Legal notebooks of Sir Thomas Robinson, with two precedent books in another hand.
Dates
- Creation: 17th century
Extent
0.40 Linear metres (8 boxes)
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS. Eng. misc. d. 912, fols. 1-2].
Full range of shelfmarks:
MSS. Eng. misc. d. 912-913, f. 500-505
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 13431
Abstract
Legal Notebooks of Sir Thomas Robinson
Biographical / Historical
Sir Thomas Robinson (1618-83) was prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas. See J.H. Baker, 'Sir Thomas Robinson (1618-1683), chief prothonotary of the Common Pleas', Bodleian Library Record, 10 (1978-1982), 27-40. Published in microform, and more fully described in Baker, pp. 186-9.
Other Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 45635-45642.
Custodial History
From the library of Kentwell Hall, Suff.; probably part of lot 572 in the sale of Mrs. C. D. B. Starkie Bence's library, Boardman & Hill, Sudbury, 7 Sept. 1970.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The notebooks were bought from Frognal Bookshop in 1974 (cat. 38, 218).
- Title
- Legal Notebooks of Sir Thomas Robinson
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Collection Level Description by Emily Tarrant; EAD version 2019 by Alice Whichelow
- Date
- EAD version 2019
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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