"ABSTRACT of British West Indian trade and navigation," 1770-1805, by Sir William Young, Bart. On ff. 31 b-32 b are tables showing (a) the "comparative mortality of British troops of the line in each West Indian Island during 4 years of inactive war," viz. 1799-1802;-(b) "Returns of British troo...
"HISTORICAL, Statistical, and Descriptive Account of the Island of Tobago; to which is added an Essay on the commercial and political importance of the possession. By Sir William Young, Bart., Governor, 1809." Autograph. Finished (see f. 156) on 30 Dec. 1809, and presented by the author to the M...
"AN ALMANACK for the Island of Tobago," for 1810. Printed. With marginal and interleaved notes, and various statistics concerning the island, as well as four water-colour drawings, by Sir William Young Bart., who was Governor from 1807 till his death in 1815. His crest and motto are at f. 1 b, w...
ABSTRACTS of chartularies of the following Religious Houses, etc., in Latin, made originally by Sir Edward Dering, lst Bart., of Surrenden-Dering, co. Kent (ob. 1644), and afterwards re-written for him in their present form:- 1. Chartulary of Horton (al. Monk's Horton) Priory, co. Kent; from t...
"REGISTRUM Cartarum Prioratus de Bradenstoke in comitatu Wiltes," founded in 1142 by Walter de Evreux. The title is modern, and was probably added by T. Astle. The contents, which are preceded by a table and (f. 24 b) by a "Taxatio bonorum temporalium," are arranged under the following heads:-(1...
"REGISTRUM Cartarum Prioratus de Brenkeburne [Brinkburn] in agro Northumbrie," founded by William de Bertram, Baron of Mitford, temp . Hen. I. The title is modern, and on f. 3 is a short account of the Priory, followed by a table of contents (continued at the end of the volume), also in a modern...
ABSTRACT, made in 1630, of a chartulary of Christ Church, Canterbury, preserved "in ejusdem ecclesie thesauraria." Latin. This is one of the articles mentioned in the table of contents of No. 924, above, but not contained in the volume itself. Imperfect, beg. with Charter 10 (A.D. 905), and some...
CHARTULARY of Croxton Abbey, co. Leicester, transcribed in 1755 from the original MS. at Belvoir Castle (Hist. MSS. Comm., 1st Report, 1870, App. p. 11). Latin. At the end (f. 79) is a copy of the Deed of Surrender of the abbey to the Crown, 8 Sept. 1538, made from the original in the Augmentati...
CHARTULARY of West Dereham Abbey, co. Norfolk, founded in 1188 by Hugh Fitzwalter, Dean of York [Archbishop of Canterbury, 1193]. Latin. By far the greater part of the deeds refer to lands in Wiggenhale St. Mary Magdalene. The MS. is stated on f. 1 to contain "twoe hundered twenty seaven deedes ...