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761. Lansdowne MS 646

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Lansdowne MS 646
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Scope & Content:
folio. Sir Roger Owen's treatise on the antiquity and excellence of the Common Law of England. This volume contains only a part of the work. For the rest consult Harl. MSS. 1572, 3627, and 6604. The present MS. was probably Mr. Petyt's, who often refers to Owen's authority. See likewise Hickes'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

762. Lansdowne MS 708

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Lansdowne MS 708
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4to. "A Catalogue of all the Earles of Pembroke that hath benn since the Conquest, in order as they succeeded, with the yssues of diverse of them, together with their proper Cote-armor, and a breefe remembrance written touching some matters of tache of the said Earles' Wherebie maye be seene in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1594
Extent:
1 item

763. Lansdowne MS 771-772

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Lansdowne MS 771-772
Title:
4to. Two Volumes of unequal size, being a Diary kept by, Mr. Wanley, of all occurrences relating to the Earl of Oxford's library and collections whilst under his care from 1714-15 to 1726; with an index to each volume. Compare with No 677.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1714-1726
Extent:
2 items

764. Lansdowne MS 786

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Lansdowne MS 786
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4to. "Gismond of Salern in love." A tragedy in English verse on the story of Tancred and Sigismunda. This work was printed in 1592, but not till it had been revised and very much altered by Robert Wilmot, one of its authors; of whom, and of the play itself, see Dodsley's Select Collection of Ol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1592
Extent:
1 item

765. Lansdowne MS 789

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Lansdowne MS 789
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4to. "An oration spoken in the Theatre at Oxford July the 7th, 1756, by the honble S. Barrington, B.A. Fellow of Merton College, among other academical exercises perform'd there in honour of the Countess of Pomfret." Occasioned by the Countess's donation of the Pomfret marbles.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jul 1756
Extent:
1 item

766. Lansdowne MS 859

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Lansdowne MS 859
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Scope & Content:
folio. A Volume intitled "The Names and Armes of all the noble men then beinge or created since the Conqueste of Englande, and by whom they were created." Continued to the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in which the book was written.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

767. Lansdowne MS 1083

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Lansdowne MS 1083
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Scope & Content:
folio. The Reports of Sir Thomas Widdrington in the King's Bench, and of Robert Paynel in the Exchequer, temp. Car. I. Mr. Umfreville has remarked that on account of the loss by fire of many records in the Exchequer, Paynel's Reports are become the more valuable, and, from the known integrity o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[between 1625-1649]
Extent:
1 item

768. Lansdowne MS 1119

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Lansdowne MS 1119
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4to. A Collection of various old Law Cases, the names of which are mentioned on the last leaf of the volume; together with Readings by Wells, Constable, Brograve, Dyer, Bromley, Egerton, &c.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

769. Lansdowne MS 1125

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Lansdowne MS 1125
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4to. A Common-place Book of Equity Cases, finished the 31st Oct. 1702 at Ford in Surrey; with an alphabetical index of matter. At the end are a few cases in the King's Bench and Common Pleas in the reign of Willlam and Mary; and some religious notes and meditations on the Book of Job, by the co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1702-1709
Extent:
1 item

770. Lansdowne MS 454

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 454
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Scope & Content:
folio. A part of the Old Testament, in English, as translated by John Wicliffe or his followers; fairly written on vellum in the fifteenth century. This appears to be an odd volume, and contains the Pentateuch; Joshua; Judges; Ruth; the four books of Kings; Chronicles; 1 and 2 Esdras; Tobit; Ju...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

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