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1501. Stowe MS 873

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Stowe MS 873
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"INDEX of eight MSS. of Mr. [Elias] Ashmole in the museum at Oxford." The MSS. are numbered 835 and 1097 Lib. II.-VII that is, seven in all, and not eight as given in the title. The title of Ashm. 835 given in W. H. Black's Catalogue of the Ashmolean MSS., 1845, is "The Herald's Repository," etc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

1502. Stowe MS 874

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Stowe MS 874
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RECORD of the prices of wheat and barley in the market of Oxford, with the assize of bread and other ordinances regulating prices issued by the Vice-chancellors, with their original signatures and those of the Clerks of the Market, from 26 Sept. 1663 to 3 Mar. 1668[9]. Paper; ff. 163. Duodecimo....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1663-[3 Mar 1668]
Extent:
1 item

1503. Stowe MS 875

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Stowe MS 875
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EXTRACTS from assart-rolls, perambulations, etc., relating to the royal forests in co. Rutland, tempp. John-Hen. VIII. Paper; ff. 20. A.D. 1662 (see f 20). Inside the cover is the monogram of Thomas Martin of Palgrave (ob. 1771). Folio. County of Rutland: Extracts relating to forests in, tempp....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1662
Extent:
1 item

1504. Stowe MS 876

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Stowe MS 876
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"LIBER CENSUALIS Gulielmi Primi pro Statfordscire"; or Domesday Book for Staffordshire, transcribed by Edward Vernon, D.D., in 1754 (cf. No. 816 above). At the end is an alphabetical list of the modern names of places. Paper; ff. 26. Belonged, in 1764, to Thomas Astle. Folio. Edward Vernon, DD,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1754
Extent:
1 item

1505. Stowe MS 877

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Stowe MS 877
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"A SURVEY of Staffordshire," by Sampson Erdeswicke. The printed edition of 1723, interleaved, with numerous additions in the hand of Edward Vernon, D.D. (cf. No. 816 above). Between the introduction and the first page of the "Survey" (f. 13) is inserted a printed "Scheme or Proposal for making a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1717-1723
Extent:
1 item

1506. Stowe MS 878

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Stowe MS 878
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"THE PAROCHIAL ANTIQUITIES of Staffordshire"; written about 1745 (see f. 6) by Thomas Loxdale, Rector of Tixall. With an index and a few notes added by Edward Vernon, D.D. The work is noticed in Sir Thomas Clifford's Description of Tixall, Paris, 1817, p. 74; and a brief account of the author, t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1745
Extent:
1 item

1507. Stowe MS 879

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Stowe MS 879
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"LIBER NIGER de Nedewood": containing 15th cent. transcripts of the charters of the free tenants of Needwood Forest, co. Stafford, who claimed liberties and commons by exhibition of their charters before Roger le Brabbacon, steward of the Honour of Tutbury, on St. Clement's Eve, 16 Edw. I. [22 N...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

1508. Stowe MS 880

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Stowe MS 880
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers relating to Needwood Chase, co. Staff.; interspersed with which are sundry papers relating to other parts of the county. Among them are:- 1. Assessment of the county for a tenth and fifteenth; 29 Hen. VI. [1450-1]. f. 1. 2. Rental of Alrewas; Mich. 15 Edw. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

1509. Stowe MS 881

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Stowe MS 881
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ANTIQUARIAN COLLECTIONS relating to the borough of Ipswich, co. Suffolk, viz.:-(1) Extracts from royal charters from 1199 to 1518; 18th cent. f. 1;-(2) Original accompts of Edward Cage, Borough Treasurer, for the year ending Michaelmas, 1588. f. 5;- (3) Extracts from "a curious and large book ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

1510. Stowe MS 882

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Stowe MS 882
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"REGISTRUM Magistri Johannis Blauncharde, Archidiaconi Wvgornie, de cartis, literis et aliis evidenciis concernentibus manerium suum de Bereforde Sci. Martini juxta Wyltoun in comit. Wiltes." Latin and French. Blaunchard, who was Archdeacon of Worcester 1371-1383, obtained the manor of Barford S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 item