EXTRACTS from assart-rolls, perambulations, etc., relating to the royal forests in co. Rutland, tempp. John-Hen. VIII. Paper; ff. 20. A.D. 1662 (see f 20). Inside the cover is the monogram of Thomas Martin of Palgrave (ob. 1771). Folio. County of Rutland: Extracts relating to forests in, tempp....
"LIBER CENSUALIS Gulielmi Primi pro Statfordscire"; or Domesday Book for Staffordshire, transcribed by Edward Vernon, D.D., in 1754 (cf. No. 816 above). At the end is an alphabetical list of the modern names of places. Paper; ff. 26. Belonged, in 1764, to Thomas Astle. Folio. Edward Vernon, DD,...
"A SURVEY of Staffordshire," by Sampson Erdeswicke. The printed edition of 1723, interleaved, with numerous additions in the hand of Edward Vernon, D.D. (cf. No. 816 above). Between the introduction and the first page of the "Survey" (f. 13) is inserted a printed "Scheme or Proposal for making a...
"THE PAROCHIAL ANTIQUITIES of Staffordshire"; written about 1745 (see f. 6) by Thomas Loxdale, Rector of Tixall. With an index and a few notes added by Edward Vernon, D.D. The work is noticed in Sir Thomas Clifford's Description of Tixall, Paris, 1817, p. 74; and a brief account of the author, t...
"LIBER NIGER de Nedewood": containing 15th cent. transcripts of the charters of the free tenants of Needwood Forest, co. Stafford, who claimed liberties and commons by exhibition of their charters before Roger le Brabbacon, steward of the Honour of Tutbury, on St. Clement's Eve, 16 Edw. I. [22 N...
MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers relating to Needwood Chase, co. Staff.; interspersed with which are sundry papers relating to other parts of the county. Among them are:- 1. Assessment of the county for a tenth and fifteenth; 29 Hen. VI. [1450-1]. f. 1. 2. Rental of Alrewas; Mich. 15 Edw. ...
ANTIQUARIAN COLLECTIONS relating to the borough of Ipswich, co. Suffolk, viz.:-(1) Extracts from royal charters from 1199 to 1518; 18th cent. f. 1;-(2) Original accompts of Edward Cage, Borough Treasurer, for the year ending Michaelmas, 1588. f. 5;- (3) Extracts from "a curious and large book ...
"REGISTRUM Magistri Johannis Blauncharde, Archidiaconi Wvgornie, de cartis, literis et aliis evidenciis concernentibus manerium suum de Bereforde Sci. Martini juxta Wyltoun in comit. Wiltes." Latin and French. Blaunchard, who was Archdeacon of Worcester 1371-1383, obtained the manor of Barford S...
SURVEY Of the manor of Aldborough, W. Riding, co. York, "by W.D. ao Doni. 1714." Preceded by an "Explanation," describing some of the antiquities of the place; and followed by two plans in pen-and-ink, one of the borough, the other of the manor, of Aldborough. On the latter, which is partly colo...
"HISTORY of the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, in York"; written (see note at f. 1 b) at York in 1774 by Edward Abbot, painter, at the house of Thomas Beckwith, the painter and antiquary. The title-page and "advertisement" show that the work was intended for publication. Included also (f. 112) a...