Lyttelton Bequest. Transcript of 'The Parochial Antiquitys or Topographical Survey of Hagley…’
Reference code
MSS/0139
Title
Lyttelton Bequest. Transcript of 'The Parochial Antiquitys or Topographical Survey of Hagley…’
Date
mid 18th century
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Paper; ff. iv + 224.
Folio.
Leather binding, brown, with gilt cornerpieces, rebacked. Minute Book XI, 12 Jan. 1769, p. 8. Later note (fol. iii) by Peter Prattinton conc. errors in this transcript and copies in colour by him (from SAL/MS/144, fol. xxvii verso) of arms in the windows of Hagley church and arms from Bodl. Lib., MS Ashmole 846 (fol. iv).
Folio.
Leather binding, brown, with gilt cornerpieces, rebacked. Minute Book XI, 12 Jan. 1769, p. 8. Later note (fol. iii) by Peter Prattinton conc. errors in this transcript and copies in colour by him (from SAL/MS/144, fol. xxvii verso) of arms in the windows of Hagley church and arms from Bodl. Lib., MS Ashmole 846 (fol. iv).
Scope and content
Transcript of 'The Parochial Antiquitys or Topographical Survey of Hagley, Frankley, Churchill, Clent, Arley & Hales-Owen..’ cos. Worcs., Staffs., Shropshire, compiled from public records and private muniments by the Rev. Charles Lyttelton when Dean of Exeter (1748) and rector of Alvechurch, Worcs.; mid 18th century. Includes three topographical wash drawings (opposite fols. 134, 152, 170) by I. Green (?John Green, line-engraver). Transcribed from the original bequeathed by Lyttelton to the library at Hagley. For Lyttelton's Worcestershire collections see C. R. J. Currie, C. P. Lewis (eds.), English County Histories. A Guide (Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1994), 427.
Creator
Lyttelton, Charles (1714-1768), Bishop of Carlisle, antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/139