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 A 
 
 E P O R T 
 
 FROM THE :^ 
 
 COMMITTEE 
 
 Appointed to View the 
 
 Cottonian Libraiy, 
 
 And fuch of the Publick Records of this 
 Kingdom, as they think proper, and to 
 Report to the Houfe the Condition there- 
 of, together with what they Ihall judge 
 fit to be done for the better Reception, 
 Prefervation, and more convenient Ufe 
 of the fame. 
 
 A t' 
 
 Publifhed by Order of the House of Commons. 
 
 LONDON, 
 
 Printed for R. V/illiamson near Grays- 1 mi-Gate in Holhorn^ 
 and W. BowYER \^ Wh'ne-Friars, MDCCXXXII.
 
 Jovis II Die Maij 1732. 
 
 BT Vertue of an Order of the Houfe of Commons thh 
 Day made, I do appoint Richard Williamfon and 
 William Bowyer to Print this Report, with the /Ap- 
 pendix, and the Proceedings of the faid Houfe there- 
 upon : And that no other Perfon do prefume to Print 
 the fame, 
 
 Ar\ Onslow, Speaker.
 
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 A 
 
 REP ORT 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 COMMITTEE 
 
 Appointed to View the 
 
 Ottoman Library, bV. 
 
 Mart is 9 Die Mati 17 ^i. 
 
 MR. JVinnington reported from the Committee appointed to 
 view the CoUonian Library, and fuch of the publick Re- 
 cords of this Kingdom, as they think proper, and to re- 
 port to the Houfe the Condition thereof, together with 
 what they fhall judge fit to be done for the better Reception, Prefer- 
 vation, and more convenient Ufe of the fame, that the Committee 
 had agreed upon a Report, which they had directed him to make -, 
 and he read the Report in his Place, and afterwards dehvered it in at 
 the Table, (together with an Appendix thereunto,) where the fame 
 was read, and is as followethj 
 
 THE Committee appointed to view the Cottoman Library, and 
 fuch of the Publick Records of this Kingdom, as they chink 
 proper, and to report to the Houfe the Condition thereof, together 
 with what they fhall judge fit to be done for the better Reception, 
 
 Prefer- 
 
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 Prefervacion, and more convenient Ufe of the fame, have, parfaant 
 to the Order of the Houfe, viewed the Remains of the Cottonian Li- 
 brary, depofued in the new Dormitory at fVeJlminJler, by the Per- 
 miffion of the Dean and Chapter, after the late Fire at JJhburnhani 
 Houfe, to which Phice the faid Library, for greater Security, had 
 fome time before been removed from an Houfe in Ejfdx-Street furround- 
 ed with Buildings, and therefore in Danger of Fire, and in other Re- 
 fpe£ls very improper for the Reception thereof. 
 
 Your Committee alfo viewed the Ruins of AJhhurnham Houfe, and, 
 having enquired into the Circumftances of the Fire, were furprized, 
 that fo few of the Manufcripts and Curiofities belonging to the faid 
 Library were epnfumed or defaced. 
 
 Your Committee thinks themfelves obliged to obferve. That the 
 Prefervation of a great Part of that valuable Treafure is owing to the 
 Care and Attendance of Mr. Speaker, who being one of the Truftees 
 of the faid Library, upon Notice of the Fire, perfonally aflifted in 
 fecuring the Volumes and Rarities, which hadefcaped the Flames, 
 and having appointed Perfons converfant in Records to confider of 
 proper Methods for retrieving the Damage, which the Manufcripts had 
 fuftained, did not only direft, but was pleafed to fuperintend the Ex- 
 ecution of their Scheme ', fo that of nine hundred and fifcy eight Vo- 
 lumes, which the faid Library contained before the Fire, no more 
 than one hundred and fourteen are totally deftroyed, and but ninety 
 eight confiderably damaged -, as by a Narrative, which the Committee 
 received from Mr. IVbiJlon, Clerk to Mr. Lawton Keeper of the 
 P..ecords in the Chapter- Houfe at IFejlminfier,' and which is hereunto 
 annexed, Appendix A. will more fully appear. 
 
 And that the Publick may be acquainced with the Particulars of 
 their Lofs,'and that Gentlemen, who are poflefled of Copies of any 
 valuable Manufcripts, may contribute to the Reparation of that Lofs 
 by communicating fuch Copies, Mr. Cajley, Deputy-Keeper of the 
 faid Library, affilted by the faid Mr, Whijlon, has by the Order of your 
 Committee, with great Diligence and Exaftnefs, prepared an Account 
 of the Manufcripts and other Curiofities, which were deftroyed, or 
 injured, diflinguifhing what Parts of fuch injured Manufcripts are de- 
 feftive, which Account is contained in Six Books hereunto annexed, 
 Appendix B. I, II, III, IV, V, VI. 
 
 Your Committee proceeded to view the Repofitories of the publick 
 Records of this Kingdom, and made the following Obfervations up- 
 on the Condition thereof. 
 
 The Chapter- Houfe at /^^y/wi/w/^r is the General Repofitory of the Re- 
 cords of the King's Bench and Common Pleas occafionally tranfmitted thi- 
 ther from the refpeiflive Treafuries of thofe Courts, and from the Office 
 of the Ciijlos Brevium of the Court of Common Pica: by Writs ifluing out 
 of the Court oi' Chancer-^, and by Indentures interchangeably executed, 
 teftifying the Receipt and Delivery of fuch Records : Thefe, toge- 
 ther with many other Records of different Kinds there depofued, are 
 conveniently ranged in proper Clafles lately made for their Reception, 
 under the Care of Mw Latvian, who conftantly employs three Clerks 
 to digeft them: But the Room is not capacious enough to contain the 
 many various Records, which ought regularly to be tranfmitted from 
 Time to Time into this Office in the Manner before-mentioned. The 
 Roof of this Buildin;:; is aoprehended to be in great Danger of filline:, 
 one cf the ButtrefTes, by which it v/as fupported, having been removed : 
 
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 The Vaults undciTicaLli -are (aid to be filled with fpiricuous Licjors ; 
 and Brcvvhoufes or Walhhoufes adjoining have lately been ertC!:<-d. 
 
 The Records in a narrow Kooni near the Tally Court in the Ex- 
 cheque!', in the Cuftody of the faid Mr. La-U'lci/, are alio regularly dif- 
 pofed. Thefe Records, as well as thofe in the Chapter- 1 loufe, were 
 formerly in the Cuftody of fevend Perfons under feveral Keys, which 
 made the Accefs ot them difficult ; but that Inconvenience is now re- 
 moved, by committing the Care of them to one experienced and di- 
 ligent Officer. 
 
 The Records in the Ki^io's Brrch Treafury are well nn thodized ; 
 but the three Rooms, in which thofe Records remain, are in a ruinous 
 Condition -, and the Communication between the Rooms is interrupt- 
 ed by a Painter's Shop, wherein is a Sfove-Chimney. 
 
 The Treafury of the Court of Common Pleas,, is full of Records 
 and is dark, and fubjedl to Dull; Shelves and PrelTes are wanted v 
 and fome of the Records have been damaged by the Dampnefs of the 
 Floor. 
 
