PAPERS relating to the offices of Lord High Steward, High Constable, and Earl Marshal, to Combats, and to the Office of Arms (cf. No. 568, above). 1. "Of the Office of Steward of England," by Sir Robert Cotton, Bart. Printed in Hearne's Curious Discourses, 1771, vol. ii. p. 1. f. 2. 2. "Stew...
Vol. I. (ff. 249). LISTS of Justices of the Peace, Churches and Clergy, Forts, Castles and Bulwarks, Ships and Commanders, etc., as follows:- 1. Certificated lists of the Hundreds or Divisions of each County of England and (f. 73) Wales, with the names of resident Justices, and of Coroners and...
COLLECTION of official lists relating to the Civil, Naval, and Military Establishments of England in the latter half of the sixteenth century, with a few of earlier date. With occasional notes in the hand of Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council (circ. 1572-1601). Two volumes. Paper. Folio. They at one time formed part of the Library of Henry Yelverton, Ist Viscount Longueville (ob. 1704), now in the possession of Lord Calthorpe, and they are described in Catalogi Librorum Manuscriptorum ...
Vol. II. (ff. 204). LISTS of officers of the various departments of the Royal Establishment, and their fees, in the times of King Edward VI., Qu. Mary and Qu. Elizabeth, as follows:- 1. Establishment list for 1552 :-(a) Officers of the Courts of Revenue. ff. 6-16;-(b) Officers and ministers of...
MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, chiefly legal and constitutional:- 1. Treatise on Parliament, entitled "Modus Parliamenti," beg. "In the oulde order and first institution." f. 2. 2. The antiquity, power, order, state, manner, persons, and proceedings of the high Court of Parliament in England: a colle...
"THE LIVES and successions of the Treasurers of England," by Francis Thynne [Lancaster Herald in 1602]. The series begins with Odo, Treasurer to King Athelstan, and ends imperfectly with Hugh de Segrave, appointed Treasurer in 1381. With a few exceptions, coats of arms, in colours or trick, are ...
Miscellaneous collections, from the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I and VI
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A volume of miscellaneous texts from the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I and VI. ff. 2r–v: 'The order of the queenes goinge to the Perlament.' f. 3r: Copy of a letter from James I to Robert "Lye" [Lee], Lord Mayor, and the Aldermen of London, on his accession, 28 March 1603, Holyrood. Anoth...
LIST of the English peers in order of precedence; followed by lists of the officials in the Revenue Courts, the Courts of Justice, Admiralty, Mint and other public offices, and the royal household, with the fees attached to their several offices; also (f. 40) lists of the governors of castles an...
MISCELLANEOUS historical, heraldic, and other papers, 16th-18th centt., viz.:- 1. Treatise on the Revenues of France, composed shortly before the outbreak of the Revolution. f. 2. 2. Copy of a letter from Charles Delafaye, Under-Secretary of State, to [Daniel] Preverau [of the Secretary of S...
