Catalogue description "Notes taken out of an old manuscript of Sir John Oglanders Anno 1615 collected by me...

"Notes taken out of an old manuscript of Sir John Oglanders Anno 1615 collected by me Richard Burleigh."

Relates to the local gentry of the Isle of Wight (including the Worsleys), the boroughs and the captains of the island.

Also contains: a section entitled "The Pedigree of the Worsleys of Appledurcombe (this only consists of discursive notes); lists of gentry on the island, 1609-10; monuments in Godshill Church; a reference to the enclosing of Brading Haven, 1620.

Late 17th or early 18th century hand.