Duodecimo manuscript volume, containing the accounts of welcomes and other work done for the Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of the City of London, from 1681-1692, by Mr John Saunders and other arms painters.
Contents: ff. 1r-6r: ‘Les nosmes et lez armes dz Seignieurs et nobles hommes qui estoyent aveq le Roy Edward le primer a la siege de karlaverocke en Escoece lan 1300’. ff. 6v-11r: ‘De la Tournay a la Vile de Donstable lan 2 Edward II’. ff. 11r-18r: ‘Cest le Reteinaunce del Counte de Lancast...
Contents: ff. 1r-91r: A copy of the Visitation Book of Buckinghamshire made by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Somerset Herald, and William Ryley (d. 1667), Bluemantle Pursuivant in 1634; according to Humfrey Wanley, Keeper of the Harleian Libary, the copy was made by Henry Parker and his app...
Contents: f. 1r: ‘A Booke of the Armes, Creasts, & Suporters, with the severall Quarterings of all the Nobility of Ireland in their sevrall ranks Collected together by me John Withie’. ff. 2r-4r: A list of peerages included in this manuscript and the dates of their creations, going up to ...
Contents: ff. 1r-10v: The Case of Anthony Ashley Cowper Earl of Shaftesbury (‘The Earle of Shaftsburyes Case’), beginning: ‘This day the Earle of Shaftsbury was brought to the Barr upon the returne of an alias habeat corpus directed to the Constable of the Tower of London’, written in the late ...
Contents: f. 1v: ‘Made by Docter Willet of Barle and by him sent to Sir Arthure Capell in his long sicknes’. ff. 2r-7v: ‘A frughtfull exhortation to a sicke person to prepare against his end’. ff. 8r-10r: ‘A prayer for one that is sick’. ff. 11r-13v: English prayers with biblical citatio...
Contents: ff. 3v-88v: Gerard of Liège, Tractatus de doctrina cordis. The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 1r-2v: Various additional inscriptions, including a 15th-century reference to the manuscript on f. 1v ('Ex tractatu de preparacione cordis capittulo Co'), ownership inscriptions ...
Contents: ff. 1r-181r: New Testament, in the later Wycliffite version (c. 1380), including the Gospels of Matthew (ff. 1r-22r), Mark (ff. 22r-36v), Luke (ff. 36v-61v), and John (ff. 61v-79v); Pauline Epistles (ff. 79r-130v); Acts of the Apostles (ff. 130v-146r); Catholic Epistles (ff. 146r-167...
