Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Thomas Plume's Library Maldon, Essex, England ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [News & Events](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/news-events/) - 2026 Local History Week This year’s Local History Week will take place during the week of the Spring Bank Holiday / school half term. The theme this year is “Norman Histories”, and the Library will be open during our normal hours, with an exhibition loosely relating to this topic! Local history week 2026 poster - [Events 2026](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/samuel-richardsons-pamela/) - Local History Week This year's Local History Week will take place during the week of the Spring Bank Holiday / school half term. The theme this year is "Norman Histories", and the Library will be open during our normal hours, with an exhibition loosely relating to this topic! Heritage Open Day Heritage Open Day will ## Pages - [Home](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/) - Thomas Plume's Library is a private library in Maldon, Essex with a collection of over 8000 books acquired by Dr Thomas Plume. The library is open to visitors, and our catalogue of books can be searched online. - [The Plume Lecture](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/news-events/the-plume-lecture/) - The Plume Lecture was established in 1975 by the Trustees of the Library, at the instigation of the Rev. Arthur Dunlop, to commemorate the life of Dr. Thomas Plume (1630 -1704) with a public lecture, held annually in the month of November. Speakers have been drawn from a wide range of disciplines, such as medicine, - [Trustees & Staff](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/home/trustees-staff/) - Trustees Thomas Plume’s Library is a charitable incorporated organisation (registered charity number 1179957). This superseded charity number 310661 on 1 April 2019. The charity was originally founded by the will of Dr Thomas Plume dated 2 September 1704. Under the Constitution dated 17 September 2018, the body of trustees comprises between five and eight appointed - [Catalogue](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/catalogue/) - Search the online catalogue The online catalogue of books bequeathed by Thomas Plume was first published in 2009 and there is an ongoing project to add more items from the collection and to improve the existing entries. 2011 saw the addition of the post-Plume Catalogue and the first phase of the Manuscript and Archive Catalogue. The post-Plume - [Recent Accessions](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/catalogue/recent-acquisitions/) - January 2026 Plato. Opera Omnia..., Frankfurt, Claude de Marne and Johann Aubry, 1602. (Funded by The Friends of Thomas Plume's Library.) April 2026 The Essayes, or Morall and militarie discourses of Lo. Michaell de Montaigne, ... new done into English by John Florio, 1603. (Donated from the Blavatnik Honresfield Library by the Friends of the Nation's - [Membership](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/fotpl/membership/) - The Friends of Thomas Plume’s Library Registered Charity 1098311 Please click to open the Membership Form. GIFT AID DECLARATION – multiple donations Boost your donation by 25p of Gift Aid for every £1 you donate. Gift aid is reclaimed by the charity from the tax you pay for the current tax year. Your address is - [Friends' AGM 2026](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/fotpl/friends-agm-2021/) - The AGM documents can be found here: AGM Talk and Poster Agenda Minutes of the previous AGM Annual Report Accounts April Newsletter Events Leaflet Subscription Renewal Form 2026/7 Please send any enquiries to Friendsofplumelibrary@gmail.com. - [Planning your visit](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/contact/planning-your-visit/) - Normal opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 2pm to 4pm Saturday 10am to noon We are closed on Easter Saturday and between Christmas and the beginning of March. At other times we might have pre-booked tours. Please contact us to check, if you are making a special visit on: info@thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk. Researchers: Please provide at least - [Paintings](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/history/paintings/) - The following list is based on the Public Catalogue Foundation’s Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Essex (2006), pp 214-7, the only change being that the portrait of Bishop Brownrigg was previously thought to depict Archbishop Ussher. The portraits are mostly 17th-century copies of well-known paintings; the monarchs, painted on wooden panels, appear to have - [Donations](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/donations/) - The Library is in need of additional income to cover its running costs and remain open to the public. If you are able to support the Library with a regular monthly donation please see details of our Regular Giving Scheme here. The Privacy Notice for our Regular Giving Scheme can be found here. Alternatively, if - [The collections and their catalogues](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/catalogue/the-collections-and-their-catalogues/) - The Trustees of Thomas Plume’s Library decided to mark the tercentenary of the library by commissioning an Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC). This is an extensively researched and computerized catalogue searchable online by Boolean operators across a range of fields. The earlier catalogues built progressively upon one another. The earliest surviving – and fragmentary – - [Publications](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/641-2/) - Dr Thomas Plume, 1630-1704 His life and legacies in Essex, Kent and Cambridge, ed. by R.A. Doe and C.C. Thornton Published by Essex Publications an imprint of University of Hertfordshire Press, 2020. Available to purchase from bookshops, the publisher, or from the Library in person (£18.99). . Matriarchal Piety in the Seventeenth Century: Lady Barbara - [How it all began](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/fotpl/how-it-all-began/) - Thomas Plume's Library How it all began - [Where to find us](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/contact/planning-your-visit/find-us/) - Directions From the A12 Leave the A12 at Junction 20a/b (Hatfield Peverel) and take the B1019 towards Heybridge and Maldon. Follow this road for 4 miles, and when you reach a roundabout take the third exit (B1018). Take the first exit at the next roundabout (A414) go over the bridge and right at the next - [The Intentions of Thomas Plume](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/641-2/the-intentions-of-thomas-plume/) - https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Intentions-11-2.pdf - [Exit Ussher, enter Brownrig:](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/history/paintings/exit-ussher-enter-brownrig-the-tale-of-a-portrait-in-the-plume-library-maldon/) - the tale of a portrait in the Plume Library, Maldon Among the paintings bequeathed to his library on his death, Thomas Plume (1630-1704) included one which was for many years described as being a likeness of James Ussher, archbishop of Armagh (1581-1656). However, in October 2008 two members of the Plume Library staff, cataloguer Ian - [The Building](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/history/the-building/) - Thomas Plume built his library on the site of the medieval CHURCH OF ST PETER, retaining only the west tower. Very little is known about the old church. It was granted to the Premonstratensian canons when they moved from Great Parndon to Maldon in 1180, and it seems safe to assume that that the nave - [Contact Us](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/contact/) - Thomas Plume's Library Market Hill Maldon Essex CM9 4PZ Registered Charity Number 1179957 Telephone 01621 854850 info@thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk - [The Friends of Thomas Plume's Library](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/fotpl/) - The Friends of Thomas Plume's Library were formed in 1988 by a group who were concerned about the number of books that had gone missing from the Library since it was founded in 1704, some 700 of them. There was also concern about the condition of some of the books, especially their bindings. The Trustees of the - [Carey's Globe](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/history/careys-globe/) - WILLIAM CAREY (1759-1825) William Carey was at first associated with the renowned instrument maker Jesse Ramsden, but he established himself in an independent business in the year 1790. He is reputed to have constructed the first transit circle made in England. In addition to the altitude, azimuth, sextant, reflecting and refracting telescopic, and microscopic instruments - [History](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/history/) - Maldon’s Treasure - The Library of Thomas Plume One of Essex’s greatest treasures is a landmark in the very centre of Maldon. Many who pass by it mistake it for a church. It does indeed have a squat, castellated, stone tower of great age but the two-storey brick building which abuts on to this tower - [What did Thomas Plume think about witchcraft?](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/news-events/the-plume-lecture/what-did-thomas-plume-think-about-witchcraft/) - Dr Alison Rowlands, Senior Lecturer in European History and Head of the Department of History at the University of Essex, gave the 2010 Plume Lecture on ‘Witchcraft and Witchcraft Beliefs in England during the Lifetime of Thomas Plume, 1630-1704’. The following article is based on her lecture, and was published in Essex Archaeology and History, - [Catalogue Search](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/catalogue/catalogue-search/) - Catalogue Search - [Sitemap](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/sitemap/) ## 3D FlipBook - [Intentions of Thomas Plume](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/3d-flip-book/intentions-of-thomas-plume/) - [What did Thomas Plume think about witchcraft? Reconstructing the intellectual outlook of a little-known 17th-century English sceptic.](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/3d-flip-book/what-did-thomas-plume-think-about-witchcraft-reconstructing-the-intellectual-outlook-of-a-little-known-17th-century-english-sceptic/) - [The Friends of Thomas Plume’s Library - How it all began](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/3d-flip-book/how-it-all-began/) ## Categories - [News](https://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/category/news/)