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18th century 221
Literature 160
19th century 64
17th century 58
Letters 27
Poetry 27
16th century 25
English literature 25
History 18
English literature -- 18th century 15
Religion 14
x - 15th century 13
20th century 12
Antiquarians 12
Theology 10
Religious literature, English 9
Authors 8
Church 8
Classical literature 8
Literature -- Translations 8
Books 7
English literature -- 19th century 7
Ireland 7
Law 7
Poets 7
x - 14th century 7
Diaries 6
Drama 6
London (England) 6
Poems 6
x - 13th century 6
Humanities 5
Norfolk (England) 5
Sermons 5
x - 12th century 5
Antiquities 4
Authors, classical 4
Children's literature -- 20th century 4
Church of England -- Clergy 4
Commonplace books 4
Medicine 4
Northamptonshire (England) 4
Oxford (England) 4
Playwriting -- Drama 4
x - 11th century 4
Bodleian Library 3
Catalogs 3
Cornwall (England) 3
Correspondence 3
England 3
English poetry -- 18th century 3
Essex (England) 3
Latin literature 3
Manuscripts 3
Music 3
Nonjurors 3
Novelists -- 19th century 3
Oxfordshire (England) 3
Politics and Government 3
Warwickshire (England) 3
Wiltshire (England) 3
x - 10th century 3
21st century 2
Accounts 2
Administration of estates 2
Austen -- Jane -- 1775-1817 2
Bible 2
Books and reading 2
China -- History 2
Christian literature 2
Christian literature -- England 2
Diaries -- 18th century 2
Dissenters 2
Dorset (England) 2
Drawings 2
Durham (England) 2
English language 2
Essays 2
Forests and forestry -- England 2
France 2
Gloucestershire (England) 2
Great Britain -- History 2
Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 2
Greek literature 2
Kent (England) 2
Literature -- 18th century 2
Liturgies 2
Nature (Aesthetics) 2
Photography 2
Poetry, English -- 18th century 2
Poets, English -- 18th century 2
Political satire 2
Prayers 2
Publishers and publishing 2
Romances 2
Societies 2
Suffolk (England) 2
Sussex (England) 2
Travel 2
Westminster (London, England) 2
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

Northamptonshire documents

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Northants d. 1
Northamptonshire documents
Extents: 137 Leaves
Dates: Made up out of 7 pieces, written in A.D. 1728-1843

Northamptonshire records

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Northants b. 5
Northamptonshire records
Extents: 84 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1731-1842

Notebook containing a miscellany of verses copied by Joseph Wills

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 184
Notebook containing a miscellany of verses copied by Joseph Wills.
Extents: 144 pages
Dates: 1761-1769

Notebook containing verses recited at Reading School

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 1527
Notebook containing verses recited at Reading School
Extents: 41 Leaves
Dates: 1797-1806

Notebook of Jane Johnson, containing poems, hymns

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 198
Notebook of Jane Johnson, containing poems, hymns and (fols. 19-42) 'A very pretty story to tell children when they are about five or six years of age'
Extents: 50 Leaves
Dates: 1733-52

Notes from some treatise on English Law

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. B. 101
Notes from some treatise on English Law
Extents: 39 Leaves
Dates: Written about the middle of the 18th century

An original petition to the 'Lords Justices in Councill'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 2 (R)
An original petition to the 'Lords Justices in Councill'
Extents: 1 roll
Dates: Written about A.D. 1730-1740

Papers, chiefly relating to William Cartwright a bishop among the Nonjurors (d. 1799)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. D. 30
Papers, chiefly relating to William Cartwright a bishop among the Nonjurors (d. 1799)
Extents: 98 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1784-1796 and 1837-1838

Papers of Caleb and Sarah Cooke

 Collection
Religious writings of Caleb Cooke and his wife Sarah.
Extents: 0.15 Linear metres (2 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1680-1748

Papers of Joseph Addison from the Tickell family collection

 Single Item
Shelfmark: Dep. c. 293/1-4
Papers of Joseph Addison from the Tickell family collection
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1714-1715

Papers of Robert Lowth, Bishop of London

 Collection
Papers of Robert Lowth, Bishop of London
Extents: 0.71 Linear metres (7 boxes)
Dates: 1702-94

Papers relating to dr. George Hickes

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 4
Papers relating to dr. George Hickes
Extents: 60 Leaves
Dates: Written chiefly about A.D. 1712

Papers relating to Samuel Johnson

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 62
Papers relating to Samuel Johnson, 1778-1830
Extents: 44 Leaves
Dates: 1778-1830

Part of a first draft by Richard Gough of his History of Carausius

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. e. 58
Part of a first draft by Richard Gough of his History of Carausius
Extents: 41 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1760 by R. Gough

Paston and Coke papers

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Norfolk b. 3
Paston and Coke papers
Extents: 82 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1601-1787

The personal receipts and expenditure of John Alleyne of University college, Oxford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 124
The personal receipts and expenditure of John Alleyne of University college, Oxford
Extents: 130 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1747-1776

Photocopies of Papers Relating to Jonathan Swift, collected by Professor Herbert Davis

 Collection
Photocopies of Papers Relating to Jonathan Swift, collected by Professor Herbert Davis.
Extents: 0.45 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: 20th cent. (photocopies of 17th and 18th cent. originals)

Photocopy of 'Prelude for the Opening of the Theatre Royal Covent Garden September 11th 1792', Catalogue of the Larpent Plays

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 144, fols. 1-14
Photocopy of 'Prelude for the Opening of the Theatre Royal Covent Garden September 11th 1792', Catalogue of the Larpent Plays.
Extents: 14 Leaves
Dates: 1792, 1939

Photostats and photographs of material connected with Samuel Johnson

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 72
Photostats and photographs of material connected with Samuel Johnson.
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: originals dated 1736-1737, 1775, 1778, n.d.

Photostats and transcript of Samuel Johnson's Irene

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 64
Photostats and transcript of Samuel Johnson's Irene.
Extents: 78 Leaves
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing