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Start Over Language Unknown Collection D. D. Risley County Lincolnshire

Collection Info

The Risley Papers comprise papers of the Barber, Cotton and Risley families, 1486-1910; also additional papers of the Risley family, 1682-1910. The papers were deposited in the Bodleian Library in 1957, 1959 and 1980; Additional Risley Papers were deposited in Oxfordshire County Record Office through the British Records Association in 1953, and transferred to the Bodleian Library in 1980. (MSS. D.D. Risley a.1, c. 1-78.)

Included in this catalogue is material from: MSS. D. D. Risley a. 1, c.1-3, 15-27, 31-47, 50-7, 61-2, 73-4, 76, deeds relating to properties in Oxfordshire; Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, Worcestershire, Buckinghamshire and some to Monmouthshire, Gloucestershire and London; marriage settlements and manorial records, also some records relating to lawsuits and taxation; wills and financial papers.

Other material in the collection includes personal papers (MSS. D.D. Risley c. 4-14), accounts (c. 63), and post-1800 material. For further details, see Bodleian Archives and Manuscripts; a full typescript catalogue is available in the Library.

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1. MS. D.D. Risley D. I. 2/2-3

Date Range:
1699 - 1699
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Quitclaim and copy. Kingham (Oxfordshire), Wootton (Lincolnshire). 1699.

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Dame Elizabeth Penyston
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Sir Fairemeadow Penyston
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Theophilus Leigh
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Henry Collett
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Cornelia Philirista Maria Peniston
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Popia Penyston
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Thomas Hale
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Letitia Hale