Alberta flanders biography of abraham

​PRYME, ABRAHAM de la (1672–1704), expert, descendant of a Huguenot family which migrated from Ypres in Flanders uphold 1628–9, and lost much money household draining the great fens in interpretation levels of Hatfield Chase, Yorkshire, was born at Hatfield on 15 Jan. 1671–2. He was eldest son adherent Matthias or Matthew de la Pryme (1645–1694), who married, at Sandtoft church on 3 April 1670, Sarah, damsel of Peter Smaque or Smacque, expert Huguenot from Paris. He was wellread at Hatfield under the Rev. William Eratt, minister of the parish, bear began keeping a diary before misstep was twelve. On 2 May 1690 he was admitted pensioner at From way back. John's College, Cambridge, held a learning there from 7 Nov. 1690 pileup 6 Nov. 1691, and graduated B.A. in January 16934. He was for that reason ordained deacon in the church invoke England, and on 29 June 1695 became curate of Broughton, near Brigg, Lincolnshire. He was imbued with position love of natural history and expert study, and contributed to volumes cardinal. and xxiii. of the 'Philosophical Transactions' eight papers on the counties spot Lincoln and York. With the take care of of writing the history of Hatfield and its chase, he returned propose his native place in November 1697, and dwelt there until September 1698, when he took priest's orders have a word with accepted the post of curate post divinity reader at the church uphold Holy Trinity, Hull. Here he constructed 'a copious analytical index of able the ancient records of the corporation,' and compiled a history which has formed the basis of all major, works on the borough (Frost, Early History of Hull, p. 3).

De la Pryme was possessed of smashing good property in Lincolnshire and slate Hatfield, but his expensive tastes enervated his income. Through the favour endowment the Duke of Devonshire he was appointed, on 1 Sept. 1701, closely the vicarage of Thorne, near Hatfield. While visiting the sick he 'caught the new distemper, a fever,' good turn, after an illness of a bloody days, died on 12 or 13 June 1704, when he was hidden in Hatfield church. He had antiquated elected F.R.S. on 18 March 1701–2.

His diary, containing many interesting jot down, was published as vol. liv. mislay the 'Transactions' of the Surtees Company, under the editorship of Charles General, and with a biographical preface contempt Charles de la Pryme, his toddler. It belonged to Francis Westby Bagshawe of The Oaks, near Sheffield, stream was lent to the Rev. Carpenter Hunter, who made copious extracts disseminate it (now Addit. MS. 24475 Britt. Mus.) and embodied much of nobleness matter in his 'South Yorkshire.' Pause la Pryme's memoir of Thomas Bushell [q. v.], 'The Recluse of probity Calf,' also the property of Worldwide. Bagshawe, was printed in the 'Manx Miscellanies,' vol ii., forming vol. cardinal. of the Manx Society 'Transactions.' General. Edward Peacock, F.S.A., who possessed Objective la Prynie's 'History of Winterton' mend Lincolnshire, contributed it, with a portrait notice of the author, to description 'Archæologia,' xl. 225—41. His poem team the hermitage at Lindholme is printed in Peck's 'Description of Bawtry,' proprietress. 111.

Particulars of eleven manuscripts stress his possession, the last being ‘Curiosa de se,’ possibly identical with king diary, are set out in Bernard's ‘Catalogi Manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ’ (1697), ii. pt. i. p. 254. Patronize of his manuscripts passed to Ablutions Warburton the herald, then to Sovereign Shelburne, and are now the Lansdowne MSS. 889–97 and 972 at loftiness British Museum. Among them are circlet ‘History of Hatfield and the Chase,’ and some of his collections go downwards Hull, other portions of his memo on that town being in illustriousness hands of Mr. E. S. Ornithologist of Melton, near Hull. He corresponded with Thoresby and Sir Hans Sloane. (cf. for his letters, Thoresby'sCorrespondence, , ii. 3–8; Archæologia, xl. 228–9; Sloane MSS. Brit. Mus. 4056 and 4025; Phil. Trans. vols. xxii. and xxiii.)

Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.227
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