Tier note: entries are grouped by archival and published category; the reader-facing list below is drawn from the volume's master working bibliography.
I. Primary archival sources
Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
MS Rawlinson D. 775 (pay-book for 1532–3, 222 ff.) — Greenwich, Windsor, Woking, Dover, Westminster, Tower of London; includes works at Westminster Hall for the coronation of Anne Boleyn (ff. 173–201).
MS Rawlinson D. 776 (pay-book for 1533–4, 247 ff.) — Greenwich, Eltham, Tower, Bridewell, Richmond, Windsor, Oking, Moore, Chobham, Ampthill, Bishop’s Hatfield; fly-leaves contain 1655 private accounts of George Nedham of Wymondley.
MS Rawlinson D. 777 (pay-book for 1534–5, 220 ff.) — Includes the November 1534 refit of the King’s barge ‘The Lyon’ for the French Admiral’s visit.
MS Rawlinson D. 778 (pay-book for 1535–6, 113 ff.) — Tower of London works, Jewel House rebuilding; fly-leaves contain 1643–44 tax memoranda by George Nedham.
MS Rawlinson D. 779 (pay-book for 1535–7 and 1539, 85 ff.) — Canterbury October– December 1539; consolidated annual summaries across sixteen royal sites totaling £2,636 17s 10½d.
MS Rawlinson D. 780 (pay-book for 1536–7 and 1540, 261 ff.) — Greenwich, Windsor, Moor, Grafton, Chobham, Oking, Hunsdon, Ditton, Parlaunt, Ampthill, Tower.
MS Rawlinson D. 781 (pay-book for 1541–2, 217 ff.) — Greenwich, Eltham, Moor, Hunsdon, Oking, Windsor, Chobham, East Horsley, Canterbury St Augustine’s (with the steeple-fall cleanup), Westenhanger, Dover, Enfield, Leeds Castle.
MS Rawlinson D. 782 (pay-book for 1541–2, 69 ff.) — Demolition of Barking Abbey church; fly-leaves contain 1668 accounts of George Nedham at Wilshamstead. Fol. 003v digitized at digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/63db51be-3e05-4574-ac1d-a2dc63d1c741.
MS Rawlinson D. 783 (pay-book for 1541–2, 220 ff.) — Manor of Dartford; the king’s command ‘speedily to be done for his grace.’
MS Rawlinson D. 784 (pay-book for 1543–4, 207 ff.) — Manor of Dartford continued; written in a larger hand, with very black ink. Runs to within four months of James’s death.
MS Rawlinson D. 785 (pay-book for 1541–2, 118 ff.) — Conversion of Rochester from college to manor.
MS Rawlinson B. 340 — Duplicate of part of one of the preceding pay-books.
MS Don. c. 206 (pay-book for 1535–1540) — Acquired by the Bodleian in 2008 at Christie’s sale of the Foljambe Collection, lot 169. Includes the Enfield 1540 accounts transcribed by the Enfield Archaeological Society. Manuscripts at The National Archives, Kew
E 101/504/2 (pay-book for 1543–4) — Final particular book of James Nedeham, submitted by his executors after his death in justification of his expenditure.
E 40/5944 (1532 bond to Cromwell) — Exchequer Treasury of Receipt, Ancient Deeds Series A. Bond by James Nedeham, the king’s master carpenter, to Thomas Crumwell, master or treasurer of the king’s jewels, for £200. Dated 11 June 1532.
LR 14/468 (1544 Bygrave indenture) — Office of the Auditors of Land Revenue, Ancient Deeds Series E. Indenture of sale of messuages and land in Bygrave next Baldock from Thomas Myldemaye to James Nedeham of Wymondley, esq., and John Nedeham, gentleman. Regnal year 35 Hen. VIII (April 1544 to April 1545).
C 2/Eliz/N5/46 (Nedeham v Clarke) — Court of Chancery, Six Clerks Office, Pleadings, Series I, Elizabeth I to Charles I. John Nedeham vs William Clarke; bill of complaint contains sworn statement that Wymondley was granted by King Henry VIII to James Nedeham.
