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Add MS 6316
- Record Id:
- 032-003442521
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003442521
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100075949233.0x00040c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 6316
- Title:
- Volume of larger collection of sixty-six volumes [6277 to 6342] acquired from Lady Banks, this volume containing miscellaneous Papers, Letters, etc, relating to Archery.
- Scope & Content:
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A thin folio volume of 48 folios, containing miscellaneous Papers, Letters, etc, relating to Archery, viz.
1. Old Shooting Butts at Wilksley and Wood Enderley, 1792. Folio 1.
2. Description of the Medals on the Silver Bowl Shot for by the Roayl Edinburgh Archers, 1727-1793. Flios 2-4b.
3. Description of the Medals on the Silver Arrow, shot for by the Royal Edinburgh Archers, 1726-1793. Folios 6-8b.
4. Description of the Medals on the Musselburgh Arrow, shot for by the Royal Edinburgh Archers, 1727-1793. Folio 10-13b.
5. List of Toxophilites, with the number of the ribbon marked against each, 1793. Folio 14.
6. An account of the woodmen of Arden, 1786. Folios 16-17b.
7. “The Prayse of the Gray Goose wing” (from John Taylors ‘Works’, folio 1630). Folios 18-21.
8. “De l’art de tirer de l’arc”. (from ‘Memoires Militaires’, tom. 3. Page 273). Folios 22-23.
9 Extracts from Drayton’s ‘Polyolbion’, and Gower, folio 24.
10. Account of the Turkish mode of shooting with the Bow (from Busbequins, dc.1604, page. 206.). folios 25-26.
11. Letter from Francis Douce, Esquire to Mrs S[arah].S[ophia].Banks, with some extracts from old Books relating to Archery. Dated 21 April, (1807). Flio 27.
12 Extracts from Stuart’s ‘Athens’, vol.1, page.x. and Thornton’s ‘Survey of London’. Folios 29, *29.
13. Extracts from an old account Book of Sir John Franklyn, Knight of Wilsden, County Middlesex in the beginning of the reign of Charles 1st andf during the civil wars, now (1804) the possession of Sir john Chandos Musgrave, Bar[one]t. folio 30.
14. Extract from Reginald Scot’s Discovery of Witchcraft, ed. 1665. Page 35. (in Mr Brand’s handwriting). Folio 32.
15. Extract from MS. of Dr Rogers, Archdeacon of Chester, temp [during the time of King] Charles I [1625-1649], relative to the Silver Arrows shot for in that city, and the sheriff’s breakfast of Calves heads and bacon, (in Reverend Daniel Lysons’s handwriting, 1803). Folio 33.
16. Note on the translation of a passage in the 78th Psalm (by Dr Wynne, 1795). Folio 35.
17. Rules agreed upon by the Kedleston Society of Archers, established in 1790). Folio 36.
18. Letter from the Reverend I[saac] Clarke to William Milners, with a list of the subscribers to the Kedleston Society. Dated Derby, 22 August, 1794. Folios 37, 38.
19. Song: “to the Butts haste away”, 1792. Folio 39.
20. Song: “Let affairs of the state”, 1792. Folios 41-42.
21. Memoranda of the distance shot by the secretary to the Turkish Ambassador, 1794, and distance shot by the Sultan. Folios 43, 44.
22. Memorandum of the prizes won on the 6th April, 1794. Folio 45.
23. Song: “Mr Host, Chaplain, Bard, or whatever you please”, 1792. Folio 46.
24. Song: “My Lord, If your Lordship will deign for to hear”, 1792. Folios 47, 48.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003442521
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003442521
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume, (of 48 folios) acquired inclusive of 66 volumes.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 17th century-19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Folio format.
- Custodial History:
- As with sixty-six volumes nos. 6277 to 6342 inclusive, presented to the Museum by Lady Banks, in the Autumn of the year 1819.
- Publications:
- Reference to: ‘Memoires Militaires’, tom. 3. Page 273; Drayton’s ‘Polyolbion’; Busbequins, dc.1604, page. 206.; Stuart’s ‘Athens’, vol.1, page.x. and Thornton’s ‘Survey of London’; John Taylors ‘Works’.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This catalogue description has been transcribed from the original [18th-19th-century] handwritten Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts and may contain inaccuracies. The handwritten catalogue is available in the Manuscripts Reading Room.
- Related Material:
- Related to the sixty-six volumes nos. 6277 to 6342 acquired from Lady Banks.