folio. Placita apud Dunelmum, 33 Edw. I., et apud Westmonasterium, 10-46 Edw. III. These are office copies made probably for Mr. Powle. Prefixed is a table of contents.
folio. Copy of an account of the several quantities of Tobacco seized and prosecuted in the Exchequer, from Christmas 1732 to Michaelmas 1750, (distinguishing each year and at what ports,) transmitted to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, 24 Dec. 1750; together with copies of the several ...
8vo. A book formerly belonging to James West, Esq. containing copies of some Reports made by the Commissioners for examining publick accounts from 1709 to 1713, with their remarks on several misapplications and unwarrantable practices in persons concerned in the management and disposal of the p...
folio. Sir Edward Coke's Reports, 12th and 13th parts with alphabetical indexes. This volume belonged to Peter Phesaunt, Esq. Serjeant at Law in the reign of Charles I., who at fo. 128 has made the following entry, which may serve as a very good specimen of Law French jargon; "Touts les Cases d...
folio. Ravenscroft's Peports of Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer, and Starchamber, from 21 Jac. I. to 9 Car. I. At p. 12 is Judge Dodderidge's Charge to the Grand Inquest of Middlesex. Prefixed is an alphabetical index of names.
4to. Reports of Cases in various years of Queen Elizabeth, transcribed 1598. Some of the marginal references are in the hand. writing of Robert Paynel.
folio. A Collection of Law French words with their explanations in English. The rest of the volume consists of various legal precedents and miscellaneous notes by some lawyer of the 17th century.
folio. Inigo Jones's original Ground Plots and Profiles of Scenes, &c. erected at the new Masquing-house at Whitehall, being eight in number. The pieces performed were, 1. The Pastoral of Florimene, 1635. 2. A Pastoral acted by the French on St. Thomas's day, 23 Dec. 1635. 3. The King and Q...
folio. A well preserved and fairly written manuscript on vellum, containing the Nova Statuta from 1 Edw. III. to 23 Hen. VI. with a table of all the chapters, a little imperfect at the beginning. On the second page, in a later hand, is entered "Juramentum Regis in coronacione sua, cum admonicio...
folio. A large volume of Collections from Parliamentary Records, from 51 Edw. II. to the end of the reign of Edw. IV. and concluding with the Act declaring the right and title of Richard III. On the first leaf is the following note by Mr, Umfreville, who probably got the volume from Sir J. Jeky...