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See also:ROGER See also:DODSWORTH (1585-1654)
, See also:English See also:antiquary, was See also:born near Oswaldkirk, See also:Yorkshire
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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 See also:Dodsworth, was registrar of See also:York See also:cathedral, and could give him See also:access to the records preserved there
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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
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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
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He collected a vast See also:store of materials for a See also:history of Yorkshire, a Monasticon Anglicanum, and an English baronage
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The second of these was published with considerable additions by Sir See also: |
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