MISCELLANEOUS DEEDS, wills, etc., with notes and extracts from records, relating to cos. Stafford, Kent, etc.; 1567-1728. Acquired with Add. Charters 41,672-41,888. At f. 10 is a copy of the will of William Herbert, 6th Earl of Pembroke, dat. 3 June, 1677. Paper; ff. 27. Folio.
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includes: f. 1 Edge family; of Horton, Staffordshire: Abstract of deeds relating to: 1335-1501. ff. 1, 17 Horton, Staffordshire: Papers relating to: 1335-post 1716. f. 3 Westerham, Kent: Deed relating to: 1567.: Lat.: Copy. f. 5 Lichfield, Staffordshire: Abstract of deed relating to: 1584. f. 5...
COLLECTIONS, genealogical, legal, and historical. Sir Thomas Phillipps (see his Catal. Manuscriptorum under no. 3765, and Collectanea Topogr. et Geneal. vol. i, p. 20) regarded the collection as made by Robert Aske, whose name occurs several times. Internal evidence (see below, esp. art. 11) mak...