to which your Books have been very serviceable;—as I shall take care to acknowledge publicly when that work shall come abroad. I thank you for your note about Bruton Abbey Arms; which I had supplied before out of the original Visitation-book of Benolt's MS. Ashmol. 763,'—and is said to be taken 1531. I read the surname of the Abbot to be Gilles; but, when I have opportutunity, will look again. "At my return from the Visitation, I found that Dr. Knight had sent Dr. Stukeley's book, and another which I had subscribed for; but I had not time to get them bound before I left Norwich, whither I hope to get before you leave Norfolk. Wherever I am, with great respect and much sincerity I am, honoured Sir, your most obliged friend and servant, THOM. TANNER." Nov. 13, 1725. "GOOD MR. NORROY, "Mr. Bokenham, of Stoke, will be in town on Monday; and, if nothing very extraordinary happens, he and I, and, I believe, J. Kirk-Patrick, and perhaps Mr. Makerell, (a little Society of Icenian Antiquaries) may attend you our President at Wichingham on Tuesday morning, if it be not an inconvenient time to you;-if it be, I hope, by some means or other, notice may be given on Monday to, Sir, "Your most affectionate servant, "GOOD MR. NORROY, THOM. TANNER." " 1 heartily thank you for the favour of your last, and the kind notices you therein sent me out of Mr. Hare's MSS. of which I shall make due use in their proper places; but find I had corrected before that of R. Glanvill; however, am nevertheless obliged to you for hinting that mistake in the former edition of Notitia Monastica. "Your Kirby Ravensworth comes too low for me to mention ; but am glad such an original is got into the hands of one who will so well and carefully preserve it. Having never heard that the Gentlemen of your Office were uneasy on account of those MSS. they were so kind as to favour me with the loan of, I made the less haste to finish what I had to observe out of them; but, upon what you write, I will forthwith go through with them, and before you come down into Norfolk you shall certainly have them sent up in order to be replaced in the Library ;-of which, with my humble service and thanks, I desire you to acquaint your Society. "I am very sorry to hear that there are disagreements among our Friends at the Mitre †. My good wishes for peace, and prosperity to the Lovers of Antiquities will attend you on Wednesday night; when, and always, I must be, "Your affectionately obliged friend and servant,THOM. TANNER." * Indorsed: " Mem. to acquaint Doctor Tanner that John Warburton, esq. Somerset Herald, hath severall old deeds of lands in Beverley, co. Ebor. formerly belonging to St. John of Beverley.-This Letter to be sbowed to the Office next Chapter day, in May 1726.-Walsingham Acre, and my piece of land by the Brick-kilne Close." P. L.N. + Where the Society of Antiquaries then met. VOL. III. 2 F "Good "GOOD MR. NORROY, Norwich, Nov. 12, 1726. "I thank you for your kind look on Monday, but ask ten thousand pardons for being so rude as almost to run away from you: but a meeting upon a public trust of almost all the Clergy in town, summoned by my order, made my attending in another place absolutely necessary, and I hope you will be so good as to excuse it. "I wish I knew which of my books of old deeds you have not yet had; and such shall be sent you. I have now returned every paper of those you left with me on Monday, and will take great care of any books or papers of yours which I have; and hope by your coming back again into the country to have finished with them, and then to be able to return them with my most hearty thanks. I have worked night and day upon the Abstracts of the Rolls which you were so kind as to procure me from the Office; and will do so till I have all I want from them. I fear I shall scarce get them through next week, but will forthwith, before the end of the month. I trust, however, before Christmas (God sparing me life and health) they shall, with Mr. Anstis's books, be sent up. "My very humble service to Mr. Garter, and all your Society who ask after their and, Sir, "Your most affectionate servant, THOM. TANNER." "GOOD SIR, Norwich, Dec, 26, 1726. "According to my promise, I have dispatched Bowyer's Abstracts before Christmas, and sent them up in a box directed to you at the Office (carriage paid), by Nasmith's waggon last Thursday; if there should be any further charge I will repay you with thanks. There are in the box the four volumes belonging to your Office Library, and also the volume belonging to Mr. Garter; which I desire you to return respectively, with my humblest thanks for the use of them, and assurances of my making some farther acknowledgment upon proper occasion. I gave you a note with penalty for the Office-books, which you will be so kind as to take out, and cancel, or return. If "All the good wishes of the season to Mr. Garter, and all our common friends, especially the good company at the Mitre. Mr. Thomas Martin be with you on Wednesday night, let him know that I received his Letter, and that I am inclined to shew all favour to Mr. Menes, that his case will bear. "I am, with great respect, Mr. Norroy, "Your most obliged faithful servant, THOM. TANNER.” "GOOD MR. NORROY, Nov. 18, 1797. According to my promise, I return the two 'Notitia Monastica,' with my thanks-I find some few things which I had not before-and I know you will be improving. "I am sorry I did not know, till J. Kirk-Patrick told me on Thursday, that you was so long in town last week, and that Mrs. Neve was with you :-if I had, I should have endeavoured to have got the favour of waiting on you and her one day at dinner in my my house, with such friends as you and she should like; for I am very much her and, dear Sir, "Your obliged humble servant, THOM. TANNER. 