Add MS 34801

COLLECTION concerning the office of Earl Marshal and te Admiralty; in French (except art. 12). Parts of the same contents will be found in Cotton MSS. Nero D. ii., Tib. E. viii., Add. MSS.

28, 549, 29, 901, in the Black Book of the Admiralty (ed. by Sir T. Twiss, Rolls Series), and elsewhere.

1. "Ceo sount les surnomes les linages de graunt en William le Conquerour en Engleterre": names of Norman families arranged in couples, "Aumarle et Ayncourte, Bartram et Buttecourte," etc. Printed by Leland (Collectanea, ed. Hearne, 1774, i. p. 206). f. 3. This art. is an addition, the volume proper beg. at f. 6.

2. Treatise on the foundation (by Caesar) and duties of the College of Heralds, with their oaths of office. Beg. "Selon les diz des philosophes." For other copies see Cotton MS. Nero D. ii. f. 254 b (which is, however, incomplete), Add. MS. 29,901, f. 40; cf. Add. MS. 28,549, f. 54, and The Black Book, ed. Twiss, vol. i. p. 295. f. 6.

3. Order of battle in a court of chivalry. The first few words are corrupt: see the copies in Cotton MSS. Nero D. ii. f. 257, Tib. E. viii. f. 39 b. The copy in the Black Book (with dedication to Rich. II. by Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester) is somewhat different (Black Book, vol. i. p. 300). f. 14 b.

4. Statutes of the order of the Garter: the form of the statutes which is attributed to Henry V. Printed by Ashmole (Appendix to his Institution of the Order of the Garter, 1672). f. 19.

5. Form of a Cry of Tourney or proclamation of jousts. Otber copies are in Cotton MS. Nero D. ii. f. 258, and (with names given) in Lansd. MS. 285, f. 44. f. 28 b.

6. "Cy commence la maniere de faire ch[iua]ler selon la coustume d'Angleterre en temps de paix et de bayn": order for the creation of Knights of the Bath. Printed by Anstis (Observations upon the Knighthood of the Bath, 1725, p. 106). f. 30.

7. Fantastic forms of challenge for jousts. Another copy is in Cotton MS. Nero D. ii. f. 260 b. f. 36.

8. "Cest la copie des Jugemens et Rolles de Ollerum": the maritime code known as the Laws of Olleron, including, besides the original twenty-four (contained in the Liber Horn of the Guildhall library, cf. Cotton MS. Nero A. vi. f. 157), five others partly identical with those added in the Black Book (ed. Twiss, vol. i. p. 120). f. 43.

9. Rules for the Lord Admiral: twenty articles agreeing in substance with the first section of the Black Book (ed. Twiss, vol. i. pp. 1-22) and Cotton MS. Vesp. B. xxii. ff. 10-13 b. f. 51.

10. "Sens[uiuent] les finz app[ar]ten[ans] au clere de l'admiralte": table of the clerk's fees, not quite the same as that in Cotton MS. Vesp. B. xxii. f. 94 (printed by Twiss, op. cit., vol. i., appendix, p. 402). f. 55.

11. Rules for the Lord Admiral in time of war: twenty-one articles agreeing with the twenty which form the second section of the Black Book (ed. Twiss, vol. i. pp. 24-38) and Cotton MS. Vesp. B. xxii. ff. 13 b-16 b. f 55 b. The remaining articles are additions in later hands.

12. "This is the ordinaunce and guydyng that perteyneth unto þe Worshipfull beryyng of ony astate to be done in maner and fourme ensewyng": the manner of burying great personages. f. 58 b.

13. Ordinance of Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence, Grand Seneschal of England, concerning Heralds' fees; Caen, 3 Sept. 1417. Cf. Lansd. MS. 285, f 47 b. f. 60 b. On the fly-leaf (f. 2) is a fragment (15th cent.) from the English Metrical Romance of King Robert of Sicily: cf. Add. MS. 22,283 and Catalogue of Romances, vol. i. p. 763. Vellum (f. 1, a 16th cent. table of contents, paper); ff. 61. Early XVth cent. With illuminated initials and borders of English style. The first initial (f. 6) contains the arms of Mowbray, Dukes of Norfolk and Earls Marshal; and the MS. was probably written in the time of, and possibly for, John Mowbray, Earl Marshal 1405, and Duke of Norfolk 1424, ob. 1432. On the fly-leaf at the end (f. 61) is the name (obliterated) of Anthony Widville, Earl of Rivers (1469-83), perhaps as owner. Bound in wooden boards covered with brown leather, stamped with panel and bands, the latter having a dragon and gryphon and the binders' cyphers G. W. and I. G. (circ. 1520); rebacked. Octavo.