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Joseph Foster: Registers, Lists and Indexes
| Title |
Joseph Foster: Registers, Lists and Indexes |
| Reference |
GBR/0012/MS Add.6694-6750 |
| Creator |
Foster, Joseph, 1844-1905 |
| Covering Dates |
1880–1901 (Circa) |
| Extent and Medium |
57 volumes |
| Repository |
Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives |
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| Content and context |
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Joseph Foster (1844-1905) began carrying out genealogical research early in his life, compiling peerages of Quaker familes (1862-1872), and of county families in Lancashire (1873) and Yorkshire (1874). He went on to publish Peerage, barontage and knightage (1879), Men at the bar (1888), and Admissions to Gray's Inn (1899). Foster also edited and supplemented J.L. Chester's London marriage licences (1887), and produced the Oxford matriculation register in Alumni Oxonienses (8 vols., 1887-1891).
Sir Robert Forsyth Scott (1859-1933), antiquary, and master of St John's College, Cambridge.
Admissions to inns of court, lists of post-Reformation parish incumbents and index to J. Le Neve's Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae.
MS.Add.6694-6698 and 6708-6750 were originally the property of Joseph Foster, before passing to Sir Robert Forsyth Scott. The collection as a whole was presented to the Library by Lady Scott, 1933.
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Access and Use
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Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Joseph Foster: Registers, Lists and Indexes, MS Add.6694-6750 |
| Further information |
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MS.Add.6694-6698: The index is referred to in Foster's Alumni Oxonienses as 'Foster's Inns of Court Reg.'. The separate admissions registers of three of the inns covered in the volumes have since been published (that of Gray's Inn by Foster himself in 1889, omitting the biographical details). For further details see also J.H. Baker, A catalogue of English legal manuscripts in Cambridge University Library (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1996), pp. 601-602.
MS.Add.6699-6707: For further details see J.H. Baker, A catalogue of English legal manuscripts in Cambridge University Library (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1996), p. 602.
MS.Add.6708-6721: The index appears to be the work referred to in Foster's Alumni Oxonienses as 'Foster's Judges and Barristers'. For further details see the J.H. Baker, A catalogue of English legal manuscripts in Cambridge University Library (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1996), pp. 602-603. Much of the information in the volumes is still unprinted.
MS.Add.6750: The index for 1800-1840 has been published (Oxford, 1890).
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MS Add.6694-6698
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Joseph Foster, consolidated alphabetical index of admissions to all four inns of court, covering the period to 1800, 5 volumes, compiled c. 1885.
5 volumes. |
1885 |
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MS Add.6699-6707
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Sir Robert Forsyth Scott, consolidated alphabetical index of admissions to all four inns of court, covering the period 1801-1887 and 1899-1901, 9 volumes.
Creator: Scott, Sir Robert Forsyth, 1859-1933.
9 volumes. |
1899–1901 |
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MS Add.6708-6721
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Joseph Foster, consolidated alphabetical index of calls to the bar in the four inns of court, covering the period 1518-1887, 14 volumes, compiled c. 1887.
14 volumes. |
1887 |
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MS Add.6722-6745
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Joseph Foster, lists of post-Reformation parish incumbents, 24 volumes, compiled late 19th century.
24 volumes. |
1875 |
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MS Add.6746-6749
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Joseph Foster, index to J. Le Neve's Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, in Foster's and another hand, 4 volumes, compiled late 19th century.
4 volumes. |
1875 |
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MS Add.6750
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Joseph Foster, list of incumbents of English and Welsh parishes, 1540-1840, compiled c. 1880-1890.
1 cabinet. |
1880–1890 |
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