Janus: Joseph Foster: Registers, Lists and Indexes

Manuscripts/MS Add.6694-6750 contains:
MS Add.6694-6698	Joseph Foster, consolidated alphabetical index of admissions to all four inns of court, covering the period to 1800, 5 volumes, compiled c. 1885.
MS Add.6699-6707	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.
MS Add.6708-6721	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.
MS Add.6722-6745	Joseph Foster, lists of post-Reformation parish incumbents, 24 volumes, compiled late 19th century.
MS Add.6746-6749	Joseph Foster, index to J. Le Neve's Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, in Foster's and another hand, 4 volumes, compiled late 19th century.
MS Add.6750	Joseph Foster, list of incumbents of English and Welsh parishes, 1540-1840, compiled c. 1880-1890.

Joseph Foster: Registers, Lists and Indexes

Title	Joseph Foster, consolidated alphabetical index of admissions to all four inns of court, covering the period to 1800, 5 volumes, compiled c. 1885.
Reference	MS Add.6694-6698
Covering Dates	1885 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	5 volumes

Content and context

The index contains at least 50,000 entries, with some dates of the entrants's call to the bar and other biographical details. The volumes have the armorial bookplates of Joseph Foster. Foster was unable to obtain support to publish the work.

Manuscripts/MS Add.6694-6750/MS Add.6694-6698 contains:

Add.6694

Entries from 'Abarrowe William son and heir of Edward of Beomerton, Wilts., gent. adm. MT 10 Oct. 1628' to John Cooper, 229 folios.
1 volume.

Add.6695

Entries from John G. Cooper to Henry Hawtaine, 232 folios.
1 volume.

Add.6696

Entries from William Haye to Thomas Nevill (Middle Temple, 1758), 230 folios.
1 volume.

Add.6697

Entries from Thomas Nevill (Inner Temple, 1722) to Thomas Tempest, 244 folios.
1 volume.

Add.6698

Entries from Thomas Tempest (Lincoln's Inn, 1665) to William Zouche, 228 folios. Fos 145v-228v are blank.
1 volume.