Add MS 35205

PRECEDENTS FOR WRITS and royal letters, administrative as well as judicial, in Latin: a vellum roll written on both sides, probably for office use, apparently soon after 8 Hen. VI. [1430]. The writs are without date, but in many cases the full names are given. Many of the common writs found in a Registrum Brevium are absent, but some procedure writs (Error, Certiorari, Supersedeas, etc.) are included. Præmunire and Prohibitions are very fully represented, and Commissions of various kinds (for Inquisitions, Gaol Delivery, Oyer and Terminer, Array, Muster, various offices, etc.), Licences, Pardons, Safe-conducts, Precepts respecting Tenths and Fifteenths and the like are very numerous. Forms are given of the De Heretico Comburendo, and writs for the arrest of Lollards, also for the arrest of Sir John Oldcastle and fur inquisition into his property, and against a band of malefactors in Surrey and Sussex under one who assumed "nomen de Frere Tuk iam de nouo vulgariter nuncupatum." At the end are added a few powers to ambassadors and other later documents, extendinng to 3 Hen. VII. [1487-8]. The outer sheet of the roll contains a list of gaols and names of knights, etc., for the commissions for gaol delivery (temp. Hen. VI.?). Vellum roll; 44 ft. 1 in. X 10 ½ in. XVth cent. An old sale number.

467 (see folio Phillipps catalogue). Phillipps MS. 14,017 (sale-cat. 1898, lot 635).