LIST of the MSS., charters (626), medals and bullae (200), brass images (10), and framed pictures (12), in the Cotton Library, made by the Rev. Dr. Richard Bentley, Keeper of the Library; 10 May 1718
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Paper roll. 4.52 m. x 0.36 m. A.D. 1718. Presented 31 July 1756 by Samuel Burroughs, who had received it in 1755 from the widow of David Casley, the Deputy-Keeper of the Library. Cotton Library: Schedule of contents: 1718. Richard Bentley, DD; Master of Trinity College, Cambridge: Catalogue of...
'Liber Sententiarum Inquisitionis Tholosanae', consisting of sixteen 'Sermones', most of which were delivered in Toulouse Cathedral, by Bernard Gui, Inquisitor (Bishop of Lodève, 1324), in collaboration with Geoffroy d'Ablis, Jean de Beaune, Gaillard de Preyssac, Bishop of Toulouse, Jacques Four...
On various medical subjects; 15th cent. (1) 'A Judicial [of Urines]', beg. 'Uryne browne wiþ a blake rynge is signe of deþe'. ff. 8-15b. (2) Recipes for coloured medicines. ff. 15b- 16b. (3) Treatise in English upon herbs, arranged in alphabetical order. It begins 'Agnus is an herbe þt men...
SECTION of the Register of the Treasurer of Bury St. Edmunds Abbey, co. Suff., containing a rental, chartulary and terrier for Stanton, co. Suff.; 15th cent
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The section is numbered with medieval foliation ff. 290-331, including blanks. For another section of the original register see Add. MS. 31970. 'Re registers of Bury St. Edmunds Abbey are listed in G. R. C. Davis, Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain, pp. 13-17. Later additions to the MS are;- ...
REGISTERS OF LANDS held from the Crown in six English counties; temp. James I [between 1604-1625]
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The entries give the tenants' names and forms of tenure, with references to inquisitions post mortem, gifts by letters patent, patents of licence to alienate and writs of entry, 28 Henry III - 3 James I, relative to the tenancies. From 34 Henry VIII the majority of references are to an unidentif...