Copies of Public Records

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Top. gen. b. 7-45
  • Dates of Creation
    • 17th century
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English, and Latin.
  • Physical Description
    • 39 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Copies or abstracts of selected public records, chiefly Patent Rolls, relating to conveyances of land in England, 1483-1684.

Administrative / Biographical History

Unknown

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 bought from W.H. Gee in 1888.

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. V, nos. 29826-64.

Custodial History

The collection was owned by W. Selby Lowndes of Whaddon.