SP 5/4/196 (1542–44 lead account) — Exchequer King’s Remembrancer, Miscellanea relating to the Dissolution. London and Home Counties Monasteries: account of lead by James Nedeham, clerk of the King’s Works, giving destinations of the lead. Regnal years 34–35 Hen. VIII.
Other Nedeham records in SP 1 (Henry VIII State Papers) — 1534 letter from Nedeham to Cromwell about Tower of London works — specific reference to be confirmed by TNA Discovery search; CT-077 in project work plan.
A.O. 3/1276 — Odd pages of accounts for James Nedeham’s last two years 1542–44, also at TNA per the 1962 JSA article footnote 6.
PCC PROB 11/276/546 (Eustace Nedham’s will, 29 March 1657, probated 21 May 1658) — Will of Eustace Nedham, Esq., of Little Wymondley. Strikingly brief; everything to son George; one witness who marks rather than signs. The brevity reflects inter vivos estate settlement practice. Anchor of §3.7 and §3.8.
PCC PROB 11/330/451 (George Nedham Senior’s will, 4 March 1666/67, probated 10 August 1679) — Will of George Nedham (Senior), Esq., of Little Wymondley. Names wife Barbara; four sons George Jr., Fitch, James, Maurice; three daughters Barbara the eldest, Anne, Elizabeth; brother Luke. Documents Maurice’s £500 portion as the fourth son. The central documentary instrument of §4.3 and the foundation of Maurice’s adult life. Probate date establishes George Senior’s death in summer 1679.
C 10/214/65 (Nedham v Wingate, 1684) — Court of Chancery, Six Clerks Office, Pleadings, Series II. Maurice Nedham, Esq., and his wife Lettice, joint plaintiffs against Sir Francis Wingate, knight, of Harlington, Bedfordshire. Property dispute over land in St Martin in the Fields, Middlesex, part of Lettice’s marriage settlement. Documents that Maurice had a wife named Lettice and that a Wingate held land out of her settlement; it does NOT document her maiden name. Retracted as evidence of a Wingate marriage, May 2026. Primary tier; confirms the 1925 History of the de Graffenried Family’s Wingate maternal-surname attribution for Barbara Tempest Needham. Anchor of §4.4.
Manuscripts at other repositories
Somerset Heritage Centre: DD/2628 (1537 final concord, Cattall Grove) — Walker-Heneage and Button family papers. Conveyance by Francis Goodyere of Hadley to James Nedeham of the wood called Cattall Grove and adjoining land in South Mimms. Dated 19 December 29 Hen. VIII.
University of Nottingham Library: MSS Ne/O/1–3 — Three further pay-books of James Nedeham, 1535–1542. Inheritance line through the Wightwick-Foljambe family possibly. Catalog details pending.
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: HRO 32,349 (1731 estate map of Wymondley) — Cited by Doggett 1997; shows the cruciform footprint of the priory church still legible in the early eighteenth century. Family records and parish registers (Searcy line)
Parish registers of Little Wymondley, Hertfordshire — Baptisms, marriages, burials of the Nedham/Needham family 1538–1725. Specific entries pending HALS verification.
Parish registers of Great Wymondley, Hertfordshire — Baptisms, marriages, burials. The 16 August 1685 baptism of Barbary Nedham (Barbara Tempest Needham) is in this register, not the Little Wymondley register — important parish-of-record distinction. Specific entries pending HALS verification beyond the indexed Findmypast transcripts.
Parish registers of Wymondley Parva (the chapel-of-ease at Little Wymondley) for the 1610s–1620s — Includes the 27 June 1626 burial of George Nedham, Esq. (George I), with John Marshall, minister, preserved verbatim by Urwick. Includes the 16 August 1618 baptism of George Nedham son of Eustace Nedham.
