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Notebook #83

Description: Appears to be 6 small notebooks, largely in Edmund Esdaile's handwriting; Book F could be Katharine Esdaile.
Notebook A "Lincs, with John Todhunter" (1934): Places Visited; Long Sutton (11.vii.1934); Gedney; Howell; Tattersall (page 6); Horncastle; Carstone?; Broughton Notebook B: Places Visited: Llanfair Talmararn, N. Wales; St. George's Windsor Notebook C (missing page 1?): Places Visited: Possibly Middle or Inner Temple, London – page 1 is missing; Badminton Notebook D: Places Visited: Arminchampton (?) (19.v.1934); Bishop's Cleave; Ellestone Notebook E: Places Visited: Dalham, Suffolk – St. Martin's;Dorney, Bucks Notebook F: Places Visited: Swithland; Rothlen; Leicester Cathedral (St. Martin's); Finchley; Bromley (page 23); West Ham; Chislehurst; Shoreham, Kent; Oxford; St. Decumans; N. Petherton (?) (Aug. 16) (page 57); Bridgwater; Bishop's Lydeard (?); Overton; Wrexbury, Cheshire; Nantwich; Wroxeter (page 84); Acton; Morton Say; Moreton Corbet; Oswestry; Llanyblodwelin, Montgomery, Wales; Tonbridge, (separate entry on blue paper).
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Date: 1934

Notebook #7

Manuscripts

.Churches/houses visited include Stetchworth (21.Feb.1934) Kirthing ("2nd visit – Castle; East Anglia (?)). Sawston, Hashingfield (Feb. 23 1934), Dinton (May 28, 1934), Tisbury, Sutton Mandeville, Amesbury, Wilton, Salisbury (May 29) "Wishford Apple Day Procession" (pages 50-60), Wishford Church (page 91 – pages 61-90 are missing), Wilton Old Church (page 97), Salisbury - St. Martin's, Bewers book (?), Compton Chamberlayne, Warminster (31.5.34), Salisbury Museum, Newport (Monmouthshire), Brecon- incl. Christs College & Cathedral, Kinnersley, Westley (June 5), Leominster, (Notes), Essex (April 23 1935) – Willingdale Dae (?), Writtle, St. Osyth, Woodham Ferrers, Rettendon.

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Notebook #94

Manuscripts

Miscellaneous notes (much indecipherable) on churches, sculptors, and book sources. Appears to be no particular order (pages 1-15) BLANK PAGES; BOOK REVERSES. Churches/places visited: - York (Aug 26 – Sept. 7 1943) (page 20) – Sandal Magna; Milnthorp; Royston; Silkstone; Darfield; Hickleton; Sprotborough; Methley (?) revisited; Salehurst (Dec 28 1943) (page 41); Montfield; Udimore; Boxley; East Malling (11.1.44); Goodmeston; Woodnesborough; Ash; Canterbury – St. Martin's (page 63); Brendiley (?); Biddenden; Appledove; New Romnsey; Lydel; Chatham (May 15th 1944) (page 74); Rochester – St. Margarets' – Cathedral ("fresh notes"); - St. Nicholas; Laybourne; Wye (July 28 1944); Broughton (page 94) ("with Edmund, Jane & Susan"); Wroxton; Drayton, Oxon.

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Notebook #30

Manuscripts

Dated 31 December 1953 on the flyleaf, but entries go back to 1934. Places visited (Index at beginning, by A. Esdaile): Walton at Stone (1.1.1954) (page 1), Old Coulsdon (12.11.1954), Dartford (12.vii.50), Canterbury – Cathedral Cloisters (15.vii.50) -St. Mary Magdalen, -St. Martins, Lingfield (18.viii.54) (page 7), Crowhurst, Penshurst, Norwich (1943), Claydon (1934), Barnsley (Glos) (1934), Black Boulton, Temple Church (1932 fragments) (page 15), East Hendred (1959) Oxford St. John's Chapel (12.iv.59), St. Mary Magdalen, Clapham, Patching, West Tarburg, Gobing (25.iii.61) Chichester (6.v.61), Feeling, Boxglove, Ardingbourne.

