Add MS 48005

MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL MATERIALS; 12th-16th centt. Latin and English. Copies and extracts, late 16th cent. (unless otherwise described). 17th-cent. contents list, f. iv.

1. ff. 1-4. Extracts from Roger of Hoveden's chronicle relative to the descent of the Duchy of Aquitaine to 1178. Partly in English translation.

2. ff. 6-97. 'A declaracion of the trewe and dewe title of the Right high excellent and most vertuous My moost dredde soverayne lord Henry . . . King of Englond . . . to the corones of Fraunce and of Nauarre . . . '; c. 1510-1525. The King referred to is probably Henry VIII, and this anonymous treatise in twenty-five chapters was written in reply to La loi salicq Premiere loy des francoys faicte par le Roy pharamon, first printed in Paris c. 1505. Add. 48079, art. 4 is another copy.

3. ff. 97(a)-(d). Fragment of Sir John Fortescue's treatise against Edward IV's claim to the crown; late 15th cent. Printed, from the almost identical fragment in Cotton MS. Julius F.VI, ff. 270-271b, in The Works of Sir John Fortescue, ed. Lord Clermont, 1869, i, pp. 497-502.

4. ff. 100-103b. 'Statuta edita per Illustrissimum Principem Henricum Sextum (altered, by? Beale, to 'Quintum') . . . in suo exercitu observanda translata de Anco. in Latinum': the Latin paraphrase by Nicholas Upton (d.1457) of Henry V's ordinances of Mantes, 1419. Printed (from the 1654 edition of his De Studio Militari) in The essential portions of Nicholas Upton's De Studio Militari . . . translated by John Blount, ed. F. P. Barnard, 1931, pp. 49-58 and p. 60, n.37. The present text includes at f. 103b a section, 'De Benda Sancti Georgii desuper portanda', not found in the printed version. See also Sir T. Twiss, The Black Book of the Admiralty, RS, i, 1871, pp. 459-472. For other copies see Add. MSS. 48023, art. 4 and 48079, art. 6; Add. 48031A, art. 4(r) is a copy of the English text.

5. ff. 105-107b. Writ to the sheriffs to proclaim the Treaty of Troyes, with the text of the treaty in English; 14 July (MS., June) 1420. CCR 1419-1422, pp. 118-120. Incorrectly headed by Beale 'A declaration of H.6t . . . '. Another copy is Add. 48023, art. 5.

6. ff. 110-110b. Grant by King Stephen to Winchester Cathedral of the manor of Bishop's Sutton, co. Southt., in exchange for Steeple Morden, co. Camb.; Easter 1136. Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, iii, 1968, no. 944. Transcribed from the original, see the note on the seal, f. 110b.

7. ff. 111b, 112-113. Names of magnates associated with the Constitutions of Clarendon, 1164, Magna Carta, 1215, and Magna Carta, 1225.

8. ff. 114-115b. Henry III's summons to the feudal host to assemble for the Welsh war; 1 Aug. 1260. CCR 1259-1261, pp. 191-194.

9. ff. 116-117. Henry III's summons of the magnates to council at London; 13 (MS.,14) Dec. 1264. CCR 1264-1268, pp. 84-87.

10. ff. 118-119. Edward I's summons to Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, to the war against Llewellyn, Prince of Wales; 12 Dec. 1276.

11. ff. 120-224. Summonses to Parliament, etc.; 1295-1483. ff. 120-224.

Paper; ff. v + 238 + (46*, 97 (a)-(d), 224*, 224**). 17th-cent. foliation. Folio. XVI cent. Vellum binding with leather ties, titled and numbered '6' on spine.

England General: Miscellaneous historical materials: 12th-15th cent: Copies and extracts, mostly late 16th cent.

Elizabeth I of England: Papers of R. Beale, Clerk of the Council: 16th cent.

Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council: Correspondence and papers.

includes:

• ff. 6-97 Henry VIII of England: Anon. tract supporting his claim to France: c. 1510-1525: Copies, 16th-17th cent.
• ff. 6-97 France General: Anon. tract supporting the English claim to: c. 1510-1525: Copies, 16th-17th centt.
• ff. 6-97 Political Tracts: Tract in support of the claim of Henry VIII to the French crown: c. 1510-1525: Copies, 16th-17th centt.
• ff. 97(a)-97(d) Political Tracts: Treatise by Sir J. Fortescue against Edward IV's claim to the crown: late 15th cent: Fragm.
• ff. 97(a)-97(d) Sir John Fortescue, Chief Justice of the King's Bench: Treatise against Edward IV's claim to the crown: late 15th cent: Fragm.
• ff. 97(a)-97(d) Edward IV of England: Sir John Fortescue's treatise against his claim to the crown: late 15th cent: Fragm.
• ff. 100-103b Mantes, France: Ordinances of: 1419: Lat. and Engl: Copies, 15th-17th centt.
• ff. 100-103b Nicholas Upton, writer on heraldry: Paraphrase of Henry V's ordinances of Mantes: 1419: Lat: Copies, 16th cent.
• ff. 100-103b Henry V of England: Paraphrase by N. Upton of the ordinances of Mantes: 1419: Lat: Copies, 15th-17th centt.
• ff. 100-103b Army; England: Paraphrase by N. Upton of the ordinances of Mantes: 1419: Lat: Copies, 15th-17th centt.
• ff. 105-107b Treaties: Writ for proclamation of the treaty of Troyes with English text of the treaty: 1420: Lat. and Engl: Copies, 16th-17th centt.
• ff. 110-110b Bishop's Sutton, Hampshire: Deed rel. to: 1136: Copy, late 16th cent.
• ff. 110-110b Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire: Deed rel. to: 1136: Copy, late 16th cent.
• ff. 110-110b Winchester; co Southt. Cathedral Priory: Grant to, by King Stephen: 1136: Copy, late 16th cent.
• ff. 120-224 England; Parliament: Summonses to: 1295-1483: Copies, late 16th cent.