"JOHANNIS regis vita" : extracts, chronologically arranged, from Roger de Hoveden, Matthew Paris, Ralph de Coggeshall, and other chronicles, etc., chiefly taken from printed editions. With a few marginal notes by Sir Roger Twysden. Paper; ff. 333. XVIIth cent. Folio. John of England: Extracts f...
1. FORM of resignation of the crown by Richard II. [29 Sept. 1399], followed by the "protestacio regis Ricardi ante resignacionem," the challenge of the crown by Henry, Duke of Lancaster., and his speech after election as Henry IV. The first two articles in Latin, the others in English. See Rot....
GENEALOGICAL CHRONICLE, in Latin, of the kings of England to Edward IV., tracing their descent from Adam through the Trojan kings; with the genealogy of Christ in a parallel column. Beg. "Veterum cronicoriim de successione regum anglie ordo hic insequitur." An English copy, slightly imperfect, i...
GENEALOGICAL HISTORY of the Sovereigns of England, from Egbert, A.D. 801, to Elizabeth. Latin. With arms in trick. Paper; ff. 39. XVIIth cent. At f. 38 the writer has inscribed in the margin "decimo tertio die Novembris anno 1612. hic incipiebam." A note at f. 1 by Sir Isaac Heard, Clarenceux, a...
"GESTA BRITANNICA, præsortim Anglorum, adjectis aliquot observationibus, maxime in iis quæ, ad ecclesiam a temporibus retroactis ad A.D. mdcxlviii [Jan. 1648/9] spectant."The work, which is apparently autograph, is divided into ten books, the last three (ff. 211b-362) containing the reigns of Ja...
RELAZIONI and other papers relating to Italy and Spain 1620-1634: — 1. Memoir on the Venetian republic, addressed to Philip IV. of Spain in 1620 by Don Aloiso Cueva, Spanish Ambassador in Venice, dealing with (a) the possessions and dependencies of Venice, (b) its revenues and expenditure, (c) i...
" HISTORIA ANGLIAE, maxime in iis quae ad ecclesiam spectant": the original MS. of part of the Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica of Nicholas Harpsfield, Fellow of New College, Oxford, Regius Professor of Greek 1546, Archdeacon of Canterbury 1554, imprisoned under Elizabeth for refusing the oath o...
" DE SAECULIS xiv. et xv., de Romanis pontificibus, de Regibus Angliæ ab Ed. 2 ad Hen. 8 " : the last two books of Harpsfield's Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica (cf. description of Stowe 105). This is a fair copy of the books containing the history of the 14th and l5th centuries. With the signat...