folio. A Volume containing the decrees in the Court of Wards, as above, and also various Cases in that and other courts, during the reigns of Edward VI., Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, James I. and Charles I., but not chronologically arranged. Among them, it fo. 95 b, is the case of the fidlers a...
folio. Sir Roger Owen's treatise on the antiquity and excellence of the Common Law of England. This volume contains only a part of the work. For the rest consult Harl. MSS. 1572, 3627, and 6604. The present MS. was probably Mr. Petyt's, who often refers to Owen's authority. See likewise Hickes'...
4to. "A Catalogue of all the Earles of Pembroke that hath benn since the Conquest, in order as they succeeded, with the yssues of diverse of them, together with their proper Cote-armor, and a breefe remembrance written touching some matters of tache of the said Earles' Wherebie maye be seene in...
4to. "Gismond of Salern in love." A tragedy in English verse on the story of Tancred and Sigismunda. This work was printed in 1592, but not till it had been revised and very much altered by Robert Wilmot, one of its authors; of whom, and of the play itself, see Dodsley's Select Collection of Ol...
4to. "An oration spoken in the Theatre at Oxford July the 7th, 1756, by the honble S. Barrington, B.A. Fellow of Merton College, among other academical exercises perform'd there in honour of the Countess of Pomfret." Occasioned by the Countess's donation of the Pomfret marbles.
folio. A Volume intitled "The Names and Armes of all the noble men then beinge or created since the Conqueste of Englande, and by whom they were created." Continued to the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in which the book was written.
folio. The Reports of Sir Thomas Widdrington in the King's Bench, and of Robert Paynel in the Exchequer, temp. Car. I. Mr. Umfreville has remarked that on account of the loss by fire of many records in the Exchequer, Paynel's Reports are become the more valuable, and, from the known integrity o...
4to. A Collection of various old Law Cases, the names of which are mentioned on the last leaf of the volume; together with Readings by Wells, Constable, Brograve, Dyer, Bromley, Egerton, &c.
4to. A Common-place Book of Equity Cases, finished the 31st Oct. 1702 at Ford in Surrey; with an alphabetical index of matter. At the end are a few cases in the King's Bench and Common Pleas in the reign of Willlam and Mary; and some religious notes and meditations on the Book of Job, by the co...