University of Oxford Payments for Chancellor's Letters

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Top. Oxon. d. 78/1-5
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1825-55
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 5 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

'Payments for Chancellor's Letters', i.e. for letters dispensing with some of the onerous requirements of the Laudian Statutes in the case of applicants for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and occasionally other degrees, at Oxford.

Administrative / Biographical History

University of Oxford.

Access Information

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).

Acquisition Information

The collection was presented to the Library by the Registrar of the University of Oxford in 1907 and 1908.

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. VI, nos. 33852-6.

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