folio. A collection of royal proclamations from 19 Hen. VII. to 17 Car. I. with a table. Among these is the remarkable proclamation of Lady Jane Grey, transcribed from the copy printed by Grafton 1553.
4to. A Collection of extracts from letters written by various persons in Ireland to Archbishop Wake in the years 1714, 1715, 1716, 1717, & 1718, on the Political and ecclesiastical affairs of that country; attested by William Holwell of Christ Church, Oxford, to true copies of his own extra...
4to. The first part of the Speculum contemplationis of Walter Hylton, Monk of Sion, temp. Hen. VI. in English prose. This work has been printed by Wynkyn de Worde, under the title of Scala perfectionis, or The ladder of perfeccyon,and reprinted in 1659, 12mo, the language being modernised and g...
4to. A Volume of Collections relating to the temporalities of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, London, and other matters belonging to that cathedral. On the first leaf is the name of J. Franklin, 1684, who was probably the Archivist, or Register, of St. Paul's, and the person who made these ...
4to. A Volume formerly belonging to Mr. Strype, being a part of the collections of John Fox the Martyrologist for his "Acts and Monuments." Most of them are printed in that work. With these is bound up at the end, a discourse, addressed to Queen Elizabeth for defence against the threatened inva...
4to. The chartulary of Lunda, Monk Bretton or Brecton in the Deanry of Doncaster and Archdeaconry of York. It is very fairly written on vellum, at different times, beginning in the twelfth century, and is thus intitled: "In isto libello notantur sive transcripte sunt omnes carte sive feffamenta...
folio. A Volume of juridical collections, of which Mr. Umfieville has, on the back of fo. 2, given the following account : "This book was of Sir Ri. St George Garter King at Arms, but not of his collecting, and in itself contains much matter of learning as well juridical as historical, proving ...
folio. Extracts from a manuscript of Sir Matthew Hale, Chief Justice, on the laws and constitution of England, made by Mr. Anstis, and transcribed from one of his manuscript volumes. This work has never been printed. Prefixed is a short account of the author, drawn up by Mr. Anstis.