Parish registers of Welwyn, Hertfordshire — Burials and baptisms of the John Nedham of Welwyn cadet line (John of Welwyn was Eustace’s younger brother, not his father; corrected 2 Sep 2026, CT-068). Specific entries pending HALS verification.
Parish registers of Offley, Hertfordshire — Anne Norton (Eustace’s first wife) and her family; specific entries pending.
Parish registers of Harlington and Lockleys (Welwyn), Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire — Wingate family entries across multiple generations. Specific entries on Frances Wingate pending. Letisia Bowyer's baptism is NOT in Hertfordshire — see the out-of-county search (CT-103).
Will of George Nedham, 1666/67 — Lord of Wymondley Priory at the Restoration; held by family or in HALS, specific reference pending.
The Wymondley Parva chancel-burial register — Tradition documented by Urwick v9c for George I (1626), George II (1669), and by extension the multi-generation chancel-burial right exercised by the lay impropriator. Specific surviving entries pending HALS verification. Indexed parish-register transcripts
Findmypast England Births & Baptisms 1538–1975 + Hertfordshire Baptisms record sets — Online indexed access to the digitised parish registers. The 16 August 1685 baptism of “Barbary Nedham” at Great Wymondley is the documentary anchor of §4.6. The 16 August 1618 baptism of George Nedham son of Eustace Nedham at Little Wymondley is the documentary anchor of §3.2.
Findmypast Kent Marriages and Banns — Online indexed transcript. The 25 September 1581 marriage at St George’s, Beckenham, of George Nedham, Esq., to Margaret Stile (daughter of Edmund Stile of Langley in Beckenham) is the documentary anchor of §2.5.
II. Published primary sources
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII, vol. XIII (HMSO) — Calendar of state papers. Item 887(13) records the 12 April 1538 grant of Wymondley Priory to James Nedeham.
The Visitation of Hertfordshire 1572 (Harleian Society, 1886) — Published transcript of the 1572 Heralds’ Visitation. Signed Nedham pedigree at Wymondley by John Nedham, James’s son. Standard reference for the family’s Tudor-era heraldic confirmation.
The Visitation of Hertfordshire 1634 (Harleian Society) — Confirms descent.
Metcalfe, Walter C. (ed.). The Visitation of Hertfordshire, 1572 & 1634. Harleian Society, vol. XXII (London, 1886). — The bound edition combining both visitations. The single working reference for the 1572 and 1634 Wymondley Needham pedigrees in this project. Available in the Harleian Society’s open-access digitised series.
Chauncy, Sir Henry. The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire. London, 1700. — Standard county antiquarian history. Page 362 preserves the 1605 monument inscription to James and John Nedham in the chancel of Little Wymondley parish church and is the documentary anchor of Chapter 1 §1.7’s closing monument paragraph, of Chapter 3 §3.1’s discussion of George I, and of multiple atmospheric and contextual references across Chapters 3 and 4.
III. Scholarly secondary sources
Colvin, H. M., et al., The History of the King’s Works, vols. III and IV (HMSO, 1975 and 1982) — The standard scholarly reference on the English royal building program. Volume III covers administrative history and the Surveyor’s office; Volume IV covers project-by-project building history. UAB Sterne Library, classmark NA961.C64.
Doggett, Nicholas David Bartholomew. Patterns of Re-Use: The Transformation of Former Monastic Buildings in Post-Dissolution Hertfordshire, 1540–1600 (Ph.D. thesis, University of Southampton, Department of History, April 1997) — Sustained scholarly architectural analysis of Wymondley Priory as a major case study. Available through the British Library EThOS digital repository.
Gomme, Andor. “History, Chronicle or Research File? Reflections on ‘The History of the King’s Works.’” Architectural History, vol. 29 (1986), pp. 197–203. — Critical review of Colvin. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1568508. Establishes Colvin as a research file rather than a continuous history.
