Extracts from evidences and collections

Title

Extracts from evidences and collections

Shelfmark

MS. Wood D. 11

Summary

(8517) Extracts from evidences relating to:

Fol. 1. the hospital of St. John the Baptist, Oxford

Fol. 18v. Littlemore and (fol. 23v) Godstow nunneries, from the archives of Christ Church

Fol. 36v. Abingdon abbey, 'taken out of a leiger book remaining in the hospital of Christ in Abendon, which book was written by Francis Little sometimes mayor of Abendon, 20 Sept. 1627'

Fol. 54. Thame abbey

Fol. 60. Tewkesbury abbey

Fol. 71. Eynsham abbey, from the chartulary at Christ Church, 1659

Followed by (fol. 84) Wood's itinerary from Oxford to Bath, 1678, with genealogical and church notes concerning Fyfield (Golafre family), Buckland (fol. 93), Pusey (fol. 95), Faringdon (fol. 96v), Lechlade (fol. 102), Fairford (fol. 103), Cirencester (fol. 108); St. Peter's, St. James's, and the hospital of St. Mary Magdalen, at Bath (fol. 133); and Malmesbury (fol. 150)

(8518(1)):

Fol. 159. Collections by Wood for a history of grammar schools (fol. 159), tabulated in the order in which they occur in Huddesford's catalogue, pp. 37-8, with an index of personal names by Wood 'onlie at present to serve my turn' (fol. 293)

Fol. 183. Collections from printed books, followed by (fol. 220) church notes for the most part from Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Gloucester, Oxfordshire, and from London, as specified in Huddesford's catalogue, p. 38

Labelled '55'and 'AV'- and 8518(1)'part of 56, ϖ'

Date

Written 1659-1678 by Anthony à Wood

Language

Multiple languages

Latin

English

Physical facet

On paper

Physical extent

299 Leaves