Vol. 6 Portraits, pedigree notes and papers, 1700-1832, chiefly to 1770
File
MS. Fairfax 35
Held at the Weston Library
Vol. 6 Portraits, pedigree notes and papers. To and by:
- Thomas 6th Lord Fairfax (when at Oriel College, Oxford, and after)
- The hon. Barwick Fairfax
- Lady Catherine Fairfax
- Robert son of the 5th Lord (?)
- Charles Fairfax, Dean of Down
- H. C. Fairfax (d. 1734, copies), and later members of the family
There is also:
- At fol. 16 is a Latin poetical epistle to dean Aldrich by Samuel Bradshaw, c. 1700
- At fol. 20 accounts relating to John Lord Ashburnham, 1710-26
- At fol. 94 a letter from Henry Colepeper Fairfax, 15 Oct. 1715, about the riots at Oxford
- At fol. 98 some public accounts 1720-21
- Papers of the Hitch and Bladen families
- The will of George Fairfax of Hilsley, 1732
- A dying declaration of James Dawson a Jacobite, July 1746
- An anecdote of general Washington's last words
- An introduction to a collection of 17th cent. historical documents
Dates
- Creation: 1700-1832, chiefly to 1770
Extent
327 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Fairfax 35
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, no. 31069
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