Add MS 15665

OFFICIAL transcripts and translations of various charters and documents relating to local history; chiefly made under the superintendence of John Bayley, chief clerk at the Tower, viz.:-

Endowment by Ralph [Ergham], Bishop of Sarum, of the church of Tisbury [co. Wilts.] , appropriated to the monastery of Shaftesbury, dat. 3 Aug. 1308; an office copy of the 16th century, f. 2;- Inquisition post mort. of the lands of Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, in Yorkshire, 28 Edw. I. [1300], transcribed in 1632, f. 6;- Complete series of the Returns to Parliament for Huntingdon, from 8 Hen. IV. [1407], to 36 Geo. III., 1796, f. 25;- Pleas relative to a presentation to the Hospital of St. John the Baptist, at Huntingdon, Hil. term, 8 Edw. II. [1334], f. 95;- Extracts from the accompts of John Bassett, as far as relates to Huntingdon, 2 Hen. IV.-3 Hen. V. [1401- 1414], f. 96;- Writ for the election of knights and burgesses for the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon, with the proceedings thereon, 8 Hen. VI. [1430], f. 98;- Charters of confirmation to the town of Huntingdon, granted 1 Rich. III. [1484], 7 Hen. VIII. [1515], f. 102 b.; - Presentation to the Mastership of the Hospital of St. John, at Huntingdon, 23 Hen. VIII. [1532], f. 117;- Petition of Thomas Halle, of Huntingdon, concerning the election of bailiffs there, 37 Hen. VIII. [1546], f. 119;- Four leases relating to the Hospital at Huntingdon, 7 Eliz. [1564-5], 2 Car. I. [1626], f. 121;- Charter of Charles I. to Huntitigdon, a^o. r. 6 [1630], f. 130 b.;- Writ and inquisition post mort. of the lands of Sir Thomas Coke, in the county of Essex, 18 Edw. IV. [1478], f. 175;- Charter granted by Queen Elizabeth to Plympton, co. Devon, a^o. r. 44 [1602], f. 177 b.;- Charter granted to the borough of Portbyan, alias West Looe, in Cornwall, 16 Eliz. [1574], f. 215 b.;-Charter to the borough of Devizes, co. Wilt., granted by Charles I. a^o. r. 15 [1639], f. 273; -0rders and Constitutions of the borough of Devizes, 34 Eliz. [1592], f. 294. Folio. [15,665.]