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Archival/written

British Library

• Customary of the soke  17th cent. [Eg. 3536 f. 25b ]
• Deeds rel. to 1631-1685. [Eg.Ch. 4879; Eg.Ch. 4880; Eg.Ch. 5001; Eg.Ch. 5006; Eg.Ch. 5591; Eg.Ch. 5592] 
• Deeds rel. to Normanton in 1616-1631. [Eg.Ch. 4466 – 4472]
• Drawings of memorial slabs at 1855-1856. [Add. 39913 ff. 75, 87, 116-118, 157]
• Drawings of the Minster, etc. 19th cent. [Add. 42000 ff. 15, 69; Add. 42001 f. 74; Add. 42019 f. 58]
• Letter from the Superintendent of the Subscription Mill at 1801. Copy. [Add. 38356 f. 49]
• Plans of earthworks at Robin Hood Hill and Moorfield Mount near 1911. [Add. 38600 ff. 43, 50]
• Rental of Westhorpe and Holbeck in late 15th cent. [Eg.Roll. 8452  ] 
• Rentals mid 17th cent. - 1687.[Eg. 3536 f. 60b; Eg. 3562 f. 21; Eg. 3563 f. 31 ]
• Roll rel. to 1648. [Eg.Roll. 8451]
• Account of. [Add. 18553]
• Church notes 1868. [Add. 37180 f. 10]
• Deed relating to 1305. [Add.Ch. 36459]
• Deeds relating to 13th cent.-1435. [Add.Ch. 27458 – 27479] 
• Drawings of stained glass 19th cent. [Add. 34866 ff. 80, 81, 83, 86, 91; Add. 35311 Q. 1]
• Prints, etc., of sculpture, etc., in Cathedral. [Add. 37507 ff. 11, 301.; Add. 37604 f. 410 ; Add. 37610 f. 290]
• Views and plan of church, etc. 1809, n.d.  [dd. 36372 ff. 72 b-78; Add. 36401 f. 31; Add. 36433 f. 850]
• Collegiate Church of Southwell, Abstract of chartulary 1171-1582 ; 18th cent. [Add. 24817]
• Collegiate Church of Southwell, Case of temp. Chas.II. [Add. 28088 f. 46;  Add.Ch. 15240; Add.Ch. 15241]  
• Collegiate Church of Southwell, co. Nottingham. Sketch of, by Rev. D. T. Powell 19th cent. [Add. 19915]   

Consult the British Library’s online catalogue for further details:

• http://molcat.bl.uk/

Nottinghamshire Archives

• Southwell Minster papers [SC]
• Court of Liberty of Southwell and Scrooby [C/LSS]
• Peculiar of Southwell [DD/SP]
• Southwell Rural District Council papers [DC/SW]
• Southwell Poor Law Union [SO/PUS]
• Stenton and Metcalf, solicitors of Southwell papers.      [DD/M]
• Sherbrooke of Oxton [DD/SK/1-165]
• Nottinghamshire Quarter Sessions [C/QAG/5 (Southwell House of Correction); C/QDU (public undertakings); C/QAH (highways)
• Hodgkinson and Beevor of Newark, solicitors [DD/H/129 (Southwell wills and papers, 1799-1900)]
• Tallents and Company of Newark, Solicitors [DD/T (Southwell wills, deeds etc)
• Maltby Family [DD/1477 (Southwell deeds and related papers)]

Use the Access to Archives website to search the catalogues for some of these collections:

• http://www.a2a.gov.uk/

Southwell Minster Library

• The Liber Albus (White Book)
• The Registrum capituli (Chapter Register)
• Register of Leases

See the following for transcripts of material from these registers:

• A F Leach, Visitations and Memorials of Southwell Minster, Camden Society New Series, xlviii, 1891

The National Archives

Many records for Southwell in Chancery and Exchequer series of records.

SC (Special Collections): Ministers' and Receivers' Accounts for Bishop’s temporalities in the Lordship of Southwell; Petitions to the King etc; Southwell, Survey of possessions of the archbishopric of York (inter alia).
The National Archives catalogue is now available online:

• http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp

Nottingham University, Manuscripts and Special Collections

Deeds, wills, correspondence and estate records etc. relating to Southwell in the Newcastle, Portland and Denison archives
The online catalogue provides more information on the contents of these collections:

• http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/mss/online/

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