COPIES of the Statutes and ordinances of Wigston's Hospital in Leicester, 1574-1656. The contents, with one exception, viz. an "Abstract of such of the foundation statutes . . . . as may manifest the donor's intention" (ff. 6-11), are included in the account of the Hospital given by Nichols, His...
NAMES of the Companies of the city of London, and names and arms in trick of the "Portgraves" and Lord Mayors from the Conquest to 1639, and of the Sheriff, from 1189 to 1469. With index added (ff. 2, 90). Paper; ff 91. XVIIth cent. Belonged (18th cent.) to John Holland, no. 3. Folio. London, P...
REGISTER of Documents concerning a chantry in the church of SS. Anne and Agnes within Aldersgate, founded by Sir William Gregory, Knt., citizen and skinner of London [Lord Mayor 1451-2]; 1461-1503. Lat. and Engl. The contents are:-(1) Will of the Founder, made 18 Aug. 1461, and enrolled 7 Edw. I...
1. COPIES of warrants, orders and letters relating to the Tower of London during the period Sir William Waad was Lieutenant [1605-1611], with extracts from public records of the privileges of the Tower and of the laws and regulations from the time of Henry III. Apparently an imperfect copy of th...
ACCOUNT of St. Katharine's Hospital, near the Tower of London, by Andrew Coltee Ducarel, LL.D., Commissary of the Hospital; 1763. With notes and corrections in the author's hand, and with ten engravings and two pen-and-ink drawings of various parts of the hospital, and coloured drawings of some ...
COLLECTIONS for the history of St. Katharine's Hospital, by Andrew Coltee Ducarel, LL.D.; partly in his own hand. With ten engravings. Included (f. 30) is a paper, written in 1679 or 1680, to prove that "The Patronage and Visitation of St. Katherine's Hospitall belongs of right onely to her Maje...
MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS and papers, as follows:- 1. Papers relating to the Savoy Hospital in the Strand, London, viz. (a) "Case of the Savoy," being a brief account of it from the time of Henry III. to about 1725. f. 2;-(b) "Lord Keeper Wright's sentence for dissolving the Savoy, July 31, 1702." ...
RECORD of burials in Westminster Abbey, from 1 Dec. 1705 to 29 June, 1745, generally mentioning the exact locality of interment, and giving in some cases the inscription upon the coffin; with notes of a few earlier burials, and a description (f. 30) of the burial of Princess Louisa Anne, dau. of...
ABSTRACTS of fines relating to lands in Norfolk; 1 John-23 Hen. VII. Latin. With an index of places (not quite complete); and with interlinear notes and corrections in the hand of Peter le Neve, Norroy King of Arms (ff. 20 b, 32, etc.). Paper; ff. 112. XVIIth-XVIIIth centt. Folio. County of Nor...
TRANSCRIPT from the Liber Feodorum, or Testa de Neville, for Norfolk and Suffolk. See the Testa de Neville, 1807, pp. 282-301. The transcript was probably made for Peter le Neve, who has added the title and several marginal notes. Paper; ff. 34. Early XVIIIth cent. Belonged to Thomas Astle. Foli...