Stowe MS 527-531

" MISCELLANEA," consisting of voluminous extracts and copies of deeds from ancient records, viz. Domesday Book, Patent and Close Rolls, Exchequer Proceedings, Assize Rolls, Chartularies, Registers of' Religions Houses, and many other records preserved in public repositories and private collections. Five volumes. Paper. Middle of xviith cent. Folio. Belonged to Tho. Astle, whose arms are on the back of each volume. Inside the cover of vol. i. is inscribed, in the hand of Thomas Astle, " Collectanea Arthuri Agard," a copy of whose monumental inscription (ob. 1615) is inserted at f. 1. Some of the documents copied are, however, of a later date than his death (see below, and in vol. v. art. 6.) The hand is the same which appears in Nos. 518-526 above, and there are similar marginal notes, some possibly by William Prynne. Among the contents are: Vol. i. (ff. 286). (1) " Nomina illorum qui arma tulerunt contra Dominum Regem [Johannem] in guerra." f. 32 ;-(2) List of Chief Justiciaries from 1066 to 1266. f. 45;-(3) Genealogy of " Caradocus Wallicus historicus . . . out of a Booke of Mr. [Robert] Glovers owne handwriteing." f. 132. Vol. II. (ff. 280). (1) List of the Chancellors of England from 1070 to 1272. f. 69 ;-(2) Account and descent of the several competitors for the Kingdom of Scotland in 1291. f. 192; -(3) Particulars of the services required by the Crown from the Barons of the Cinque Ports. Fr. f. 195. Vol. III. (ff. 345). Extracts " ex libro Abbatiæ de Wellebeck . . . penes Rio. Whalley, a^o Dni. 1613, followed by extracts from registers of Dunstable Priory, Peterborough Abbey, etc. ff. 242-250. Vol. IV. (:W. 278).

(1) " The manner of proceeding and tryall in the Marshall's Court upon an Appeals of Treason wherein the combats was admitted." ff 124:-(2) " A discourse of the High Stewardship of England wrytten to the Right honourable late Earle of Leycester," printed in T. Hearne's Curious Discourses, 1771, ii. p. 45, where it is ascribed to an anonymous author. " Transcribed out of a very beautiful coucht booke iin velome," formerly belonginto Will. Fleetwood, Recorder of London, " and is now in the hands of Mr. Richard Wright, serivener in Paul's, Church Yard." f. 239 b;-(4) "Mr. John Selden, of the Inner Temple, his little Booke to Sr Francis Bacon, Lord Keeper, after Lord Chancellor Selden's Discourse on the office of Lord Chancellor of England, printed by Sir W. Dugdale in 1671. f. 266. Vol. V. (ff. 315).

(1) "Verba Anglica obscura et glossata, excerpta de Legibus Regum Angliæ, viz. Chnuti, Aluredi, Inæ, Æthelstani, Aluredi et Goduin, Edward, Edmund et Æthelredi." f 6;-(2) List of the Earls and Barons " at the Parliament of Clarendon holden Anno 10 Henr. 2^di." f. 88;-(3) Account of " Richard, Earle of Stranbowe [Richard de Clare, " Strongbow," Earl of Pembroke], and his Irish possessions." f. 106 b;-(4) Account of " y^e takeing of Sr Ralph Grey at Bambourgh Castle, his degrading and beheading," 1464. f. 108b;-(5) Discourse on the office of Marshall of England, by William Camden, Clarenceux. This is not the same as " The Antiquity and office of the Earl Marshall of England " by Camden, printed in T. Hearne's Curious Discourses, 1771, ii. p. f 111 b ;-(6) "An oath proposed unto Lords and others at the Kings being at Yorke . . . and refused by the Lord Say and Seale and the Lord Brooke, 1639." f. 180;-(7) Extracts on the " Defence of the sea coasts," and on the " Defence of the State." ff. 244-252 b ;-(8) " Les ordinances de les trois Bataylles et de les deux les [sc. eles] du [sic] Batailles du Roy a son primer viage en Escoce, l'an de son regne neofisme " [1385].

296b;-(9) "The Treaty of Harflete" [Harfleur]; [1415]. f. 298;-(10) " The Statutes and Ordinances [for the army] made by the Right Noble Prince King Henry the Fifth at the Treaty and Councell of Mannt " [Mantes]; [? 1419]. f. 300:-(11) Account of the siege of Melun, 15 July [1420]. f. 311.