Joseph Foster: Registers, Lists and Indexes

Admissions to inns of court, lists of post-Reformation parish incumbents and index to J. Le Neve's Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae.

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MS.Add.6694-6698 and 6708-6750 were originally the property of Joseph Foster, before passing to Sir Robert Forsyth Scott. The collection as a whole was presented to the Library by Lady Scott, 1933.

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MS.Add.6694-6698: The index is referred to in Foster's Alumni Oxonienses as 'Foster's Inns of Court Reg.'. The separate admissions registers of three of the inns covered in the volumes have since been published (that of Gray's Inn by Foster himself in 1889, omitting the biographical details). For further details see also J.H. Baker, A catalogue of English legal manuscripts in Cambridge University Library (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1996), pp. 601-602. MS.Add.6699-6707: For further details see J.H. Baker, A catalogue of English legal manuscripts in Cambridge University Library (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1996), p. 602. MS.Add.6708-6721: The index appears to be the work referred to in Foster's Alumni Oxonienses as 'Foster's Judges and Barristers'. For further details see the J.H. Baker, A catalogue of English legal manuscripts in Cambridge University Library (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1996), pp. 602-603. Much of the information in the volumes is still unprinted. MS.Add.6750: The index for 1800-1840 has been published (Oxford, 1890).