Two volumes of Italian verse treatises, one from the 16th and the other from the 15th century, which were bound together in the 18th century. Contents: ff. 1r-81v: Francesco Maria Molza (b. 1489, d. 1544), La Ficheide with commentary by Annibale Caro (b. 1507, d. 1566). ff. 82r-136v: Relation...
Robert Vawdrey, Knights' Fees in Cheshire and Flintshire
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Contents: f. 1v: An introduction, entitled: ‘The forme and order of this booke breiflie sett fourth by Robert Vaudray of Chester Collectour thereof to thentent to instructe the Reader to the true and perfecte knowledge of the making and meanynge of the same booke’. ff. 2r-70r: Book of Knight...
Collection of sermons; treatise on the Ten Commandments
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Contents: ff. 1r-136v: Sermons for feasts of the Temporale. ff. 137r-148v: A subject index. ff. 149r-170r: Treatise on the Ten Commandments. ff. 171r-247v: Collection of Latin sermons, beginning: 'Hora est [...] cum sit brevis vita [nostra] Job 12: Breves dies hominis sunt'. Attributed to...
Contents: ff. 1r-32v; 34r-43v: A table of contents for an heraldic manuscript, organised alphabetically according to surnames of English nobility and gentry; from the Conquest to the time of Elizabeth I: ‘A table wherbie to finde oute everie perticuler name contained in this booke accordinge un...
William Stamford, Exposition of the King's Prerogative
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Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Stamfordes boke of the prerogatyffe’. ff. 2r-72v: William Stamford (fl. 16th century), Exposition of the King's Prerogative (1567); here entitled ‘Prerogative of the kynge and Crowne of England’; introduced as ‘An exposicion of the kyngs prerogative collected o...
Contents: ff. 1r-440v: John Withie [Withy], copy of the Visitation of Devonshire of 1565, and 1620 by Henry St George, with additions; here entitled: ‘Visitation of Devonsheire made and taken by Henry St george Esquire Richmond Herauld, and Sampson Lennard Blew-mantle, Marshalls and Deputies t...
Copy of the Visitation-book of Buckinghamshire of 1634
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Contents: ff. 1r-1v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 2r-114r: Pedigrees and coats of arms, principally from the Visitation-book of Buckinghamshire of 1634 by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Rouge Dragon; also includes the tricked seal of Chepping Wyco...
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Bedfordshire families
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Contents: ff. 1r-29r: Descents and arms of Bedfordshire families, dated to 1582 and 1583; with continuations and additions by John Saunders (the latest date is 1687); featuring an epitaph poem for ‘John Welles late of Heath Esquire who departed this life in the year of our Lord God 1645’; commi...