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Indexed names
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 7
Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 7
Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 4
Johnson | Samuel | 1709-1784 | Author and lexicographer 4
Lewis | John | 1675-1747 | Antiquary 4
University of Oxford 4
Edgeworth | Richard Lovell | 1744–1817 | inventor 3
Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 3
Malone | Edmond | 1741-1812 | Critic and Author 3
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | Poet 3
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 3
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 3
Tanner | Thomas | 1674-1735 | Bishop of St Asaph and antiquary 3
Acland | Sir | Henry Wentworth | 1815-1900 | 1st Baronet | physician 2
Bandinel | Bulkeley | 1781-1861 | Bodley's Librarian 2
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 2
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 2
Burton | Edward | 1794-1836 | Professor of Divinity 2
Crabbe | George | 1754-1832 | Poet 2
Douce | Francis | 1757-1834 | Antiquary 2
Elmsley | Peter | 1773-1825 | Classical Scholar 2
Gilpin | William | 1724-1804 | Clergyman, educationist, biographer and topographer 2
Johnson | Jane | 1706-1759 | of Witham on the Hill, Lincolnshire 2
Neve | Peter Le | 1661-1729 | herald and antiquary 2
Newman | John Henry | 1801-1890 | theologian and cardinal 2
Percy | Thomas | 1729-1811 | Bishop of Dromore and antiquary 2
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | playwright and poet 2
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 2
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 2
Shelley | Sir | Percy Florence | 1819-1889 | 3rd Baronet 2
Southey | Robert | 1774-1843 | poet, journalist, and biographer 2
Swift | Jonathan | 1667-1745 | Dean of St Patrick's Dublin, satirist 2
Terentius Afer | Publius | ? 195 BC-? 159 BC | Roman comic dramatist 2
Wallis | John | 1616-1703 | Mathematician 2
Warton | Joseph | 1722-1800 | Critic 2
Warton | Thomas | 1728-1790 | Poet, antiquary and literary Scholar 2
Acland | Sarah Angelina | 1849-1930 | Fellow of Royal Photographic Society and Royal Society of Arts 1
Addison | Joseph | 1672-1719 | poet and statesman 1
Addison | Joseph | 1672-1719 | writer and politician 1
Aikin | Lucy | 1781-1864 | historian 1
Algarotti | Francesco | 1712-1764 | Poet and scholar 1
Allen | Percy Stafford | 1869-1933 | President of Corpus Christi College Oxford 1
Alleyne | John | c. 1731-1792 | Fellow of University College, Oxford 1
Askew | Anthony | 1722-1774 | Classical Scholar, Physician, and Collector of MSS and Books 1
Astle | Thomas | 1735-1803 | Archivist, antiquary and paleography 1
Atterbury | Francis | 1662-1732 | Bishop of Rochester 1
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 1
Ballard | George | 1705-1755 | Antiquary 1
Banmer | Sir | Thomas | d. 1746 1
Barlow | Thomas | 1607-1691 | Bishop of Lincoln 1
Baron | John | fl. 1726-1737 1
Bast | Friedrich Jakob | 1771-1811 | Greek Scholar 1
Beaumont | fl 1688-1730 | Nonconformist 1
Beck | Felix D | author 1
Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 1
Beddoes | Thomas | 1760-1808 | physician and writer 1
Bennett | Thomas | 1665-1706 | London bookseller 1
Birch | George | fl. 1777 1
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Blackstone | Sir | William | 1723-1780 | Judge, MP and historian 1
Bowles | William Lisle | 1762-1850 | Canon of Salisbury, Poet, and Antiquary 1
Bracton | Henry de | c 1210-1268 | Judge, Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral 1
Burnet | Gilbert | 1643-1715 | Bishop of Salisbury and Historian 1
Butler | Arthur Gray | 1831-1909 | headmaster of Haileybury and clergyman 1
Butler | Harold Edgeworth | 1878-1951 | classical scholar and antiquary 1
Butler | Harriet (Edgeworth) | 1801-1889 | sister of Maria Edgeworth 1
Butler | Harriet Jessie (Edgeworth) | 1851-1946 | wife of Arthur Gray Butler 1
Butler | Henry Montagu | 1833-1918 | headmaster of Harrow and master of Trinity Cambridge 1
Butler | Lady | Marilyn Speers | 1937-2014 | literary scholar and college head 1
Butler | Sir | David Edgeworth | 1924-2022 | Knight | political scientist and psephologist 1
Butt | John Everett | 1906-1965 | Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh 1
Byron | Anne Isabella | 1792-1860 | 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron | Social reformer and philanthropist 1
Byron | George Gordon | 1788-1824 | | 6th Baron Byron | poet 1
Bywater | Ingram | 1840-1914 | Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford 1
Calamy | Edmund | 1671-1732 | Presbyterian minister and historian 1
Campbell | Thomas | 1777-1844 | Poet 1
Canning | George | 1770-1827 | Politician and parodist, prime minister of Great Britain 1827 1
Caravella | Johannes | fl. 1730-1770 | classical scholar 1
Carte | Thomas | 1686-1754 | historian 1
Cartwright | William | d 1799 | Nonjuror 1
Chapman | Thomas | fl 1766 | author 1
Charleton | W. | fl. 18th century 1
Charlett | Arthur | 1655-1722 | Master of University College Oxford 1
Chaucer | Geoffrey | c 1340-1400 | Poet 1
Cherry | Francis | ? 1665-1713 | Nonjuror, Antiquary, and Collector of MSS. and Coins 1
Church of England | Diocese of London | Consistory Court 1
Churton | Ralph | 1754-1831 | Archdeacon of St David's and a biographer 1
Cibber | Colley | 1671-1757 | Actor and dramatist 1
Clements | Henry | 1686-1719 | London bookseller 1
Cobb | Samuel |1675-1713 | schoolmaster and author 1
Coke | Sir | Edward | 1552-1634 | Knight | lawyer, legal writer, and politician 1
Collier | John Payne | 1789-1883 | Shakespearean scholar and forger, antiquary, and journalist 1
Colman | George | 1762-1836 | dramatist 1
Colman | George | bap. 1732-d. 1794 | Playwright and theatre manager 1
Colvin | Christina Edgeworth | 1919-2003 | historian 1
Congreve | William | 1670-1729 | Dramatist 1
Congreve | William | 1670-1729 | dramatist 1
Cooke | Caleb | d 1708 | clergyman 1
Cooke | Sarah | fl 1718 | wife of Caleb Cooke 1
Cooper | J.G. | fl 1745-1762 1

