Miscellanous notes, with letters from members of the Folk-Lore Society and others including (fol. 2) Edwin Sidney Hartland, (fols. 4, 6) Florence Grove, (fols. 24, 39) Charlotte Sophia Burne, (fols. 26, 28, 30) C.E. Prior, (fol. 32) V. Louise Wrench, (fol. 43) M.M. Banks, (fols. 166, 192, 194, 197) T.J. Carter. Comprises [i+405 leaves]: (Fols. 2-44) Notes on the recording of folklore ...

Notes and transcripts by Percy Manning of leases and other 14th- to 18th-century documents relating to Oxfordshire places including (fol. 10) Eynsham, (fol. 30) Nether Worton, and (fol. 44) North Leigh. At fol. 57 is a copy of a court-roll of Tadmarton (1614), now MSS. Rolls Oxon. 505-506 (formerly MS. Phillipps 29185) [i+69 leaves].

Notes on monumental brasses in Oxfordshire, arranged alphabetically by placename [i+453 leaves].

Notes and sketches by Thomas Rickman for the sections covering Oxfordshire and Berkshire in the third edition of An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England from the Conquest to the Reformation (London, 1825) [iii + 44 leaves].

Folk-lore (General) I. A volume containing collections on Oxfordshire folklore, arranged alphabetically. Includes a list of contents at fol. 1, newspaper and journal clippings, and letters from individuals including (fol. 20) Diamond Jenness, (fol. 115) Thomas Davenport, (fol. 167) William Reginald Halliday, (fols. 299, 327) J.E. Field, (fols. 301, 315, 323, 325) Charlotte Sophia Burne, (fol. 317) G. Busby, (fol. 319) C.E. Prior [i+336 leaves]. Covers...

Collections on morris dancing and Whitsuntide celebrations in Oxfordshire. Includes (passim) music manuscripts and dance patterns, and letters from people including (fols. 70-76, 79, 80) T.J. Carter, and (fol. 86) P. Powell, plus (fol. 148) a photograph of morris dancing in Bampton [ii + 269 leaves].

'A translation of T[homas] Cole's collection of 16th and 17th century escheats for Oxfordshire, now forming numbers 756, 757, 758, 759, 760, 410 and 411 of the Harleian manuscripts deposited in the British Museum'. Includes an alphabetical index of personal names at fol. 2 and of place names at fol. 30v [xv + 47 leaves].

Alphabetically arranged loose manuscript notes, ephemera, cuttings and prints on Oxfordshire towns, villages and houses from Deddington to Grimsbury.

Price list for commodities 'Sold by Bartholomew Churchill at Clifton, Oxford Shire', c. 1780.

The rental book of the estates of the Draper family in Deddington, Adderbury, and Nether Worton, with the names of tenants, farms, rents paid, etc. [98 leaves].

Manuscript notebook (with some tipped in printed and typescript material) listing sources for Oxfordshire topography [277 leaves, fol. 158 appears twice]. Includes: (fols. i-66) A list of monumental inscriptions in Oxfordshire and Berkshire recorded in certain manuscripts in the Wood and Rawlinson collections, and the Harleian and Additional manuscripts in the British Museum (British Library). ...

Together with notes of admissions of copyhold tenants, 1786-1880.

Transcript by Mrs. N. Clifton of Deddington parish registers.