LIST OF THE BISHOPS OF SODOR AND MAN, with a short account of each, from 447 to 1755, preceded by a few words about St. Patrick's first landing in the Isle of Man
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Paper; ff. i + 7. Small octavo. Presented by Dr. Mark Hildesley, Bishop of Sodor and Man, 4 July 1767. Bishops of Sodor and Man: List of, with biographical notes 447-1755,: bef. 1767.
Banks collection. Vol. XLIV. Miscellaneous writings, ornamented with initials, portraits of saints, royal arms, etc., cut from a printed book.
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The principal items are:- (1) Fragments of a transcript of a calendar (latest date 1537), for the months of May to October, giving the dates on which fairs are held in those months in various towns of England and Wales (Carmarthen). A few dates are also given in the lives of British sovereigns...
This is one of the twenty-one so-called Ripley Scrolls, a scroll that contains alchemical illustrations and a series of poems of the ‘Verses upon the Elixer’ that was produced for English owners from the fifteenth until the seventeenth centuries. The Ripley Scroll takes its name name from George...