Vol. XIII. (ff. 232). MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION, including:- (a) Elaborate notes on the powers and duties of Executors. f. 2;- (b) Treatise on Vicarages, in 8 chapters. f. 43;- (c) Copies of the correspondence of William Camden with various persons. f. 69;- (d) Extracts from Patent and Clos...
Vol. XIV. (ff. 243). COLLECTIONS on the subject of Judicature in Parliament, including;-(a) Treatise on that subject, quoting authorities. f 3;-(b) Remarks on the Receivers and Triers of Petitions in Parliament. f. 31;-(c) Examples of methods of expressing the assent of Parliament. f. 36;-(d) Mo...
Vol. XV. (ff. 312). COLLECTION of papers dealing mostly with questions of ceremonial and precedence, preceded by a "syllabus contentorum." The principal subjects are:-(a) Notes from Cotton MSS. on points of ceremonial, precedence, and ancient offices of state. f. 4;-(b) On surnames in the royal ...
1. "AN ANSWERE to the questions proposed by Sir Alexander Hay, Kt, touching the office of Constables, done by Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, his Maiesties Solicitor Generall, anno domini 1608": Chapp. xix., xx. of Cases of Treason, published under Bacon's name, London, 1641 (see his Works, ed. Spedd...
1. COLLECTIONS by Francis Tate, Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries [temp. Eliz.], with reference to various subjects proposed for discussion at the meetings of the Society, 1590-1600. The subjects include the antiquity, etymology, etc., of the various titles of honour in England, of cities,...
MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, mostly antiquarian, viz.:- 1. "Origo feodorum," a short treatise on the origin, nature, and value of a knight's fee in England, and on fines for dispensation of knighthood; 17th cent. There are marginal references in another hand to Sprott, Spelman, Selden, etc. f. 1. 2...
COMMONPLACE-BOOK of Francis Thynne, Lancaster Herald [1602- 1608], relating to English history and antiquities; consisting of extracts from chronicles, monastic registers, etc., including the following:- 1. "Thinges taken oute of an olde writen frenche cronicle," treating of the relations betw...
COMMONPLACE-BOOK of miscellaneous historical, topographical, and antiquarian notes, in various hands, including:-(1) "Observations of Warwickshire," Berkshire, and Derbyshire. ff 1, C, 13;-(2) "Observations" out of (a) Will. Martin's History and Lives of the Kings of England, 1616. f. 14;-(b) Ar...
TRACTS etc., on antiquarian subjects collected by the Rev. John Lewis, vicar of Minister, Isle of Thanet; 1743. 1. "[I--EION], sive . . . Isidis delubrum reseratum": a Printed tract, without date or author's name. The dedication, to James West, is, however, subscribed in ink "J. Ward," i.e. Dr...
"THOMAE ASTLEI Excerpta ex Collectaneis Thomæ Madox, Arm., in Museo Britannico repositis ": notes by Astle from Madox's collections (Add. MSS. 4484-4572), relating to manorial rights, royal prerogative, inrollments of records, and other historical and legal antiquities. At the end is a note on t...