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"A REGISTER of the names and occupations of all persons residing within the county of Buckingham (not engaged in any military capacity) between the ages of 15 and 60 years; and also of the number of draught horses, waggons, carts of burthen, wind and water corn-mills, within the same. Returned to John Penn, Esq., High Sheriff, pursuant to a precept issued by him for the better ascertaining the Posse Comitatus. Carefully examined and arranged by Acton Chaplin, Undersheriff, 1798." In two volu...
MUNICIPAL ACCOMPTS and taxations of Colchester, co. Essex; 1489-1595. Three volumes, of which vols. i. and ii. have tables of contents by Rev. Philip Morant (not, however, exactly corresponding to the present arrangement). Paper. Narrow Folio.
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Revenue: Assessments of Colchester for fifteenths, etc.: 1489-1663. Philip Morant, rector of St. Mary at the Walls, Colchester, historian of Essex: Colchester collections: 15th-18th centt. Colchester, Essex: Municipal accompts and taxations: 1489-1665.
COLLECTIONS relating to Colchester, by Rev. Philip Morant; consisting of copies and extracts of various documents, with notes, forming the materials for his History of Colchester (first published in 1748, afterwards enlarged and incorporated in his Hist. of Essex, 1768). In six vols., each of which has at the beginning a general description of its contents. Vols. i. and ii. deal with the town generally; vol. iii. with the civic government; and vols. iv.-vi. with the monasteries of St. John a...
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Philip Morant, rector of St. Mary at the Walls, Colchester, historian of Essex: Colchester collections: 15th-18th centt. Colchester, Essex: Collections relating to: 14th-18th centt.
COURT-BOOKS Of several manors in Hertfordshire, and some in Essex, Surrey and Middlesex; 1689-1704. In two volumes. Vol. i., 1689 and 1701. The manors are as follows:-Baas (al. Boxe), Bayly Hall, Bedwell Lowthes, "Andrewes le Mote" in Cheshunt, Essendon, Geddings, Hadham Parva, Hatfield, Hertford Castle, and Hoddesdonbury, co. Hertford; Cannons in Great Parndon, Roydon Hall and Roydon Temple, co. Essex; South Mimms, co. Middlesex; and Rotherhithe, co. Surrey. Vol. ii., 1701-1704. Only eight ...
MEMOIRS on the provinces of France, drawn up by their several Intendants in accordance with instructions issued by Louis XIV. in 1697 (see below, Vol. l.). French. In 29 volumes. A full analysis is in Boulainvilliers' État de la France, London, 1727, Vols. I. and II. The series originally contained two more volumes, in which were memoirs on Alsace and Bretagne (see O'Conor's Bibl. MS. Stowensis, ii. p. 245). Another copy of the complete series is in Lansdowne MSS. 175-186, in a hand of the s...
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France General Chronicles and History, etc: Memoirs, by the intendants, on the several provinces: 1697-1700.: Fr.
SPECIMENS of the signatures and handwriting produced (according to the title-page) "by me William Henry Ireland during my fabrication of the manuscripts which I wrote and attributed to Shakespeare," with Ireland's explanatory notes. Paper; ff. 9. XVIIIth-XIXth cent. Quarto. Accompanying this volume are sixteen printed tracts, containing Ireland's forged signatures and marginal notes of Shakespeare, most of them having on the titlepage the inscription "S[amuel] Ireland from his dear Son." The...
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William Shakespeare: Signatures and marginal notes forged by W. H. Ireland: 18th-19th centt.
COMMONPLACE-BOOKS of John Fortescue Aland, Justice of the King's Bench (1727) and of the Common Pleas (1729), cr. Lord Fortescue of Credan in 1746 (ob. 1746), partly legal, partly general, including such subjects as Non-jurors, the doctrine of Resistance, Escheators, Mahomet, Philosophy, etc., the entries for the most part being very brief. Two volumes; with an index of subjects at the end of each. Paper; ff. 116, 45. Belonged to Thomas Astle. Small Quarto.
"IMAGINES seu Figuræ variarum Inscriptionum præcipue Sepulchralium, Lapidum in orbes depositorum, Substructionum quas Wallici Kromlech et Kistvêan nominant, cipporum quos cruces dicimus, castrorum seu castrametationum antiquarum, in Angliâ, Scotiâ et Hiberniâ, curâ Johannis Anstis, Fecialium Principis cognomento Garter, delineata et ob oculos posita": a collection of drawings of stone-circles, crosses, cromlechs, camps, tombs, brasses, etc. In two volumes. Only the title-page and a few pages...
ENGRAVINGS and drawings of antiquities, coins, seals, etc., discovered in Great Britain; compiled by Thomas Astle, Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London, with descriptions often in his handwriting. Two volumes. Paper. Late XVIIIth cent. Folio. The contents are:-