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Oldys, William, (1696-1761), Herald and Antiquary

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Surname: Oldys
Forenames: William
Gender: Male
Date: 1696-1761
Biography: ODNB link for Oldys, William (1696-1761) Herald and Antiquary
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P159553 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P21618 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for William Oldys
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
notes on trees, birds and on Langbaine's English Dramatic Poets
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 20724-25, 22592-95
2
MS of London libraries
Glasgow University Library, Special Collections Department
See MSS in Hunterian Library
3
c1718: commonplace books
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 12522-23
4
1729: essay on epistolary writings with respect to the Grand Collection of Thomas, Earl of Strafford (ms copy)
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
c476
NRA 18661 Osborn coll
5
c1746: annotations to a MS copy of Edward Bolton's petition to James I for a Royal Academy
Society of Antiquaries of London
MS 103
See PJ Willetts, Manuscripts in the Society of Antiquaries of London (2000)
6
several printed works with his copious MS notes and additions
British Library, Modern English and Reader Services, Humanities and Social Sciences
See RC Alston, Books with manuscript, passim
7
notes on Tanner's Notitia monastica
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
NLW MS 21601B