PRINCIPAL WORKS REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT.
The Magdalen College Register. By Dr. Bloxam. Cited as Coll, Reg. and as
Bloxam. Registrum Collegii Exoniensis. By Rev. C. W. Boase, M.A. Cited as Coll. Reg.
and as Boase. Welch's Alumni Westmonasterienses. Stapylton's Eton School Lists. Rugby School Register. St. Paul's School, Admission Register. Manchester School Register. Gentleman's Magazine. Crockford's Clerical Directory. The County Histories, and the Author's various Works named on the preceding page.
EXPLANATION OF ABBREVIATIONS.
O. H. S. : Oxford Historical Society, s., son; is., eldest son ; o.s., only son; y.s. youngest son.
Memo. : Names in parenthesis do not occur in the Matriculation Register entry, which ends, it may be here observed, with the age.
SPECIMEN ENTRY.
Abbay, Richard, 3s. Thomas, of Hunday Field, near Aldborough, Yorks., gent Exeter
Coll., matric 9 April, 1864, aged 20.
As the residence given to the father is nearly always his residence at the birth of his son, or in other words, as the birthplace of the son is given as the residence of the father, the above entry might, if extended, read thus :
Richard Abbay, born at Hunday Field, near Aldborough, Yorks., 3rd son of Thomas
Abbay, gent, matriculated from Exeter College, 9 April, 1864, then aged 2a
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