Thomas Madox

Thomas Madox

1666

1727

English historian • Author • Historiographer

Thomas Madox " Thomas Madox " ( 1666 – 13 January 1727 ) was a legal antiquary and historian, known for his publication and discussion of medieval records and charters; and in particular for his " History of the Exchequer ", tracing the administration and records of that branch of the state from the Norman Conquest to the time of Edward II of England
He made his first appearance as an author with the publication of " Formulare Anglicanum " in 1702, concerning ancient charters,
It ran to ninety-four volumes, folio and quarto, consisting chiefly of extracts of records from the Exchequer, the Patent Rolls and Close Rolls in the Tower, the Cottonian Library, the archives of Canterbury and Westminster, and the library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; all that Madox had transcribed himself, intending them as materials for a " Feudal History of England " from the earliest times.

who died in May 1722, and afterwards with John Batteley.
A collection of further transcripts was bequeathed by his widow to the British Museum, as an addition to the Sloane Library.