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As with other series shelfmarked MS. Ch. and MS. Rolls, this is an artificial collection created from a range of archival sources, and the provenance of individual items is not always known.

The collection as catalogued in 1878 comprised MSS. Ch. Somerset 1-50, and MSS. Rolls Somerset 1-15, of unrecorded provenance. Several documents relating to the Hastings family, earls of Huntingdon, are probably from the collections of Thomas Carte (-1754) (see E. Craster, History of the Bodleian Library (1952), p. 101).

MSS. Ch. Somerset 51-174 and Rolls. 16-17 are later accessions, including:

  • MSS. Ch. Somerset 86-163: title deeds for Kingston Seymour, 14th cent. (acquired with MSS. Ch. Northants. 38-48: New Summary Catalogue appendix II).

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25. MS. Rolls Somerset 10

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GLASTONBURY (Abbey of). The certificate of Richard Pollard and Thomas Moyle , esquires, surveyors of the king's highness' lands, &c. belonging to the late attainted monastery of Glastonbury, now in the king's hands by the attaincture of Richard Whiting , late abbot of the same. [Copy made in the 18th century; the original vellum roll is in MS. Bodl. Rolls 19] .