Beswick and Lockington (Yorkshire)

Scope and Content

Twenty-two documents concerning lands and persons in Beswick and Lockington in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Former references: Phillipps nos 16953-4, 35657; Latin MS 260.

Acquisition Information

Rylands accession no. R29092. Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the Manchester bookseller P.M. Barnard for £6 in February 1912 (lot 1123 in the Phillipps sale on 28 April 1911). Only four of these documents bear Phillipps numbers: nos PHC/264 (Phillipps 16954), PHC/272 and /276 (16953), and PHC/283 (35657).