 The Records in the Office of the Cujlos Brevhim of the Court of 
 Ccminon Pleas are well digefted ; but tlie Room at JVeJhninjfer belon- 
 ging to that Office feenis almoft too ruinous to be repaired ; the 
 Floor is broke-, and the Windows being without Glafs, the Records 
 are expofed to the Injuries of the Weather. 
 
 The Records of the Court of Escbcaiier are principally contained 
 in the Pipe Office, the Augmentation Office, the Office of the King's 
 Remembrancer, the Office of the Treafurer's Remembrancer, the 
 Office of the Clerk of the Pleas, the Offices of the two Auditors of 
 the Land Revenue, and the Office of the Remembrancer of the 
 Firft Fruits and Tenths. 
 
 The Records of the Pipe Office, which contain the Accounts of 
 the Publick Revenue, are very numerous, and increafe annually, and 
 require more Room, than is at prcfent allotted to them, and deferve 
 to be more carefully methodized and preferved. 
 
 The moft ufeful of the Records in the Augmentation O^cq are 
 conveniently difpofed, and may eafily be confulted, the prefent Keeper 
 of thofe Records attending diligently in that Office. 
 
 The other Records of the Court of Exchequer, which remain at 
 Welhninfter, are for the mofl part inconveniently placed in decay'd 
 and dulty Rooms, without proper Prcffes ; few of them are fo well 
 digefted as they ought to be-, and the Rcfort to them is often pre- 
 vented by the Abfence of the proper Officers. 
 
 The Record Office within the Tower of London is the Genera! Re- 
 pofitory of all the Records of the Court of Chancery tranfmitted by 
 the King's Writ or Precept, or by Warrant or Precept of the Matter 
 of the Rolls. The Records of this O.ffice in Wakefield Tower are 
 preferved in the moft exaft Order. The Records in Ceefar's Chappel 
 in the W^hite Tower are alio in good Condition : The Chappel itfelf 
 is commodious, but underneath are Scores of Gunpowder belonging 
 to the Office of Ordnance. 
 
 Thefe two Apartments, though defigned for the Reception of all 
 the Records of the Court of Chancery, are I'carce fufficient to conrain 
 thofe, which have been already tranfmitted thither. 
 
 The Records in the Chappel of the Rolls are fecurely placed in 
 W^ainfcot Prefles, and methodically digeftcd -, thofe in the Room over 
 the Chappel, though for the moft part wtll dig'^fted, are expofed too 
 
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 much to the Heat of the San in the Siimmer-ft.ifon, and to Dampnefs 
 in the Winter. 
 
 The Records in the Office of the Six Clerks are To numerous, and 
 the Rooms, in which they are depoficed, are ih much out of Repair, 
 that it will be neceflary to remove chem to a more convenient Place 
 for their Prefervation. 
 
 The Records in the Offices of the Petit Bag, and of the Clerks of 
 ihe Inrollment, are difpofed in good Order. 
 
 The Records in the Office of the Dutchy Court of Lancafler at 
 Gni'js Inn are well preferved, and properly forted. 
 
 Your Committee having infpefted the Offices above-mentioned, 
 were informed, that many valuable Records remained in private Hands, 
 or in Places not affigned for the Cullody of Records, nor under the 
 Care of any proper Officer. 
 
 Upon this Information your Committee viewed fome Rooms adjoin- 
 ino- to the Houfe of Lords, where they found many Records of the 
 Court of Requefts, and of the Court of Wards and Liveries. 
 
 Thefc Records were brought from the Houfe of the King's Filh- 
 monger in FiJJj-2"ard, IVeflminfier, and are ftill in a very improper Sci- 
 tuation, and lye in great Confufion and Diforder. 
 
 Your Committee being perfuaded, that the Records of the Court of 
 Wards and Liveries may be ufeful to the Publick, as they concern 
 Lands, and the Dcfcents of Families, purfued their Enquiry, and 
 havino- fummoned Mr. Charles Grynes (whofe Father was formerly em- 
 ployed in making Indexes to the laid Records) were informed by him, 
 that eleven Bags of the Certificates of Feodaries, being Part of the 
 Records belonging to the faid Court, were in his Pofleffion, together 
 with feveral Indexes to thofe Records, mentioned in his Memorial 
 hereunto annexed. Appendix C. 
 
 Your Committee have alio received Intelligence from John Anjiis 
 Efq-, Garter, that twenty-one Bags of Records, which were formerly 
 lodcred in the Pell Office, and were afterwards delivered to Mr. In- 
 cledon Houfekeeper of the Houfe of Lords, are now in his Cuftody. 
 
 Your Committee found in two Rooms, one over the Houfe of 
 Commons, the other adjoining to the Speaker's Chambers, a great 
 Quantity of Records belonging to the Court of Kin^s Bench. 
 
 Your Committee apprehend, that all thefe Records, which being 
 thus difperfed are now ufelefs to the Publick, ought to be forthwith 
 removed to the Chapter-Houfe, in order to be methodized. 
 
 Your Committee, not being fatisfied with a curfory Infpeftion of 
 the Publick Offices, ordered the feveral Perfons, to whofe Cuflody 
 che Publick Records are committed, to lay before them Accounts in 
 Writing of the Nature of thofe Records, and of the Condition of the 
 Rooms in which they are depofited, in what Order they are digefled, 
 and whether there be any, and what Calendars thereof, and what is 
 neceflary to be done to make them more ufeful to the Publick. 
 
 Which Accounts were delivered to your Committee, and are here- 
 unto annnexed. Appendix D. I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, 
 X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII. 
 
 Your Committee upon the Perufal of thefe Accounts, as well as 
 upon their own View, perceiving, that feveral Records of the fame 
 Nature were improperly diftributed into diftinft Offices, and that the 
 
 Records
 
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 Records of fome Offices were divided in feparate Repofitories re- 
 mote from each other in different Parts of the Town, by which 
 Means the Search for Records was made uncertain, expenfive, and 
 often fruitlels, direcfted the laid Mr. Lazvton (whom they judged, as well 
 by the Tnl'pection of his Office, as by the Account, which they had 
 received from him, to be accurate, dih'gent, and well acquainted with 
 Records) to attend the Officers, who had delivered tiie laid Accounts 
 to your Committee, in order to fettle the Dates of the Records in 
 their refpeftive Offices, and to perfeft thofe Accounts: In Obedience 
 to which Order the laid Mr. Lawton, to whom Mr. Holmes, Deputy- 
 keeper of the Records in the Tovjer, a very able and diligent Officer, 
 was pleafed on this Occafion to give his Affiftance, did, afTifled alfo 
 by Mr. Wbijfon, compile from thofe Accounts, and fsom che Informa- 
 tion, which he received at thofe Offices, a Table of the Records of 
 this Kingdom digefted in a regular Series of Time, and diftinguifh- 
 ing the Repofitories, in which the feveral Records are contained ; by 
 which a Perfon may at one View be direfted in his Search for any par- 
 ticular Record to the Place, where it is depofited. This Table, con- 
 taining fo many Materials, was in a very little Time prepared and laid 
 before your Committee, and is hereunto annexed. Appendix E. 
 
