Manuscripts purchased from Henry Petty- Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquis of Lansdowne, and that formed a Part of the collection of William, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, 1st Marquis of Lansdowne.
" ELEMENTA Jurisprudentiæ ": founded on Richard Zouche's Elementa, 1629, etc., and Thomas Wood's Institutes, 4th edition, 1730; with notes and legal maxims interspersed. Paper; ff. 137. xviiith cent. Quarto. Law: Elementa jurisprudentiæ: 18th cent.
NOTE-BOOK Containing similar statements of the public revenue and expenditure, of the National Debt, etc., 1750-1759; with an account of the Sinking Fund, 1722-1759. Paper; ff. 49. Small Octavo. National Debt: Abstracts of the state of: 1749-1759. Revenue: Note-books of various public account...
TRANSCRIPTS of papers among the Lansdowne, Harley, Cotton, and Royal MSS. in the British Museum, relating to the defence of England from foreign invasions; tempp. Eliz.-Chas. II. Paper; ff. 42. xviiith cent. Folio. England General Chronicles and History: Copies of MSS. on defence from foreign i...
NOTE-BOOK containing similar statements of the revenue and expenditure, 1754-1760; including Accounts of Bonuses, 1744-1760, and of the Civil List and Royal Household, 1728-1760. Paper; ff. 51. Octavo. Household, Royal: Statement of accounts: 1728-1760. Civil List: Statement of: 1728-1760. Re...
TRANSCRIPTS of letters chiefly on Home Affairs, extracted from the Registers of the Secretaries of State; 4 Oct. 1661- 13 Mar. 172 8/9, 8, 9 Feb., 15 Mar. 1757. Two volumes. See Add. 24,136. Included in Vol. ii., f. 162, are notes of warrants of Secretaries of State, 1696-1756, extracted from "Criminal" and " Domestic " Books. Paper; ff. 238, 164. xviilth cent. Folio.
" AN ALPHABETICAL account of the Land Revenues belonging to the Crown, as the same appear by the parliament surveys and books of entry in the Surveyor General's Office, since the year MDCL." An index of Crown lands in England and Wales, arranged under counties, with names of grantees, yearly ren...
" A BRIEF Collection concerning the [seventeen] mannors of the Dutchy of Cornwal which are commonly called Assessionable or ancient Dutchy," circ. 1612-1625; including a table of their comparative rentals, fines, etc., 7 Edw. III. and 43 Eliz. A transcript, made temp. Geo. I. Paper; ff. 10. Foli...