The Abinger Papers

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of the Godwin and Shelley families, chiefly William Godwin (1756-1836), philosopher and author; with the correspondence and papers of his family, including his wife, the novelist and essayist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97); daughter, the author Mary Shelley (1797-1851); her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822); and Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley's son Sir Percy Florence Shelley (1819-89), and his wife, Jane, Lady Shelley (d. 1899)
Extents: 206 shelfmarks
Dates: 1780-1937

'Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries of the Laws of England'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. C. 172
'Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries of the Laws of England.'
Extents: 137 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1770-1780

Account of the proceedings of the Tusculan Society, a London literary and debating society

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 261
Account of the proceedings of the Tusculan Society, a London literary and debating society
Extents: 80 Leaves
Dates: Jan 1739-Feb 1742

Accounts of religious ceremonies of heathen nations

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 192
ccounts of religious ceremonies of heathen nations
Extents: 30 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1740-1750

Accounts of rent and taxes relating to a malthouse in Kingsbury st.

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Wilts d. 1
Accounts of rent and taxes relating to a malthouse in Kingsbury st.
Extents: 25 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1734-1776, chiefly by J. Pocock

Additional correspondence of Maria Edgeworth and family

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 6408
Letters of the engineer, inventor and educationist Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817) and his daughter, the writer Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), 1763-1849.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1763-1849

Additional Papers of Edmond Malone

 Collection
Additional Papers of Edmond Malone, including private papers and literary pieces.
Extents: 5 shelfmarks
Dates: 1690-1817

Additional papers of Henry Wentworth Acland and his daughter Sarah Angelina Acland

 Collection
Commonplace book of H.W. Acland and visitors' book of S.A. Acland.
Extents: 0.11 Linear metres (2 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1852-1886

Agreement between Alexander Pope and Bernard Lintot

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. a. 6
Agreement between Alexander Pope and Bernard Lintot, 23 March 1714.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 23 March 1714-1720

'Analecta Wiltoniensia'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Wilts e. 1
'Analecta Wiltoniensia'
Extents: 145 Leaves
Dates: Written chiefly about A.D. 1697-1700 by T. Tanner

Anonymous drama

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 4233
Anonymous drama
Extents: 2.0 Volumes
Dates: 18th century

An 'Apology' addressed to bp. Burnet by the rev. George Lewis

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. th. e. 19
An 'Apology' addressed to bp. Burnet by the rev. George Lewis
Extents: 70 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1709 by G. Lewis

Archive of Dr. Bulkeley Bandinel

 Collection
Thirteen volumes, chiefly Dr. Bulkeley Bandinel's notebooks, 15th-19th century.
Extents: 1.43 Linear metres (13 boxes)
Dates: 15th-19th century

Archive of Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London, and his descendants

 Collection
Papers of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London, with papers of his descendants, 1388-1797.
Extents: 7.45 Linear metres (23 Shelfmarks)
Dates: 1388-1797

Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson

 Collection
Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (9 boxes)
Dates: 1935-1964

Archive of Jane Johnson of Olney, Buckinghamshire and of her family

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of Jane Johnson of Olney, Buckinghamshire (1706-1759) and of her family, 17th-19th cent.
Extents: 2.7 Linear metres (18 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1706-1759, 17th-19th cent.

Archive of John Everett Butt

 Collection
Correspondence and notes of John Everett Butt, 1932-64.
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (5 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1932-64

Archive of Lady Marilyn Butler

 Collection
Archive of Lady Marilyn Butler
Extents: 9.76 Linear metres (144 boxes)
Dates: 1770-2015

Archive of Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), and the Edgeworth family, 17th-19th century

 Collection
Correspondence and literary papers of Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), with papers of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Michael Pakenham Edgeworth and other members of the Edgeworth family, mainly 1778-1886.
Extents: 12.65 Linear metres (115 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1768-1849, 17th-19th century

Archive of the Noel, Byron and Lovelace Families

 Collection
Papers of Annabella, Lady Byron (1792-1860), including papers of her parents, Sir Ralph and Judith Milbanke (later Noel), papers of her daughter, Ada Byron (later Lady Lovelace), and her grand-children, Ralph King (2nd Earl of Lovelace) and Anne Blunt.
Extents: 50.6 Linear metres (460 Shelfmarks)
Dates: 1669-1930