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Willis, Browne, 1682-1760 -- Correspondence.
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Pitchford Hall (Ottley) Papers

  • GB 0210 PITORD
  • Fonds
  • [c. 1150]-1949

Family and estate papers of the family of Ottley of Pitchford Hall, Shropshire, of Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool (1784-1851), and later of the Cotes family, including extensive correspondence, 1684-c.1793, mostly centered on Adam Ottley (1653-1723), bishop of St Davids, and Adam Ottley (1685-1752), registrar of St Davids, including a series of letters from Browne Willis (1682-1760), 1716-1723, and some civil war correspondence and literary papers, 16 cent.-18 cent; estate papers, mainly deeds relating to Pitchford Hall, Salop, mainly in the areas of Bridgnorth and Pitchford, with some lands in adjoining counties, c. 1150-1820; including almost a thousand medieval deeds.

Ottley family, of Pitchford Hall

St Asaph Cathedral record

  • NLW MS 754C
  • File
  • 1719

A letter to Browne Willis, 1719, containing a transcript of a record relating to St Asaph Cathedral; the original record, dated 1455, is printed in Edward Edwards: Willis' Survey of St. Asaph considerably enlarged ... (London, 1801).

Willis, Browne, 1682-1760