6/[2pp.]/pp.228/[1p. - "corrections"] .Red cloth covered boards, with gilt crest and title to front board. Spine dulled and soiled, with gilt title: "Jennens Estates". Original brown endpapers. Early dedication to verso of the front board: "Edward Jennings from Horace B. Woodward". Inner hinges carefully strengthend at some time in the past. Light sptting throughout. Clear English text. Illustrated with 13 full-page lithographs (including frontis) and one fold-out pediigree. A very good copy of a scarce book. ** William "the Miser" - William the younger became nationally famous as 'the Acton Miser', a role he played so successfully that, at his death, he was the richest man in England, and found to be worth well over two million pounds, the equivalent of about half a billion in today's money. On 19 June 1798, William Jennings (or Jennens) died at Acton Place in County Suffolk, England, aged about 97 years. William was described as a "crusty old bachelor" and a miser, but he had amassed a fortune that some called the largest of any commoner in Britain. And he left no heirs, and no will. His death touched off a feeding frenzy among lawyers on two continents that lasted 135 years. Since William had no children and no brothers, by English common law the estate was to be divided among his first cousins, descendants of William's grandfather, Humphrey Jennings; and so the legacy became known as the Humphrey Jennings estate. By 1821 the succession had been essentially settled, with the family of Lord Curzon (made Earl of Howe that year) gaining the bulk of the real estate. But that didn't stop the lawsuits, which came first from British and Irish claimants, then, beginning in 1849, from America. At various times there were seventeen legal proceedings in operation, the last being filed (and thrown out of court) in 1934 on behalf of a group of American claimants. According to one account, the Bank of England had to employ seven clerks just to handle correspondence related to the claims, in spite of the fact that there was almost nothing left to fight over. The "Great Jennens Case" became such a symbol of legal dissipation and frivolity that Charles Dickens used it as the basis for the "Jarndyce and Jarndyce" case in his 1852 novel Bleak House.

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Book number: 47782

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Keywords: 49269 Bleak House Dickens Pawson & Brailsford Sheffield Jennens Jennings Acton Sudbury Long Melford Harrison Willis Miser Udal East Anglia

[ CROMWELL, THOMAS KITSON ?].

Lives of Eminent & Remarkable Characters Born or Long Resident in The Counties of Essex, Suffolk & Norfolk . Embellished with 68 Portraits.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees et al. 1820 . 0. First edition. Large paper edition. 8vo. [116pp.] . 10.0" x 7.0" x 0.8". A very good original half leather binding. Crimson morocco spine and corners over marbled boards. Spine with, 5 raised bands, bright gilt decoration and gilt titles. Top page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Printed label to verso of the front board: "Waltham Abbey Historical Society. This volume is deposited on loan by Cllr. G & Cty, Cllr. Mrs Tuck, Upshire Hall, Waltham Abbey". Small binder's stamp to top of endpaper: "Bound By J. Larkins". Light foxing and blemishes throughout. Contains 68 short biographies, each with an engraved portrait; of such people as Horatio Nelson, Thomas Cavendish, Sir Robert Walpole, John Ray, Sir John Hawkwood, Cardinal Wolsey, Robert Edward,Lord Petre, Sir Francis Vere, William Hoare, Humphrey Reprton, Thomas,Lord Audley, Edmund Hickeringill, Samuel Clarke, Sir Thomas Brandiston and many others. VG . ** "Jeremiah Larkins (1833 - 1907), He was working as a bookbinder at the age of 18 and progressed to owning his own business.." - See Wikitree.

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Book number: 50622

Catalogue: East Anglia: : 19th Century

Keywords: 52097 Jeremicounties of Essex, Suffolk & Norfolk Cromwell, Thomas Kitson Horatio Nelson, Thomas Cavendish, Sir Robert Walpole, John Ray, Sir John Hawkwood, Cardinal Wolsey J. Larkins Larkin Jeremiah East Anglia: : 19th Century

ADDISON, WILLIAM.

Essex Heyday.

London: J.M.Dent and Sons Ltd, 1949. 1st edition. A study of social life in seventeenth-century Essex, illustrated with thirty-one pages of old prints reproduced in collogravure and an endpaper map. Pp.xii/339. Blue cloth, map illustrated dustwrapper has minor edge wear but is now in a removable clear protective wrap. VG/G+.

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Book number: 40663

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Keywords: William Addison Signed Essex Heyday Local Social History East Anglia Saffron Walden CIVIL War Trade Farming Inn Ale House 46890 East Anglia: : Essex

ALDOUS, MARY.

Time Was: Childhood Memories of the Maplesteads.

Little Yeldham: The Halstead and District Local History Society, 1992. 0951310658. "Families, then, lived simple lives as their family incomes were relatively small compared with those of today, but they were happy, and so different from what we read about today.."(Foreword). Pp.64, occasional black & white photos throughout. Bright green card covers. VG.

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Book number: 38381

Catalogue: East Anglia: : Essex

Keywords: Mary Cant Aldous Time Was Childhood Memories Maplesteads Essex Round Church Farming Local History Agriculture Halstead 39326 East Anglia: : Essex

ALLARD, BERT.

