COMMONPLACE-BOOK of Francis Thynne, Lancaster Herald [1602- 1608], relating to English history and antiquities; consisting of extracts from chronicles, monastic registers, etc., including the following:- 1. "Thinges taken oute of an olde writen frenche cronicle," treating of the relations betw...
COMMONPLACE-BOOK of miscellaneous historical, topographical, and antiquarian notes, in various hands, including:-(1) "Observations of Warwickshire," Berkshire, and Derbyshire. ff 1, C, 13;-(2) "Observations" out of (a) Will. Martin's History and Lives of the Kings of England, 1616. f. 14;-(b) Ar...
TRACTS etc., on antiquarian subjects collected by the Rev. John Lewis, vicar of Minister, Isle of Thanet; 1743. 1. "[I--EION], sive . . . Isidis delubrum reseratum": a Printed tract, without date or author's name. The dedication, to James West, is, however, subscribed in ink "J. Ward," i.e. Dr...
"THOMAE ASTLEI Excerpta ex Collectaneis Thomæ Madox, Arm., in Museo Britannico repositis ": notes by Astle from Madox's collections (Add. MSS. 4484-4572), relating to manorial rights, royal prerogative, inrollments of records, and other historical and legal antiquities. At the end is a note on t...
ANTIQUARIAN NOTES, for the most part (as pointed out by Philip Bliss at f. 1) in the hand of Edward Rowe Mores, including:-(1) Institutions to benefices in the diocese of Canterbury, 1381-1387 (from Ashmole MS. 794). f. 2;-(2) Admissions to degrees, etc., at Oxford, 1448-1461, 1505-1528; with ot...
"ANTIQUARIAN EXTRACTS," containing a facsimile of the signatures of the members of the Privy council of Henry VI. to an instrument dated 15 March, 1454/5; with a copy of a letter to the European Magazine for June, 1790, pp. 423, 424, signed A.T., with reference to the same. Paper; ff. 7. Small Q...
C0MMONPLACE-BOOK Of Philip Morant (ob. 1770), Rector of St. Mary's, Colchester, and author of the History of Essex, consisting of extracts and notes on the following, among other, subjects:-(1) Anglo-Saxon Parliaments. f. 2;-(2) Homage and tenures. ff. 38, 40;-(3) The Nature and Attributes of Go...
EXTRACTS from various manuscripts, etc., in the Vatican Library, made in 1787 by Rev. Charles O'Conor, D.D. (see his Bibl. MS. Stowensis, vol. i. p. 335). 1. Malediction of Pope Sixtus [V.] on any one who shall steal or ill-use the books in the Vatican Library, being an "Inscription on marble ...
EXTRACTS from original letters and papers in the Bodleian, British Museum, and other Libraries, made apparently for Tho. Astle, who prefixed a list of contents. 1. Letters of Richard Layton and other Visitors of Religious Houses to Thomas, Lord Cromwell, on the immoralities, etc., at Fountains...
CATALOGUES of various collections of MSS. and Printed Books, as follows:- 1. Manuscript collections of Thomas Madox, Historiographer Royal (ob. 1727). f. 3. 2. MSS. of James West, Secretary to the Treasury, etc. (ob. 1772), viz.:-(a) His "Manuscripts in Covent Garden." f. 22;-(b) "Manuscript...