The manuscript volume of plans here published for the first time forms part of the Rawlinson collection in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, in which it is listed as D. 710. The collection was bequeathed to the Bodleian by the antiquary Richard Rawlinson (1690–1755), graduate of St John’s College, Jacobite and non-juring bishop. He and his brother Thomas (d. 1725) were avid collectors of manuscripts of every kind, especially those of the sixteenth, seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The collection is particularly rich in English history and topography, including, for instance, the Thurloe State Papers and Samuel Pepys’s papers as Secretary of the Admiralty. Although architecture does not appear to have been a major interest of either brother, the collection includes many of the surviving account-books of James Nedeham as Surveyor of the King’s Works from 1532 to 1544 (MSS C. 775–85), the engrossed accounts of Sir Christopher Wren for the building of the London City Churches after the Great Fire (MSS B. 387–89), Sir John Vanbrugh’s proposals for the ‘Fifty New Churches’ (MS B. 376. f. 351), and William Kent’s Italian notebook (MS D. 1162).