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Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| (old shelfmark **A.79.2) | |
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| Language: | English |
| Origin: | England |
| Date: | 20th c. |
| Material: | Paper (factory made) |
| Physical Description: | i paper flyleaf + 246 folios (foliated i – xiii, 1 – 226, xiv - xx) + i paper flyleaf, ca. 250 – 270 x 190 – 205 (ca. 190 – 240 x 150 – 170) mm, up to 50 long lines, mainly unruled |
| Rubric: | N/A |
| Incipit: | (fol. 1r) Eaglesfield of Alwarby |
| 2o folio: | Eaglesfield. Bridekirk |
| Explicit: | 1795. Aug. 6. Edmund s. of Edmund Lamplugh I [was] buried. All to 1800. |
| Contents: | Fols. i recto – x recto, Index (by Larman); fols. 1r – 226v, Genealogical notes and family trees of families in Cumbria and Westmorland, E – I, mainly taken from parish registers |
| Script: | Documentary cursive |
| Scribe: | John Francis Haswell (1864 – post 1933) |
| Decoration: | None |
| Provenance: | Col. John Francis Haswell (1864 – post 1933) of Penrith; Miss B. Haswell, daughter of Col. Haswell; her gift to George Edward Larman, (1895 – 1961) by 1952 (see note, MS 79.1); his bequest, 1961 |
| Binding: | 20th c., (Bayntum Riviere, Bath) half brown leather and brown cloth over paste boards, pink and white endbands |
| Notes: | A number of folios are considerably smaller than the average size given in the physical description. Larman was a student at Trinity Hall 1914 – 1918. Haswell edited and published a series of parish registers from Cumberland. |
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| © Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
