1. EPIT0ME Of Church history, from the birth of Christ to 1612. ff. 3-49 b. Followed (ff. 50-59) by notes, in the same hand, on the Apostles and Evangelists, the early Bishops of Rome, Jerusalem, and Alexandria, and other Fathers of the Church. At ff. 1 b, 2, are memoranda of commercial transact...
1. "FORMULÆ LITERARUM collected out of the most quaint authours in diverse languages." The only English authors mentioned are Sir Henry Wotton and Sir Francis Bacon. f. 2. 2. "Formes of Passeports in Latin, English, French, Italian, etc.," chiefly granted by Heneage Finch, Earl of Winchilsea, ...
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES of literary, scientific and other persons living, for the most part, in the latter half of the 17th century, arranged in dictionary form. According to a note appended the MS. is in the hand of Thomas Coxeter, of Trinity College, Oxford (ob. 1747). Paper; ff. 26. Late XVIIth ...
LIST of English Authors in rough chronological order, 1598- 1695, with dates when they died or flourished. The names are taken from Wood's Athenæ and Fasti Oxonienses, those from the Fasti having references to the second edition [1721]. At the end (f. 43) are added earlier names from the Catalog...
1. "CARTE SIGILLATE": a collection of copies of charters relating to the families of Berkeley, Sackville, and others, with drawings (some coloured) of the seals, made by Sir Edward Dering (cf. No. 924, below), who has inserted marginal notes concerning the originals. f. 1. 2. Another similar c...
ACCOUNT Of the life of Colonel Hume Caldwell, son of Sir John Caldwell, Bart.; who was born in 1735, entered the Austrian service in 1750, and died from a wound at Schweidnitz on 19 Aug. 1762. Followed by copies of letters from Austrian officers and others, bearing testimony to his bravery; and ...
SURVEY of the estates forming the jointure of Mary, widow of Sir William Cobbe, Knt., in Babingley, Wolverton and Sandringham, co. Norfolk; taken 4 and 9 Mar. 8 James I. [1610/1] and 30 Dec. 9 James I. [1611] Latin. At the end are;- (a) Copy of "The booke of the taske of Wolferton," made 26 Au...
" ANE ACCOMPT Of What past betwixt the Lords of Justitiarie and Mr John Dick when his sentance was re-intimat to him the nixt day after he was apprehended, which was upon the 4 of March, [16]84." With an account of his execution on the following day in the Grass-market, Edinburgh, including a fu...
COLLECTIONS made by John Anstis, Garter King of Arms, for a history of the family of Granvill or Grenville, of co. Cornwall; consisting of extracts from charters and other records, and pedigrees of the family and of families allied with it. Paper; ff. 97. XVIIIth cent. Small Quarto. Grenville f...