Papers of A W Gould relating to a history of the Society of Antiquaries

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Materials for a history of SA compiled from printed and MS sources by Arthur William Gould, FSA (d. 1927).

As follows:- Introduction; chapters I-VII; transcript from BL Lansdowne MS 98, fol.1 seq., of Sir H. Gilbert's proposal for a London Academy, 1570; list of members of the Elizabethan society, temp. Eliz., Jas.I; chronological table of Fellows, 1707-96; lists of fellows elected, 1797-1846; lists of officers 1572-1921; extracts from Minute Books to 1844; arms and motto; posts of housekeeper, librarian, etc., to 1921.

See Evans (1956), vii.

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