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39. An account of a voyage from St. Helena to Bantam begun the 6th May 1661, and from thence to England. By Capt. John Dutton, governor of the islands of Saint Helena and Poula Roone. fo. 440.
3. "Chi comenche la prologue du livre des Rois de Bretaigne q, maintenant on apelle Engletere comenchant a Brutus." fo 83. This is a translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth, made, as appears from a note at the end, at the instance of the Count of Chimay, by one Wauhlin a citizen of Mons in Hainault,...
4. "Les merveilles de l'ille de Bretaigne que nous disons Engleterre." fo. 192. This piece differs fromthe tract "de mirabilibus Britanniæ" printed in Hearne's App. to Robert of Gloucester, p. 572. Compare also with Cotton MS. Claud. E. VIII.
34. Argument in the case of Don Pantaleon Sa, the Portuguese Ambassador's brother, condemned for murder, and beheaded anno 1654, on the day that peace was concluded between England and Portugal. fo. 117. See Hale's Pleas of the Crown.
8. A note of the charges of the Lent assizes, during the shrievalty of Henry Powle, Esq. (the father of the proprietor of this volume,) A.D. 1633, amounting to 2571. 5s. 1d. fo. 43.