"EXTRACTS of wills from the Registers in the Prerogative Court at Doctors Commons from 1385 to 1660," compiled, with extreme neatness, by Edward Rowe Mores, F.S.A. In three volumes: Vol. i. 1385-1533; Vol. ii. 1533-1591; Vol. iii. 1592- 1660. The introduction (vol. i., f. 2) contains an account of the Prerogative Court, and of the registers there; and at the end of vol. iii. are complete indexes of names and places. Most of the wills extracted are those of inhabitants of Berkshire. Paper; ff...
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Wills: Extracts of wills at Doctors Commons, 1383-1660: 18th cent. Edward Rowe Mores, FSA: Extracts of wills compiled by: 18th cent. Province of Canterbury: Extracts from Wills in the Prerogative Court: 1385-1660.
"THE ELEMENTES or groundes of Geographye, both Theoreticall and Practicall" ; by Richard Raby. Preceded (ff. 2-1l b) by a dedicatory epistle from the author to "the Worshipfull and his much honoured freinde and Master, Mr. Arthure Capell." In two books: the first (ff. 14-121) theoretical, explai...
"ABREGÉ de la Geographic"; compiled towards the end of the 17th century (see ff. 1 b, 21). Paper; ff. 150. Late XVIIth cent. Belonged to George Bridges. Quarto. Geography: Abrégé de la géographie: late 17th cent.
1. "ABREGÉ de la Geographie"; apparently compiled between 1742 and 1763 (see ff. 136, 137). Not the same work as No. 788, and much less full. 2. "Principes de la langue françoise": a short treatise on French grammar. f. 186. Paper; ff. 197. XVIIIth cent. Quarto. includes: f. 1 Geography: Abr...
"RELATION of a Journey from London to Paris and thence home through Flanders and Holland," starting "from the Spread Eagle in Gracechurch street" on 7 May, 1720, and ending "at the Tower Wharf" on 19 Aug. 1721, after a seven days' passage from Rotterdam "on board the Hampton Court sloop, Captain...
"JOURNAL of a summer's excursion, by the road of Montecasino to Naples, and from thence over all the southern parts of Italy, Sicily, and Malta, in the year MDCCLXXII"; by [Sir] William Young [2nd Bart., F.R.S., etc.]. Printed; with marginal notes in the author's band, and a few pen-and-ink sket...