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88. A brief report of goods taken at Cales in Spain by sundry persons, and found in divers ships since their arrival in the river Thames, and how disposed of.
57. A note, stating that he was possessed of ten silver Roman denarii, a Nero in gold, and seven coins in brass, fo. 62. (Latin.) N.B. The Nero had been presented to him by Roger Ascham; and one of the brass coins, an Augustus of the middle size, by Mendoza the Spanish Ambassador. See R. Ascham,...
13. The Book of Chronicles of the Kings of France and of the Kings of the House of Ottoman the Turk. Written in Hebrew by Joseph the Priest, and translated into English by John Lightfoote. This work, in which the language of the Hebrew Scriptures is very successfully imitated, is brought down to...
1. A copy of the instructions from K. Henry VIII. to Sir Thomas Cheney, his Ambassador to Francis I.; with a copy of the King's signature. See Num. 115, Art. 47.
1. "Une remembrance fait d'aincien temps, or renoves per Monsier Robet Pedwardin le lundi proschin devant la feste Seint Margaret, l'an del regne le Roy Richare le Secund distocuisme:" being a transcript from charters formerly belonging to Robert de Pedwardyn, the ancestor of Richard Townley of ...