Collection of copies of various papers, being letters and orders from the Council, orders from the justices of the peace, etc., relating to the counties of Devon and Cornwall, and chiefly to the musters of the trained bands in the latter county, in the time of Q. Elizabeth, together with a few papers of earlier date, bulk: late 16th century
File
MS. Rawl. B. 285
Held at the Weston Library
The volume probably contains the collections of Peter Edgcombe, or Edgcumbe, M. P. for Cornwall in the time of Q. Elizabeth. Many of the letters are addressed to him in conjunction with others, as a justice of the peace and deputy-lieutenant, and on a fly-leaf at the beginning, under the date of 1569, are the names of himself and his wife, five sons (including one named John, omitted in the printed accounts of the family) and four daughters.
The volume also contains other papers that have been added at the end.
The volume also contains other papers that have been added at the end.
Dates
- Majority of material found within late 16th century
Extent
91 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
- French
Shelfmark
MS. Rawl. B. 285
Other Finding Aids
William D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae partis quintae fasciculus primus viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum classes duas priores, ad rem historicam praecipue et topographicam spectantes, complectens (Oxford, 1862), no. B. 285.
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. 11624.
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. 11624.
Physical Facet
On paper, in folio
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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