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Add MS 6318
- Record Id:
- 032-003442523
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003442523
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100075949233.0x00040e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 6318
- 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 folio volume of 87 folios, consisting of similar collections relating to archery.
1. List of Books treating of Archery, arranged alphabetically, and of the Rules of various Archery Societies. Folios 1-2b.
2. Memorandum of a match at Bramhope Hall in Yorkshire, 1 October, 1790. Folio 3.
3. Printed circular of the Royal Surrey Bowmen, describing the Dress proposed for Ladies at their ball. Dated 21 October, 1791. Folio 4.
4. Printed Notice of a Commemoration Target to be shot for by the Royal Southampton Archers, 10 June, 1793. Folio 6.
5. Printed circular of the Toxophilite Society, 1 July, 1793. Folio 8.
6. Printed circular of the same, 1 August, 1793. Folio 9.
7. General Orders for the Meeting on Dulwich Common, June, 1795. (Printed). Folio 11.
8. Printed circular of the Toxophilite Society, 1 August, 1796. Folio 13.
9. Letter from James Shuttleworth to Mr [William] Milnes, with some information respecting Little John’s grave and remains. Dated Hathersam Hall, 31 October, 1796. Folio 14.
10. Printed Play-bill issued by the Royal Kentish Bowman’s Lodge, 2 January, 1798. Folio 15.
11. Memorandum of the butt’s formerly standing on Bletchley Green (from Willis’s MSS Bodleian Library). Folios 16, 17.
12. Notice of a meeting of the Toxophilite Society, 9 May, 1801. Folio 18.
13. Dimensions, colors materials, etc of two Target Cloths, October, 1803, with the Bill for the Cloth. Folios 19b, 20.
14. Colored sketch of the rocks called Robin Hoods Stride, near Birchover, Derbyshire, sent by Dr Wynne to Lady Banks, October, 1804. Folio 21b.
15. Extract of a Letter from Mrs Huxford to the Reverend I[saac] Wheler, dated Allesly, 20 October, 1814, relative to Archery held by the Woodmen of Arden at the Earl of Aylesford’s. Folio 22.
16. Drawing in Indian ink of the shaking stone called Robin Hood’s mark, upon Overton Hill, drawn by Mr Lawson, 29 August, 1793. Folios 23, 24.
17. Colored Drawing of Robin Hood’s Stride, by Dr R. M. Batty, 9 August, 1794. Folio 25.
18. Description of the Diploma sent by the Woodmen of Arden to the Marchioness of Salisbury, 1789. Folio 26b.
19. Memorandum of the Prizes given by the Hertfordshire Archers, September, 1815. Folio 27.
20. Copy of the Ballad of Chevy Chase; with a note by Mrs Banks, and the musical notes. Folios 28-33.
21. Memoranda by Mr Waring, respecting the usual distances of shooting, games, etc. folios 34, 35.
22. A Target shot by the Woodsmen of Arden, 27 August, 1802, and duplicate copy. Folios 36, 37.
23. Song: “Come hither ye lovers of sports in the field”, written by Mrs Crespigny. Folios 38, 39b.
24. Extract from Stuarts Athens, 1, 10, concerning Turkish shooting. Folio 40.
25. Bills of Mr Waring for Articles of Archery furnished to Sir Joseph and Mrs Banks, 1796. Folios 41043.
26. Printed song: “Thrice welcome ye Fair who attend at our call”. Folio 44.
27. Lord Blandford’s method of Keeping the archery account. Folio 45.
28. Memoranda relative to the Finsbury archers, the Butts at Darley; and various printed books. Folio 46.
29. Article on archery, extracted from the ‘Encyclopœdia Londinensis’, nos. 56, 57, with two plates (printed). Folios 48-56.
30. Engraved Portrait of Sir William Wood, published by Harding, May, 1793, with a printed account of Wood, and his Work intitled “The Bowman’s Glory”. Folios 57-59.
31. Extracts from the ‘Archœologia’, vol.xiii. Append., concerning Bows etc, at the Tower of London and elsewhere, in 1599. Folio 66-63.
32. Printed Sheets from Lysons’s “Environs of London”, relating to the practice of Archery at Newington Butts, Edgware, Hackney, Harrow, Wansted, and Eltham. Folios 64-72.
33. Printed sheets from Lysons’s “Cheshire”, relating to the “Exercises yearly used within the Cittie of Chester”, “Sheriffes Breakefaste”, “St. George’s Race”, and “Whitsun Playes”. Flios 73-77.
34. History of Fairlop Fair, with an engraving of the Oak from Granger’s ‘Wonderful Museum’ (Printed). Folios 78-85.
35. Printed Prospectuses of a work on Archery by Thomas Waring, and of another, by J[ohn] Roberts (1801). Folios 86, 87.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003442523
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003442523
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume, (of 87 folios) acquired inclusive of 66 volumes.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- 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:
- Folio format. Print and Manuscript. Includes Plates and engravings.
- 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: Wood's “The Bowman’s Glory”; ‘Archœologia’, vol.xiii.; Lysons’s “Environs of London”; Lysons’s “Cheshire”, Granger’s ‘Wonderful Museum’.
- 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.