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Add MS 26741
- Record Id:
- 040-002030513
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002030487
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000117.0x0000fa
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- Add MS 26741
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COLLECTIONS relating to Lancashire by J[ohn] H[opkinson], 1671:-
1. The definition of the word Lancaster, and when it first became a county, by Mr. Serjeant Fleetwood, at the request of Sir Francis Walsingham, then Chancellor of the duchy, f. 4.
2. Lancashire pedigrees in alphabetical order, with an index prefixed, f. 37.
3. Copy of letter of William Lord Eure and Thomas Lord Wharton to the Earl of Shrewsbury "about the gentry of Lancashire in service against the Scotts;" Bermick, 22 Oct. 1557, f. 508.
4. Lists of escheators, stewards of Blackburnshire, lawyers, and sheriffs of the county f. 510. Arms of Lancashire families, alphabetically, from "one Captain Booth, who liued nere Stopford in Cheshire," f. 533. Paper. On f. 549 b is the signature of White Kennett, Bishop of Peterborough, 1723. Folio.
County of Lancaster: Collections relating to, by J. Hopkinson: 1671.
John Hopkinson: Collections relating to co. Lancaster: 1671.
includes:
- ff. 4-33 Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary of State: Fleetwood's treatise on co. Lancaster, written for him as Chancellor of the Duchy: 1671.
- ff. 4-33 William Fleetwood, Recorder of London: Treatise on co. Lancaster: 17th cent.
- f. 37 Genealogies: Lancashire families, by J. Hopkinson: 1671.
- f. 508 Sir Thomas Wharton, afterwards 1st Baron Wharton; Warden of the English West Marches, and Governor of Carlisle, Castle: Letter to Lord Shrewsbury: 1557.: Copy.
- f. 508 William Eure, 2nd Baron Eure: Letter to Lord Shrewsbury: 1557.
- ff. 521-531 Sheriffs: Sheriffs of co. Lancaster: 1671.
- f. 533 Heraldry: Arms of families of co. Lancaster: 1671.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002030487
040-002030513 - Is part of:
- Add MS 26717-26749 : Volumes formerly in the library of John Smyth, of Heath House, near Wakefield.
Add MS 26741 : COLLECTIONS relating to Lancashire by J[ohn] H[opkinson], 1671:- 1. The definition of the word Lancaster, and when it first became… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002030487[0022]/040-002030513
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- File
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- 1 item
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1671
- End Date:
- 1671
- Date Range:
- 1671
- Era:
- CE
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White Kennett, Bishop of Peterborough: Owned.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Eure, William, 2nd Baron Eure, nobleman, soldier and official in the Scottish Marches, 1529-1954
Fleetwood [Fletewoode], William, Recorder of London, c 1525-1594,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122813385
Hopkinson, John, of Add MS 24473
Kennett, White, Bishop of Peterborough
Walsingham, Francis, Principal Secretary, c 1532–1590,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000079747502
Wharton, Thomas, soldier and administrator, 1495-1568 - Places:
- Lancashire, England