" MISCELLANEA," consisting of voluminous extracts and copies of deeds from ancient records, viz. Domesday Book, Patent and Close Rolls, Exchequer Proceedings, Assize Rolls, Chartularies, Registers of' Religions Houses, and many other records preserved in public repositories and private collections. Five volumes. Paper. Middle of xviith cent. Folio. Belonged to Tho. Astle, whose arms are on the back of each volume. Inside the cover of vol. i. is inscribed, in the hand of Thomas Astle, " Colle...
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Records, Public: Collectanea A. Agard: 17th cent. Exchequer: Extr. from Exchequer proceedings: 17th cent. Domesday Book: Extracts from: 17th cent. Arthur Agard: Collectanea: 17th cent. William Prynne: Marginal notes perhaps written by: 17th cent. Thomas Astle, ob. 1803: Arms: 18th cent.
Vol. IV. Middle of xviith cent. includes: f. 52 b Hugh Gobiun: Composition with Durham Priory, conc. land at Spennymoor: 1279.: Lat.: Copy. f. 124 Marshal, Earl: Manner of proceeding and trial in the Marshal's Court: 17th cent. f. 239 b Richard Wright, Scrivener, of London: Discourse on the Hi...
EXTRACTS from the Close and Patent Rolls, etc., 44 Hen. III.- 19 Edw. II., as follows:- 1. Provisions of the Barons, known as the Provisions of Westminster, from the Close Roll, 44 Hen. III. Lat. Printed in Statutes of the Realm, 1810, i. p. 8. f. 1. 2. The same, with additional clauses, fro...
HISTORY of the family "De Cignis," or "Schwanen," beginning with the time of Trajan. Latin. Compiled in 1531 by "Johannes de Meroida ac Petersum," notary and "senior secretarius" of Cologne, who professes to have extracted his information from the German Chronicle of Cologne and translated it at...
COLLECTION relating to heraldry, etc.:- 1. "Mémoir de ce que le t[re]sexcellent et tresuictorieux Roy [Hen. VII.] dangleterre ara a faire quant il sera mande venir aux chapitres generaulx de lordre de la toison dor, dont il est frere et compaignon," consisting of forms of procuration, etc. ff....
MISCELLANE0US antiquarian notes, made chiefly in or about the year 1742, including:- 1. Alphabet of Dorsetshire and other arms. f. 2. 2. Pedigrees of Floyer, co. Devon; Wadham, co. Somerset; Borkeley, co. Worcester. ff. 7, 8, 11. 3. Quarterings of Walwyn of Longworth, co. Hereford. f. 12 b...
Vol. i. (ff. 164). 1570-1640. 1. Edward Dering, Puritan divine, to Archbishop Parker; 5 Sept. 1570. Latin. Followed by an English translation. f. 1. 2. Jo- Astyll to his "good bedfellowe" Anthony Dering, on the death of the latter's wife Mary [dau. of Sir Henry] Goring; [1588]. f. 1 2. 3. ...
MISCELLANEOUS ORIGINAL LETTERS on historical, literary, and other subjects; 1570-1759. Six volumes, folio, chronologically arranged. A large proportion of the letters down to 1684 are addressed to Sir Edward Dering, of Surrenden, co. Kent, 1st Bart., M.P. (ob. 1644), and to his son, Sir Edward, 2nd Bart., M.P. (ob. 1684), those to the latter referring more especially to his duties as Commissioner for Claims in Ireland after the Restoration. Another series, of the latter part of the 17th cent...