 By theSuccefs of this Attempt a Foundation is laid for a very ne- 
 ceffary and' noble Work. Calendars of the Publick Records are in 
 fome Offices wanted, and in moft deficient: Your Committee therefore 
 fubmit to the Confideracion of the Houfe, whether if Perfons of Skill 
 and Accuracy were appointed and encouraged by a proper Reward 
 to fupply that Defeifl by a general Index of all the Publick Records, 
 it would not be of fingular Advantage to particular Perfons, an Ho- 
 nour to the Nation, and bring to Light many valuable Remains of 
 Antiquity, which have, for want of an eafy and proper Accefs to 
 them, long been concealed from the Publick Notice. 
 
 Your Committee have found among the Ancient Records Di- 
 reftions for a Work of this Kind, and alfo Orders for the Removal 
 and better Prefervation of Records -, and as fuch Precedents may be 
 of Ufe, they have thought fit to annex Copies thereof. Appendix, F. 
 I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII. 
 
 This defirable Work will be facilitated by the Purchafe of fuch Ab- 
 ftrafts and Indexes of the Publick Records, as are the Property of 
 private Perfons, and by reftoring thofe, which belong to the Publick, 
 and remain in private Hands, to their refpeftive Offices. 
 
 Your Committee think it their Duty to reprefent to the Houfe, 
 that as the Publick Intereft is concerned in providing more fecure 
 and decent Repofitories for the Records of this Kingdom, the Pub- 
 lick Faith is engaged for the better Recepdon and Prefervation of 
 the Cottonian Library. 
 
 By an Ad made in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Years of King Wil- 
 liam the Third, Intitled, An A£l for the better fettling and preferving 
 the Librar-j kept in the Houfe at Wefl-minfler, called Cotton-Houfe, in 
 the Name and Family cf the Cottons, for the Benefit of the Publick ; 
 which Recites, " That Sir Robert Cotton, then late of Connington in 
 " the County of Huntington Baronet, did at his own great Charge 
 *' and Expence, and by the Affiftance of the moft learned Antiqua- 
 " ries of his Time, colledt and purchafe the moft ufeful Manu- 
 " fcripts,' Written Books, Papers, Parchments, Records, and other 
 " Memorials, in moft Languages, of great Ufe and Service, for the 
 *' Knowledge and Prefervation of our Conftirution, both in Church 
 
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 '' and State; and chat thofe Manufcripts, and other Writings were pro- 
 " cured, as well from Parrs beyond the Seas, as from fevera! private 
 " Collectors of fuch Antiquities within this Realm, and were generally 
 " elteemed the beft Collec;tion of its Kind, then any where Extant ■, " 
 And further recites, " That the faid Library had been preferved 
 " with the utmoft Care and Diligence by Sir i'bomas Cotton, Son of 
 *' the iaid Sir Robert, and by Sir John Cotton of f'Fe/l?ninJier, then 
 "■ living, Grandfon of the faid Sir Robert, and had been very much 
 " augmented and enlarged by them, and lodged in a very proper 
 " Place in the faid Sir 'John's Ancient iVIanfion Houfe at IVeJlfnmjhr, 
 " which was very convenient for that Purpofe -, and alfo, That the 
 " {a\d Sir John Cotton, in Purfuance of the Defire and Intentions of 
 " his faid Father and Grandfather, was content and willing, that the 
 " faid Manfion Houfe, and Library fliould continue in his Family and 
 " Name, and not be fold, or otherwife difpofed, or imbezled, and 
 " that the faid Library fhould be kept and preferved by the Name 
 " of the Cottonian Library, for PublickUfe and Advantage ; there- 
 " fore for the better fetling and alTuring the fame according to the 
 " Defire of the Hiid Sir John Cotton, and at his Requeft, the faid 
 " Manfion Houfe, with the Gardens, and all other Appurtenances, 
 " and alfo all the faid Library or Colledlion of Manufcripts, Written 
 " Books, Papers, Parchments, Records, and other Memorials (all 
 " which are particularly mentioned and named in a Schedule then re- 
 ♦' maining in the (ixid Library) together with all Coins, Medals, and 
 " other Rarities and Curiofities in the faid Library then contained, 
 " were fettled, limited, and vefted in the Truftees in the (liid Ad; 
 " named, to have, hold, and enjoy, to them, and their Succeflbrs 
 ♦' for ever, from and immediately after the Death of the faid Sir 
 »' John Cotton, to the Ufes, Intents, and Purpofes following; That 
 «' is to fay. As for the faid Houfe, Gardens, and Appurtenances, o- 
 " ther than the Room, where the faid Library theji was, or thereafter 
 " might be lodged, and a convenient Way, Pafiage, and Refort to 
 *' the fiime, at the Will and Difcretion of the Heirs of the Family, 
 '' and the Library thereafter mentioned, to the only proper Ufe, and 
 " Behoof of the feveral Perfons of the Name and Family of the faid 
 " Sir John Cotton in the faid Aft mentioned; And as for and con- 
 " cerning the faid Library, and the Room, wherein the fame was, or 
 " fhould be contained, together with a convenient Pafl^age for re- 
 " forcing thereunto, upon this Trufl: and Confidence, that the faid 
 " Truftees, and their Succeflbrs fhould and would from Time toTime, 
 " and at all Times thereafter, as Occafion fhould require, infpeft, 
 " confult, and take care of the faid Library, and other Particulars 
 " above-mentioned ; and alfo make and appoint fuch Orders and Rules, 
 " as they fliould think proper for the reading, and ufing the fame, 
 " and for their better Prefervation ; and to the Intent and Purpole 
 " that the faid Truftees, or the major Part of them, fliould nomi- 
 " nace and appoint a good and fufficient Perfon, well read in An- 
 " tiquicies and R^scords, to have the immediate Care and Cuftody of 
 " the faid Library, fubjecT: to the Regulations and Provifoes in the 
 " faid A& more particularly expreffed. 
 
