Scope and Contents: The Sir Robert Heath papers consist of letters, documents, a commonplace book, and a diary created or kept by Sir Robert Heath (1575-1649), an English lawyer. The materials document various aspects of London legal life—Parliament, the royal prerogative, prosecution of recusants, and Star-Chamber prosecutions—Puritanism, the English Civil War, English agriculture, and personal and family matters.
Notable correspondents include Arthur Parfey, Richard Lour, Mary Morley, Lucy Heath, John Heath, Edward Heath, James Harrington, Edward Harrington, William Ayshcombe, Ephraim Wright, Henry Croke, Richard Dawson, William Sharpe, Susanna Croke, Katherine Wirdnam, Thomas Allanson, John Dunkin, Colonel Thomas Waite and John Wood.
The collection also includes research notes and correspondence from Reginald L. Hine (1883-1949), who collected the papers and discusses them in Cream of Curiosity: Being an Account of Certain Historical and Literary Manuscripts of the XVIIth, XVIIIth, & XIXth Centuries (1920).
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