folio. Reports in the Upper Bench from 1650 to 1659, the heads alphabetically arranged. At fo. 259 is the Case of Forster v. Barrington, in 1659, concerning the privilege of officers belonging to the Exchequer, who claimed to be sued in their own Court.
4to. A Collection of Readings by Coke, Egerton, and Shuttleworth, together with a few Reports in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and all alphabetical index of names of cases. Among them is Sir Francis Bacon's argument in the great case of Perpetuities, or Chidley's case.
4to. A Collection of Assizes and various other law, proceedings from the first to the fiftieth year of the reign of King Edward III.; with an alphabetical index made or written about the time of Hen. VIII.
folio. A Register of the Right Honourable the Earl of Melfort's Letters during his negotiation at Rome; in three volumes, very fairly transcribed in a French hand. Vol. I. contains Letters and Memorials dispatched at Rome from the 8th March to the 3d June 1690. Vol. II. contains Letters and M...
folio. A copy of Mr. Selden's work intitled "Epinomis," designed as an introduction to the knowledge of the Statute laws of England. This article is bound with No. 274. It has been printed.
8vo. "Voyage d'Italie." This is the title to the present elegant and interesting volume, which contains an account of the travels in Italy of some very learned and intelligent Frenchman between the years 1574 and 1578. They are written in a remarkably neat Italic hand, and occasionally ornament...
8vo. A Treatise on the system of the world, with astronomical diagrams, fairly written in the seventeenth century. It came from the collection of the Duke of Chandos.
Psalter fragment ('Psalter of Henry the Lion') and Breviary fragment
Scope & Content:
Two volumes, now kept separately (please consult each individual record for full catalogue information): Lansdowne MS 381/1: ff. 1-11, Psalter ('Psalter of Henry the Lion'); Lansdowne MS 381/2: ff. 12-67, Breviary fragment, with prayers and meditations in English.