Account-roll of bailiffs for manors in cos. Cumberland, York, etc.; 1515-6. County of York: Compotus of bailiffs for manors: 1515-1516. County of Cumberland: Compotus of manors in: 1515-1516. Brecknock Manor; Brecknock: Court-rolls: 1632-1659.
State papers of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1650-1658 (especially 1654-1655)
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The documents here formed part of the original collection of John Thurloe (d. 1668), Secretary to the Council of State and subsequently to the two Cromwells, Lord Protectors. They illuminate both the domestic and international politics of the period, as also the scope of Thurloe's intelligence s...
A HERALD's day-book of orders for coats of arms to be painted for private persons, 21 June, 1749-21 June, 1755; preceded by descriptions of arms of various English families, arranged under counties. Paper; xviiith cent. Oblate Duodecimo. includes: f. 3 County of Middlesex: Arms of families in:...
COLLECTIONS relating to English dialects, verbal archaisms, etc., by Joseph Hunter. Among the contents are- 1. "Uncommon words and forms of expression found in the vernacular language of Hallamshire;" 1821, f. 1. 2. "Verbal archaismus in the vernacular language of South Yorkshire;" 1827, f. 28...
PAPERs relating to Cumberland; consisting of copies and extracts from charters, ministers' accounts, returns of institutions to canonries at Carlisle, etc. Included also are returns of institutions to canonries at Chester; 1621-1827, f. 37b;-Durham, 1684- 1827, f. 43;-and Winchester, 1661-1828, ...
"GENEALOGICAL fragments relating principally to Yorkshire," including, amongst other matter:- 1. "Stray Scraps relating to Yorkshire Families or Yorkshire Names, compiled from the loose manuscripts of William Paver," by his son Percy Woodroffe Paver; 1852, f. 49. 2. List of knights created t...
Vol. VI. (ff. 244). " OBSERVATIONS on the Roman Wall," being an account of a Tour from Broadstairs to Newcastle by sea, and through Northumberland and Cumberland; 1801. County of Northumberland: Tours through, with views and drawings: 1801, 1825. County of Cumberland: Tour through, with views ...