Simonds D'Ewes - James Ussher - 1639-09-28

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Simonds D’Ewes, Stowlangtoft Hall

Simonds D'Ewes - James Ussher - 1639-09-28

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ	15570
InstitutionName of Institution.	London, British Library
InventoryInventory number.	Harley MS 378, f.46r
AuthorAuthor of the document.	Simonds D’Ewes
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	James Ussher
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	September 28, 1639
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.	Stowlangtoft Hall 52° 17' 1.36" N, 0° 52' 32.41" E
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.	Robert Bruce Cotton
LiteratureReference to literature.	Boran 2015, vol. 2, pp. 795-8, letter 4621, McGee 2015, p. 4182, Burnett 2020b, pp. 470, 5133
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LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	Latin
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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".

'Novum de Antiquitatibus a PV Ecclesiasticis excusum est opus ... quo cum laeticiam, tum maerorem mihi excussit. ... Laeticiam ob tantum a summo indultum Ecclesiae suae Numine beneficium: maerorem, quod paucula illaquaefortassissolusTibiadjutoriaministrare potis eram, propter ignotam mihi hanc festinationem ad Te mittere omiserim. Annos enim totos tredecim Magnae Britanniae veram molitus sim Historiam, ex ipsis majorem partem Archivis vindicandam. ... Bibliothecam post Cottonis ni fallor (quem vixisse doleo) inter privatas Anglicanas locupletissimam numismatis aureis, argenteis, aeneis, Autographis et MSS. codicibus exornatam instauravimus.' (British Library, Harley MS 378, f.46r; Boran 2015, vol. 2, pp. 795-8, letter 462; McGee 2015, p. 418; Burnett 2020b, pp. 470, 513)

['A new work on ecclesiastical antiquities has been published by you...; it caused me both happiness and sorrow. Happiness, because so great a benefit had been granted by God to His Church; sorrow, because those few little things, in which I alone might perhaps have been able to assist you, I omitted to send you, being unaware that there was a need to hurry. For I have been working on a true history of Great Britain for a full thirteen years, to be proved for the most part from the archives themselves. ... I have formed a library that is, unless I am mistaken, the richest among English private collections, after Cotton’s (whose death I lament), for golden, silver, and bronze coins and for autograph books and manuscript codices' (translation from Boran 2015, vol. 2, pp. 795-8, cited by Burnett 2020b, p. 470)]