Catalogue description COLLECTIONS FROM LIVES OF THE EARLS OF SHREWSBURY (THE TALBOT FAMILY)

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Details of MS 3154
Reference: MS 3154
Title: COLLECTIONS FROM LIVES OF THE EARLS OF SHREWSBURY (THE TALBOT FAMILY)
Description:

Two notebooks containing extracts [by the Revd. George Harbin (non juror)] from the manuscript lives of the Earls of Shrewsbury by the antiquary Dr. Nathaniel Johnston. They comprise:

 

(1) 'Collections out of the five MSS folio volumes of the Families of Lovetot, Furnival & Verdon, but cheifly of the great Family of the Talbots Earls of Shrewsbury. Which volumes belong to the Library of the Ld Visct Weymouth at Longleate, and were all, wth great industry, written by Dr. Nath. Johnston, Dr of Physick, & dedicated to George Savil, Marquis of Halifax, Feb.8.1693/4' (ff.1-47).

 

(2) 'Collections out of Dr Johnston's MSS volumes of the Lives of the Earls of Shrewsbury' (ff.49-87).
Date: 18th century
Held by: Lambeth Palace Library, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 96 folios
Immediate source of acquisition:

Given by the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library, 1980.
Administrative / biographical background:

Middle Hill boards. Owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Bart.: Phillipps MS. 4816.

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