Vol. II. (ff. 133). 1701-1768. Included are the wills of;- (a) William [Cavendish, lst] Duke of Devonshire, dated 1707. f. 20;-(b) Sir John Holt, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, 1708. f. 26;-(c) Hugh Fortescue, of Filleigh, co. Devon, 1714. Draft, with corrections in the hand of Sir Thomas ...
"EXTRACTS of wills from the Registers in the Prerogative Court at Doctors Commons from 1385 to 1660," compiled, with extreme neatness, by Edward Rowe Mores, F.S.A. In three volumes: Vol. i. 1385-1533; Vol. ii. 1533-1591; Vol. iii. 1592- 1660. The introduction (vol. i., f. 2) contains an account of the Prerogative Court, and of the registers there; and at the end of vol. iii. are complete indexes of names and places. Most of the wills extracted are those of inhabitants of Berkshire. Paper; ff...
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Wills: Extracts of wills at Doctors Commons, 1383-1660: 18th cent. Edward Rowe Mores, FSA: Extracts of wills compiled by: 18th cent. Province of Canterbury: Extracts from Wills in the Prerogative Court: 1385-1660.
"VITA e Costumi di Don Giulio Alberoni": a violent attack on the character of Alberoni, on the occasion of his being promoted to the Cardinalate in April, 1717. Italian. Paper; ff. 27. Small Folio. Giulio Alberoni, Archbishop of Malaga; Spanish Minister of State; Cardinal 1717: Vita e Costumi: ...
DEDICATION-LETTER to George II. from Andreas Beÿer, Engraver, of Regensburg, to accompany the engraving made by him from the picture of the king by Joachim Kayser, of Hanover; 26 Dec. 1730. Elaborately written, partly in gold lettering. Germ. Paper; ff. 6. Bound in violet velvet, lined with blue...
"THE ELEMENTES or groundes of Geographye, both Theoreticall and Practicall" ; by Richard Raby. Preceded (ff. 2-1l b) by a dedicatory epistle from the author to "the Worshipfull and his much honoured freinde and Master, Mr. Arthure Capell." In two books: the first (ff. 14-121) theoretical, explai...
"ABREGÉ de la Geographic"; compiled towards the end of the 17th century (see ff. 1 b, 21). Paper; ff. 150. Late XVIIth cent. Belonged to George Bridges. Quarto. Geography: Abrégé de la géographie: late 17th cent.