 And by an Ad: made in the Fifth Year of the Reign of Queen 
 Jn>i, Intitled, Ji; A^ for the belter fsrurirg her Majeftfs Purchafe of 
 Cotton Houie in Weftminfter, reciting the former Ad, " And that 
 " fince the making of the faid Ad very little had been done in Pur- 
 " fuance thereof to make the fud Library ufeful to the Publick, ex- 
 
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 " cept what had been lately done at her Majefty's Charge; and that 
 " there was no Way or PafTage to it fet out, as the Aft did direft, 
 " nor could there be any Paliiige to the fame but through the beft 
 " Rooms in the Houfe, which would render the Houfe wholly ufe- 
 " Icfs to the Family ; fo that the Library could not be reforted un- 
 " to; nor had any Orders or Rules been appointed for reading 
 ♦' or ufeing the fame, and thereby the Publick was wholly deprived 
 " of the Benefit and Advantage defigned by the Aft ; and the Place, 
 " wherein the Library was then contained, was a narrow, little 
 " Room, damp, and improper for preferving the Books and Papers •, 
 *' and the Condition thereof having been humbly reprefented to her 
 " Majefty, her Majefty, to the Intent fo great a Treafure of Books 
 *' and Manufcripts, fo generoufly given for the Publick Service, 
 " might not remain any longer ufelefs, and in Danger of perifhing, for 
 " want of due Care, and that it might be in her Majefty's Power 
 " to make this moil valuable Colleftion ufeful to her own Subjefts, 
 " and all learned Strangers, did give Direftion for treating with the 
 " faid Sir John Cotton^ for the Purchafe of the faid Cotlon Houfe and 
 ♦' Gardens, and an Agreement had been made for the purchafing the 
 ♦' Inheritance thereof for the Sum of four thoufand five hundred 
 *' Pounds, which her Majefty had direfted to be paid on the inverting 
 " the Inheritance of the Premifles in her Majefty, her Heirs and Suc- 
 " ceflbrs, which could not be done but by Aft of Parliament; the 
 *' faid recited Aft having direfted it might not be fold or alienated ; 
 *' Therefore the faid Capital Mefluage, called C0//0K Houfe, with the 
 *' Gardens, and Buildings, with the Appurtenances ufed or enjoyed 
 *' with the fame, were vefted in her Majefty, her Heirs and Succef- 
 " fors, with this exprefs Direftion, That a convenient Room fhould 
 *' be built on or near part of the faid Ground, thereby intended to 
 *' be vefted in her Majefty, as her Majefty, her Heirs and Succeflx)rs 
 " fhould by Writing under" the Sign Manual appoint ; in which Room, 
 " when built, all the faid Manufcripts, Written Books, Papers, 
 *' Parchments, Records, and other Memorials ; as alfo, all Coins, 
 " Medals, and other Rarities and Curiofities in the faid Library con- 
 " tained, ftiould be lodged, and there remain to all Pofterity ; and 
 " the faid Room, when built, fliould for ever be called and known 
 ♦• by the Name of the Cottonian Library ; and, from the building 
 " thereof, the faid Library fhould be managed and direfted by the 
 " Perfons in the faid Afts named, and their SuccefTors, as Truftees 
 *' to and for the Ufe of the Publick for ever, under the fame Recru- 
 " lations, Direftions, and Management of the faid Truftees, to all 
 " Intents and Purpofes, as the Library, and every thing therein con- 
 " tained, then was by the faid recited Aft liable and fubjeft to : And 
 " a fit Perfon for Library-Keeper fhould be appointed by the faid 
 " Truftees from Time to Time, as they, or the major Part of them, 
 " ftiould think fit; and the faid Library and Library- Keeper fhould 
 ♦' be in every Refpeft under the fame Direftions and Government, a» 
 " the Library and Library-Keeper by the faid recited Aft were fub- 
 " jcft to, except where the fame was therein particularly altered. 
 
 The Publick being thus obliged to preferve this valuable Gift ol 
 the Cottonian Family, and to perpetuate the Memory of their Munifi- 
 cence ; your Committee thought fit to view the Ground vefted in the 
 Crown by the laft mentioned Aft, and having furveyed and meafured 
 the fame, are of Opinion that a convenient Room may and ought to 
 be Built on or near Part of the fjid Ground for the Reception of the 
 
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 Cottenian Library, Purfuant to the Diredlions of the faid Aft -, and 
 that the faid Room may be Part of an Edifice to be eredted for other 
 Ufes, and particularly for the Prefervation of fuch Publick Records, 
 as fhall be thought proper to be depofited therein. 
 
 And your Committee think that a proper Stipend ought to be 
 granted to the Keeper of the faid Library, to engage him to Dif- 
 charge the Duty of his Office with the greater Care and Diligence, for 
 which there is at prefent little or no Allowance. 
 
 Your Committee, Purfuant to the Inftrudtion of the Houfe, have 
 alfo confidercd of a proper Place and Plan for erefting an Edifice, 
 that may be made ufe of for the Reception of the Parliament, and 
 have received feveral Defigns for that Purpofe. And it appears to 
 your Committee, that the Building before propofed for the (^ottoman 
 Library may be fo defigned, as to have Relation to a future StruiSture, 
 in which the Parliament may be Aflembled. 
 
 APPENDIX,
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
 A. 
 
 A Narrative of the Fire which happened at AJh- 
 hurnham-Houfe^ OB. 23, 1731. and of the Methods 
 ufed for preferving and recovering the Manufcripts 
 of the Royal and Cottontan Libraries. 
 
 ON Saturday Morning 05iober 23, 173 1. about two o' Clock, a 
 great Smoak was perceived by Dr. Beniley, and the reft of the 
 Family at JJhburnbam-Houfe, which foon after broke out into 
 a Flame: It began from a wooden Mantle-Tree's taking Fire, which 
 lay acrofs a Stove-Chimney, that was under the Room, where the MSS. 
 of the Royal and Cottontan Libraries were lodged, and was communi- 
 cated to that Room by the Wainfcot, and by Pieces of Timber, that 
 flood perpendicularly upon each end of the Mantle Tree. They were 
 in hopes at firft to have put a Stop to the Fire by throwing Water 
 upon the Pieces of Timber and Wainfcot, where it firft broke out, and 
 therefore did not begin to remove the Books fo foon as they otherwife 
 would have done. But the Fire prevailing, nocwithftanding the Means 
 ufed to extinguifh it, Mr. Cajley the Deputy-Librarian took Care in 
 the firft Place to remove the famous Alexandrian MS. and the Books 
 under the Head of Auguftus in the Cottontan Library, as being efteemed 
 the moft valuable amongft the Colleftion. Several entire Preffes with 
 the Books in them were alfo removed; but the Fire increafing ftill, 
 and the Engines fent for not coming fo foon as could be wiflied, and 
 feveral of the Backs of the Prefles being already on Fire, they were 
 obliged to be broke open, and the Books, as many as could be, were 
 thrown out of the Windows. Some were carried into the Apartment 
 of the Captain of Wejlmitijlar School; others into the little Cloifters; 
 whence, after the Fire was extinguiftied, they were convey'd into the 
 great Boarding Houfe oppofite to AJhhurnhatn-Honfe^ and upon Mi9«- 
 </a)i following, O^ober 2St Leave being obtained, they were removed 
 
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 into the new Building defigned for the Dormitory of the JVeJhninfier 
 Scholars. 
 
 The Right Honorable the Speaker of the Houfc of Commons came 
 down to Ajloburnham-Hoiife^ as foon as he heard of the Fire, to fee that 
 due Precaution was taken, that what had efcaped the Flames fhould 
 not be deftroyed or purloined; and on Mo)?day following the Right 
 Honourable the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Raymond, Lord Chief Ju- 
 ftice of the King's- Bench, and Mr. Speaker, being Truftees for the Coi- 
 tonian Library, were all three at the Dormitory -, and as great Num- 
 bers of the Manufcripts that remained had fuffered exceedingly from 
 the Engine- Water, as well as from the Fire, and were in danger of be- 
 ing quite deftroyed, if fome Cure was not fpeedily provided; the 
 Right Honorable the Speaker of the Houfe of Commons appoin- 
 ted feveral Perfons, fome of whom are concerned in Offices, where Re- 
 cords as well of Paper as Parchment are lodged, to meet him OS'o- 
 her 28. at the faid Dormitory, to confider what was proper to be done 
 for preferving and recovering, as much as pofTible, the Manufcripts, 
 which had lb fuffered; and they attended accordingly, and having 
 viewed the Manufcripts, they went together, and drew up the following 
 Paper, viz. 
 
