Chetham's Library MS A.7.82

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Tim Bobbin

The manuscript described below was presented to the Library by Mrs Joanna Wright of Rochdale in May 2000. We are grateful to the bookseller, George Kelsall, of Littleborough, for helping to arrange this donation.

The Library already holds one the largest collections of material by and about Tim Bobbin, including the largest concentration of his manuscripts. The collection was built up mainly in the nineteenth century by local antiquarians and collectors and we have attempted to add relevant material whenever possible. This new work is an important addition to the collection not least because it demonstrates Tim Bobbin's interest the Scots language as well as his awareness of local affairs and current events.
 
 

Collection of printed and manuscript items by John Collier, alias Tim Bobbin (1708-1786)
 

1. Curious remarks on the history of Manchester (London, 1771), ix, [1], 65, [1]p. ESTC t100009
2. An alphabetical index of all the principal matters descanted in these Remarks [6]p.
3. Turvener's detected : or the hornet-nest opened. In many anecdotes of the life and transactions of Richard, and Thomas Boyse. Shewing their manner of passing off Counterfeit, and Chip'd Money; their various Frauds, Connexions, Confederates and Correspondents: taken from their joint, and verbal Confessions, the Day, and Night before they suffered, at York, October 24th 1767. By a fellow prisoner and corrected by J.C.
   Followed by an epitaph of their grave at Colne Church
   And a copy of the letter from Richard and Thomas Boyse to their parents soon after their condemnation [41]p.
4. A Scots glossary. Compiled in the year 1771, by J, Collier. [70]p.
5. An inquisition taken at Rochdale, in the year of the reign of our sovereign Ld James by the grace of God King of England France & Ireland &c i.e. of England the 7th and Scotland the 43d. 1610. Before William Curzell Esq the King's Majesty's Attourney [re the boundaries of the Parish of Rochdale], [2], 17p.
6. An account of the inhabitants of Butterworth taken Dec. 1775 on account of the late militia act [2]p.
7. A copy of the lease from Thomas Abp. of Canterbury to William Lord Byrom 1710. [14]p.
8. An extract out of the Parliamentary Survey taken by Mr Edw. Chamberlain Senr John Whitworth and Edw. Chamberlain Junr, Jan 10 1649. [3]p.
9. An account of the first erection of the late chapel of Whitworth, now rebuilt this year 1776. 7p.
10. A list of the High Sheriffs of the County Palatine of Lancaster from the last year of the reign of Henry VIII or 1546. [28]p.
11. The Corporation: a fragment [by Tim Bobbin Jnr] (London, 1775), 35, [1]p.
12. The blackbird: a poem by T.B. Felow of the Sisyphian Society of Weavers (Amsterdam [London], 1741), 16p.
13. A companion to Capt. Armstrong's map of Northumberland: with that part of the county of Durham, north of Tyne ... (London: W. Prat, 1769), 40p.