[Anonymous, possibly H. M. Colvin]. “The ‘Particular Books’ of James Nedeham, Surveyor of the King’s Works.” Journal of the Society of Archivists, vol. 2 no. 6 (1962), pp. 267–270. — Foundational article cataloguing the surviving Nedeham working ledgers. Establishes the eleven-volume Rawlinson run, the Wightwick-Browne descent of the manuscripts, and the 1733 sale of Wymondley to Vanderplank.
Macray, W. D. (ed.). Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae, Pars V: Codices Rawlinsoniani D. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1862– 1900). — Bodleian’s published volume-by-volume description of the Rawlinson manuscripts. Cols. 503–508 give the Nedeham pay-book inventory.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry on James Nedeham (by H. M. Colvin) — Standard biographical reference.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry on Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms — Standard biographical reference for the herald who conducted the 1572 visitation and made the 1586 grant of arms to the Wymondley Nedhams. Used in §2.0 and §2.4.
Victoria County History of Hertfordshire, vol. III — Foundation history and medieval ownership of Wymondley Priory.
Victoria County History of Hertfordshire, vol. IV — Parish-by-parish histories including Wymondley Magna and Wymondley Parva. Standard reference for the parish ecclesiastical history under George I, Eustace, and George Senior. Used for the 1614 lay-impropriator visitation evidence and the Wymondley Magna 1633 handmill presentment.
Shaw, S. The history and antiquities of Staffordshire, vol. II (1801) — Cited in the 1962 JSA article; relevant for Thomas Browne, Garter King of Arms, husband of Martha Needham.
Clutterbuck, R. The history and antiquities of the county of Hertford, vol. II (1821) — Cited in the 1962 JSA article for the Wightwick-Browne descent tree. Heraldry and gentry studies
Wagner, Anthony. Heralds and Heraldry in the Middle Ages. Oxford, 1956. — Standard reference on the heralds as an institution; used for §2.0 and §2.4 in setting up the College of Arms, the Clarenceux office, and the visitation procedure.
Wagner, Anthony. English Genealogy. Oxford, 1972. — Companion standard work on the genealogical apparatus of the English gentry. Used throughout Chapter 2.
Heal, Felicity, and Clive Holmes. The Gentry in England and Wales, 1500– 1700. Macmillan, 1994. — Best one-volume study of the gentry class as social category. Used across Chapters 2, 3, and 4 for the working framework of gentry life, marriage conventions, and inheritance practice.
Stone, Lawrence. The Crisis of the Aristocracy, 1558–1641. Oxford, 1965. — Classic study of the higher nobility and gentry; Stone’s framework has been criticized but his sense of the texture of early-modern gentry life is unsurpassed.
Stone, Lawrence. Family and Fortune. Oxford, 1973. — Companion study; standard reference for gentry estate management practice.
Wright, Pam. “A change in direction: the ramifications of a female household, 1558– 1603” in David Starkey, ed., The English Court. Longman, 1987. — Standard reference for the Gentleman Pensioners’ institution and what Sir John of Lichborough actually did as a Pensioner. Used in §2.6.
Rowse, A. L. The England of Elizabeth. Macmillan, 1950. — Older but textually rich account of the late-Elizabethan world. Used for atmospheric color in §2.6 (Sir John at Court) and §2.8 (the Elizabethan world the children of John Nedham grew up in).
Cressy, David. Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. Oxford, 1997. — Standard reference for the texture of the everyday rituals — baptism, marriage, churching, burial — that mark every generation of the family. Used across Chapters 2, 3, and 4.
Wrightson, Keith. English Society, 1580–1680. Hutchinson, 1982. — Best one-volume social history of the central period. Used across Chapters 3 and 4. Civil War and Interregnum studies
Russell, Conrad. The Fall of the British Monarchies, 1637–1642. Oxford, 1991. — Standard high-political account of how the Long Parliament’s England came apart. Used for §3.4’s framing of the war’s arrival.
Holmes, Clive. The Eastern Association in the English Civil War. Cambridge, 1974. — Standard work on Hertfordshire’s political alignment during the war years. Used for §3.4 and §3.6.
