"LIBER NIGER de Nedewood": containing 15th cent. transcripts of the charters of the free tenants of Needwood Forest, co. Stafford, who claimed liberties and commons by exhibition of their charters before Roger le Brabbacon, steward of the Honour of Tutbury, on St. Clement's Eve, 16 Edw. I. [22 N...
MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers relating to Needwood Chase, co. Staff.; interspersed with which are sundry papers relating to other parts of the county. Among them are:- 1. Assessment of the county for a tenth and fifteenth; 29 Hen. VI. [1450-1]. f. 1. 2. Rental of Alrewas; Mich. 15 Edw. ...
ANTIQUARIAN COLLECTIONS relating to the borough of Ipswich, co. Suffolk, viz.:-(1) Extracts from royal charters from 1199 to 1518; 18th cent. f. 1;-(2) Original accompts of Edward Cage, Borough Treasurer, for the year ending Michaelmas, 1588. f. 5;- (3) Extracts from "a curious and large book ...
"REGISTRUM Magistri Johannis Blauncharde, Archidiaconi Wvgornie, de cartis, literis et aliis evidenciis concernentibus manerium suum de Bereforde Sci. Martini juxta Wyltoun in comit. Wiltes." Latin and French. Blaunchard, who was Archdeacon of Worcester 1371-1383, obtained the manor of Barford S...
SURVEY Of the manor of Aldborough, W. Riding, co. York, "by W.D. ao Doni. 1714." Preceded by an "Explanation," describing some of the antiquities of the place; and followed by two plans in pen-and-ink, one of the borough, the other of the manor, of Aldborough. On the latter, which is partly colo...
"HISTORY of the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, in York"; written (see note at f. 1 b) at York in 1774 by Edward Abbot, painter, at the house of Thomas Beckwith, the painter and antiquary. The title-page and "advertisement" show that the work was intended for publication. Included also (f. 112) a...
CANONS and constitutions for the ecclesiastical government of Jersey, as drawn up by David Bandinel, lately appointed Dean, and other ministers of the Island, and examined and amended by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester, under a Royal Commission; 1623. At th...
Vol. I. (ff. 632). GENERALITÉ de Paris; by [Jean] Phélypeaux, Intendant. Preceded (ff. 2-36 b) by the "Mémoire pour Messieurs les maitres des requestes commissaires departis dans les provinces," conveying the king's instructions.This "Mémoire," which is printed in extenso by Boulainvilliers at t...
MEMOIRS on the provinces of France, drawn up by their several Intendants in accordance with instructions issued by Louis XIV. in 1697 (see below, Vol. l.). French. In 29 volumes. A full analysis is in Boulainvilliers' État de la France, London, 1727, Vols. I. and II. The series originally contained two more volumes, in which were memoirs on Alsace and Bretagne (see O'Conor's Bibl. MS. Stowensis, ii. p. 245). Another copy of the complete series is in Lansdowne MSS. 175-186, in a hand of the s...
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France General Chronicles and History, etc: Memoirs, by the intendants, on the several provinces: 1697-1700.: Fr.
Vol. II. (ff. 254). PROVINCES de Picardie (f. 2) et Artois (f. 133); by [Jérôme] Bignon, Intendant, 1698. Jérôme Bignon, Intendant of Picardy and Artois: Mémoires sur Picardie et Artois: 1698.: Copies. includes: f. 2 Picardy, France: Memoir on: 1698.: Fr. f. 133 Artois, France: Memoir on: 169...