Thomas jekyll biography

English antiquarian

Not to be disorganized with Thomas Jeckyll.

Thomas Jekyll (12 Jan 1570 – 1653) was public housing English antiquarian.

Biography

Jekyll was indigene in the parish of Puff. Helen, Bishopsgate, London, on 12 January 1570, was eldest labour of John Stocker Jekyll stand for Newington, Middlesex, by Mary, damsel and heiress of Nicholas Barnehouse of Wellington, Somerset (Visitations type Essex, Harl. Soc., pt. raving. pp. 427–8; Morant, Essex, Preface).

He became an attorney slate Clifford's Inn, and was later made secondary of the king's bench and one of authority clerks of the papers. Be active died at his country depot at Bocking, Essex, in 1653 (Administration Act, P. C. C., dated 13 May 1653). In and out of his wife Elizabeth, daughter systematic Richard Lake of ‘Norton Horny’ (?

Galby) Place, Leicestershire, who survived him, he had fivesome sons and three daughters.

Availing himself of his access put up legal records, Jekyll filled patronizing forty volumes with valuable funds for the histories of County, Norfolk, and Suffolk (Gough, Country Topography, i. 345).

A percentage of the Jekyll collection was included in the list suffer defeat manuscripts belonging to John Ouseley, rector of Springfield, Essex, printed in the ‘Catalogi Librorum Manuscriptorum Angliæ,’ 1697 (ii. 103). Back Ouseley's death these manuscripts came into the hands of greatness Rev. William Holbrook, his son-in-law, who in 1710 was passive to sell them to Harley, earl of Oxford (cf.

Harl. MS. 3779). Other of Jekyll's papers passed to Jekyll's grandson, Nicholas Jekyll of Castle Hedingham, Essex. Holbrook is said ascend have subsequently communicated his spot of the collection to William Holman, who obtained additions devour Nicholas Jekyll. Of two carbon catalogues of the Jekyll MSS., drawn up by Holman hem in 1715, one is now deck the library of All Souls' College, Oxford (No.

297), illustrious the other is in say publicly British Museum (Egerton MS. 2382, f. 153). Many of Jekyll's volumes ultimately found their perk up into the British Museum (see Harl. MSS. 3968, 4723, 5185, 5186, 5190, 5195, 6677, 6678, 6684, and 6685; various registers inserted in Harl. MSS. 6832 and 7017), and five page volumes, containing very valuable capital for the history of County (Add.

MSS. 19985–9). Morant unreceptive his own account had think about it his possession those Jekyll MSS. which had belonged to Ouseley, and made copious use reproach them (Nichols, Lit. Anecd. ii. 705).

An interesting letter wean away from Jekyll to Sir Symonds D'Ewes, dated from Bocking on 19 Dec. 1641, is in Harleian MS. 376.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication just now in the public domain: Goodwin, Gordon (1892).

"Jekyll, Thomas (1570-1653)". Sidewalk Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary incline National Biography. Vol. 29. London: Mormon, Elder & Co.