Thomas Walsingham, Ypodigma Neustriae; Historia Anglicana; letters of Edward III
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Contents: ff. 1r-60v: Thomas Walsingham, Ypodigma Neustriae. ff. 60v-354r: Thomas Walsingham, Historia Anglicana. ff. 355r-360v: Letters between King Edward III and the Pope.
Transcripts of historical material relating to Chester written by Laurence Bostocke
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Contents: ff. 1r-v: Title page with signature of Ralph Starkey. ff. 2r-11r: Index. ff. 12r-221v: Transcripts of historical material relating to Chester written by Laurence Bostocke between 1566-1575. ff. 222v-228v: Index. f. 228v: Note from the Keeper of Manuscripts that parts of the MS wer...
Contents: ff. 1r-344v: Calendarium literarum patentium Regis Henrici VIII. f. 348v: An inventory of possessions, beginning ‘A greate Chest’. ff. 349r-392r: Calendarium concessionum plurimarum Regis Henrici VIII. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 393r: A ‘memorandum’ about blan...
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page, ‘Discription of the Dominion of Wales & 2 other treatises of it’. f. 1r: Pen-trialling, added in the 16th century. ff. 1r-21v: ‘Description of the Dominion of Wales’. ff. 25r-27r: A treatise entitled ‘Cornwalls Case’ [French]. ff. 28r-85r: ‘Dialo...
Account of the lands belonging to Glastonbury Abbey concealed from the Crown
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Contents: ff. 1r-23v: A title-page, ‘A Booke of Concealed landes belonginge to the late Monastery of Glastonbury’; beginning on f. 2r: ‘An abstract or brief noat taken owt of Mr Nicholas Raies Courte bookes and Courte rolles The laste of November in the xxiiijth yere of the raigne of our sovere...
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: ‘Rental of the demeanes late belongyng to the monastery of Kirksted and letten to diverse persons as hereafter doth folowe from the first day of May anno xxix h viij unto the first day of May thence next folowyng’. ff. 3r-4r: ‘Demaynes of Kirkestedde’. ff. 5r-24r: ‘Surve...