'Buckinghamshire Collectanea', Written in about A.D. 1710

File

MS. Willis 21

Held at the Weston Library

'Buckinghamshire Collectanea':

Fol. 1. Fifty pedigrees of Buckinghamshire families, from the Visitation record of A.D. 1634, with additions
Fol. 65. A transcript of the Testa de Neville (before A.D. 1250), so far as it relates to the county, made from the original
Fol. 120. A transcript of the Buckinghamshire part of the Liber Cedularum or register of wardships, 1509-87, with some additions

This was one of the earliest of Browne Willis's volumes of collections, and copied for or by him largely from Peter Le Neve's papers.

137 Leaves

MS. Willis 21

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. III, no. 16314

Mark by which the Collection was referred to until about A.D. 1870: fol. 21

On paper

13 1/2 × 8 3/4 in.

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