(two vols.) A Catalogue of the Books of Law, History, Antiquity, Manuscripts, and Parliamentary Proceedings of William Petyt, Esquire, Treasurer of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, and late Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London. To each of these volumes is prefixed a portrait of Mr. Petyt, engraved by B. White. They were presented to Mr. West by his friend Mr. George Holmes, Keeper of the Tower Records.
Various Papers, many of them original, concerning the State and Government of Ireland, in the Reigns of King Henry the Eighth, King Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, and King James the First; but chiefly from 1556 to 1617.
folio. Extracts from the Parliamentary Records in the Tower, from the 15th parliament of Edw. III. tit. 3. to the 1st Parliament of Hen. VI. made A.D. 1566, for the use of Lord Burghley when Secretary of State; with marginal references in his own hand-writing.
folio. Selecta quædam Placita coram Rege, temp. Edw. I. & III. This appears to be an office copy made in the 17th century, and has an analytical index of the pleas. It belonged to Mr. Powle, Lord Somers, Sir Joseph Jekyll, and Mr. Umfreville.
folio. "A short compendium, poyntinge out what everie officer of His Mats Courte of Exchequer ought to do by vertue of his office in England. As alsoe the articles of the unitinge of the late Courts of Augmentations and Revenews of the Crowne, and the late Court of first fruits and tenths to th...