Trial descents of English baronial and north-country families and 'Monasticon Boreale, tomus primus'

Title

Trial descents of English baronial and north-country families and 'Monasticon Boreale, tomus primus'

Shelfmark

MSS. Dodsworth 6-7

Summary

MS. Dodsworth 6, 56 leaves, 1647, 12 1/2 × 8 in.: Trial descents of English baronial and north-country families, with some finished pedigrees similar in character to MSS. Dodsworth 2-4, by Roger Dodsworth. The descents of the families of Butler of Rawcliffe (fol. 6), Dodsworth (fol. 9), Clifton of Clifton (fol. 10), and Tempest of Bracewell and Broughton (a full pedigree, fol. 53) are traced down to the year 1647.

At fol. ii is an alphabetical list, by Dodsworth, of 'descents composed and entred in sundry bookes' of his collections.

MS. Dodsworth 7, 366, 1644-1645, 12 3/4 × 8 1/10 and 12 7/10 × 8 in.: 'Monasticon Boreale, tomus primus', containing copies by Dodsworth, with sketches of seals, of deeds relating chiefly to the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire, begun October 1, 1644, in the house of Francis Nevill of Chevet, esq., from the originals at that time in St. Mary's Tower, York. This tower, where the records of the dissolved monasteries were kept, was blown up in the siege of York, when Dodsworth had just finished his work. Some of the documents were saved and taken to the archiepiscopal archives at York, where Dodsworth again saw them.

There are alphabetical indexes of grantors on fols. vi-viii; the transcripts themselves, without logical arrangement, fall sometimes under fees (e.g. vol. 7, fols. 227-68v, Holderness fee, fol. 269, Bigod fee), but usually the grouping is by religious houses, of which the following occur:

Bagby fol. 17

Basedale fols. 47, 55, 58

Bridlington fols. 11, 128, 168, 213, 230, 246, 247, 260, 264, 274-5, 294, 308-11, 317, 330-1

Birstall Garth fols. 234, 237-8, 242

Byland fols. 23, 25, 135, 145, 146, 165, 169, 173, 177, 219

Drax fols. 79, 83

Ellerton fols. 177-8, 333

North Ferriby fol. 301

Fountains fols. 27, 31, 163, 171, 202

Guisborough fols. 40-81, 86, 208

Hardale fol. 20

Healaugh Park fols. 73, 173

Keldholme fols. 155-7, 179, 216-18

Nunkeeling fols. 246, 255

Kirkham fols. 191-212, 263-304

Kirkstall fol. 237

Old Malton fols. 75, 222

Meaux fols. 232, 236, 244, 266

Newburgh fols. 99, 108, 114, 117, 130-2, 139, 144, 147-51, 160, 172-3

Rievaulx fols. 5, 51-2, 61, 97-111, 133, 135, 154, 172, 175, 188, 230, 324

Rosedale fols. 117, 144-80

Scarborough (Carmelites) fol. 119

Swine fols. 247, 251-2, 259, 304, 330

Wartre fols. 324, 345

Watton fols. 188, 299, 302, 305-6, 308-9, 313, 315, 323, 325-6, 328-9, 353-6

Whitby fol. 209

Wilberfoss fols. 350-2, 358-60

Wykeham fols. 122, 290-7

Yarm fol. 72

York (St. Peter's cathedral) fols. 103, 169-70, 176, 178, 361

York (Holy Trinity, alien priory) fol. 198

York (St. Peter's Hospital) fols. 4, 8, 12-22, 24, 27, 29-31, 77, 103, 116, 127, 159, 163, 243, 276, 288, 294, 329, 332

York (St. Mary's Abbey) fol. 1

Date

Written about 1647, by Roger Dodsworth, written by Roger Dodsworth and others, 1644-1645

Language

Old English (ca. 450-1100)

Latin

Physical facet

On paper

Physical extent

1 box