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DODSWORTH, ROGER (1585-1654)

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DODSWORTH, See also:ROGER (1585-1654) , See also:English See also:antiquary, was See also:born near Oswaldkirk, See also:Yorkshire. He devoted himself See also:early to antiquarian See also:research, in which he was greatly assisted by the fact that his See also:father, See also:Matthew Dodsworth, was registrar of See also:York See also:cathedral, and could give him See also:access to the records preserved there. He married the widow of Laurence Rawsthorne of See also:Hutton See also:Grange, where he 'subsequently resided till his See also:death in See also:August 1654. At various times in his See also:life he was enabled to study the records in the library of See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Cotton, in See also:Skipton See also:Castle, and in the See also:Tower of See also:London. He collected a vast See also:store of materials for a See also:history of Yorkshire, a Monasticon Anglicanum, and an English baronage. The second of these was published with considerable additions by Sir See also:William See also:Dugdale (2 vols., 1655 and 1661). The See also:MSS. were See also:left to See also:Thomas, third See also:Lord See also:Fairfax, who by his will bequeathed them (16o volumes in all) to the Bodleian Library at See also:Oxford. Portions have been printed by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society (Dodsworth's Yorkshire Notes, 1884) and the Chetham Society (copies of See also:Lancashire See also:post-mortem inquisitions, 1875-1876).

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