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Clumber manuscripts Fonds
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Clumber manuscripts

  • GB 0210 MSCLUMBER
  • Fonds
  • [late 12 cent.]-1698

Five manuscripts formerly in the Duke of Newcastle's library at Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire, comprising genealogies of North Wales families; texts from the Alexander cycle and the Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth; a transcript of Rice Merrick's 'Morganiae Archaiographia'; and volumes in the hands of John Prise of Brecon and Hereford, grandson of Sir John Prise (1502?-1555), and of Thomas Prise, Wistaston, Herefordshire, probably grandson of the former.

Pelham-Clinton family, Dukes of Newcastle, former owners