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NOTES AND REFERENCES
1.
S. G.Deed.
Catalogue of the Plume Library at Maldon, Essex.
1959.
Maldon: The Plume
Library Trustees.
Foreword,
pp. vii to ix, by F. C. Francis (later Sir Frank Francis), Director and
Principal Librarian of the British Museum.
2.
Manuscript collection of the Venerable Thomas Plume, D.D., in the Plume Library. It is a
collection of (i) sermons and pulpit notes by himself and Dr Robert Boreman (died 1675); (ii) of
miscellaneous notes by Dr Edward Hyde (died 1659); (iii) bundles of jottings, notes and bills
(
mainly Dr Plume’s); (iv) common place books of Thomas Plume; and (v) later MSS of the
Plume Charity in Maldon. Among these, reference is made here especially to:
2.1 19
th-century copy of the Will in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury of Thomas Plume, 1703,
with additions of 23 and 28 December 1703, and of 2 September 1704, signed 20 October 1704,
with a codicil of 4 November 1704; probate given 3 March 1705.
2.2
Printed copy in the
Report of the Town Clerk on the Charities of Maldon,
January 1897,
purporting to be “the whole of the will’ but giving only the parts of the text referring to Maldon.
2.3
Plume MS 7. Anecdotes and excerpts from printed books compiled by Plume c. 1650-1660.
2.4
Plume MS 30. Anecdotes and jokes compiled by Plume c. 1650-1670.
2.5
Plume MSS, bundle G/19. Draft booklet: see [49] below,
3.1
John Hacket, D.D. Bishop of Coventry and Lichfieid.
A Century of Sermons.
(
Thomas Plume ed.)
1675.
3.2
Thomas Plume, B.D. "The Life of Dr John Hacket” as
Foreword
to [3.1]. (a) p. xxii; (b) p. xxxvi;
(
c) p. xlviii; (d) p.liii; (e) p. xlix.
3.3
John Hacket.
Scrinia Reserata. A Memorial Offered to the Greater Deservings of John Williams,
D.D. . .
.
Lord Keeper . .
.
Lord Archbishop of York.
1693:
posthumous publication. (a) p. 1; (b) p.
227,
relating how “from the heavy rime of the King’s Death he rose every midnight out of his
Bed .. . kneeled on his bare knees and pray’d earnestly and strongly one quarter of an hour . . .
‘
Come Lord Jesus, come quickly, and put an end to these days of Sin and Misery”’.
4.
Andrew Clark, Litt.D., Rector of Gt. Leighs (formerly Fellow of Lincoln College and Vicar of
St Michael in the North Gate, Oxford). See also [231. Articles on the Plume Library.
4.1 “
The Plume Pamphlets at Maldon”,
Essex Review
XII(1903), pp. 159-165.
4.2 “
Plume MS Papers”,
Essex Review
XIII (1904), pp. 30-33.
4.3 “
Dr Plume’s Pocket Book”,
Essex Review
XIV (1905), pp. 9-20 and 65.
4.4 “
Dr Plume as a Cambridge Undergraduate”,
Essex Review
XIV, pp. 147-148.
4.5 “
Dr Plume’s Notebook”,
Essex Review
XIV
,
pp. 152-163, 213-220 and XV (1906) pp. 8-24.
5.
Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sidney Lee (eds).
The Dictionary of National Biography.
Entries
under
Hacket, John;Knightbridge, John; Tenison, Thomas;
and, in the first Supplement (Volume
XXII, 1901),
Plume, Thomas.
6.
John Peile, Litt.D. (and J. R. Venn, ed.).
Biographical Register of Christ's College, Cambridge.
Volume 1. 1900. Cambridge.
7.
17
th-century book lists and librarians’ guides in the Plume Library. Note that
Instructions
Concerning the Erecting of a Library
by Gabriel Naudè (translation by John Evelyn), 1661, is
not in the Library.
7.1
Sisto da Sienna, Dominican friar.
Bibiiotheca Sancta.
1626.
Cologne. A guide to editions,
translations and glosses of each Book of the Bible.
7.2
John Spencer, Librarian of Sion College.
Catalogus Universalis Librorum Omnium in
Bibliotheca Collegii Sionii apud Londinienses.
1650.