Add MS 39851

" THIS BOOKE OF COPPIES OF EUIDENCE was deuised and performed by mee Raphe Starkey, of London, marchante, seconde sonne of John Starkey, of Oltone [Oulton], in the countie of Chestore, Esquire, in Anno 1595[-1612], whearin are contained the trewe coppies verbatim of the wholle deedes and the portratures of the seales, with directione hearunder set downe in whos handes the originals remayned, and at the latter end of this booke [f. 75] is a kallendere of the surnames contayned thearin." Transcripts by Starkey of 172 deeds (A.D. 1170-14 Edw. IV, and undated) entered (except ff. 50-58) on engraved forms of charter shape, five to a page. A.D. 1595-1612. A large number of the deeds relate to the manor and barony of Manchester, co. Lanc., and some at least of the originals are now in the possession of the Corporation of Manchester, having been acquired, circ. 1845, with the manorial rights, from Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Bart., into whose family the manor had passed by purchase in 1596 (see Brit. Archaeolog. Assoc. Journ., New Ser. i, pp. 49-57 ; J. Harland, Mamecestre, Chetham Soc., 3 Vols.. 1861-2). Amongst the remaining transcripts are :- a mandate (11 Dec.

14 Ric. II) for the delivery into the Chancery of the records in the case of Scrope and Grosvenor. The original belonged, in 1612, to Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Bart., but is not now amongst the Cotton Charters. f. 57;- various Indentures of Military, Service, 14- 15th centt. ff. 6 b, 50-51, 52 b-54, 56. The owners of the deeds (whose names are given in the Index) are indicated by symbols which are explained by a reference table on f. 1 (for a similar use of symbols cf. Stowe MS. 924). Occasionally (e.g. ff. 17 b, 50, 52 b) a deed cannot be identified by its symbol and in three cases (ff. 12, 58) no symbols or other indications of ownership are given. Paper; ff. 85. Large folio. Lat. and Fr. There has been an excision on f. 21, and ff. 36-49, 59-69, 72-74 are entirely blank. Modern binding of Russian leather, tooled. stamped with the arms of Dering in six quarterings [Sir Edward Dering before his creation as Baronet, in 1627 ?] and the verse " Avrato clypeo salteria nigra Deringi est." The majority of Starkey's antiquarian

collections were purchased at his death (1628) by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, subsequently becoming Harley MSS., but another of Starkey's MSS. which passed into the possession of Sir E. Dering is now Add. MS. 38537. Dering sale (Puttick and Simpson, 12 June 1858), lot 1661. Phillips MS. 14922 (sale-cat., 27 June 1919, lot 892).