Title: Sir Robert Heath papers, 1614-1699
ID: 01/MSS00019
Primary Creator: Heath, Robert, Sir (1575-1649)
Extent: 9.0 Cubic Feet
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged in the following series:
Series 1: Correspondence (boxes 1-6), arranged alphabetically by correspondent
Series 2: Legal and official papers, accounts and bills, and personal papers (boxes 7-8), arranged alphabetically by subject.
Series 3: Reginald L. Hine's research notes and correspondence (boxes 9-10), arranged by subject and correspondent
Series 4: Additional Items
The finding aid provides more detailed information about the contents of each box, where possible. Dates of correspondence are given in the form YYYY/MM/DD. Some of Reginald L. Hine's correspondence is described only at the folder level, and some of Series 2, "Legal and official papers, accounts and bills, and personal papers,"is described only at the box level. The presence of transcriptions or additional notes by Reginald L. Hine or Carleen Stottler is occasionally indicated. These transcriptions and notes are interfiled with the items they concern.
Languages: English
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).
Sir Robert Heath was born on May 20, 1575 in Brasted, Kent to Anne Posyer (1545-1626) and Robert Heath (1535-1615), a lawyer. Heath studied at Tonbridge School (1582-1589) and St John's College, Cambridge (-1592) before entering Clifford's Inn in 1592. He moved to the Inner Temple in 1593 and became utter barrister in 1603. Heath held several positions throughout his career, including Solicitor General (1620-1625), Attorney-General (1625-1631), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (1631-1632), Chief Justice of King's Bench (1642-1645), and as a member of Parliament. He was knighted by James I in 1621.
Heath married Margaret Miller (1578-1647) in 1600; the two shared six children. Around the time of the Siege of Oxford, Heath left for France, some describing his departure as exile. Margaret spent this time (1646 until her death) in Brasted. Heath died in Calais, France, on August 20, 1649.
Repository: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Access Restrictions: Open to researchers.
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Original/Copies Note:
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Location: History, Philosophy & Newspaper Call Number: FILM 942.062 H351p
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"Liber Edwardi Heath"
Bound in vellum.
Partially transcribed in J. H. Bloom, ed., "Liber Edwardi Heath," Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 5th ser., 4 (1920-22), 158-164. (this article is shelved with the item)
Microfilm copy of the diary of Paul Ambrose Croke, Edward Heath's father-in-law.
Partially transcribed in:
J. Harvey Bloom, "Paulus Ambrosius Croke: A Seventeenth-Century Account Book," Notes and Queries, s12-IV 76 (Jan 1918), 5-7
and
J. Harvey Bloom, "Paulus Ambrosius Croke: A Seventeenth-Century Account Book," Notes and Queries, s12-IV 77 (Feb 1918), 36-38. (these articles are shelved with the item)
Also call number: 000 FILM 79-2
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