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COLLECTIONS relating to military affairs, etc.; circ. 1689-1712. 1. Papers of Generals M. and J. Richards (cf. Nos. 447-480), viz. (a) Arguments in favour of taking the oaths to William and Mary; circ. 1689. f. 1 ;-(b) Diary of the campaign in the Netherlands in 1692, with a short account of t...
Vol. II. Middle of xviith cent. includes: f. 69 Chancellor, Lord: Lists of Chancellors: 1070-1592. f. 192 Kingdom of Scotland: Account of the competitors for the kingdom of, in 1291. f. 195 Cinque Ports: Services due to the Crown from the Barons of: 17th cent.: Fr.
Vol. V. Middle of xviith cent. includes: f. 6 Glossaries: Verba Anglica obscura et glossata excerpta de legibus Regum Angliae: 17th cent. f. 6 Law OF ENGLAND: Verba Anglica obscura, etc., de Legibus Regum Angliæ: 17th cent. f. 88 Clarendon, Wiltshire: List of Earls and Barons at the Council of...
EXTRACTS from Public Records, etc., relating to the Chancery, the custody of the records, etc., with other miscellaneous papers, viz. :- 1. Extracts from records, and copies of documents, relating to the custody of the Public Records, tempp. Edw. III.-Jas. II. fF. 1-18. 2. " Extract of Record...
TRANSCRIPTS of records, chiefly relating to Scotland:- 1." Rotulus de superioritate Regis Angliæ in Regnum Scotie, annis 19-23 E. i."; usually called the Great Roll of Scotland. f. 2. This copy does not exactly agree with the text in Rymer's Foedera, vol. i. pt. ii. (London, 1816), p. 762; it ...
ff. 1r–84v: A volume of collections relating to the Crown regalia and jewels, annotated throughout by the antiquarian Thomas Astle (1735–1803). ff. 1r–54v: Extracts from the Patent Rolls, Wardrobe Accompts, and other public records, from the reigns of John to Henry VI, including (ff. 11r–23v) a...
MISCELLANEOUS historical, heraldic, and other papers, 16th-18th centt., viz.:- 1. Treatise on the Revenues of France, composed shortly before the outbreak of the Revolution. f. 2. 2. Copy of a letter from Charles Delafaye, Under-Secretary of State, to [Daniel] Preverau [of the Secretary of S...
Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France
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This manuscript contains Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France, an anonymous French account of the consecration, coronation, and royal entrée into Paris of Claude de France (b. 1499, d. 1524), Queen of France, and wife of Francis I (r. 1515-1547), which took place on 10-12 May 15...
Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne; Discours des Ceremonies du Sacre et mariage d'Anne de Foix avec Ladislaus Roy de Hongrie
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This manuscript contains two French works attributed to Pierre Choque (b. c. 1450, d. 1530), herald and king of arms at the court of Anne of Brittany (b. 1477, d. 1514), Queen of France. The first text is the Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne, beginning with a dedication to the 'Sire de ...
KENTISH PEDIGREES, evidences, heraldic and genealogical notes taken in churches and private houses, etc, collected in or about the years 1592-1594. The volume also contains, in the same hand:- (a) Notes on Bessarion's work "Adversus calumniatorem Platonis." f. 7 b;-(b) Notes on English land te...
