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."
"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...
"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 ...
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...
LETTERS of Bishop Percy to his wife; 1798-1800. At the beginning there is the. following title in Percy's handwriting: A series of Letters, from 19th April, 1798, to 15th May, 1800, to Mrs. Percy from the Bishop of Dromore in Ireland. Some of them curious, as they relate to the Irish Rebellion, ...
SONGS set to music by John Gamble; the words attributed to Thomas Stanley. Paper; ff. 57. Late XVIIIth cent. The name, of Elizabeth St. John is scribbled on the fly-leaf. Belonged to Bishop Percy. Small Folio. Thomas Stanley: Songs: 18th cent. John Gamble: Songs: 18th cent. includes: f. 1 b ...
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...
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...
LETTERS of Elizabeth, Duchess of Northumberland [wife of Hugh, 1st Duke of Northumberland], to Bishop Percy, written chiefly during travels abroad, 1764-1776; with a few letters to the Duchess from Percy while tutor in her family in 1765, and in 1766. At f. 11 is a letter from Percy to Henry Rev...