Collections made by James Bowen
MS. Gough Shropshire 13
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Collections made by James Bowen
Shelfmark
MS. Gough Shropshire 13
Summary
Collections made by James Bowen, a painter and undertaker of Shrewsbury (d. 1774: his printed trade-card is in Gough Shropshire 2, p. 744; 18, p. 41) and his son John, for a history of Shropshire and especially Shrewsbury: 'Antiquities of Shropshire', collected by James Bowen, chiefly extracts from deeds in private hands and church notes, in accidental order, 1752-3.
Date
Written chiefly in the third quarter of the 18th century, partly by J. Bowen
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On paper
Physical extent
118 pages
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Collection contents
Shropshire
Collections made by James Bowen
