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Willis, Browne, (1682-1760), antiquary and numismatist

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Surname:	Willis
Forenames:	Browne
Gender:	Male
Date:	1682-1760
Biography:	ODNB link for Willis, Browne (1682-1760) Antiquary and Numismatist
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P128794 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P30737 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	antiquarian corresp, collections and papers	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Willis
2	copy of part of Leland's Itinerary and list of English and Welsh Sheriffs	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng hist c 35; Top Gen c 5
3	notebook rel to Newport Hundreds	Buckinghamshire Archives	D/DU/6/27	See Guide to the Papers of Bucks Historians
4	topographical and antiquarian notes and papers	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 5821, 5827-41 passim, 43864, 59885
5	notes on see of St Asaph	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	II p409	NRA 26745 St Asaph diocese
6	notes on Hereford diocese	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	Bodewryd 24	NRA 29979 Wynne
7	authorial copy of his History of the Mitred Parliamentary Abbies	British Library, Modern English and Reader Services, Humanities and Social Sciences		See RC Alston, Books with Manuscript (1994)
8	1730: page proof copy of his Diocese of Lincoln with MS corrections and annotations	Society of Antiquaries of London	786/19(i)	NRA 39085 Willson
9	corrected proofs of his Survey of Llandaff Cathedral	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	NLW MS 19046B
10	1758: survey of Bangor	Cardiff Central Library	Cardiff MS 2.3	NRA 42735 Cardiff Library
11	collections and papers rel to his Survey of Bangor Cathedral	Oxford University: Jesus College	MSS CXV-CXVI	See HO Coxe and KW Humphreys, Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Oxford Colleges (1972)
12	1729-37: letters to Dr John Bettesworth	Gloucestershire Archives	D340/C35	NRA 4734 Ducie
13	1706-14: letters to Lord Cheyne	Huntington Library	10761-72	NRA 24601 Egerton (Bridgwater) See Guide 1982
14	1740-41: letters to Thomas Mytton	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 30316
15	1716-23: letters to Adam Otley	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	Ottley	NRA 27062 Ottley
16	1736-41: letters to Thomas Sherlock, bishop of Salisbury	Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre		See P Stewart, Guide to the records of the Bishop of Salisbury p18
17	1719-21: letters to John Strype	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Add 9
18	letters, mainly to Thomas Sympson junior and Thomas Sympson senior	Society of Antiquaries of London	MS 786	NRA 27819
19	1727-60: corresp	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 15935

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