Identity area
Reference code
Add. MS c/83/9
Title
Note by Thomas Kerrich accompanying a copy of a MS by ‘Thomas Rowley’ [Thomas Chatterton]
Date(s)
- 14 Apr. 1800 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
2 pp.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
A ‘careful copy of one of the ancient manuscripts, said to be by Thomas Rowley of Bristol which were bequeath'd by the late Dr Glynn to the British Museum: It was traced upon the original some years ago by T. Kerrich M.A. then Fellow of Magdalen College Cambridge, & was engraved by [Barak] Longmate for Mr Barrett’s History of Bristol’. A copy of a page from ‘Rowley's Heraldic Account of Bristol Artists and Writers’ [since established as Thomas Chatterton's forgery].