folio. A Volume of miscellaneous matter retating to English Coins and Coinage; including a considerable portion of Archbishop Sharp's treatise (see No 785.), and also the first printed edition of Stephen Martin Leake's historical account of English money, with manuscript additions and plates in...
This manuscript contains a copy of Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, made shortly after his death, traditionally assigned to the year 1400. Contents: ff. 2r-12r: The General Prologue. ff. 12r-38v: The Knight's Tale. ff. 38v-39v: The Miller's Prologue. ff. 39v-47v: The Miller's Tale. ...
folio. A large Collection of humorous and satirical Poems, in English and Latin, many of which were levelled by the Tories and Jacobites against the political occurrences of the reigns of King William III. and Geo. I. others are of a miscellaneous nature; and the greatest part of them, perhaps,...
4to. An alphabetical Repertory of family names in many of the English and Welsh counties, with their armorial bearings; said to have been collected by one Whittingham. The Supplement begins at p. 119.
4to. The miscellaneous heraldical collections of Richard Pomfret, Rouge Croix pursuivant; with notes relating to Bedfordshire families, and epitaphs, &c. from several churches in that county.
4to. " A Coppy of the Armes taken in the Visitation of the County of Stafford, made in anno 1663 et 1664, by William Dugdale, Esqr Norroy K. of Armes." It is in Dugdale's own hand-writing. At the end is an alphabetical index of names.