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Envelope titled “SPERLING MSS – To be preserved. Heraldic Correspondence between the Rev H L
Elliot and CFDS, 1907 – 1918.
Synopsis
Revd Henry L Elliot, Vicar of
Gosfield (1831 – 1920), was an expert in heraldry. Contained in this envelope
is a bundle of letters from him to Mr C F D Sperling. Both were regular
contributors to the Society’s Transactions.
Contents
Bundle of letters. All from
Elliot to Sperling, except where stated.
1. Letter
dated 14.8.1902. “I return your letter
of ‘Nuces’ with such remarks as occurs to me. Bartlow Church has not been
visited by me …”
2. Postcard
dated 18.8.1902. Sir Edw Greve of Little Sampford. (Sperling was living at
Brandon, Coventry).
3. Letter
dated 24.8.1902. “The impaled shield
over the effigy on the Altar Tomb of Newton, Suff has a very important bearing
on the question as to what is intended to be represented on the Font at Bulmer”
4. Letter
dated 11.11.1902. “I have not identified
the coat at Gt Oakley about which you write. The crest seems very similar to
that of Astley, and borne also by the family of Astle.”
5. Letter
dated 8.10.1903. “The working out of the Gilbert Pedigree is not completed”.
Speaks of work and family.
6. Postcard
dated 1.12.1904. Newman Hall. Quendon or
Eastwood? (Sperling was living at Herefield, Stoke, Coventry)
7. Letter
dated 5.6.1905. “I have not given special attention to the pedigree of
Fortescue of Faulkborn. It is entered in my book, as on the other side. Please let me keep your sketch pedigree of
Montgomery & Spice”.
8. Letter
dated 13.11.1905. “Can you tell me what Royal Badges are displayed on the tomb,
or Chapel, of Arthur Tudor, P. of Wales, in Worcester Cathedral?”
9. Letter
dated 17.11.1905. “Many thanks for your notes on the badges on the south side
of Prince Arthur Tudor’s Chantry Chapel”.
10. Letter
dated 12.12.1905. “The coats you mention
were not seen by me when I was at Markshall. There were some in the windows of
the entrance hall – Wentworth coats – which I recorded”.
11. Postcard
dated 29.1.1906. Question about “flat stone” in Bradwell Church near
Braintree”.
12. Letter
dated 12.10.1906. “I am glad that you have taken steps to have your armorials
recorded at the Heralds’ College … possibly granted to Otto Sperling the
Professor of Botany seems quite justifiable”.
13. Letter
dated 23.11.1906. “I return your cutting re the Warwick Badges … No doubt the
Bear, and the Ragged Staff, were two distinct badges”.
14. Letter
dated 18.2.1907. Request re how Lusignam coat came into “Elizabeth Widville,
the wife of Edw IV” came to the coat.
15. Letter
dated 28.3.1907. “At Margaretting Church there is a mural monument to Joh, son
& h of William Tanfield & Elizabeth his wife dau & coh of Thomas
Clovile of Copfold Hall, Margaretting. He d. 6 Oct 1625”.
16. Sheet
of paper with notes on Dorothy Alleyn of Woodham Mortimer, d. 21.4.1584, a
brass escutcheon at Hatfield Peverel.
17. Sheet
of paper with notes on “carved oak shield from Bouchier Hall, Tollesbury”.
18. Postcard
dated 21.6.1907. Request for “printed
matter relating to the Pedigree of Sparrow of Gestingthorpe & Stambourne”.
(Sperling had recently moved from Harefield to Broom House, Kenilworth)
19. Letter
dated 27.6.1907. Thanks for details of
Sparrow family.
20. Postcard
dated 22.8.1907. “Very many thanks for the pedigree of Jacqueline de
Luxhambourg”
21. Postcard
dated 26.1.1909. Regrets unable to provide “information as to the manner in
which Bower Hall passed to Sir Stephen Anderson, Bart. I have had an attack of
pneumonia, which has kept me in the hands of the Doctor for the last month”
22. Postcard
dated 11.8.1909. “I have entered the crest of Wale, on the L Bardfield panel”.
23. Letter
dated 5.10.1910. “Very many thanks for sending me the sketch of the Badges of
Queen Catherine of Aragon, from Compton Wingate”
24. Letter
dated 3.1.1911. Discussion of the term “Quetus est”.
25. Postcard
dated 30.3.1911. “The Armes pretensed of
the Borowe Town of Maldon”
26. Postcard
dated 3.4.1911. “Many thanks for your
PostCard. Sir Gilbert Dethick was ‘Norray King of Arms’ temp Henry VIII”
27. Letter
dated 6.4.1911. “Very many thanks for your extract from Bysshes Visitation re
Arms of the Borough of Maldon”
28. Postcard
dated 13.4.1911. Further discussion on Borough of Maldon arms.
29. Postcard
dated 22.4.1912. “S Window of Wethersfield”
30. Letter
dated 23.3.1913. “Arms of Sayer … Sir
George Sayer of Aldham”
31. Postcard
dated 24.9.1915. “I want to learn the maiden name of the wife of Sir James
Marriot who, before July 1803, was the owner of the Twinstead Hall Estate.
(Sperling was living at Beresford House, Leamington)
32. Letter
dated 25.9.1915. “Many thanks for the copy of Grant of Arms & Crest, 1610,
to Peter Tryon. … Esther Chambers …. If
her husband was James Marriot the matter is cleared up”.
33. Letter
dated 10.8.1917. “Arms of White, of
Hutton, Essex”
34. Letter
(fringed in black) dated 8.9.1917. “Do you know of any examples of the Bouchier
Knot, besides those I mention below?”
35. Letter
(fringed in black) dated 14.12.1917. “Many thanks … about family of Wright of
Warborough, Hants, & Hutton, Essex”.
36. Postcard
dated 13.7.1918. “What is the meaning of ‘Solus ad legem servions’?” (Sperling
had moved from Beresford House, Holly Walk, Leamington to The Hall,
Holton-le-Wood, Lincoln)
37. Letter
dated 31.7.1918. “I want to know whether the whistle was ever used as a
decoration, & an emblem of authority, by any officials who were not
connected with the navy”.
38. Postcard
dated 7.8.1918. “whistle was also used
by the French Admiral as a badge of his office in 1513” (Addressed to Beresford
House, Leamington)
39. Letter
dated 12.8.1918. “I have been in
communication with Mr Carr Laughton, the Librarian to the Admiralty”. He adds
“I have been making several alterations & additions (in MS only) to my
paper of 1884 on the Badges at Castle Hedingham Church.”
40. Letter
dated 16.8.1918. “The statement that Howard wore his two whistles in the
sea-fight off Brest is news to me”
41. Letter
dated 22.10.1918. “I have today, given instructions to Wiles & Son of
Colchester to set up the type … to add the facts which you have collected.”
42. Letter
dated 30.10.1918. Help requested to
decipher a letter from Sir William St John Hope.
43. Letter
dated 4.11.1918. re De Vere family
44. Letter
dated 19.3.1919 with envelope. “I thank
you very much for having taken the trouble to read my pamphlet” on the De Veres
“and for the suggestions, & criticisms you make”.
45. Letter
dated 24.3.1919 with envelope. Pyne and “Larder on a brass at North Weald
Church to William Larder, who d. 25 Aug 1606”.
Also
Loose document: Letter from O
W Tancock to Mr Sperling regarding parish registers.
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