Add MS 40166 C

C. Papers formerly bound with Add. Ch. 63650-63733 (Brooke sale, Sotheby's, 25 May-3 June 1921, lot 302) viz.:-

1. Membrane (7.1/4 in. x 6.1/2 in.) of an Exchequer accompt in Latin, subsidiary to the Pipe Roll, circ. 5 Henry III [1220-1221], and closely related to the seventh membrane of a document now numbered Exchequer Miscellanea 1/8 A at the Public Record Office, the one being apparently a draft of the other. One side is occupied with the debts (in double column) of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke (d. 1219), and his son William Marshal, jun. For the nature and purpose of similar documents in the P.R.O., see Mabel H. Mills in Royal Hist. Soc. Trans., 4th Ser., viii (1925), pp..161-165. f. 10.

2. Letter of complaint from Giannino Bellotti, agent in London of the Frescobaldi, to Bettino Frescobaldi, 8 Jan. [early 14th cent.]. Bettino and Amerigo Frescobaldi were expelled from England in A.D. 1311, see S. L. Peruzzi, Storia del Commercio e dei Banchieri di Firenze, 1868, p. 153. Ital. Paper. f. 11.

3. Two paper leaves (15th cent.) with religious poems in English, none of which is included in Carleton Brown's Register of Middle English Religious and Didactic Verse, ii (1920), viz.:-(a) Signs of Doomsday, six days only, differing from the usual Fifteen Signs. Beg. imperf. "Second day of that senyte schal cum a wynd and blowe." f. 12;-(b) Poem beg. "Who wot nowe that ys here" with refrain "Cryste may send now syche a 3ere." f. 12 b;-(c) Carol beg. "0 o o o exultet mundus gaudio: All this worlde was ful of grace." f. 12 b. Followed by a shield of arms (arg., a lion rampant gu. within a bordure sa., seme of torteaux) and rules in verse for Latin syntax, beg. "Vult in persona," with marginal notes in English. A longer form of this poem is in Royal MS. 17 C. xvii, f. 80. f. 13 b.

4. Fragments of two vellum leaves from an Antiphoner :-(a) Dedication of church;-(b) St. Nicholas (6 Dec.), "In commemoracione [sc. coneepcione] sancte Marie virginis" (8 Dec.), St. Lucy (13 Dec.); 15th cent. ff. 14, 15.

5. Petition to the King from Bernard de Vallois, gunner of the Tower of London (appointed in A.D. 1514) for the grant of a share in 58 bundles of flax seized, and also in 7 barrels of white herrings seized at Hythe, co. Kent, as forfeited goods; early 16th cent. Vellum. f. 16.

6. Clergy subsidy and first-fruits lists, viz.:-(a) Fragment of a vellum roll of contributors to the subsidy due 25 Mar. 1581. Only nine names preserved, mostly in Oxfordshire. f. 17;-(b) Names of compounders for first-fruits in the diocese of Hereford, 2 Oct.

38 Eliz. 19 Feb. 40 Eliz. [1596-1598]. f. 18;-(c) List of prebendaries in Norwich who have paid the first instalment of the third subsidy of James I, etc. Vellum. f. 20.

7. Accompt of Edward Wace of the Ordnance at Newcastle-on-Tyne for carpenter work, etc., 19 May 1649, with receipt to T. Ledgard, alderman, and written request of D. Hobson to the latter. f. 21.