Can Your Mother Skin a Rabbit? Tales of a Suffolk Lad.

Thorndon: Lucas Books, 2004. 1903797349. Reprint. Bert Allard's very personal account of his early llfe in Stonham, edited by Richard Widdows. Pp.84, occasional black & white photos. Paperback. VG.

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Book number: 43558

Catalogue: East Anglia: : Suffolk

Keywords: Bert Allard Can Your Mother Skin a Rabbit Tales Suffolk Lad Stonham Childhood East Anglia 44821 East Anglia: : Suffolk

ALLEN, D.H.

Essex Quarter Sessions Order Book 1652-1661.

Chelmsford: Essex County Council, 1974. 0900360445. Essex Edited Texts, Vol.I. Essex Record Office Publications No.65. 24cms x 18.5cms. Pp.xliv/236, frontispiece + 4 further plates. Green cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

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Book number: 47475

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Keywords: Allen Essex Quarter Sessions Order Book 17th Century Environmental Pollution Coggeshall Chelmsford Quakers Layer Marney Church Wages 48957 East Anglia: : Essex

ALLEN, JANE.

The Wallace Connection. The Story of the Restoration of Orford Church.

Orford: Orford Museum, 2008. 9780955473807. 1st edition. "Tells the twin stories of the church restoration and the remarkable family drama that accompanied it. In addition it sheds light on many aspects of the history of Orford, the much loved and much visited village on the Suffolk coast which, in spite of its remote location, has many links with people and events of national interest and importance." 24cms x 17cms. Pp.xviii/142, many black & white photographs +plans and 5 colour photo illustrations. Paperback. VG.

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Book number: 44958

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Keywords: Jane Allen Wallace Connection Sudbourne Suffolk Orford Church Restoration Lady Sackville West John Murray Scott Maynard Local Parish History Family 50877 East Anglia: : Suffolk

ALLEN, MARION E.

Wills of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk 1627-1628.

Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2015. 9781843839729. 1st edition. Suffolk Records Society Vol. LVIII. Of great interest to those who study trans-Atlantic migration from eastern England and the foundation of the godly republic of New England. Written soon after the accession of Charles I and at a time of mounting political and religious tension, they offer a mine of personal, social and economic information." Pp.179, frontispiece + 3 further black & white plates,parish maps to endpapers. Green cloth, minor bump to top front corner, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

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Keywords: Allen Wills Archdeaconry Suffolk 17th Century Allen Will Register Testators Occupations Subjects Places Persons 50117 East Anglia: : Suffolk

19TH CENTURY ALMANACK .

Armstrong's Bury & West Suffolk Household Almanack For 1882. Year Book of Useful Knowlege, Tales, &c. Twenty-Eighth Year of Publication.

Bury St. Edmund's [Suffolk] : Printed And Published By J. Merrell, "Standard" Office, 1882 . 0. A scarce 19th century almanack in the original printed covers. 7.0" x 5.0" x 0.25". No paginattion. Grey-green printed covers with title and adverts, just wear to the edges and top & tail of spine.More adverts on the inside covers. 8 leaves of adverts on purple paper, followed by 34 leaves of Notices and stories, and then a final 12 leaves of adverts. Just a little foxing to one of the stories, otherwise clear English text and illustrations throughout. G+ .

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Keywords: 49492j. Merrell Bury St. Edmund's Suffolk East Anglia: : 19th Century

ALSTON, LEIGH A. (EDITOR).

Historic Buildings of Suffolk. The Journal of the Suffolk Historic Buildings Group. (Volume 1).

Ipswich: Fuller Davies Ltd (printers), 1998. Contents: 1.The Wall Paintings at 5 Friars Street, Sudbury; 2.Seven Pieces of Carpentry in Suffolk; 3.The Old Grammar School: The Finest Merchant's House in Lavenham; 4.A Unique Structure? The Dovecote at Badley Hall; 5.The Domestic Screens of North East Suffolk; 6.Holes in the Roof: The Hip Bonnet or Gablet Hood in Suffolk. 29.5cms x 21cms. Pp.71, black & white and colour photographs + many figure illustrations. Paperback. Scarce. VG.

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Keywords: Historic Buildings Suffolk Wall Paintings Frars Street Sudbury Carpentry Old Grammar School Merchants House Lavenham Dovecote Badley Hall Domestic Screens Plank Muntin Hip Bonnet Gablet Hood 51917 East Anglia: : Suffolk

ALSTON, CHRISTOPHER.

Strong To Save. A Tale of the 1953 Floods in Norfolk.

Bungay: Morrow & Co, 1996. 0948903287. 1st edition. "On Saturday, January 31st, the lethal combination of an abnormally high tide and a vicious winter gale created the worst floods the East Coast of Britain has seen in recorded history..'Strong to Save', Christopher Alston's third published novel, is a dramatic tale of horror and heroism on that night in one North Norfolk village." Pp.181. Black cloth, dustwrapper has clear protective wrap. Scarce. VG/VG.

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Book number: 34132

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Keywords: Christopher Alston Strong to Save 1953 Floods Norfolk Novel East Anglia East Coast Disaster 34432 East Anglia: : Norfolk