 We, whofe Names are hereunto fubfcribed, having met at the Defire 
 of the Right Honorable Arthur Onjlow Efq; Speaker of the Honoura- 
 ble Houfe of Commons, to confider of proper Methods for preferving 
 the Manufcripts of the Royal and Cottonian Libraries, that have fuffered 
 by the late Fire at Ajlibiirnh am- Houfc, have agreed upon the following 
 Propofals, viz. 
 
 I. That the Paper Books, that are ftalned, be immediately unbound, 
 and put into the fofteft and cleareft cold Water, that can be procured, 
 till the Stains difappear, and then fhifted into Water, in which AUum 
 has been diffolved, in order to ftrengthen and fortify them ; afterwards 
 to be hung upon Lines till dry, and then bound again. 
 
 II. With regard to the Vellum Manufcripts, it is thought proper, that 
 great Care be taken to feparate thofe, that are damaged, from thofe that 
 are not damaged ; and that a farther Separation be alfo made of thofe 
 that are damaged by Water, from thofe, that are damaged by Fire only; 
 and that Care in the firft Place be taken of thofe, that have fuffered 
 by Water, preferring, if poflible, the moft valuable, and moft 
 intire. 
 
 III. Thar the wet Vellum Manufcripts be very carefully turned over 
 Leaf by Leaf; that they be laid as ftrait and fmooth with the Hand 
 as may be, gently preffing each Leaf with a clean Flannel ; and where 
 the Wet has penetrated to the Backs of thofe, that are bound, that they 
 be taken out of the Binding, and turned over in like manner; after- 
 wards to be hung upon Lines, three or four Leaves together, frequent- 
 ly feparating each Leaf, as well of thofe that are bound, as unbound, 
 that they may not ftick together. 
 
 IV. That the Vellum Manufcripts, which are clofed together by the 
 Fire, be feparated with an Ivory Folder; that they be turned over 
 Leaf by Leaf, and the glewy Subftance which has been fried out up- 
 on the Edges, be taken off by the Fingers carefully, in order to pre- 
 vent its infefting and corroding the reft, as we apprehend it will other- 
 wife do; and that fuch as are fo hardened, ancl fliriveled up, as not to 
 be legible in their prefent Condition, be foftned by cold Water, in cafe 
 no other Method more proper fhall be found. 
 
 V. That
 
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 V. That the Fragment?, be alio carefully cleaned nnd preferved. 
 Lafti\\ That a fufficienr ^^umber of proper Hands be imployed CO 
 proceed in the Work with all podible Diligence and Difpatch. 
 
 OcIoberiS, 1731. 
 
 S. Burroughs. 
 
 N. H A R D « N G E. 
 
 Rob. Sander^ on, U//ji'r of the Rolls. 
 
 John Law ton, Kc'^-per of the Records in the Exchequer. 
 
 Geo. Holmes, Deputy Keeper of the Records in the Tower. 
 
 James Stewart, Clerk to the faid Mr, Lawton. 
 
 W. Whiston, Clerk to Mr. Lawcon. 
 
 P. Forbes. 
 
 Benj. Ayc ri gg. 
 
 Richard Bentley, Library -Keeper to his Majeftj. 
 
 David Casley, Deputy-Librarian. 
 
 *rhis Paper, which was delivered the Day following to Mr. Speaker^ 
 was fhown to the Lord Chancellor, and Lord Chief Juftice of the 
 Kin^s- Bench; and all three approving of the Method therein propofedj 
 the three Clerks of the Record Office belonging to his Majefty's Court 
 of Receipt of the Exchequer were directed by Mr. Speaker to aflift 
 Mr. Bentley and Mr. Caflej in the Work, according to the Method pro- 
 pofed. A Book-binder alfo Was imployed to wafh and re-bind the Pa- 
 per Books-, and others were imployed in turning over the Manufcripts 
 for the firft Week -, the Number of Books damaged requiring many- 
 Hands at the firft, that each Book might as foon, as was polTible, be 
 turned over, at leaft once, to prevent their mildewing and corrupt- 
 ing. 
 
 November I. the faid Ferfons entered upon their Work. They made 
 a Separation of the Paper Manufcripts from thofe of Vellum and Parch- 
 ment, beginningwith the wet Paper Manufcripts, that were intire, in the 
 iirft Place -, which were immediately taken out of the Binding, and 
 put into Tubs of cold Water, then fhifted into Allum Water, and af- 
 terwards hung upon Lines, and, when dry, were taken down, and with 
 great Care and Pains collated ; and the Leaves, that had been mifplaced 
 and tranfpofed by the Operation, were reftored to their proper Places 
 again, and were then delivered to the Book-binder to be bound again. 
 The Vellum Manufcripts were in like manner feparated, the wet from 
 thofe that had fuffered by Fire only -, and the wet were turned over Leaf 
 by Leaf, and placed open upon the Floor for a few Days, and then ta- 
 ken up, and turned over again, and placed, as before ; and this Method 
 was in like manner repeated, till they were dry, and they were then put 
 up into their refpedtive PrefTes. Some that had fuffered much by the Wa- 
 ter, when they had been turned over once, or twice, and were found 
 more likely to mildew and corrupt, than to be dried by fuch Procefs, 
 were turned over and dried Leaf by Leaf before a Fire; and a very 
 few were obliged to be taken quite out of the Binding, and hung up- 
 on Lines, two or three Leaves together, to be dried, the Water ha- 
 ving fo thoroughly infinuated it felf into every Part of them, that they 
 would have rotted fooner than become dry by any other Method. 
 
