C0PIES of legal treatises, speeches, etc.:- 1. Charter of James 1. to the city of Chichester. Latin. f. 2. 2. Petition of the Mayor and Corporation of Chichester for an Act to compel the paving of the streets ; temp. Eliz. f. 18. 3. Argument of Serjeant [Thomas] Hedley iii the case of Bort...
LEGAL COLLECTIONS, with additions, viz.:- 1. Proceedings in connection with the suit of John [Bancroft], Bishop of Oxford, to recover a debt from Sir Edward Heron; 1633. f. 3. 2. " The argument of Sir Francis Bacon, knight, the kings Attorney- General, in the kings case de Rege inconsulto, b...
MISCELLANIES, legal and political:- 1. Reading of Edward Bagshaw on 25 Edw. III., c. 7, in the Middle Temple, 24 Feb. 1639 [40]; with index. From a MS. belonging to Sir Henry Yelverton. f. 3. 2. Reading of Henry Slierfield on 32 Hen. VIII. c. 1, of Wills, ill Lincoln's Inn, Easter term, 1624...
MISCELLANEOUS PAPFRS, chiefly relating to legal subjects, amongst them being:- 1. Notes on law cases, precedents, extracts from the works of Bracton, Glanville, and others, in the band of Thomas Parker, Earl of Macclesfield, Lord Chancellor in 1718. f 1. 2. Petition of Margaret Drummond, wid...
" OBSERVATIONS and overtures for a Sea fight uppon our owne coasts, and what kynd of order and disciplyne is fittest to bee used in martialling and directing our Navies . . . the first of March, 1618." With a dedicatory letter to George Villiers, Marquis of Buckingham, Lord High Admiral. Followe...
LETTERS and warrants relating to the Navy; 1649-1812. 1. Col. Edward Popham and Col. Robert Blake to the Navy Commissioners, recommending for pay John Greene, late of the Increase frigate taken by the enemy; Plymouth Sound, 15 May, 1649. f. 1. 2. Warrant of the Council of State appointing Ch...
PARTICULARS Of the rigging, stores, anchors, boats, etc., of the several ships in the English Navy; 1659 (?). Printed. At the beginning (f. 1) is a copy of " Votes and Resolutions of the Parliament concerning the Encouragement to be given to Mariners and Seamen in the service of the Commonwealth...
" REGULATIONS and Instructions relating to his Majesty's service at sea." Paper; ff. 14. xviiith cent. Folio. Navy; England: Regulations and instructions for: 18th cent.
REGISTER Of Instructions, warrants, letters, etc., relating to the Navy; 1661-1692. There are several additions by Thomas Astle, to whom the volume belonged. At the end (ff. 94, 107) are copies of papers in Cotton MS. Julius F. x. and Royal MS. 14 B. xiii., relating to the English attack on the ...