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Ephemera
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Unknown
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 3094580.3
Summary
A blank piece of note paper torn down one edge with a copy of a press cutting sent from the firm 'DURRANT'S PRESS CUTTINGS. Both are kept in the book 'The diary of Abraham de la Pryme, the Yorkshire antiquary' by Abraham De la Pryme (1672-1704) (record 3094580). A blank piece of textured paper cut to three sides and torn along one edge as if taken from a note book. Abraham de la Pryme was born to Huguenot parents, Matthias de la Pryme and Sarah Smague (or Smagge) at Hatfield in 1671. Despite his father's desire that he should attend the University of Glasgow and then become a Presbyterian minister, de la Pryme insisted on attending the University of Cambridge, becoming a pensioner of St John's College in 1690. Here de la Pryme devoted much of his time to natural history, chemistry, and magic before receiving his BA in 1693–1694. He became curate of Broughton but resigned in 1696 with intention of writing a history of Hatfield: In 1698 he was appointed curate of Holy Trinity Church, Hull, and in 1701 he was appointed by the Duke of Devonshire to the position of curate at Thorne. Whilst visiting the sick there he became ill and died in 1704. He was buried at Hatfield.