 Thofe that had fuffered by Fire only were next taken in hand, and 
 turned over Leaf by Leaf, as the wet Manufcript had before been; 
 and the glutinous Matter, that had been forced out upon the Edges of 
 
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 the Vellum and Parchment by the Heat of the Fire, was carefully taken 
 off by the Fingers , a few only excepted, and thofe of little or no Va- 
 lue ; the glewy Matter having fo cemented and incorporated their 
 Leaves together, that they can hardly be feparated without being torn 
 and pulled in Pieces. The Paper Fragments were alfo feparated from 
 thofe of Vellum or Parchment. The former of thefe were wafhed, and 
 hung upon Lines to be dried, as the Paper Books had been before; 
 and the latter were turned over, and laid, as thin as might be, to ex- 
 pofe them to the Air to be dryed, and, when dry, were feveral Times 
 looked over ; and the Pieces, that were Parts of the fame Book, \v<.re 
 laid together, as much as could be found ; and the remaining fingle 
 Leaves, or Pieces of Leaves, when it could not be found to what 
 Book or Books they belonged, were put into Drawers to be keptfafe. 
 All the Time this Affair has been in hand, the Right Honorable 
 the Speaker of the Houfe of Commons has been pleafed, not only to 
 order one or other of the Perfons employed to attend him feveral Times 
 a Week, to acquaint him with the daily Progrefs made in it, and to 
 receive his Dir^flions upon any Emergency, but has alfo vifited the 
 Dormitory in Perfon frequently, that he might fee, that nothing was 
 neglefted or omitted, that could any way conduce to the Recovery 
 and Prefervation of what the Fire has left. And whereas there are 
 two Originals of the Magna Charta granted by King John in the 
 Cottonian Library, from one of which the Seal has long fmce been loft, 
 or plucked off; and that, which has the Seal ftill remaining affixed to it, 
 was greatly fhrivel'd up, the Letters being contracted. Part of the Wax 
 of the Seal melted, and one or two Words quite deftroyed, and was fo 
 much damaged by the Fire, that there is Reafon to fear, that fome 
 Parts of it will not much longer continue legible; Mr. Speaker was 
 pleafed to direft, that a Copy fhould be exadtly taken from it upon 
 Parchment, in a fair and durable Hand, and that the Words or Parts 
 of Words which were eaten out by the Fire, fhould be fupplied in red 
 Letters from the other Original, and then procured it to be compared 
 with both Originals by feveral Keepers of Records, and others verfed 
 in fuch Writings, to fee that the Copy agreed exadtly with the faid 
 Originals, i. e. each Part of the Copy with its refpedtive Original, and 
 to teftify fuch Agreement and Correfpondence of the Originals and 
 Tranfcript upon the Back of the Tranfcript; which was done accord- 
 ingly Dece?nber i8 : And an Infcription was then alfo wrote upon the 
 Back of the faid Tranfcript, mentioning the Fire, and the State the 
 two Originals of the Magna Charta were in at the Time of making the 
 faid Tranfcript ; which is to remain in the Library ad perfetuam Ret 
 Memoriam. 
 
 There having no way hitherto been found out to extend Vellum or 
 Parchment, that has been fhrivel'd up and contradted by Fire, to its 
 former Dimenfions, Part of feveral of the Vellum Manufcripts muff re- 
 main not legible, unlefs this Defideratiim can be fupplied by any Per- 
 fon, which is therefore much to be wifhed; but it is hoped, that the 
 Care, that has already been taken about them, will prevent their recei- 
 ving farther Damage from what has happened to them. 
 
 A few of the Paper Fragments ftill remain to be examined ; and fuch, 
 as belong to the fame Book, placed together ; the main Part of them 
 having been gone thro' in this Manner already, and thereby feveral 
 large Portions of Books, and fome entire Books have been made up 
 out of them ; and when this is done, it feems expedient, that each Book, 
 or Portion of Book, fo coUeded together, fhould be carefully colla- 
 ted.
 
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 ted, and the Leaves placed, as near as poflible, in the fame Order, that 
 they were in before the Fire ; and then fuch, as are thought worth be- 
 ing bound again, may be fo ferved, and the Remainder put either in- 
 to Covers or Drawers, according to the refpeftive Subjeds they treat 
 of, that fo the leaft Fragment may not be lolt, 
 
 January 20, 173^. W. WHISfON. 
 
 The Number of Manufcript Volumes, which the Cottonia'n Library 
 confifted of before the late Fire, was 958 : Of which are loft, burnt, 
 or intirely fpoiled, 114, and damaged, fo as to be defeftive, 98. 
 So that the faid Library at prefent confifts of 746 intire Volumes, 
 and 98 defeftive ones ; of which a third Part has been preferved by the 
 aforefaid Method ; one hundred and upwards of them being Volumes 
 of Letters and State Papers, that have been quite taken to Pieces, 
 wafhed and bound again. 
 
 B I. 
 
 An Account of fuch Manufcripts and other Curiofitles 
 of the Cottoman Library, as were deftroy'd or in- 
 jured by the late Fire at AJhburnham-Houfe^ taken 
 by Order of the Committee of the Honourable 
 Houfe of Commons, appointed to view the faid 
 Library, ^c. by David Cajle'y Deputy Librarian, 
 23 February 1731. 
 
 N. B. Thofe Books with this * Mark before thetfiy are lojly burntf or 
 
 intirely fpoiled. 
 
 TIBERIUS A. 
 
 VIII. T IberFratrisJoannis Cap. Wants the four firft Leaves. 
 JL/ grave Ordinis Fratrutn 
 Heremitarum S. Auguflini 
 ad Henricum Regem Anglise, 
 de laudibus eorum, qui no- 
 men Henrici fortiuntur ; in 
 tres partes divifus : In qua- 
 rum prima agit de fex Hen- 
 ricis Imperatoribus, eorum- 
 que geftis Imperialibus ; in 
 fecunda de fex Regibus An- 
 glic Henricis ; in tertia de 
 
 7 hujus
 
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 hujus nominis illuftribusviris 
 toto orbe difperfis, puta de 
 Henrico Rege Dacorum, de 
 Henrico Rege Francias, de 
 Henrico FilioRicardi R. Ro- 
 manorum & Imperatoris AI- 
 mannije, de Henrico Comite 
 Campania & poftea Rege 
 lerofolymorum, de Henrico 
 Germano Lodewici Regis 
 Francije, de Henrico Duce 
 Lancaflrias, de Henrico Bo- 
 hun Comite Herfordis, de 
 Henrico de Bellomonte, dc 
 Henrico le Spenfer Epifcopo 
 Norwicenfi, de Henrico Ar- 
 chidiacono Huntingdonenfi, 
 de Henrico Archidiacono de 
 Gandavo, & de Henrico de 
 Urinaria de ordine Here- 
 tnitarum S. Auguftini, cum 
 Piduris eorundem. 
 IX. I. Prophetic Merlini. Fo- 
 lio I to 5. 
 
 12. Vitas Abbatum Monafterii 
 S. Auguftini CantuariEE a 
 Petro Abbate primo, anno 
 607, ad Regerum II, anno 
 1252: ubi multa hiftorica 
 de Anglia referuntur. In 
 fine accedunc Dallas Papa- 
 les ad eandem Abbatiam 
 fpeftantes. Q^an non Gu- 
 lielmus Thome fit Auftor. 
 F. 105. to 179. 
 XI. Regiftrum Chartarum Ab- 
 batise S. Marise Virginia 
 juxta Dublin. Donum vi- 
 ri clariffimi D. Jacobi Wa- 
 
 TX'l. 
 
 * XII, I. Explanatio Lamentatio- 
 num Jeremiae Prophetas, 
 per Willielmum Meldunen- 
 fem monachum, h. e. Mal- 
 mefburicnfem. Rationem 
 prioris appellationis vide in 
 fine Commentarii. F. i. 
 
 2. De Epiftolis formatis, & 
 Literis, quibus in iis effor- 
 mandis utuntur. F. 63, b. 
 
 3. Quomodo fcribi folebant 
 Privilegia Pontificum, F. 
 
 64. 
 
