(1) Photograph of signed depositions of William Shakespeare as principal witness in a suit by Stephen Belott for unsettled dower, May-June, 1612. From the original in the Public Record Office, London, where the documents relating to the suit wre brought to notice by Prog. C. W. Wallace. They wer...
(t) Inspeximus charter of Henry VII, confirming donations to the Hospitallers confirmed by his predecessors ; dated 4 Nov. anno 2 [1486] (Canterbury, Cath. Lib. MS. I 254). Apparently an unexecuted draft or copy having the Hospitallers' seal (and not the Great Seal) attached in an unusual way. P...
(s) Photographs of portions of two early Greek documents acquired in 1914, for the description of which see under their numbers Add. MSS. 38895 A-C. Accompanied by a printed summary of the communication by Mr. E. H. Minns there referred to. Presented by E. H. Minns, Esq. Manuscripts, Dated: Pho...
(a) Sale of land in Clifton [Without], near York, signed by Guye Fawkes, the conspirator, 1 Aug., 1592; from the original in the possession of Mr. Arthur Relph (printed in The Fawkes's of York, 1850, p. 60). With printed description by O. Barron. Presented by G. F. Hill, Esq. Guy Fawkes: Grant ...
(p) Photograph of a letter from S. Bernardino of Siena to the Magistrates of Siena ; Florence, 21 Jan. 1439. Lat. From the original in the Biblioteca Comunale at Siena. See P. Thureau-Dangin, Life of S. Bernardino of Siena, transl. Baroness G. von Hügel, 1911, p. 256. Presented by G. F. Hill, Es...
(g) Photographs of two pages of a fragment, in Wells Cathedral Library, of an 11th cent. MS. of the Benedictine rule, in parallel Latin and Anglo-Saxon texts on opposite pages. Presented by the Rev. C. M. Church, Canon and Sub-Dean of Wells. Saint Benedict: Rule of, 11th cent. (Wells Cathedral ...
(b) Photographs of 10 charters of Henry II, etc. All are described and five reproduced in L. Delisle's Recueil des Actes de Henri II, 1909, etc. Presented by the late M. Léopold Delisle. Henry II of England: Charters to French religious houses, etc.,: circ. 1166-1189.: Facsimiles 1906.
(o) Photograph of a permit, signed by Louis XIV, for Isaye d'Aubus, Protestant minister at Nérac, his wife and four children, to leave France for England; dated 2 July, 1685. Fr. The document is referred to in Rev. D. C. A. Agnew's Protestant Exiles from France, 2nd ed. 1871, ii, p. 219, where i...
(i) Rotographs of two copies of an Inspeximus under the Great Seal of Ireland, 12 Jan., 6 Hen.[V, 1419], reciting the ordinance of Henry II entitled "Modus tenendi Parliamenta [in Hibernia]." The first rotograph (pp. 7) is taken from a commonplace-book of W. Hakewill, early 17th cent., and the s...
(k) Photographs of two deeds executed and signed by Sir Thomas More: (i) Sale of lease of property in St. Helen's, Bishopsgate Street, London, 20 Jan. 15 Hen. VIII [1524]; (ii) Grant of lands in Chelsea, co Midd., 25 Mar. 25 Hen. VIII [1534]. Presented by Dunn, Esq. Sir Thomas More, Lord Chance...