View source for Francis Jerningham ca.1650-1730

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===Sir [[name::Francis]] [[name::JERNINGHAM]], 3rd bart [[date of birth::1650|ca.1650]]-[[date of death::1730]]===
[[file:P1200942(1).JPG|thumb|Jerningham's bookplate (British Museum Franks Collection 16442)]]
====Biographical Note====
Son of Sir [[family::Henry Jerningham]], 2nd bart, of [[location::Costessey]] (or Cossey) Hall, [[location::Norfolk]], a member of a long-established Roman Catholic gentry family there. He was educated at the [[organisations::English College at Douai]] and succeeded his father in the title and family estates in 1680.

====Books====
Jerningham used a large engraved armorial bookplate, made for him at [[location::Douai]] ca.1710 (Franks 16442). The extent of his library is not known; successive Jerningham baronets made extensive use of bookplates and the family library is likely to have been built over successive generations.

====Sources====
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerningham_baronets Jerningham baronets, Wikipedia].
*Blatchly, J., ''East Anglian ex-libris'', London, 2008, p.20-2.
*Gambier Howe, E. R. J. ''Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum''. London, 1903.
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