Notes
1. TTS, 1 (1897), p.6. The inaugural meeting is discussed on pp. 5-16 of the first volume of Transactions, and the early history of the society in T.M. Blagg, ‘The Thoroton Society: some memories of its First Thirty Years’, TTS, L (1947), 13-24.
2. Michael Brook, ed., Nottinghamshire: a bibliography of historical writing of the county (Thoroton Society Record Series, 42. forthcoming).
3. R. Thoroton. The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (1677) Preface. For a general discussion of Thoroton’s life see A. Henstock and K. Train, ‘Robert Thoroton, Nottinghamshire Antiquary: 1623-1678’, TTS, LXXXI (1977). 13-32.
4. Thoroton. Antiquities, dedication.
6. NAO, M 493, f. 81, M 494, ff. 36. 228-33; Henstock and Train. ‘Robert Thoroton’, 27.
7. NAO, M 494, ff. 132-9; Historical Manuscripts Commission, Le Fleming MSS (1890), pp.1 39-40.
8. Thoroton, Antiquities, pp. 39. 198.
9. Ibid. p. 499. M.W. Barley, ‘Richard Hall, Thoroton’s Illustrator’, TTS. XCI (1987), 12-13.
10. A.C. Wood, ‘Dr Charles Deering’, TTS, XLV (1941), 24-39.
11. NUMD, Mellish of Hodsock MSS, passim.
12. H. Gill and E. L. Guilford, eds., The Rectors Book of Clayworth, Nottinghamshire, 1672-1701 (1910); P. Laslett, and J. Harrison, ‘Clayworth and Cogenhoe’, in H. E. Bell and R. L. Ollard, Historical Essays 1600-1 750: Presented to David Ogg (1963).
13. For Stenton’s local links see M.W. Barley, ‘Frank Merry Stenton, 1880-1967’, TTS, LXXI (1967), 11-12. Other, projected, volumes of the VCH were never completed.
14. J.D. Chambers, Laxton: the Last English Open Field Village (1964); J.V. Beckett, A History of Laxton: England’s Last Open Field Village (1989).
15. See Adrian Henstock, Tracing the History of Your House: Documentary Sources for the History of Nottinghamshire Buildings 1500-1950 (Nottinghamshire Local History Association, 1988).
16. Thoroton, Antiquities, dedication. A full bibliography of the major works of Nottinghamshire history will appear in Michael Brook’s bibliography (see note 2).
17. Except where stated otherwise, this section is based on (a) some incomplete notes by the late Keith Train; (b) ‘Diamond Jubilee the Thoroton Society 1897-1957’, TTS. LXI (1957). 1-7: (c) the Society’s annual reports; and (d) the personal reminiscences of a number of members.
19. The details of the excursion, and the texts of the two papers, can be found in TTS, 1 (1897), 3-52.
20. Blagg. ‘The Thoroton Society: some memories of its first Thirty Years’. The printed title of this article must be wrong since it was written for the golden jubilee edition of TTS and includes material for the whole period 1897-1947.
23. Blagg. ‘The Thoroton Society’.
24. A.C. Wood. ‘Fifty Years of the Transactions’. TTS, L (1947), 1-12.
25. TTS. LXXII (1968), 9. Obituary by Professor W.R. Fryer.
26. TTS. LXXXIX (1985), 11-13.
28. ‘Diamond Jubilee - the Thoroton Society 1897-1957’. TTS, LXI (1957), 1-7.