MRP: Biography
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Bibliography
Coleman, Donald Cuthbert, Sir John Banks, baronet and businessman: a study of business, politics and society in later Stuart England (Oxford, 1963)
Goreau, Angeline, Reconstructing Aphra: a social biography of Aphra Behn (XXXX, 1980)
Pritchard, Allan, English biography in the seventeenth century: a critical survey (Toronto, 2005)
Diaries
- Printed edition of BL, MSS. Harleian no. 5353, ff. 1-133
- Strong links of the diarist to Kent, including Canterbury, Sandwich, and Godmersham
- Frequent journeys into Kent to visit a ca. sixty-two year old cousin (1602-3), Richard Manningham (b. ca. 1540, d. 1611), who resided at Bradbourne, near Maidstone. Bradbourne was a family seat in the parish of East Malling, Kent. Bradbourne and East Malling are just over four miles due south of Halling, where Elizabeth Dallison had her marital home in the 1630s and 1640s. Bruce states that Richard Manningham was a London mercer, married firstly to a Dutch wife, then to a Kentish widow, and that he purchased the estate of Bradbourne, East Malling, to retire from commercial life. He bequeathed the estate to his "adopted" relative John Manningham (b. ?, d. 1622), who had entered Middle Temple in March 1597-8[1]
- The current Bradbourne House was built between 1612 and 1615. Thomas Twisden purchased the estate and house in 1650, with the two remaining in the Twisden family until 1937. The Kent Archaeological Society has published two relevant books: (1) Houe and architecture, with brief history of Twisden family (2) Lives of Twisdens and portraits remaining in the house[2]
- The Diary was written, between March 1602 and April 1603, when John Manningham was a student at Middle Temple. It is a combination of note book, common place book, and occasional diary.
- Possible primary sources:
-- C 142/328/173 Manningham, Richard: Kent 10 James I.
-- C 142/399/137 Manningham, John: Hertford 21 James I.
