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...
MILITARY COLLECTIONS of the three brothers Jacob, John, and Michael Richards, sons of Jacob Richards; 1685-1714. For the military careers of all three brothers, see the Dictionary of National Biography. Thirty-four volumes. Paper. Folio, etc.
Scope & Content:
Army; England: Military collections of Jacob, John and Michael Richards: 1685-1714.
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...