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2341. Add MS 5961

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Title:
Short notes of an excursion in England and Wales, chiefly relating to Noblemen’s and Gentlemen’s seats
Scope & Content:
A thin duodecimo (21 folios), formerly serving as a Pocket Book, and containing short notes of an excursion in England and Wales, chiefly relating to Noblemens and Gentlemens seats. The date of the year is not given, but it was subsequent to the erection of Mr. Beckfords mansion at Fonthill.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (21 folios)

2342. Add MS 5962

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Title:
Miscellaneous tracts
Scope & Content:
A duodecimo volume (135 folios), containing these separate tracts bound together, viz. 1. ‘A reply to Sir Peter Leicester’s answer to Sir Thomas Mainwaring’s admonition to the Reader of Sir Peter Leicester’s book, written by the said Sir Thomas Mainwaring, bur never yet printed’. (folios 1-45)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (135 folios)

2343. Add MS 5992

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Title:
Letters addressed to the Reverend William Cole
Scope & Content:
First of 2 volumes of Original letters addressed to the Reverend William Cole, arranged in alphabetical order, with a few added subsequent to Mr. Cole’s decease. This volume extends from A to K. (219 folios). 1. The Reverend Stephen Apthorp, DD (Rector of Worplesdon, and Vice Provost of Eton) ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1753-1783
Extent:
1 volume (219 folios)

2344. Add MS 5993

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Title:
Letters addressed to the Reverend William Cole
Scope & Content:
Second of 2 volumes of Original letters addressed to the Reverend William Cole, arranged in alphabetical order, with a few added subsequent to Mr. Cole’s decease. This volume extends from L to W. (207 folios). 1. J. Lane to Mr. Cole. Dated Milton, 28 May 1745. (folio 1) 2. S. Leycester to M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1745-1783
Extent:
1 volume (207 folios)

2345. Add MS 5994

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Title:
NOTARIAL CERTIFICATE: certificate by Robert Bredon, clerk, notary public in Cambridge, of the appeal to Rome of John Perkyn, B.A., rector of Hildersham, co. Camb.; 20 Aug. 1474. Latin. Origin: England. Endorsed in contemporary and 18th cent. hands as the 'will' of John Perkyn. Owned, 18th cent., by the Rev. Christopher Lonsdale of Barham Hall, Linton, co. Camb., who gave the document to the Rev. William Cole in January 1777. Mounted among miscellaneous documents from the Cole collection. Acq...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 185 Scribes: Robert Bredon, notary public of Cambridge: 1474. f. 185 John Perkyn, rector of Hildersham, county Cambridgeshire: Notarial certificate rel. to his appeal to Rome: 1474: Lat. f. 185 Robert Bredon, notary public in Cambridge: Hildersham, Cambridgeshire: Notarial certific...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
20 Aug 1474
Extent:
1 item

2346. Add MS 6027

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Title:
An abstract of many different Manors, Lands, and Tenements granted to Prince Charles [later Charles I]
Scope & Content:
A folio volume (140 folios), containing ‘An abstract of divers Manors, Landes, and Tenements latelie granted unto Prince Charles, by our Soveraigne Lord James, his most loving father: Surveyde by vertue of a deputation of ye honorable Sir James Fullerton, Knighte, Surveyor Generall, made and per...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1617
Extent:
1 volume (140 folios)

2347. Add MS 6028

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Title:
'HISTORIA AUGUSTA': an Italian humanist manuscript, probably from Rome, of the 'Historia Augusta', lives of Roman emperors traditionally assigned to six different authors of the late third to early fourth centuries A.D.; mid 15th cent. Latin. Origin: Italy. The text is incomplete, ending in the life of Probus, ch. xix, 'effronduit misi deinde per omnes additus' (f. 180v): the scribe has added a colophon, with the word 'finis' at the foot of the page. The text was first printed in 1475. For a...
Scope & Content:
Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: 'Historia Augusta': initials and borders: 15th cent. Rome; Emperors: 'Historia Augusta': 15th cent: Lat. includes: f. 1 Heraldry: Sacrati family; of Ferrara: Arms of the Sacrati family of Ferrara: 15th cent: Painted.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2348. Add MS 6031

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Title:
History of the Townships of Cheshire, stated to have been compiled by Dr. Williamson
Scope & Content:
A folio volume (180 folios), in which are collections, alphabetically arranged, for the History of the Townships of Cheshire, stated to have been compiled by Dr. Williamson, a physician of Chester (in 1701), from the Manuscripts of Randal Holmes and others. It is often cited by Lysons in his ‘...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1701
Extent:
1 volume (180 folios)

2349. Add MS 6032

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Title:
Collections towards a Hiatory of Cheshire, made by John Woodnoth esquire
Scope & Content:
A large folio (141 folios), containing collections towards a History of Cheshire, made by John Woodnoth esquire of Shavington, in the 17th Century, being copies of various original documents, abstracts of charters, etc. viz. 1. Warrant from King Charles I to Thomas Cowper esquire, Mayor of Che...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (141 folios)

2350. Add MS 6033

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Title:
Collection of Oxfordshire Church notes
Scope & Content:
A thin folio volume (72 folios), in which are a collection of Oxfordshire Church notes, transcribed by the Reverend John Gutch from the papers Antony Wood, in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, marked E 1. These notes relate to: Bersington [Bensington?]. (Printed in the ‘Parochial Collections fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1781-1831]
Extent:
1 volume (72 folios)

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