'My Letters say that Sir Hans Sloane looks on Lord Townshend as a dead man." "DEAR MR. NORROY, July 26, 1729. "I am very glad to find that you are again in Norfolk, where, if possible, I will pay my respects to you before I go to Oxford. I thank you for the Prints you are so kind as to favour me with; and do herewith return you the old Norfolk Satirical Verses, which I mislaid last year. Pray God perfectly re-establish your health. I am, with due respects to Mrs. Neve, her and "Your obedient humble servant, THOM. TANNER." Rev. JOHN TANNER* to the Rev. Mr. BURRoughs, Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge. "SIR, From Mr. Willoughby's, in Kingstreet, Bloomsbury, Nov. 10, 1739. "I received your kind Letter, and thank you for the account you sent me of Books relating to the Abbey of Bury,-which was the thing I wanted. My Brother had got an account of most of them before; so that I only added from yours, Books and Papers in the Evidence Room, &c. at Bury.' Sir Richard Gipp's Collections relating to Bury Abbey I never heard of; his Collections concerning the County of Suffolk in general were given to my Brother, and are amongst his MSS. in the Bodleian Library. My Brother had likewise four quarto parchment Registers relating to Bury Abbey,-which, I believe, were formerly Bishop Moore's, and were sent among his other MSS. to the Bodleian Library. This I chiefly mention, that you, or any other who wants to consult those Books, may know where they are.—But I could be glad to know, if any body could tell me, how Bishop Moore's were bought;-if, according to a Catalogue then taken, I conceive the University have a right to all he had in possession (even though some of them belonged to other people) and to none else, though other people had books of his at that time in their hands. I mention this, because I am sure that Bishop Moore had then the third Volume of Rymer's Foedera, of my Brother's;—and have reason to believe that my Brother had at that time more than one book of Bishop Moore's in his hands ;but whether he ever settled the account of books borrowed and lent between the Bishop and him, either with the University or the Bishop's family, I cannot tell. He survived Bishop Moore twenty-one years and I would hope he'did settle it :-but, as I *Of this worthy Divine, who was more than 50 years Vicar of Lowestoft, and died in 1759, æt. 75, see the "Literary Anecdotes,” vol. VIII. P. 402. can find no account of it, I must confess I am in doubt; am very willing to do justice, if it be not done. "I came from Lowestoft on Monday to treat with the Booksellers about printing the 'Notitia;' and hope to return on Monday fortnight. I am, with service to Mr. Tuck, Sir, "Your obliged humble servant, JOHN TANNER." The Rev. JOHN TANNER to Mr. THOMAS MARTIN *. SIR, Lowestoft, April 14, 1743. : "When my Brother published his 'Notitia Monastica,' he put in the Arms of about 20 Bishopricks and 190 Monasteries. The Arms of the Bishopricks being well known, and 190 being little more than a fourth part of the Monasteries formerly in England and Wales, I thought it would be better to publish no Arms at all, unless I could publish more of them; and therefore intended to have the Arms quite out;-but my Friends will not allow of it. I am therefore endeavouring to get the Arms of as many more Monasteries as I can; and if either you or Mr. Blomefield could help me to the Arms of any Abbey or Priory not engraven in the first Edition of the Notitia Monastica,' you would greatly oblige, Sir, your very humble servant, J. TANNER. "P.S. If getting these Arms and the engraving them doth not hinder it, I certainly publish the Notitia Monastica' in Michaelmas Term." "HONEST THо. Park-street, Westminster, Jan. 28, 1743-4. "I beg your acceptance of my Brother's Notitia Monastica,' which I have at last got printed and published. I delivered the Book directed for you, carriage paid, to the Bury waggon, which goes to Norwich by Buddesdale, Harleston, &c. and sets out this morning. I think this due to you for the use my Brother made both of Mr. Le Neve's books and papers, and your own; but desire you would not speak of it, lest every one whom he had any little assistance from should expect the same. "If, in perusing the Book, you should find any mistakes, be so kind as to send me an account of them at your leisure, that they may be corrected if it should ever be printed again. I am, Sir, your humble servant, J. TANNER." Rev. JOHN TANNER to the Rev. PHILIP MORANT. May 28, 1756. "REVEREND Sir, "Yours I received, and wish it was in my power to supply your friend Dr. Ducarel with any memoranda of my predecessor, Dr. R. Taylor, worthy his notice; but all I can find is * See Mr. Martin's Letter to Mr. Tanner in the "Literary Anecdotes," vol. IX. p. 413. + Son of the Bishop, and Prebendary of Canterbury. The learned Historian of Essex, of whom see the "Literary Aneedotes, vol. II. p. 201. in in a manuscript of Dr. Wilkins, given me by his executor, entitled, An Historical Account of the Church and Town of Hadleigh in Suffolk, written by David Wilkins, D. D. Rector of that Parish, MDCCXXI:' in which nothing is mentioned but, 1554, Rowland Taylor, LL. D. collat' by Abp. Cranmer, martyred 1555. See Burnet's History of the Reforma'on, vol. II. p. 303; of whom, in a brass table hanging up upon the North pillar, that is joined to the Chancel, is this inscription: 'Gloria in Altissimis Deo. "Of Rowland Taylor's Fame I show, And Doctor of the Civill Law, A Preacher rare and fyne. King Henrye and King Edward's Days, The Torment of the same. And stronglye suffer'd to the Ende, O Taylor, were thy mighty Fame Thie Deeds deserve that thie good Name Where sipher'd here in Gold. 'Obiit Anno Dom. 1555.' "This (as Mr. Ryce says) was found by Mr. Tillotson, anno 1594, fastened to the wall. He was burnt in Aldham Common; where lies a stone to keep his name in remembrance with these two verses cut in it: 'Dr Taylor in defending that was good At this Place left his Blood.' "Mem. This stone was railed round with very handsome iron rails by Dr. Wilkins, to prevent its being abused by idle people, and to keep off ploughs, carts, &c.—is a curiosity which I should be glad to shew Mr. Morant, if ever business or inclination called him to Hadleigh. I am, Reverend Sir, "Your obedient humble servant, J. TANNER." Letters |