Papers of Sir Richard Cocks

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Eng. hist. b. 209-10
  • Dates of Creation
    • [ca. 1681]-1726
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 2 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Writings and parliamentary diaries of Sir Richard Cocks.

Administrative / Biographical History

Sir Richard Cocks, 2nd Baronet (d 1726) was MP for Gloucestershire. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Access Information

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).

Acquisition Information

The papers were bought from Richard Gilbertson in 1964.

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 39651-2.