Hengrave Hall Papers

Hengrave Papers : additional deposit

This collection consists of manorial and other estate records of the Kitsons (1540-1651) and the Gages (1726-1838), with a few items relating to earlier holders of land owned at various times by these two families. It should be seen as supplementing the main collection (accession 449). Further supplementary material is to be found in accession 712.

<span class="wrapper"><p>See : The History and Antiquities of Suffolk. Thingoe Hundred by John Gage (Bury St Edmunds and London, 1838) pp 180-239; The Manors of Suffolk by W.A. Copinger (London, 1905) vol. 7 pp 50-63; Introduction to the catalogue of accession 449.</p> <p>Detailed family trees of the Kitsons and the Gages appear in Gage pp 184, 205.</p></span>

acc. 5730

The documents listed here formed part of the Hengrave Hall manuscripts deposited by Sir John Wood in the University Library, Cambridge, in 1952. Related documents were deposited on loan in Bury St Edmunds and West Suffolk Record Office (now Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch).

In 1980 the records held at Bury St Edmunds were purchased by Suffolk County Council from the Sir John Wood Will Trust, together with the documents in this collection (HA 528), which it was decided would be more appropriately housed here than in Cambridge. A table showing the previous (Cambridge University Library) reference numbers of items in collection HA 528 will be found at the end of this introduction.