Hargrave MS 227

A Volume, in folio, on paper : containing, 1. A Treatise concerning the Chancery. fol. 1.

2. Breviats out of the Records in the Tower, concerning the Authority of the Chancery with directions how to find the Originals. fol. 143.

3. An Extract from Gilberts Forum Romanum, concerning the Division of the Courts, &c. fol. 219.

4. Extracts from Lambard on the High Courts of Justice, nearly in the same words as in the printed Book. fol. 309.

5. Another Piece by Lambard, on the same subject; but more particularly with a View to the Chancery Court, and different from the printed Book. fol. 364.

6. The Authority of the Lord Chancellor of England limitted by sundry Acts of Parliament. fol. 392.

7. Lord Keeper Bacon's Arguments in Parliament to prove Noblemen attacheable for Contempts in Chancery by disobeying Decrees. fol. 404.

8. Replication of the Six Clerks to the Cursitors as to writs not within the Grants of the latter, with the Rejoinder of the Cursitors. fol. 408.

9. Erection of the Six Clerks of the Inrollment in the Chancery by Queen Elizabeth. fol. 423.

10. Orders concerning the Twenty-four Cursitors in Chancery, made by the Lord Keeper Bacon the 26^th of October in the 15^th Eliz. fol. 442.

11. Fines of all Writs and Patents from a Register of Writs of Chancery of great antiquity, formerly belonging to John Chamberlayne one of the Six Clerks in the time of Edward IVth. fol. 464.

12. Order in Chancery by Card. Wolsey to limit John Earl of Oxford in his Household Expences, &c. in his younger Years. fol. 472.

13. Kinds of Writs in Chancery. fol. 477.

14. The Allowed Fees of the Ordinary Masters of the Chancery by the Presentment of the Six Clerks, of the 8^th March 1597. Ibid.

15. The Oath of the Master of the Chancery. fol. 478.

16. Ordinances agreed upon in April 1596 for remedy of sundry Abuses in.Chancery. fol. 479.

17. The Oath for the eight Under Clerks of the Six Clerks. fol. 484.

18. Orders agreed upon by all the Six Clerks for the better government of themselves and their Clerks in the exercise of their several Offices. fol. 487.

19. Means to restrain the Multitude, Length, and Charge of Suits in Chancery. fol. 493.

20. The antient Oaths of the Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper. fol. 496.

21. Latitats unprofitable Writs to the Crown. fol. 498.

22. Some Notes and Observations upon the Statute of Magna Charta cap. 29. and other Statutes concerning the Proceeding in Chancery and Courts of Equity and Good Conscience. fol. 504.

23. The Earl of Oxford's Case in Chancery. fol. 559.

24. The King's Order and Decree in Chancery for a Rule to be observed by the Lord Chancellor in that Court exemplified and inrolled for a perpetual Record there Anno 1616. fol. 583.

25. The Opinion of Sir James Dyer Kn^t. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and other of the Queens Majesties Justices of Her Courts of Westminster by vertue of Her Ma^ties. Letters of Privy Seale to them directed concrning the Jurisdiction and Liberties of the County Palatine of Chester, and the Authority of the Chamberlain and his Office there. fol. 594.

26. " A Discourse written by Mr. John Sheldon [Selden] Student in the Middle Temple London, and dedicated to Sir Francis Bacon Kn^t of the Mention, Conjunction, or Division of the two Great Offices of State the Chancellorship and Keeper of the Great Scale of England, in Anno MDCXVII." fol. 602.

includes:

• 1 Chancery; Six Clerks in: Treatise concerning.
• 2, 5 Chancery; Six Clerks in: Authority of.
• 3 Gilbert, Lord Ch. Baron: Extracts from his Forum Romanum.
• 3 Courts of the Realm: On the Division of Courts, from Gilbert's Forum Romanorum.
• 4, 5 William Lambarde: Extracts from the same.
• 6 Chancellor, Lord: Authority of.
• 7 Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper: Arguments of, in Parliament to prove Noblemen attacheable for Contempts in Chancery.
• 8 Cursitors in Chancery: Rejoinder of, to the Six Clerks.
• 8 Chancery; Six Clerks in: Replication of the, to the Cursitors, with the Cursitor's Rejoinder.
• 9 Chancery; Six Clerks in: erection of the, by Q. Eliz.
• 10 Cursitors in Chancery: Orders concerning the.
• 11 John Chamberlayne:.
• 11 Chancery; Six Clerks in: Fines of Writs and Patents in.
• 12 Wolsey, Cardinal: Order in Chancery by, to limit John Earl of Oxford in his Household Expenses, &c. in his younger years.
• 13 Chancery; Six Clerks in: Writs in.
• 13 Writs in Chancery:.
• 14 Chancery; Six Clerks in: Fees of the Ordinary Masters of.
• 15 Chancery; Six Clerks in: Oath of a Master.
• 16 Chancery; Six Clerks in: Remedy of Abuses in.
• 18 Chancery; Six Clerks in: Orders agreed upon by the Six Clerks in.
• 19 Chancery; Six Clerks in: Means to restrain Suits in.
• 20 Lord Keeper: Ancient Oath of the.
• 20 Chancellor, Lord: Oath of the Lord Chancellor.
• 21 Latitats:.
• 22 Magna Carta: Observations upon ca, 29. of Magna Charts.
• 22 City of Oxford: John Earl of, Limitation of the Household Expences of by Card. Wolsey: t. Hen. VIII.
• 23 City of Oxford: Case of the Earl of, in Chancery.
• 24 Chancery; Six Clerks in: Order for a Rule to be observed by the Lord Chancellor in.
• 25 City of Cheater: Liberties &c. of the County Palatine of.
• 25 Dyer, Ld: Opinions of.
• 25 Chamberlain of Chester: Office of.
• 26 John Selden: Discourse of, on the Chancellorship and Keepership of the Great Seal of England.