Everitt, Alan. Change in the Provinces: the Seventeenth Century. 1969. — For how the war was experienced by county gentry not at the center of events — directly relevant to the Wymondley Nedhams’ non-engaging posture. Used for §3.4 and §3.6.
Morrill, John. The Revolt of the Provinces. Allen & Unwin, 1976. — Classic treatment of the war as experienced from outside London. Used for §3.4.
Underdown, David. Revel, Riot, and Rebellion. Oxford, 1985. — For the texture of Civil War society at the parish level. Used for §3.6 and §3.7.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War: A People’s History. HarperCollins, 2006. — Modern and readable; useful for popular-experience detail. Used as background for §3.4 and §3.6. Hertfordshire Nonconformity and parish religious life
Urwick, William. Nonconformity in Herts. Being Lectures upon the Nonconforming Worthies of St. Albans, and Memorials of Puritanism and Nonconformity in all the Parishes of the County of Hertford. London, 1884. — Foundational reference for the parish-by-parish religious history of Hertfordshire from the Reformation through the late seventeenth century. Used across Chapter 3 (the Triers panel, the 1655 Piedmont Collection, the surrounding Dissenter ferment) and Chapter 4 (the post-Restoration ejected ministry and the Dissenter congregations around Wymondley). Accessed via the project’s v9 working notes (Urwick a-d, e-f, g-i addenda). Restoration and late-Stuart studies
Harris, Tim. Restoration: Charles II and his Kingdoms, 1660–1685. Allen Lane, 2005. — Standard modern political narrative of the post-1660 period. Used across §4.1 and §4.5 (Popish Plot, Exclusion Crisis).
Harris, Tim. Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685–1720. Allen Lane, 2006. — Companion volume; standard reference for the late-Stuart and early-Hanoverian transition that frames Chapter 4’s closing decades and Chapters 5–6’s setting.
Picard, Liza. Restoration London. Weidenfeld, 1997. — For the texture of city life in the priory family’s London visits. Used in §4.1 and §4.2.
Moote, A. Lloyd, and Dorothy Moote. The Great Plague. Johns Hopkins, 2004. — Standard reference for the 1665 plague. Used in §4.2.
Tinniswood, Adrian. By Permission of Heaven: the Story of the Great Fire of London. Cape, 2003. — Standard reference for the 1666 Fire. Used in §4.2.
Pepys, Samuel. Diary (Latham & Matthews edition, 11 vols.) — For the day-to-day texture of 1660s London, particularly the first week of September 1666 entries on the Fire. Referenced in §4.2 as the period’s most vivid contemporary first-person account. Devotional and literary references
[Anonymous]. The Whole Duty of Man. London, 1658 (and many subsequent editions through 1700). — Standard Anglican gentry devotional reading of the second half of the seventeenth century; the working book that a young woman of Barbara’s class would have read at fifteen. Used in §4.8 as the open book on Barbara’s writing-desk in October 1700.
Milton, John. Paradise Lost. 1667 (10-book first edition), 1674 (12-book expanded edition). — Standard reading of advanced Anglican gentry libraries by 1700. Referenced in §4.9 as part of Barbara’s reading practice across her years at the priory.
The Book of Common Prayer (1662 edition). — The post-Restoration Anglican liturgy in use across the Wymondley parish life from 1662 forward. Referenced across Chapter 4 and as the working office for the baptismal service in §4.6.
IV. Reference works and aggregators
Wikipedia, “James Nedeham” — Drawing on Colvin and other secondary sources. Aggregator; not citable in publication but useful for cross-reference.
Ridgway, Claire. Tudor Society article on James Nedeham — Accessible secondary summary.
Bodleian Library Archives catalog entry for MS Don. c. 206 — archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/8678. Cleanest biographical statement of James’s origins (London carpenter’s son, Derbyshire grandfather).
