LEEDS PAPERS. Vol. XLVI (ff. i + 49). A transcript of two treatises on financial matters by members of the Osborne family; 17th cent. As follows:- (1) The Offices and Officers of the Court of the Exchequer' (ff. 2-5) and (f. 5b) of the Receipt of the Exchequer, followed (ff. 6-37) by an accoun...
LEEDS PAPERS. Vol. XLVII (ff. ii+50). 'A Brefe Summarie and Demonstracion of the estat of England and Wales': lists of the establishment, including records of fees, precedence and some names of office-holders, chiefly relating to the Church (ff. 4, 6-9), peerage (ff. 13b-15), musters, 1574, 1575...
LEEDS PAPERS. Vol. XLVIII (ff. i+46).'A Catalogue of the Nobilitie of England. . .': establishment lists, similar to the preceding volume, relating to the peerage (ff. 2-3b), revenue (ff. 4-9b), judicature (ff. 10-15b), officers of State and the Royal Household (ff. 16-36b) and (ff. 37-46) fortr...
LEEDS PAPERS. Vol. XLIX (ff. v + 168). 'Weights and Measures collected. . .' [by Colonel Thomas Colepeper]: notes and commonplaces, alphabetically arranged and including some inserted material, relating to weights, measures and other subjects, chiefly historical and legal, together with some per...
LEEDS PAPERS. Vol. L (ff. 79). Accompt-book, with an index at ff. 55-78, containing extracts from Exchequer records showing receipts and expenditure of officials and other creditors of the government, while Lord Danby (afterwards 1st Duke of Leeds) was Lord Treasurer; 1673-1679. Exchequer: Acco...
LEEDS PAPERS. Vol. LI (ff. i+33). 'An Abstract of ... Accounts of Imports & Exports' (showing duties paid), by [William Culliford], Inspector- General of Customs; Michaelmas 1697 - Michaelmas 1698. Other copies are in King's MS. 67 and Stowe MS. 318. Contemporary vellum binding, gilt-tooled....
LEEDS PAPERS. Vol. LII (ff. 17). The Statutes of the Order of the Garter: presumably the copy written for the 1st Duke of Leeds on his installation as a knight on 19 Apr. 1677. The Statutes are in the form ordained by Henry VIII, as printed by E. Ashmole, The History of the Most Noble Order of t...
LEEDS PAPERS. Vol. LIII (ff. 61). Treatise on the royal prerogative, being lectures at the Middle Temple on the First Statute of Westminster, cap. 49, by James Morrice al. Morrys al. Morris (Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries 1579), as Reader, preceded (f. 2) by a dedicatory letter to W...
LEEDS PAPERS. Vol. LIV (ff. iii+127). 'The Epitome of the Civill Warrs of England', by Thomas Hobbes, first printed in 1679. Contemporary copy, in three hands. Included are marginal notes and (ff. 126-127b) an index of subjects. Another copy is in Stowe MS. 77, ff. l-64. Both texts resemble the ...