This short article is highly speculative, and, it is, therefore quite unsatisfactory as a
piece of historical research. It is, however, the fate of anyone attempting to
reconstruct Plume’s life to have to make what one can of the scanty evidence before
one, and therefore to speculate, or to say nothing at all.
R. A. Doe
31
August 2009
Notes:
1.
Mary Wolffe, ‘Brownrigg, Ralph (1592-1659)’, Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008. Both spellings are
used but I will use ‘Brownrig’, as that is used in in his book, Fourty Sermons, 1661
[
http://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/catalogue]
[
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3716,
accessed 2 Oct 2008]
2.
Brian Quintrell, ‘Hacket, John (1592-1670)’, Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008
[
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11837,
accessed 4 Oct 2004]
3. ‘
Plume, Thomas (1630-1704)’ DNB (Oxford 1921-22) XXII Supplement, p. 1146
4.
Plume Library MS. 7, fol. 67r
5.
Brownrig, op. cit., foreword
6.
Ibid., fol. 10r
7.
R. A. Doe, ‘The Churchmanship of Thomas Plume (1630-1704) A study of a
career in the Restoration Church of England’ (unpublished MA dissertation,
University of Essex, 2005), p. 29
8.
MS 7, fol. 82v
9.
Doe, op. cit., p. 29
10.
Ibid., p. 43
11.
Rab MacGibbon, Assistant Curator, National Portrait Gallery by email 21/10/08
12.
Diary of John Evelyn, vol. III, London, 1879, ‘from the original MSS by William
Bray, with a life of the Author by Henry Wheatley’, pp. 443/4
13.
Sonia Roe et al., Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Essex, (London: Public
Catalogue Foundation, 2006), pp. 215-217. The portrait of Ralph Brownrig is
incorrectly labelled Dr James Ussher. (On p. 214 is illustrated the portrait of Thomas
Plume in the Moot Hall, Maldon.)
14.
Gillian Darley, John Evelyn: living for ingenuity (New Haven and London, 2006),
p. 202
15.
Ibid., p. 264
16.
Diary of John Evelyn, op. cit., vol. II, p. 209
17.
Darley, op. cit., p. 290