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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS relating to the revenue, coinage, etc., tempp. Hen. III.-Geo. I. Among the contents are:- 1. " Extracts from the Statute books concerning the revenues of the Crown, alphabetically digested"; tempp. Hen. III.-Jas. I. f. 1. 2. " Abstract of the penal laws of the customs an...
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. ...
CHARTULARY of West Dereham Abbey, co. Norfolk, founded in 1188 by Hugh Fitzwalter, Dean of York [Archbishop of Canterbury, 1193]. Latin. By far the greater part of the deeds refer to lands in Wiggenhale St. Mary Magdalene. The MS. is stated on f. 1 to contain "twoe hundered twenty seaven deedes ...
REGISTER of the College of St. Mary, Mettingham, co. Suffolk, containing:-(1) Surveys of the several manors belonging to the College, taken at various times from 1461 to 1508. f. 5;-(2) Royal charters from 1343 to 1489, followed (f. 169 b) by two bulls of Pope Boniface IX., and (f. 170 b) by two...
1. Copy of the letter of [Robert Devereux], Earl of Essex, to [Henry Wriothesley], Earl of Southampton, written shortly before the execution of the former in 1601. Printed in 1642. f. 3 b. 2. Treatise, " Of the foundacion of a State and the essencial parts that form a Prince." A note in anothe...
PAPERS relating to the payment by the borough of Colchester of composition-money for the maintenance of the Royal Household; 1596-1638. Included are;-(a) A complete survey of the borough for the assessment of the tax in 1596, and again in 1599. ff. 7, 25;-(b) Rating of the several parishes for 1...
"A SHORT VIEW of the State of Ireland from the yeare 1640 to ye yeare 1652": a transcript of a work published in 1719-20 under the title of The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland, . . . by . . . Edward, Earl of Clarendon. On f. 114b is copied part of a letter (cf. Stowe 82, f. 16...
TRANSCRIPTS of tracts and papers relating to Trade, Parliamentary and Legal Procedure and State affairs; temp . Charles II. 1. " A particular Journal of the proceedings in the House of Peers in a cause between T[homas] Skinner, a private merchant trading to the E. Indies, and the E. India Comp...