 4. Alexander Neckam de S. 
 Albano fuper Ecclefiaften 
 
 i he three fit* Leaves of this 
 are wanting. 
 
 But the laft Leaf only of this 
 Tradl is wanting ; and the four 
 next preceding burnt at the Edges, 
 and a Hole burnt through them. 
 
 This before the Fire contained 
 one hundred and four Leaves ; 
 but now has loft four of the laft 5 
 and the reft are ftirivelled up. 
 
 U
 
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 'TIBERIUS A. B. 
 
 de vankate hu manse fragili- 
 tacis. F, 65, to 142. 
 
 XIII. I. Regiftrum concinens Char- 
 
 tas vecuftas, turn Latine, 
 turn Saxonice, Regum Sa- 
 xonicorum, prjefertim Mer- 
 ciorum, quibus terrje, pof- 
 fefTiones, privilegia & im- 
 munitates Monafterio S. 
 Maris in Wigornise Civi- 
 tare donantur. F. i. 
 
 XIV. Beds Ecclefiaftica Hiftoria 
 
 gentis Anglorum, Latine ; 
 fed charafteribus Saxoni- 
 cis. 
 * XV. I. Epiftolse Alcuini five AI- 
 bini Magiftri. Inferuntur 
 quaedamaliaeEpiftoljEj viz. 
 Alcheredi anachoretse, Ser- 
 gii & Pauli P.P. Romano- 
 rum, Caroli Regis ad Im- 
 peratorem Conftantinopo- 
 lews, aliorumque. F. i. 
 
 2. Chartafundationis S, Marias 
 CaefarisBurgenfisEcclefiae, 
 per Gulielinum Ducem 
 Normannorum & Uxorem 
 fuam Mahikle, i. e. Ma- 
 tilden. F. 173. 
 
 3. Fragmentum Theologi- 
 cum, chara(5teribus vetu- 
 
 ' ftis, & a feftinante Scriba 
 exaratis. F. 174. 
 
 4. Commentarius Ricardi 
 Hampole Heremitas in A- 
 pocalypfin D. Joannis. F. 
 181. 
 
 5. Traflatus Ricardi Here- 
 mitse de vita aftiva & con- 
 templativa. F. 191. 
 
 6. Officium de S. Ricardo 
 Heremita, poftquam fuic 
 ab Ecclefia canonizatus : In 
 quo quaedam de ipfius vita 
 & miraculis. F. 192, to 
 197. 
 
 B. 
 III. 5.Liber Odonisprimi Abba- 
 tis Cluniacenfis, ad Turpi- 
 num Pontificem de perver- 
 fitate pravorum, qui, Tem- 
 per in malum fuccrefcentes, 
 Ecclefiafticam cenfuram 
 contemnunt, &c. et de 
 his, qui divinae fervituti 
 
 This wants twenty fix Leaves-, 
 which may be fupply'd from a Co- 
 py taken by the late Richard 
 Greaves Efq-, of Mickdden m 
 Gloucejlerjhire. 
 
 It had originally one hundred 
 and two Leaves : Now has loft 
 thirty four -, and the remaining are 
 much damaged. 
 
 It contain'd one hundred and 
 ninety feven Leaves. 
 
 This Book of Odo, being Num- 
 ber 5 in the Volume, is fo fcorch- 
 ed that it cannot be made ufe of; 
 and contained fifty five Leaves. 
 
 manci-
 
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 TIBERIUS B. 
 
 manclpari debuerant, & fe 
 prorfus vange gloria dedi- 
 cant, & divino cultui fi- 
 mulate deferviunt. 
 * VI. Colleftanea de aftis R. Hen- 
 rici quinti in Gallia : In qui- 
 bus continentur Commif- 
 fiones de foederibus & treu- 
 gis inter ipfum & Regem 
 Francias, & de falvis con- 
 dutbibus , propofitiones , 
 liters Martini quinti Paps, 
 liters procuratoris, appro- 
 batoris & confirmatoris, 
 copia traftatuum & treuga- 
 rum, formula juramenti fi- 
 delitatis ab Epifcopis, Ab- 
 batibus &c. D. Regi An- 
 glis prsftiti, copia Ligs 
 inter R. Henricum & Phi- 
 lippum Ducem Burgundis, 
 cum quamplurimis ad hi- 
 ftoriam iftorum temporuni 
 fpeftantibus. In his col- 
 leftaneis immifcentur quam- 
 plurima etiam diverfi argu- 
 menti ; quorum prscipua 
 funt. 
 
 1. Copia literarum Prioris & 
 Conventus S. Salvatoris 
 
 prope Brayn, Senonenfis , 
 
 Dioecefeos, & de una Mif- 
 
 fa celebranda fingulis annis 
 
 pro Domino Rege, cum 
 
 duabus confimilis forms. 
 
 F. I. 
 
 2. Liters Martini P. ad R. 
 Henricum fuper provifio- 
 nem Ricardi Flemyng ad 
 Ecclefiam Lincolnienfem , 
 cum liceris Cardinalium ad 
 eundem. F. i, k 
 
 3. Litera R. Henrici ad R. 
 HiTpanis pro reparatione 
 damnorum commilTorum in 
 Ducatu Aquitanis ad in- 
 ftantiam Regis Francorum. 
 
 F.3. 
 
 4. Litera Martini P. ad Hen- 
 ricum Regem Anglis, qua- 
 liter Concilium Conftan- 
 tienfe decrevit, quod mem- 
 bra dependentia ab Eccle- 
 fiis feu Monafteriis ante 
 Schifma, ab eifdem in po- 
 
 fterumdepcnderent. F. 3,^. 3. Pro-
 
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 TIBERIUS B. 
 
 5. Proteftatio per Gul. Hie- 
 worth Abbatem S. Albani fu- 
 per provifione ei fadla de Ec- 
 clefia Lichfieldenfi. F. 4. 
 
 6. Formula Literarum Creden- 
 tialium Martini Papje. F, 5. 
 
 7. Copia aiienationis faftas per 
 AbbaciflTam Monafterii S. Tri- 
 nitatis de Cadomo in Nor- 
 mannia de terris fuis in An- 
 glise partibus cum Chartis de 
 avifamento Jufticiariorum de 
 terris alienatis per eandem, 
 cum formulis aliarum Charta- 
 rum de aliis alienationibus. 
 F.5. 
 
 8. Inltrumentum fupercompro- 
 miflum inter D. Radulphum 
 Cromwell & D. Thorn. Beal- 
 mont. F. 7. 
 
 p. Articuliconcordati inter Mar- 
 tinum Papam & R. Henricum 
 V. pro reformationeabufuum 
 in Regno Anglije, F. 9. 
 
 10. Refponfio data per magi- 
 ftrum Morgan Protonotario 
 & Nuncio Apoftolico, exhor- 
 
 tantfadpacem, anno R. Hen- « 
 
 rici V. feptimo, A. D. 141 9. 
 F. 10. 
 
