# John Manningham > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/John_Manningham > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/John_Manningham.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Manningham > Source revision: 1290266526 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|English lawyer and diarist}} {{for|the English Viscount born in 1932|John Manningham-Buller, 2nd Viscount Dilhorne}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} '''John Manningham''' (1570s – 1622) was an English lawyer and diarist, a contemporary source for [Elizabethan era](/source/Elizabethan_era) and [Jacobean era](/source/Jacobean_era) life and the London dramatic world, including [William Shakespeare](/source/William_Shakespeare). ==Life== He was son of Robert Manningham of [Fen Drayton](/source/Fen_Drayton), [Cambridgeshire](/source/Cambridgeshire), by his wife Joan, daughter of John Fisher of [Bledlow](/source/Bledlow), [Buckinghamshire](/source/Buckinghamshire). He matriculated at [Magdalene College, Cambridge](/source/Magdalene_College%2C_Cambridge) around 1592, and graduated B.A. in 1596.{{acad|MNNN592J|Manningham, John}} On 16 March 1598 he entered as a student in the [Middle Temple](/source/Middle_Temple), and on 7 June 1605 he was called to the degree of an utter barrister. A fellow-student, Edward, son of William Curll and brother of [Walter Curll](/source/Walter_Curll), obtained for him the post of auditor of the court of wards. He was also befriended by a distant relative, Richard Manningham, who, born at [St Albans](/source/St_Albans) in 1539, made a fortune in London as a mercer, and in his old age retired to [Bradbourne](/source/Bradbourne), near [Maidstone](/source/Maidstone). Richard Manningham died on 25 April 1611, and was buried in [East Malling](/source/East_Malling) Church, where John Manningham erected a monument to his memory. To John, his sole executor, Richard left his house and lands in [Kent](/source/Kent). ==Diary== Manningham wrote a diary, preserved among the [Harleian Manuscripts](/source/Harleian_Manuscripts) in the [British Library](/source/British_Library), and first printed by the [Camden Society](/source/Camden_Society) in 1868, under the editorship of [John Bruce](/source/John_Bruce_(antiquary)).[https://archive.org/details/johnmanningdi00camduoft John Bruce, ''Diary of John Manningham'' (London, 1868)]: BL Harley MS 5353. It covers the period from January 1602 to April 1603; at the time the writer was a student in the Middle Temple. The work is a medley of anecdotes of London life, political rumours, accounts of sermons, and memoranda of journeys. The gossip respecting Queen Elizabeth's illness and death and the accession of James I is set down in detail, and Manningham often supplies comments on the character of the chief lawyers and preachers of the day. He also gives an account of the performance of Shakespeare's ''[Twelfth Night](/source/Twelfth_Night)'' on 2 February 1602 in the Middle Temple Hall, and the [Harefield Entertainment](/source/Harefield_Entertainment) of August of that year.Gabriel Heaton, 'Elizabethan Entertainments in Manuscript: The Harefield Festivities and the Dynamics of Exchange', in Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, Sarah Knight, ''Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth'' (Oxford, 2007), pp. 241-2. [John Payne Collier](/source/John_Payne_Collier) first called attention to Manningham's work.J. Payne Collier, ''Annals of the Stage'' (1831), i. 320. The anecdote of Shakespeare's triumph over [Richard Burbage](/source/Richard_Burbage) in the pursuit of the favors of a lady of doubtful virtue ("William the Conqueror was before Richard III") comes from his entry for 13 March 1602. [Sir Thomas Bodley](/source/Sir_Thomas_Bodley), [John Stow](/source/John_Stow), [Sir Thomas Overbury](/source/Sir_Thomas_Overbury) and [Barbara Ruthven](/source/Barbara_Ruthven) are also occasionally mentioned. ==Family== Manningham married, about 1607, Ann, sister of his friend Curll. They had three sons and three daughters. Walter Curll, by his will of 15 March 1646–7, left legacies to his sister Ann Manningham and her son and his godson Walter. ==Notes== {{Reflist}} ;Attribution *{{DNB|wstitle=Manningham, John}} ==External links== * {{Gutenberg author | id=41258| name=John Manningham}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=John Manningham}} * [https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-festival-of-twelfth-night-in-john-manninghams-diary The festival of Twelfth Night in John Manningham's diary], British Library website {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Manningham, John}} Category:1570s births Category:Year of birth uncertain Category:1622 deaths Category:17th-century English diarists Category:17th-century English male writers Category:17th-century English lawyers Category:16th-century English lawyers Category:English lawyers Category:People of the Elizabethan era Category:Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge Category:Harleian Collection Category:People from Cambridgeshire --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [John Manningham](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Manningham) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Manningham?action=history)). 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