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Walter Morgan's Service in the Low Countries: a Brief Description of the All Souls College Manuscript known as MS 129

A glorious lockdown task to do at home in 2021 was to write a description1 of All Souls manuscript 129, by Water, as he calls himself, Morgan, an untitled description of his years as a soldier in the Low Countries2. Photographs taken by All Souls Librarian-in-Charge Gaye Morgan enabled this task. Having already written too much for the brief description it was meant to be, there is far more I could write about this fascinating work. ...

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leather-bound book with All Souls College arms embossed in gilt

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Posted: 2021-12-14 (last modified 2023-03-14 03:18:17 PM)

Acta manuscript entry: Jul 11 1642, 'Lone of yr tower money to his Majestie'

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The first complete surviving All Souls College Minute Book, Acta in Capitulis, MS. 400a dates from 18th August 1601 to the final entry, dated 29th July 1707, when it was agreed that the Wood-House should be repaired. The manuscript comprises 260 folios, of which folios 1 – 25[...]

Posted: 2021-02-03 (last modified 2023-03-14 03:18:17 PM)