Sheet of summary of similar accompts [1533 ?]; with letter of Thomas Alvard [Master of the Works] and Thomas Heritage [King's chaplain] to [Henry VIII], asking for supplies.
PSALM XXI, 'Domine in virtute tua' (in the Latin version of Joannes Campensis), with verse translation in 'seaven English septenariez', written in honour of the completion of 40 years of Queen Elizabeth's reign, 16 Nov. 1598, by 'W L. G'. [perhaps for William Lisle, Gentleman]. Paper roll. 1 ft...
LETTER of -, Prior of Beauer [Belvoir, co. Linc.] to the Prior of St. Albans [of which Belvoir was a cell], with thanks for accompts and advice. He sends an acquittance for the parson of Rysyngdon Magna [Great Rissington, co. Glouc.], &c. Dated, Belvoir, 11 June, s.a. English. Paper sheet. ...
FEOFFMENT by Hernicus (sic) Gustard, perpetual curate of Gatesden parva [Little Gaddesden], co. Hertf, to Thomas Freman and Agnes his wife of lands enfeoffed to him by Alice, Thomas' mother, in Gaddesden. Witnesses, John Harwere, senior, John Gobelynton, Philip Hodenale, and others. Dat. Gaddesd...
FINES for pardon imposed upon supporters of Perkin Warbeck, in the counties of Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, and Southampton, by a commission consisting of Robert Shirbourn, al. Sherborne, Dean of St. Paul's [Bishop of St. Davids 1505 and Chichester 1508], Sir Thomas Darcy, Knight for the King's ...
ROLL-CHRONICLE of the genealogy of the kings of England, &c., to 1458; from several sources. It begins with the antediluvian portion of the chronicle (beg. 'Considerans cronicorum prolixitatem', cf. 14 B. IX) attributed to Petrus Pictaviensis or Petrus Comestor. Afterwards are traced the gen...
SUMMARY of musters, or 'view made oute of dyuerse commyssioners bokes in the shyres hereafter ensuynge', of able men to serve the King in his wars, n.d. (see Letters and Papers, Hen. VIII, under 1524, no. 972). The view includes all England except Surrey, Sussex, Lincoln, Nottingham, Derby, Hunt...
'DECLARACIO valoris omnium reuencionum terre et aliarum possessionum in manu domini regis': revenue of crown lands, &c., declarable before Sir Edward Belknap and other commissioners, for the year ending Michaelmas, 7 Hen. VIII [1515]. The total is £50,283 5s. 53/4 d. Vellum roll. 19 ft. 11/...
ROLL of 'Wages appointed by the King and his Counsaille for the Maister of the Ordenaunce and all oþer officers, artificers, gonners, and labourers of the Kinges rerewarde', n.d. (see Letters and Papers, Hen. VIII, under 1513, no. 4310). The master (of the rearward) is 'my Lord Curson', i.e. Sir...
'THE NAMES of the Shippes and Captaines seruing vnder the Lo[rd] Adm[iral] in the late service against the Spaniardes, A.D. 1588': list, with the burden, of the ships serving against the Spanish Armada. Printed from this MS. in Lediard's Naval History, 1735, i, p. 238 (cf. Laughton, Defeat of th...