Some collections for the cathedrals and dioceses
MS. Willis 41
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Some collections for the cathedrals and dioceses
Shelfmark
MS. Willis 41
Summary
Some collections for the cathedrals and dioceses of:
Canterbury (fol. 6a)
Rochester (fol. 24)
London (fol. 53)
Winchester (fol. 84)
Chichester (fol. 101)
Norwich (fol. 140)
Salisbury (fol. 164)
Wells (fol. 181)
Exeter (fol. 200)
Llandaff (fol. 272)
St. Asaph (fol. 277)
Bangor (fol. 333)
Made primarily for the purposes of Browne Willis's Parochiale Anglicanum (Lond. 1733), with a draft of the preface to that work, etc. There are:
Many letters, etc., as four from bp. Tanner, 1721-30 (fol. 140)
Notes of the Eliot family of Port Eliot (fol. 267)
Drawings of Clynnog Fawr church by Joseph Lord, 1718-19 (fol. 325)
Drawings of Holyhead church (fol. 355)
Date
Written in about 1710-1730
Language
English
Latin
Physical facet
On paper
Physical extent
371 Leaves
Custodial history
Mark by which the Collection was referred to until about A.D. 1870: fol. 41
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Collection contents
Some collections for the cathedrals and dioceses
