HOURS of the Virgin, etc., in Latin. The contents are: — (1) Calendar. f. 1; — (2) "Officium sancte crucis." f. 14; — (3) "Officium de sancto Spiritu." f. 23; — (4) "Missa [de] beata virgine Maria." f. 30; — (5) "Officium beate Marie virginis secundum usum Romanum." f. 45; — (6) "Officium beate ...
" SOME NOTES taken [of debates in the House of Commons] in ye Cessions of Parliament held at Westminster," 17 Mar. 1627 [8]- 26 June, 1628. Written in various hands, as copied day by day by news-writers. At the end are:-(a) Catalogue of Bills during the session of 1628. f. 292;-and (b) List of "...
A COPY of the Visitation of Huntingdonshire, which was taken in 1613 by Nicholas Charles, Lancaster Herald; with arms in trick. Another copy, in Harley MS. 1179, has been fully described in the Catalogue of the Harleian MSS., vol. i. (1808), p. 586. In the present copy there are a few additions ...
PEDIGREE Of the family of Maijor, or Mager, of Southampton, temp. Hen. VII.-1631. With arms in colours. Attested by John Philipott, Somerset Herald (1624-1645). Vellum roll. XVIIth cent. John Philipot, Somerset Herald: Pedigree attested by: 1631. Major family; of Southampton: Pedigree: 1631.
ARMS, with crests and supporters, of English nobility; collected circ. 1630, with a few additions to the end of the century. The earlier arms are in colours, the rest in ink or roughly sketched in pencil. With an index of names (f. 1) of the 18th cent. Paper; ff. 131. At the end "John Starr his ...
EXTRACTS from the Quo Warranto, Assize and Plea Rolls, chiefly of counties York, Cumberland and Durham. Lat. The dates given extend from 25 Hen. III. to 1 Hen. IV. [1240-1400]. At ff. 2-6 b, "Iste sunt libertates quas Burgenses de Scardebury [Scarborough, co. York] clamant habere." Paper; ff. 20...
"HISTORICAL, Statistical, and Descriptive Account of the Island of Tobago; to which is added an Essay on the commercial and political importance of the possession. By Sir William Young, Bart., Governor, 1809." Autograph. Finished (see f. 156) on 30 Dec. 1809, and presented by the author to the M...
A BOOK of English heraldry, compiled about the end of the 16th century, containing: (1) Arms. f 4. With a more modern index at f. 2;-(2) Pedigrees. f. 43. With a more modern index at f. 40;-(3) Arms from seals. f 71 b;-(4) Pedigrees. ff. 79 b, 101;-(5) Arms of a few bishops and archbishops. f. 1...
DEDICATION-LETTER to George II. from Andreas Beÿer, Engraver, of Regensburg, to accompany the engraving made by him from the picture of the king by Joachim Kayser, of Hanover; 26 Dec. 1730. Elaborately written, partly in gold lettering. Germ. Paper; ff. 6. Bound in violet velvet, lined with blue...