Enfield Archaeological Society transcription of MS Don. c. 206 ff. 234–235v — enfarchsoc.org/elsyng/james-nedam-expenses-msd206/. Modernized English transcript of the June–September 1540 Enfield expenses.
The National Archives name-authority record for James Nedeham — discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F60029. Lists the principal manuscript repositories.
Burke’s General Armory — Heraldic reference for the Derbyshire-Hertfordshire branch reconciliation.
V. Present-day sources (buildings, venues, websites)
The Priory Barn, Little Wymondley — thepriory.net. Priory Lane, Little Wymondley SG4 7HD, phone 01438 748 647, email info@thepriory.net. Current operators Michelle and Bill Bacon (took over January 2026). Source for current building condition and venue description of the 1541 tithe barn.
Historic Royal Palaces — hrp.org.uk. Manages Hampton Court Palace, Tower of London, Kensington Palace, Banqueting House Whitehall. Source for visitor information and image licensing for Nedeham-era buildings.
Digital Bodleian — digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Open-access digital images of selected Bodleian manuscripts; includes MS Rawlinson D. 782 fol. 003v.
St George’s Church, Beckenham — Standard parish-church visitor resources for the 1880s Gothic Revival reconstruction of the church where George Nedham married Margaret Stile in September 1581. Original Norman-foundation building substantially replaced; only fragments incorporated into the present building.
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies (HALS), County Hall, Hertford — The county archive repository for the parish registers of Little Wymondley, Great Wymondley, Wymondley Parva, Offley, Welwyn, Graveley, Hitchin, and the surrounding parishes; the county sequestration committee records (1643–1660); the Hertfordshire Sessions records (Popish Plot indictments, Exclusion Crisis loyal addresses, etc.). The single most consequential institutional research target for the project’s continuing primary-source verification across Chapters 2, 3, and 4.
Findmypast Hertfordshire Baptisms record set — Online indexed transcripts of the digitised Hertfordshire parish-register baptisms. The 16 August 1618 baptism of George Nedham son of Eustace Nedham at Little Wymondley is in this record set.
VI. de Graffenried family sources (forthcoming chapters)
DeGraffenreid Association Collection, ECU Joyner Library Special Collections, MS 796 — Box 1 Folder a Item 1: 1735 Baron Christoph V letter (typescript). Folder h: 1709 Protestant affidavit (photocopy). Box 2 Folder b: Christopher VI family group sheet. Inquiry pending.
DeGraffenreid Family Papers, UNC Wilson Library Southern Historical Collection, Collection #01692 (1735–1958) — Inquiry pending.
Pitt-Dixon House report, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Rockefeller Library — Lot 47, Williamsburg. Inquiry pending. May contain references to the Christopher VI family Bible.
Faust, A. B. Annals of the Swiss-Bernese Colony at New Bern, N.C. (1913, 1914) — Project file has extract memos.
Faust, A. B. Guide to the Manuscript Materials Bearing on American History in Switzerland (1916) — Project file has extract memo.
ECU DeGraffenried Association Collection finding aid — Project file has extract memo.
William and Mary Quarterly articles on the DeGraffenreidt/Woodson and Wymondley topics — Project file has extract memos.
de Graffenried, Thomas P. History of the de Graffenried Family. Privately published, 1925, pp. 147–149. — Published family-history reference that identifies Barbara Tempest Needham as the daughter of Maurice and Lettice Wingate Nedham of Wymondley. The Wingate maternal-surname attribution from this 1925 source is corroborated at primary tier by TNA C 10/214/65 (1684). Referenced in §4.4 and forward to Chapter 5 v1.2. * VII. Project working documents This section is new in v2. It catalogues the internal working documents the project has produced across its research apparatus. These are not publication sources but are the working infrastructure on which the chapters’ research base sits.
Searcy Family Ancestral Workbook v7.11 — The master genealogical workbook. Excel format. 53 formulas, validated, zero errors. The working data layer for every documented and probable ancestor across the Wymondley line and forward.
