Royal MS 17 E VI

LEGAL ABRIDGEMENT, based on the Year Books for 1 Edw. III-33 Hen. VI [1455], in French. Additions in another hand to 21 Hen. VII [1505-1506]. Arranged under alphabetical headings, Accompt-Withernam,with a table at the beginning.

On the fly-leaves are copies or drafts (ff. 2, 2 b) of two letters from a Roman Catholic to the Privy Council, temp. Elizabeth. The name of the writer is not given, but in the second letter, in which he excuses himself from personally answering on the ground of age and infirmity, he says that 'in the late time of Kinge Edward the vith, a time more severe, I did plainlie in suche wise in thes matters declare my poore minde in the open parliment, as it liked all the honorable councell in those dayes charitablie to bere with me'. On f. 1 is a 16th cent. inscription 'Iste liber pertinet Iohanni More de hospicio Lincoln. socio, &c.', but although many of the More family were in trouble for religion, it does not seem recorded that any of them appeared in the Parliaments of Edw. VI.

Paper; ff. 444. Folio. 161/2 in. x 111/2 in. Circ. 1455. Belonged to john Theyer, probably one of the nos. 197, 224, 229, or 312 in the Theyer sale-cat.; not identified in CMA.