Miscellaneous Peacock Transcripts

Archive Unit
  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 Eng MS 127
  • Dates of Creation
      Early 19th Century
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      189 x 151 mm. 1 volume (i + 67 + vi folios);

Scope and Content

The volume contains transcripts of four documents:

  • Abraham de la Pryme. Antiquities of Winterton and parts adjacent, from the 8th to the 17th centuries (pp. 1-66) [see also Eng MS 128 below];
  • A brief account of the drainage of the Level of Hatfield Chas and parts adjacent in the counties of York, Lincoln and Nottingham, 1625-1716 (pp. 67-104);
  • The ministers of the church of Santoft (pp. 105-112);
  • A true copie of the ancient deed of John de Mowbray, sometime Lord of the Isle of Axholme and the Honour of Brimber, made to the freeholders there, etc., translated out of the French by William Riley, Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London (pp. 113-134).
 Dating: the pages are watermarked "1814".