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Project / Collection Additional Manuscripts Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 32323-32339 Name Percy, Thomas, writer and Bishop of Dromore, 1729-1811

1. Add MS 32323-32339

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Add MS 32323-32339
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Percy Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Add MSS 32,323-32,339, formed part of the collection of Thomas Percy, D.D. [1728-1811], sometime Dean of Carlisle, and Bishop of Dromore, and author of the "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry."
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Swedish
Date Range:
[1440]-Late 18th century
Extent:
17 items

2. Add MS 32325

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Add MS 32325
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LITERARY correspondence and papers of Edward Lye, time Vicar of Little Houghton, and afterwards Rector of Hastings, co. Northampton, author of the "Dictionarium Saxonico et Gothico-Latinum," etc.; 1729-1767. A note at the beginning by Bishop Percy states that the collection was left to him by Ly...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Swedish
Date Range:
1729-1772
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 32326

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Add MS 32326
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"AN ACCOUNT of the, private family of Percy, formerly of Worcester, afterwards of Bridgnorth, Shropshire," by Bishop Percy. Paper; ff. 38. Before A.D. 1776. Small Folio. Percy family: Collections relating to, by Bp. Percy: ante 1776, 1778. Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore: Collections relating ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1776
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 32327

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Add MS 32327
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"COLLECTIONS relating to the Percy family, etc., but chiefly to the Percys of Worcester; 1778," being genealogies, extracts, and copies of documents, by Bishop Percy, with additional printed matter. Paper; ff. 269. Small Folio. Percy family: Collections relating to, by Bp. Percy: ante 1776, 177...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1778
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 32328

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Add MS 32328
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GENEALOGICAL notes of the family of Percy, Earls and Dukes of Northumberland, by Bishop Percy; circ. 1778. Paper; ff. 56. Octavo. Percy family: Earls and Dukes of Northumberland. Genealogical notes, by Bp. Percy: circ. 1778. Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore: Collections relating to the Percy fa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1778
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 32329

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Add MS 32329
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LITERARY correspondence of Bishop Percy with various persons; 1762-1789. The names of the writers will be found in the Index. At f. 72 is the draft of a 1etter from Percy to Lord Dacre, 6 Sept. 1773, and at f. 124 a letter from Sir Robert Chambers to Percy, 9 Nov. 1789, on the Chatterton forgeri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1762-1795
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 32330

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Add MS 32330
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LITERARY correspondence of Bishop Percy with Evan Evans, Rector of Llanvair Talhairn, co., Denbigh, and author of "Specimens of the Poetry of the antient Welsh Bards," l761-1776; including a few letters of Rice Williams, Rector of Weston, co. Stafford, 1761. Paper ; ff. 142. Small Folio. Rice W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1761-1776
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 32331

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Add MS 32331
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LITERARY correspondence of Bishop Percy with Sir David Dalrymple, Bart., Lord Hailes; 1762-1783. Most of the letters are by Percy; four only, ff. 5, 35, 54, 76, being by Lord Hailes. At f. 42 is a letter from Richard Graham to Percy., 5 Nov. 1 1763. Paper; ff. 113. Small Folio. Thomas Percy, Bi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1762-1783
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 32332

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Add MS 32332
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LETTERS of George Piton, Clerk in the Customs, Edinburgh, to Bishop Percy, on literary subjects, 1768-1778. Included are also 1etters to Percy from John McGouan, Edinburgh, 18 Feb. 1764, f. 2; Alexander Brown, of the Advocates' Library, 15 Nov. 1773, 1 Sept. 1775, ff. 56, 101; and J. Wotherspoon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1764-1778
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 32333

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Add MS 32333
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LETTEIRS of Bishop Percy to his cousin, William Cleiveland, Rector of All Saints', Worcester; 1756-1794. Included are a few letters from members of the Bishop's family; and, at f. 103, one from Charles [Lyttelton], Bishop of Carlisle, to Percy, 19 June, 1767. Paper; ff. 188. Small Folio. Thomas...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1756-1794
Extent:
1 item