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Morant, Philip, (1700-1770), Historian of Essex Rector of St Mary's Colchester

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Surname: Morant
Forenames: Philip
Gender: Male
Date: 1700-1770
Biography: ODNB link for Morant, Philip (1700-1770) Historian of Essex Rector of St Mary's Colchester
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P135484 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P20295 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Philip Morant
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
15th-18th cent: notes and collections
British Library, Manuscript Collections
2
c1729-70: corresp and papers
Essex Record Office
NRA 5380 Avery
3
draft for the Chelmsford, Witham and Lexden hundred portions of his History of Essex
Essex Record Office
See Accessions to Repositories 1974
4
copies of inscriptions in St Nicholas' Church Colchester
Essex Record Office
NRA 20947 Round
5
13th-18th cent: collection of MSS (some copies) mainly rel to Colchester
Essex Record Office
See Guide, 1969
6
1718-60: collection of MSS rel to Jersey
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
7
annotated copies of his "History and Antiquities of Colchester"
Essex Record Office
NRA 31598 Colchester misc
8
annotated copies of his own and others' works
Essex Record Office
NRA 3505 Essex RO misc
9
c1758: transcripts with introduction of extracts from taxation records 1300-01
Society of Antiquaries of London
NRA 27819
10
Rotuli Parliamentorium edited by him for the press
British Library, Manuscript Collections
11
corresp rel to his proposed history of Essex
British Library, Manuscript Collections
12
Toponomia Antiqua (2 vols)
British Library, Manuscript Collections
13
1728-70: corresp with antiquaries and others (7 vols)
British Library, Manuscript Collections
14
1748-62: letters to Thomas Birch
British Library, Manuscript Collections