PERAMBULATION of Sherwood Forest, co. Nottingham, 9 Sept., 30 Hen. VIII [1538], by Robert Brenesley, Gabriel Barwike, Richard Pount, esquires, and thirteen others, regarders of the forest. Partly Latin, partly English. The names of the jurors are appended . Paper roll of five sheets. 1 ft. 1 in...
ROLL of complimentary Latin verses (a triple acrostic), as a new year's gift to Charles I, when Prince of Wales. A couplet at the foot is almost rubbed away. Vellum roll. 1 ft. 10 in. x 1 ft. 2 in. A.D. 1616-1624. Not in the old catalogues.
ROLL of complimentary Latin verses, anagrams, rebuses, &c., as a new year's gift, 1612, to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, from Michael Maier, M.D., Count of the Empire, a native of Holstein, author of many works on alchemy. Vellum roll. 2 ft. 3 in. x 1 ft. 61/2 in. AD. 1611. Not in the o...
DRAFT, or copy, of a commission to 'Thomas Crumwell, knyght of oure ordre, lorde [Cromwell, Keeper of our] prevy seale', and Sir Richard Rich, Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, to sell lands to the value of £6,000 for not less than 20 years' purchase, to be held at knight service and a t...
Copy, from the Remembrancer's Rolls, Mich. term, 4 Hen. VIII, rot. xxx, of a grant from Henry VIII to Robert Clyfford, esquire of the body [afterwards knight], of the manors of Stillingfleet, Ringhouses [Dringhousesl Upton, and Arkham Bryan, co. York, and lands, &c., forfeited by Francis, la...
'A BYLL of Remembraunce made by [John Clavyle]' (so blotted endorsement): a complaint to ' . . . mayster Sir John Turberfelde [Turberville], knyght, one of the kyngys . . . [C]ouncell', against Harry Uvedale, of Corfe Castle, and William Rawlyns, al. Bayle, of Wareham, co. Dorset, for extortion ...
Names (with tonnage and age) of the King's ships within the port and haven of Portsmouth and the river Thames; 22 Oct. 17 Hen. VIII [1525]. See Letters and Papers, Hen. VIII, 1525, no. 1714 (I). Paper roll. 2ft. 7 in. x 111/4 in. A.D. 1525.