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Notebook #87

Manuscripts

All in pencil and much illegible or indecipherable; lacks binding. Churches/places visited: Herne (?); Bischington; St. Nich. At Wade; Charing (?); Biddenden (May 1) (page 33): Bonylton (?) under Blean (?); Ospringe; Lynstead (?); St. Margaret's (London ?) (page 59); St. Michaels; St. Paul's; Holy Cross; St. Martin's Canterbury; Elmstone; Burfield (?); Hambleden' Bisham; Hitcham; Note on a Mausoleum in Bedfordshire (page 108); BLANK PAGES; BOOK REVERSES; cure (?); (page 116); BOOK REVERSES (page 127); Chershurst (?) (7.6.33); BOOK REVERSES; Waltham Abbey (page 133); Theydon Mount; Theydon Garnon (page 150); Epping-Old Church; Hempstead; Steeple Bumpstead (page 170); Great Bardfield; Stebbing; Gr(eat?) Canfield (page 190); BLANK PAGES; Notes from Sloane Manuscripts; BOOK REVERSES; BLANK PAGES; List of Masons? (page 196-197); Further extracts from Sloane Manuscripts; BOOK REVERSES; Notes on repairs to Esdaile Home (page 206).

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Notebook #66

Manuscripts

Churches/places visited/people: Index at beginning; Wrexham (11.viii.26); Mord; Tanporley (?); Bunbury; Malpas; St. Martin's near Chink; Chester (Aug. 14 1926) (page 25); Ellesmere; Liverpool – St. Nicholas; Ruthin; St. Marcella, Denbigh; Ledbury (Aug. 20); Bosbury (page 59); Elmley Castle & Pershore; Worcester; BLANK pages (70-); Mayfield; Wallhurst; Temworh (Sept. 20 26); Ashby dela Zouch; Burton; Stanton Harold; Ashburnham Oct 30 1926); Iver, Bucks (June 20th 1928); Belkhampstead; Amersham (page 124); Chesham; Chesham Bois; Coventry July 10 1928 – Cathedral; - Holy Trinity; Meriden; Hampton-in-Arden; Warwick (page 157); Coleshill; Wolverhampton – St. Peter's; Patteshull; Albrighton; Tong; Penkridge (page 199); Hamstall Ridware; Marchington; Hanbury; Elford; Bromsgrove (July 14th); Tardesbigg; Bedley; Kidderminster; Groombridge; Penshurst (page 246); Tonbridge; The Temple (London) (12.ix.28) (page 253).

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Notebook #58

Manuscripts

Churches/places visited/people: Stamford – St. Martin's (Sept 1, 1938); St. Mary's; - All Saints; - St. John's; St. Georges; Barnack; Marholme; Upton; ("This is perhaps the most remarkable tomb in England") Northants; Peterborough; Orton; Longueville; Chesterton; Elton; Warrington; Apethorpe; Kingscliffe; Desborough (1.ix.38) (page 26); Norton; Rockingham; Rushton; Rothwell; Stanford "of incomparable importance"; Theddingworth; Nevill Holt; Stanton Wyvill; Conington; Carlton Curliew; Noseley; Skeffington; Piddletown ("Dorset with Edith Sept. 5.8.38"); Stinsford; Dorchester - St. Peter's; Bridport; Netherbury; Beaminster "The most perfect church I ever saw"; Evershot; Frampton; Shroton; Stapleton Iwene; Charlton Marshall;; Spettisbury; Lyndhurst (page 74); Southampton – Holy Rood; - St. Mary's; Glatton; Edwardthorpe; Teigh; Oakham; Ryhall; Exton (revisited); Ridlington; Leicester – St. Martins; - St. Margarets; St. James' Clerkenwell (London?) (1939) (page 98).

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Notebook #83

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