Descriptive Catalogue Of Derbyshire Charters In Public And Private Libraries And Muniment Rooms

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Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of Derbyshire Charters in Public and Private Libraries and Muniment Rooms: Compiled With Preface and Indexes for Sir Henry Howe Bemrose, Kt The Derbyshire Library and Collection of Sir H. H. Bemrose includes an extensive and varied mass of manuscripts, among which are many original deeds of ancient and modern date. The services of an expert being sought to examine and catalogue these with a view to the possible publication of some of them, the present Editor undertook the work. While this was being done, a little enquiry soon elicited the fact that there were numerous other deeds, in private hands, scattered through the County, which would be placed at Sir Henry's disposal for so useful a purpose as the publication of a book of Derbyshire Charters. Moreover, the British Museum was known to be rich in Derbyshire deeds, having in its entirety the charters collected by Adam Wolley and bequeathed by him to the nation in 1828, as well as many others, and it was, therefore, decided to make short abstracts in English, which should embrace all the salient points of each document, of all the Derbyshire deeds, either in public archives or private muniment rooms, to which access could be had. It will be seen from the appended list of owners, etc., that the charters treated in this volume were derived from no less than thirty four different sources. With very few exceptions, the charters are in actual existence, and have been examined by the Editor, whose object has been to include only those deeds which can themselves, if necessary, be referred to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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