LAW REPORTS: the decisions of Sir Henry Hobart, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1613-1625. The volume is lettered on the back " Lord Hubbert's Cases, Vol. I.," and corresponds with pp. 1-256 of the printed edition of Sir H. Hobart's Reports, 1641. Paper; ff. 351. xviith cent. With book-plate o...
" A TREATIS Of the high courte of Starr Chamber . . . . . written in the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles." The treatise is divided into three parts, the first dealing with the antiquity and general character of the Court and its officers, the second with the jurisdiction of the Court,...
"ROUGH DRAUGHT Of Index virorum to some of the Chartæ Antiquæ in the Augmentation Office, by Dr [Andrew Coltee] Ducarel, 1764 and 1765." Paper; ff. 70. Folio. Andrew Coltee Ducarel, LL.D; FSA: Index virorum to charters in the Augmentation Office: 1764-5. Augmentation Office: Indices virorum to...
HISTORY of the various branches of the family of Willoughby, including Willoughby of Eresby, Willoughby, Lord Brooke, etc. With sheet-pedigrees inserted at the end. Vellum; ff. 43. XVIIIth cent. With bookplate of arms of Lady Augusta Anna Brydges [daughter of Henry, 2nd Duke of Chandos], 1766. F...
A HERALD-PAINTER'S Work-book, 1676-1678; containing rough drawings of arms, with the sums paid him and his employers' signed receipts. These employers were George Bromwich, W. Lord, and John Pincke (who formerly owned No. 712 below). With an index of names. Paper; ff. 22. Small Quarto. John Pin...
ARMS, in blazon, of families mentioned in Morant's History of Essex, 1768; arranged in alphabetical order according to the tinctures and bearings. Paper; ff. 19. Late XVIIIth cent. Folio. Philip Morant, rector of St. Mary at the Walls, Colchester, historian of Essex: Arms of families mentioned ...
CHARTULARY of Croxton Abbey, co. Leicester, transcribed in 1755 from the original MS. at Belvoir Castle (Hist. MSS. Comm., 1st Report, 1870, App. p. 11). Latin. At the end (f. 79) is a copy of the Deed of Surrender of the abbey to the Crown, 8 Sept. 1538, made from the original in the Augmentati...
DAVID AND ABSALOM: a Latin tragedy, in five acts, written in iambic trimeters and various choric meters. The characters are Joab, Absalom, Ahitopbel, Messenger, David, Abishai, Cushai, Zadok, Abiathar, Watchman, and Ahimaaz. A modern note on the first page attributes it to John Bale, Bishop of O...
"MATTHIÆ DE LOBEL [L'Obel], M.D., Botanographi Regii eximii, Stirpium Illustrationes." Printed (somewhat more fully) under the editorship of William How, London, 1655. At the end (f. 72) is added, in the same hand, "Theatri Botanici Joannis Parkinsoni (pr. 1640) ['A a."] This is also printed, as...