PAPERS relating to Derby and Coventry, viz.:- 1. Transcript of royal charters granted to the borough of Derby; tempp. Hen. II.-Chas. II. f. 1. 2. Papers concerning the project of making the Derwent navigable up to Derby, viz. (a) Letter from the Mayor and Burgesses of Derby to [Thomas] Parke...
"A CHOROGRAHICAL, and Historicall, Description of ye county of Devon and city of Exon, in which is set down ye nature of ye country, of ye people, ye commodities, and goverments thereof, with sundry other things incident and worthy to be known, collected by T[ristram] R[isdon], Gent., for ye lov...
TRANSCRIPT Of statutes and ordinances of the College of Vicars Choral of Exeter Cathedral as drawn up 7 Apr. 1591; including English versions of the statutes of Bishop Edmund Stafford, dated 1403, and of two statutes ordained respectively by "Petrus Primus" [Peter Quivil, Bishop 1280-1291] and T...
ACCOUNT of the boundaries and privileges of, and fees held in, Teesdale Forest, co. Durham, 1538-1635. With a rough map of the district. At the end (f. 18) is a list of "Fee farme Rents purchased of the Trustees for sale of Kinges lands by Sir H[enry] Vane," endorsed with the date 29 Nov. 1655. ...
EXTRACTS from the rolls of assizes held at Chelmsford, hundredrolls for co. Essex, and other records bearing on the history of places in the county, chiefly tempp. John-Edw. III. With an index of places in the hand of Rev. Philip Morant, author of the History of Essex, 1768 (ob. 1770). Paper; ff...
"VALUATION of all livings in the County of Essex, made 20 Edw. I. anno 1293" (sic); being extracts from the "Taxatio Nicholai IV." (see ed. 1802, pp. 21-23, 18-19). Lat. In the hand of Philip Morant. Paper; ff. 8. Folio. County of Essex: Valuation of livings in, 1293: 18th cent. England, Eccle...
"TABULA ALPHABETICA Inquisitionum post mortem . . . exce[r]pta ex libro Inquisitionum in Capella Rotulorum remanente, pro comitatu Essex tantum"; tempp. Rich. II.-Jas. I. The names are arranged separately under each reign, the date of death being generally given. Paper; ff. 60. Temp. Chas. I. Be...
PAPERS relating to co. Essex, viz.:- 1. "A table of all the hundreds and parishes in the County of Essex. With the rate on each hundred for the xvten." f 1. 2. Address delivered to the officers of the Forest of Essex, at a Swainmote Court held 15 Sept. 1634. Imperf. at end. f. 9. 3. Procee...
PAPERs relating to the Royal Forests in co. Essex, viz.:- 1. Perambulation, preceded by a royal mandate for the same, dat. 26 Nov. 26 Edw. I. [1297]. Lat. Copies, 17th cent. f. 2. 2. Extracts "ex bundello inquisitionum forestarum de anno 9 Edw. 2" [1315-16]. Lat. f. 33. 3. A pamphlet ent...
INVENTORIES of church-goods, plate, jewels, etc., in the hundreds of Uttlesford and Freshwell and in the half-hundred of Clavering, co. Essex, taken by the Royal Commissioners, 5 Oct. 6 Edw. VI. [1552]; signed by three of the Commissioners, viz. Sir George Norton, Sir Thomas Jocelyn, and Edmund ...