Papers of Richard Higgs and John Higgs

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. e. 344-5
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1677-1770
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 2 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Papers of Richard Higgs and John Higgs, with notes on the writers by Thomas Percy, 1770.

Administrative / Biographical History

Richard Higgs was a schoolmaster. His nephew, John Higgs, was vicar of Highley, Shropshire.

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

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 45842-3.

Note

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

Other Finding Aids

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 45842-3.