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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS chiefly relating to the customs, taxation, etc., 1396-1764; partly collected by Sir Richard Temple, when Commissioner of the Customs, and some of them apparently in his own hand. Among the contents are:- 1. Copy of an entail upon John Furneux and Amicia his wife of the man...
STATUTES of the Realm, Law tracts, etc., as follows:- 1. "Carta de Libertatibus Anglie": Magna Carta, as re-issued by Henry III., 11 Feb. 1225. Lat. f. 2. 2. " Carta de Foresta " ; as re-issued in Feb. 1225. Lat. f. 4. 3. Statute of Merton, 1235. Fr. f. 5. 4. " Provisa Oxonie, edita anno...
C0PIES of legal treatises, speeches, etc.:- 1. Charter of James 1. to the city of Chichester. Latin. f. 2. 2. Petition of the Mayor and Corporation of Chichester for an Act to compel the paving of the streets ; temp. Eliz. f. 18. 3. Argument of Serjeant [Thomas] Hedley iii the case of Bort...
MISCELLANIES, legal and political:- 1. Reading of Edward Bagshaw on 25 Edw. III., c. 7, in the Middle Temple, 24 Feb. 1639 [40]; with index. From a MS. belonging to Sir Henry Yelverton. f. 3. 2. Reading of Henry Slierfield on 32 Hen. VIII. c. 1, of Wills, ill Lincoln's Inn, Easter term, 1624...
RICHARDS COLLECTIONS. Vol. VI. (ff. 29). " Traité de 1'Artillerie, Par le Sieur Guillaume Dilichij, traduit de l'Alleman en François ": in the hand of Jacob Richards. The original, by Wilhelm Dilich, was published at Frankfort, 1689. The vellum covers are stamped with the arms of William III. J...
RICHARDS COLLECTIONS. Vol. VII. (ff. 147). " Receuil (sic) de plusieurs Deuis des places que l'on a fortifiées en France " : details of the fortifications of Dunkirk, St. Omen, Ypres, Sedan, and other places about the Flemish frontier, with accounts of the sieges of Luxembourg, Pignerol, Charlem...
Vol. X. ff. 94. includes: f. 89 Newbury, Berkshire: Map of: 17th cent. f. 89 Maps and Plans: Map of Newbury, co. Berks: 17th cent. f. 90 Lombard, Artillery instructor at Auxonne: Épreuves du tir des bombes avec le canon: 1787.: Fr.
RICHARDS COLLECTIONS. Vol. XXI. (ff. 101). " Diary of the Campaigne. in Portugal," by John Richards, giving a full account of the movements of both armies; 23 May-29 Dec. 1704. Followed (f. 16 b) by a similar " Diary of the Campaigne in Portugal, anno 1705," continued on his departure with the E...
RICHARDS COLLECTIONS. Vol. XXV. (ff. 67). Miscellaneous papers, principally in the hand of John Richards. 1. " A memoriall of the Expedition to Barcelona"; 1705. f. 1. Followed (f. 20) by minutes of the Council of War at Barcelona, 26 Aug. 1705, O.S., and various papers presented by Col. J. Ri...
RICHARDS COLLECTIONS. Vol. XXXIII. (ff. 14). "Devis des ouvrages . . . . à l'embouchure du havre de Dunkerque." At the end, " Signé Vauban." With four plans. See above, vol. vii. Dunkirk, Nord: Papers relating to works at: late 17th cent.: Fr.