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Add MS 6317
- Record Id:
- 032-003442522
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003442522
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100075949233.0x00040d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 6317
- Title:
- Volume of larger collection of sixty-six volumes [6277 to 6342] acquired from Lady Banks, this volume containing miscellaneous Manuscript and Printed Papers, memoranda relating to Archery.
- Scope & Content:
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A volume in octavo of 99 folios, containing Miscellaneous Papers and memoranda, both Manuscript and Printed, relating to Archery. Viz.
1. List of the Best Modern Archers, from 1789 to 1801, in the handwriting of Mrs Banks. Folios 1-7.
2. Alphabetical List of Archers, with references to Newspaper paragraphs. Folios 8-10.
3. List of Archery Societies. Folios 11-12.
4. Resolutions of the Archers of Kilivinning, Ayrshire, 1794. Folio 12b.
5. Archery Prizes. Folios 13-14.
6. Extracts from [Richard] Carew’s ‘Survey of Cornwall’, ed. Urry, Page 2; [Daniel and Samuel] Lysons’s ‘Magna Britannia’, vol. 1., Page 263; ‘London’s Artillery’, 1616. Page 86; and ‘Justice of Peace’, 1559. Folio 25; folios 15-22.
7. References to Works in which any figures relating to Archery are to be found. Folio 23.
8. Extracts from Linderhog’s ‘Gloss’, v. ‘Digitus’; account of Henry Jenkins, who attained the age of 169 years, from the ‘Philosophical Transactions’ vol xix. No. 221.; a paper in Ashmole’s writing, concerning the burial place of Little John; Shakespeare; [John] Wilkinson’s ‘Treatise on the Office of Coroners and Sheriff’s’, 1641, page 169. [Edward] Jacob’s ‘History of Faversham’ (printed) and [Richard] Muleaster’s Positions, 1581. Page 100. (two copies). Folios 24b-33b.
9. Extract “Country Contentments, of the Husbandmans recreations, etc. By G. M. [Gewase Markham] ninth edition, London, 1660”. Quarto (printed). Folios 35-38.
10. Extract from “The compleat Gamester”, London 1726”. Octavo (printed). Folios 39-41.
11. Extracts from “The English Traveller”, London, 1746. (Printed). Folios 43-45.
12. Quotation from “Muses threnodie”, Perth, 1774, Octavo. Folio 46.
13. Extract from the ‘Universal Magazine’, April, 1784, relative to William Tell (with a Engraving) and the Opera of Robin Hood; with cuttings from Newspapers (printed). Folios 47-51.
*14. Quotations from the “Memoires du Baron de Tolt”, tom.ii. page 107. Folio 52.
15. Extract from the ‘New Lady’s Magazine’, January, 1790., containing an historical account of Archery, with an engraving (printed). Folios 53-56.
16. Extracts in MS and print, from the ‘Gentlemen’s Magazine’, December, 1792, February, 1792 ‘Critical Review’, March, 1792 and ‘Carlton House Magazine’, May, 1792. Folios 57-59b.
17. Extracts from the ‘Monthly Register’, August, September, November, 1792. (Printed). Folios 61066.
18. Extracts from the ‘Sporting Magazine’, November, 1792, January, September, 1794, with the engravings (printed). Folios 68-81.
19. Extract from the ‘European Magazine’, December, 1804, with an engraved portrait of Mrs Crespigny (Printed). Folios 82-86.
20. Extract from Kirkby’s ‘Eccentric Museum’ July, 1805, concerning Fairlop Oak, with an Engraving (printed). Folios 87-89.
21. Ruyles agreed to by the Kedleston Society of Archers, in 1794, and list of Members (copied from MS Add. 6316 Art. 7, 18). Folios 90-91b.
22. Extracts from the ‘Gentlemen’s Magazine’, November, 1791, relative to the Wharfedale Archers, etc. folio 92.
23. Account of the woodmen of Arden, 1786. (copied from MS Add. 6316, Art. 6). Folios 93-95b.
24. Various memoranda. Folios 96-99.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003442522
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003442522
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume, (of 99 folios) acquired inclusive of 66 volumes.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 18th century-19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Octavo format. Print and Manuscript. Including in the handwriting of Mrs Banks.
- 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.
- 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.