Egerton MS 985

A VOLUME containing various Ceremonials and Heraldic proceedings, written in the xvith century, as follow,.,- :-

Ceremonial of the Coronation of Henry VII., 30 Oct. 1485, f. 1 ;-Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, his wife, 25 Nov. 1487, f. 10 b. ;-Ceremonial of the celebration of Christmas by Henry VII., 1485-6. f. 26;-" How the Queenes [Elizabeth of York] chambre shalbe apparelled, when she shall take her rightes, and hath received them ; which shalbe vj weekes, or a moneth, at the lest, before she be deliverid, by estimacion," f 32;-Ceremonial of the christening of Prince Edward, son of Henry VIII., Oct. 1537, f. 33.;-Creation of the Earls of Hertford and Southampton, 1637, f 38 ;- The Coronacoñ of the most noble king Henrie the Seventh, " Oct. 1485, f. 140 b. ;-

" 'The receiving conveying and coronacon of Queene Anne, [Roleyn], wiefe to king Henrie theight", [May, June, 1533], f. 48 ;-Creation of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, Feb. 1514, f. 59 ;-,, The cristening of Henrie, Erle of Lincoln, first begoten sonne of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk," 1515, f. 60 b ;-The christening of the Lady Frances, daughter of the same Duke, 1517, f. 62 b. ; - Forms of the creation of an Earl, Viscount, and Baron, f. 63 b. ;-" The disgrading of Thomas Howarde, late Duke of Norfolk, and Henry Howarde, late Erle of Surrey, his sonne," [l Edw. VI.?] f. 65; - Of the office of the High Marshall of England, f. 65 b.;-The creation of Charles Brandon, knt., Viscount Lisle, with a copy of the Patent, dat. 15 May, a. r. 5. [ 15131 ;-, " The forme and maner of the keping of the Parle - ment of England," f. 70;-At the end is added, in a later hand, an account of private expenses, in the years 1641-1653 kept by a gentleman who held manors in Norfolk, and whose sisters were married into the families of Frothingham, Turnour, and Lazenby; much mutilated at the end, f. 77 b. Small Folio. From the libraries of Ives and Horace Walpole. [Bibl. Eg. 985]