The
Muniment Room was Grandtather's Holy of Holies.
62 Westminster Abbey
Muniment Room, Accounts of the Fraternity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, 1487-90, 1505-8.
Sayce who looked after the records, `There is unfortunately no published calendar of the contents of our
muniment room; indeed there is no calendar of them at all except a very imperfect one in MS compiled more than a hundred years ago.'
4), via mid-eighteenth century and George IV seat furniture and console tables, to the painted breakfront bookcases (possibly by Adam) in the
Muniment Room. Most extraordinary of all is a colossal pair of tortoiseshell and ivory globular vases and covers, probably made as exhibition pieces (Fig.
As a history student here he was regarded as one of the best of his generation and it was his interest in history that led him, together with his long-time friend, the chain-smoking bibliophile Bob Owen Croesor, to trawl through the
muniment rooms of the landed estates of North Wales; those rooms where important titledeeds and other estate documents were stored.
As a starting point, there is the increasing sense of Anne as her own reader, but also as projecting a readership that begins with her family but extends well beyond that point, so that these writings are quite different from the usual family memorials and record books we might find in the period tucked away in the
muniment rooms and attics of great houses.
The pioneer here was James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, who spent parts of twenty years, from the 1850s through the 1870s, visiting record repositories and
muniment rooms throughout England.
Bills from Oxford goldsmiths, dug out of college
muniment rooms, show that most were acting simply as retailers for London firms.