Contents: ff. 3-25: ‘The Kallender of names’, with counties. ff. 26-281: Notes extracted from the records. ff. 282-390: Index of place names, by county.
Thomas Cole’s collections from the Court of Wards and Liveries
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Abstracts of inquisitions from the records of the Court of Wards and Liveries, compiled by Thomas Cole; with indexes of families and places.. Some volumes bear Cole’s armorial ink stamp, with the motto ‘Cole Deum’.
Contents: ff. 1-17: Index of family names, with counties. ff. 17-185r: Notes extracted from the records. ff. 185v-247: Index of place names, by county.
Contents: ff. 1-13: Index of family names, with counties. Titled: ‘A Table of the surnames of this Third Booke Collected out of the books and Recordes of the Court of Wardes & Liveries by Thomas Cole of the same. Court Gent. & is marked Escaetr. Lib: 5 [sic]. Cole’. ff. 14-149: Notes e...
Armorial ink stamp of Thomas Cole pasted on preliminary leaf. Contents: ff. 1-24: Index of family names, with counties. Titled: ‘A Table of the surnames of this 5th Booke Collected out of Offices or Inquisicons in the Court of Wards by Thomas Cole of the same. Court Gent. & is marked Esca...
Quarto manuscript volume containing a Latin to Anglo-Saxon dictionary, with grammatical observations. Many of the entries are in the hand of Abraham Wheelocke [or Whelock].
Liber sive codicellus collectus de evidentijs extractis de libris feodorum militum, et alijs memorandis tam scaccarij quam cancelarie
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Contents: ff. 1r-17r: Liber sive codicellus collectus de evidentijs extractis de libris feodorum militum, et alijs memorandis tam scaccarij quam cancelarie; continens in se nomina et tenuras omnium et singulorum dominorum, maneriorum, et terrarum in comitatu Herefordiensis tentorum de domina re...
Henry of Bracton, De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ
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Contents: ff. 1r-134v: Henry of Bracton, De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ (imperfect at the beginning). Decoration: 3 marginal miniatures in colours of a 'centaur' (a bearded man with 2 horse legs), a woman's head on legs, and a hybrid sea creature (ff. 24v, 64v, 130v) in colours. Red in...
Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1v-6v: Table of contents for Regiam Majestatum. f. 2: Succession of the Kings of Scotland from the David I to James I. ff. 7-66: Regiam Majestatum, a digest of the laws of Scotland, originally written in the 14th century. With notes written in the margins....