Searcy Master Report v2.7.1, Section 3 — Wymondley Supplement. — Verbatim transcriptions of the 1572 and 1634 Visitation pages with editorial gloss. The single working reference for the Heralds’ Visitation primary-source content.
CT-017 Addendum v2.7 (sessions 1 and 2 memos) — Working reconciliation of the Wymondley Needham descent including the resolution of the Sir Arthur of Wymondsley attribution from the 1925 History of the de Graffenried Family into its real-person components.
CT-017 Needham/Nedham/Wingate Reconciliation Memo — Surname-and-spelling reconciliation work across the Tudor and Stuart documentary base.
Searcy New Sources Synthesis Memo, Pass One — People and Lineage — Substantial new material on John Nedham (Chapter 2’s protagonist), George I, Eustace, George II, the 1605 monument, the 1614 lay-impropriator visitation, the 1669 chancel-burial; Maurice and Letisia Bowyer.
Searcy New Sources Synthesis Memo, Pass Two — Atmospheric and Contextual — Atmospheric and contextual material for the period 1572–1700, including the 1654 Hertfordshire Triers panel, the 1655 Piedmont Collection, the architectural and sensory texture of the priory house from clunch wall to box-tree hedge to Spanish chestnut, the four bells rehung at Graveley.
Searcy Pre-Migration Historical Companion v1 draft — Already-drafted outline material for Chapters 2, 3, and 4, with Appendix A (the Eustace composite at Michaelmas 1640, 1,500 words) absorbed into Chapter 3 §3.3 and Appendix B (Sources for the Color) supplying the chapter-by-chapter secondary-source recommendations that this v2 bibliography incorporates.
Searcy Wymondley Lineage Chart — The genealogical spine of the senior line from James the Surveyor through George III, with tier-grades (DOCUMENTED, PROBABLE) for each generation.
Wymondley Lineage Open Items Memo — The open documentation items tracked across the lineage chart, including Maurice’s death date (the project’s principal gap as of v2.7) and the surname research for Barbara wife of George Senior — the latter closed in May 2026 to Fitch, on TNA C 7/503/16.
Chauncy Working Notes (Vol3, Vol4, v7 Urwick, v8 Hug, v9a-c Urwick, v10 Humphrey/Nedeham addenda) — Chauncy primary-source mining for the Wymondley parish, with successive addenda integrating Urwick’s Nonconformity in Herts. (v9), Hug’s PhD thesis on Hertfordshire Nonconformity (v8), the Pearson/Strype/Parker Society v10 work, and the Vol3 and Vol4 working passes.
Color Memo Place and Life and addenda (Vols 3-4; Urwick a-d, e-f, g-i; v10 Humphrey/Nedeham) — The atmospheric/sensory color memo built across multiple project sessions; the working sensory base for the priory house’s physical texture across all six chapters of Book One.
Bagshawe Collection Documents Ordered May 12, 2026 (memo) — The most recently ordered primary sources from the Derbyshire Record Office’s Bagshawe Collection, pending arrival in the next 2–4 weeks. Relevant primarily for the Derbyshire-origin questions for James the Surveyor but with knock-on implications for the family’s pre-Wymondley standing.
I_Am_Coming_Chapter1_Sources_Memo_v2.docx — Chapter 1 audit-trail file.
I_Am_Coming_Chapter2_Sources_Memo_v1.docx — Chapter 2 audit-trail file.
I_Am_Coming_Chapter3_Sources_Memo_v1.docx — Chapter 3 audit-trail file.
I_Am_Coming_Chapter4_Sources_Memo_v1.docx — Chapter 4 audit-trail file.
I_Am_Coming_Chapter5_Sources_Memo_v1_2.docx — Chapter 5 audit-trail file (Barbara’s voice, courtship, the letter).
(Forthcoming) I_Am_Coming_Chapter6_Sources_Memo.docx — Chapter 6 audit-trail file (Christopher, the Atlantic, the dock at Charleston). *