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11. Lansdowne MS 778/11

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Lansdowne MS 778/11
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11. The homily of Saint Winifred in the MS. copies of the Liber Festivalis, but, not in the printed. -The Bishop of Ely when writing on S. Winifred, not acquainted with this homily.-He was assisted by Hearne in that work; but failed in his purpose to prevent superstitious persons from making fru...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
4 Jun 1725
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1 item

12. Lansdowne MS 778/12

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Lansdowne MS 778/12
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12. Leiger book of Christ's Hospital, in Abbington. -Robert Halstead's book, a great curiosity; some account of him requested.-Catalogue of Sir J. Sebright's MSS., and printed books.-A MS. of William of Malmsbury's Life of Saint Dunstan, in Mr. West's possession. Nov. 25, 1725. fo. 15.
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
25 Nov 1725
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1 item

13. Lansdowne MS 778/13

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Lansdowne MS 778/13
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13. That he had just run over Dr. Thomas Barlowe's coll. about mortuaries, and returns the MS. without extracting a single word, &c. March 7, 1726. fo. 17.
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1726
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1 item

14. Lansdowne MS 778/14

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Lansdowne MS 778/14
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14. His reasons for not having extracted any thing from Dr. Barlowe's notes about mortuaries, viz. that the Doctor had prohibited the divulging of any of his posthumous things; that his executors declared against publishing any of his papers, and because he himself never had any great opinion of...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Mar 1726
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1 item

15. Lansdowne MS 778/15

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Lansdowne MS 778/15
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15. Hearne gives his reasons why Ireland was conquered before the reign of Hen. II.-The modern way of elections at Oxford fatal to all good learning. April 29, 1726, fo. 19.
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1726
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1 item

16. Lansdowne MS 778/16

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Lansdowne MS 778/16
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16. His account of Nicholas Cares scarce little book of three sheets, De Scriptorum Britannicorum paucitate, in Mr. West's possession.-That tables recording the foundations of, and transactions in, the religious houses were suspended in their refectories, &c. to be read by their societies as...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Oct 1726
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1 item

17. Lansdowne MS 778/17

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Lansdowne MS 778/17
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17. Thanks Mr. West for conveying to him Mr. Lang's present of Coryat's Crudities, which he says is a most rare book.-Gives some account of Coryat, and of a diary which he kept before he travelled abroad.- Supposes that his mother Gertrude, who long survived him, destroyed it, to prevent further...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
9 Sep 1726
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1 item

18. Lansdowne MS 778/18

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Lansdowne MS 778/18
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18. Character of John Tzetzes's Chiliads.-Some account of Andreas's Bibliotheca Belgica, and of Richard Whyte of Basingstoke.-Enquires after Whyte's Life of S. Ursula, printed at Douay 1610, and whether it contained any notice of a MS. of Geoffrey of Monmouth, with the Life of S. Ursula in it, s...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1726
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1 item

19. Lansdowne MS 778/19

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Lansdowne MS 778/19
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19. That although he had printed the old table hanging in the hospital at Abbington, he should be glad to see Mr. West's extracts from the Leiger-book, lest any thing remarkable in them may have escaped him.-Wonders that so little is left on record about Michelney Abbey.-Suspects that Sir J. Seb...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Dec 1726
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1 item

20. Lansdowne MS 778/20

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Lansdowne MS 778/20
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20. Mentions some MSS. relating to Berking Abbey, in the catalogue of the library of John Humphrey of Rowell or Rothwell, in Northamptonshire, sold by auction in 1682 at London; which catalogue he thinks was drawn up by his friend John Bagford, "a man of great and uncommon curiosity." fo. 24.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
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Unspecified
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1 item

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