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A history of the city and suburbs of Gloucester, vol ii, written in about A.D. 1749

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MS. Top. Glouc. c. 5
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A history of the city and suburbs of Gloucester, apparently a copy by a clerk from archdn. Furney's papers, occasionally corrected by the author. This volume contains the ecclesiastical part (the abbey with its cells, the cathedral, bishops, deans, etc., religious houses, hospitals, parish churches).

The whole work is rather a compilation than a history, and contains many copies of monuments, lists of incumbents and the like.

Dr. Furney's name nowhere occurs. The binding consists of parchment deeds in English, of about A.D. 1700.

Dates

  • Creation: written in about A.D. 1749

Extent

546 pages

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MS. Top. Glouc. c. 5

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, no. 27830.

Related Materials

Paginated continuously with MS. Top. Glouc. c. 4; this manuscript contains pp. 355-884 of the original pagination.

Physical Facet

On paper

Dimensions

13 3/8 × 9 in.

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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