1708 Diocese of London Church of England St Paul’s Essex 2v Newcourt Repertorium

1708 Diocese of London Church of England St Paul’s Essex 2v Newcourt Repertorium

Richard Newcourt was a 17^th-century English historian who is primarily known for his book ‘Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense’. This book was one of the most thorough and largest histories of the diocese of London. It was drawn from hundreds of records on the history of St. Paul’s Cathedral, lives of bishops and churchmen, and various other parishes under the diocese.

This two-volume first edition includes impressive double-page views of St. Paul’s Cathedral and features information and details on the county of Essex.

Item number: #8432

Price: $950

NEWCOURT, Richard

Repertorium ecclesiasticum parochiale Londinense: an ecclesiastical parochial history of the diocese of London: containing an account of the bishops of that sea from the first foundation thereof: also, of the dean, archdeacon, dignitaries and prebendaries, from the conquest: and lastly, of the several parish-churches, as well exempt as not exempt, within the limits of that diocese, and of their patrons and incumbents: And also the endowments of several vicarages: and likewise of the several religious houses that were within the same, continued to the year of our Lord, MDCC. By Ric. Newcourt, notary publick; one of the procurator-general of the Arches-Court of Canterbury, who lately executed the Office of Principal Registrary of the said diocese, for nearly twenty seven years.

London: Printed by Benj. Motte, and are to be sold by Chr. Bateman, Benj. Tooke, Ric. Parker, Jon. Bowyer and Hen. Clements, MDCCVIII-MDCCX [1708-1710]

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes
  • I – [4], xiv, 928, [2]
    • 4 engraved plates
  • II – [8], 692, [52]
• Provenance: Armorial Bookplate
  • Ruggles-Brise. “Struggle”
    • Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise, 1st Baronet MC DL (1882 – 1942) was a British Conservative Party politician.
    • He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Maldon constituency in Essex from 1922 until his death in 1942
    • From 1927, he commanded the 104th Essex Yeomanry Field Brigade R.A. of the Territorial Army.
    • Ruggles-Brise was a landowner and was the owner of Spains Hall in Finchingfield, Essex, which had been inherited by his father, Archibald Weyland Ruggles-Brise, on the death of his own father, the politician Samuel Ruggles-Brise.
  • Spains Hall. Finchingfield Essex.
    • Spains Hall is an Elizabethan country house near Finchingfield in Essex.
    • The hall is named after Hervey de Ispania, who held the manor at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086. Since then, the land had been continuously owned and occupied by three families – the de Ispania family, the Kempe family, who acquired it when Margery de Ispania married Nicholas Kempe in the early fifteenth century, and the Ruggles family (later the Ruggles-Brise family).
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; tight & secure
  • Size: ~12.5in X 8.5in (32cm x 21cm)

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