 11. Proteftatio fadta per R agios 
 Ambafliatores, qus prasmicti 
 foletin traftatibus pacis, cum 
 copiis variarum commiflio- 
 num ad capiendas amicitias & 
 treugas, ad traftandum de 
 fponfalibus, matrimonio, dote, 
 &c. cum inftruftionibus per R. 
 Henricum. F. 10. 
 
 12. Forma juramenti aiTumpti in 
 Confiliarium. F. 15, 
 
 13. Litera Caroli, Delphini 
 Francis, ad R. Henricum, 
 cum ejus refponfione. ib. 
 
 14. Copia treugarum initarum 
 inter Regem Henricum &Du- 
 cem Britannnis. 17. 
 
 15. Approbatio fundationis do- 
 mus de Sion pro Monialibus 
 fub regula & fecund um infti- 
 tuta S. Brigittae, & appro- 
 priatio duarum Ecclefiarum 
 ad eandem per Martinum P. 
 cum ejufdem commiffione pro 
 difta domo. 42, 
 
 I 16. Li-
 
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 TIBERIUS B. 
 
 16. Licentia Martini Papae de 
 transferendis Reliquiis de par- 
 tibus NormanniEE ad alia lo- 
 ca, lib! placuerit, 44. 
 
 17. Ejufdem licentia, ut Deca- 
 nus Capellse Regije poffit au- 
 dire confefliones ipfius Regis 
 & aliorum in exercitu, & li- 
 centia Altaris portatilis pro 
 Rege. ib. 
 
 18. Traftatus & fecuricates de 
 & fuper elargitione Arthuri 
 de Britannia, militis, prifona- 
 rii Regis. 45. 
 
 19. Bulla notificationis de & fu- 
 per modo & forma eledlionis 
 & coronationis Martini Papje, 
 direfta ad Regem Scotia. 53. 
 
 20. Litera miffa per Cardinales 
 ad Regem Henricum de ea- 
 dem re. 54. 
 
 21. Bulla Martini Papse ad Re- 
 gem, dum effet in Caftro Ca- 
 domi, de fua eleftione & co- 
 ronatione. g^. 
 
 22. Copia ordinationum Conci- 
 Jii generalis fub Martino V, 
 cum quaan plurimis aliis ad res 
 Gallicas & Anglicas iftoc tem- 
 pore tranfadtas fpedantibus. 
 59, b. 
 
 23. Orationes variae & epiftolas 
 Gafpari de Perufio, Legum 
 Dodloris, fuper variis argu- 
 mentis. 130,^. 
 
 24. Orationes & Epiftols Gaf- 
 pari Pergameni , Andres 
 Juliani in Mortem Manuelis 
 Chryfolorae, Campiani, Jo- 
 annis Noftenfis de Sicilia, 
 Leonardi Aretini, Pogii, Au- 
 guftini Pergameni & aliorum. 
 
 25. Epiftolse S. Pauli & Sene- 
 
 CX. 185, b, to 192, r^ n 
 
 IX. I. TabuljE chronologies; This Volume burnt to a Crult. 
 continentes annos expanfos & 
 reduftos Latinorum, iEgyp- 
 tiorum , Grsecorum , Ara- 
 bum, & Perfarum, cum eo- 
 rundem menfium nominibus 
 & menfuris & motu Solis, 
 Luns, aliorumque Planeta- 
 rum. Accedunt tabulseasqua- 
 tionis, acceffus & recelTus 
 
 oftavjE fphasrae. F. i. 2- Re- 
 
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 TIBERIUS. B. 
 
 X. 
 
 2. Regiftrum Gulielmi Crat- 
 field, Abbatis S. Edmundi. 
 
 5- ... 
 
 3. Regulse cum maximis magi- -\ 
 
 ftri Franconis, cum additioni- 
 bus aliorum Muficorum , 
 compilatse a Roberto de Han- 
 dle. 218. 
 
 4. Traftacus de Mufica incerti 
 Au6loris. Inicium -, Pro ali- 
 quali notitia de Mufica habenda, 
 prima videndum, quid fit Mu- 
 fica. 224. 
 
 5. Traftatus alius de Mufica in- 
 certi Audloris. Initium -, Cog- 
 nita moditlatione melorum fe- 
 ctindum viam o£lo troporum. 
 
 237- 
 
 6. Liber Divifionum Mahume- 
 
 ti Bag-dadini. 254. 
 
 7. Rogeri Bacon Liber de fpe- 
 culis comburentibus, cum fi- 
 guris. 259, to 264. 
 Liber Ibun Cadis Abubcori 
 de Ritibus Mohammedano- 
 rum. 
 
 Thefe three Dr. Pepufch Ka5 Co- 
 'pies of. 
 
 XI. Paflorale S. Gregorii Papas, 
 Saxonice, ex verfione Regis 
 Aelfredi. Liber dim erat 
 Plegmundi , Archiepifcopi 
 Cane, qui floruit circa An- 
 num 890. 
 
 XII. I. Opus colleftum & compi- 
 latum per venerabilem patrem 
 Thom. Bathon. & Wellen. 
 Epifcopum, ex liceris, allega- 
 tionibus, conclufionibus, con- 
 ventionibus & tradtatibus, 
 nonnullifque aliis negotiis & 
 materiis concernentibus jus 
 & ticulum Regis Anglias ad 
 regnum & coronam FrancijEj 
 cum aliis multis qus ea occa- 
 fione fecuta funt. F. i. 
 
 2. Alii Tradlatus de eodem ar- 
 gumento. F. 226, to 273. 
 
 XIII. I. Sylveftri Gyraldi Cam- 
 brenfis diftinftionum libri 4. 
 Liber mifcellaneus, in quo 
 multa theologica & hiftorica 
 occuiTunt, prsefertim contra 
 Cluniacenfium & aliorum 
 Monachorum excefl*us. F. i, 
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 TIBERIUS B. D. 
 
 3. Speculum Ecclefias , abftra- Thirteen Leaves are loft from 
 dum ex diverfis libris per the End of this Traft : And 
 Rogerum Abbatem Glafto- the two following quite loft, 
 nise. F. 188, to 240. 
 
 4. Epitaphia five verfus con- 
 fcripti in loculos quorundam 
 virorum magnorum Anglias. 
 F. 240. 
 
 5. Epiftola Beatricis, S.Marije 
 & S. Benedifti de Lacoc mi- 
 niftrze , continens elogium 
 foemin^e nobiliflimas & vene- 
 rabilis matris , Else , quon- 
 dam Abbatiflze & Comitiflse 
 de Warwike. ibid, ad Fol. 
 241. 
 
 D. 
 *III. I. Vita & paffio S. Elphegi, 
 per O/bernum Monachum 
 Cantuarienfem, cum tranfla- 
 tione ejufdem. F. i, 
 
 2. Vica S. Anfelmi, Archiepif- 
 copi Cantuarienfis, per Ead- 
 merum monachum Cantua- 
 rienfem , cum defcriptione 
 quorundam miraculorum e- 
 jufdem. F. 13. 
 
 3. Pafilo S. Epipodii martyris, 
 X Kal. Maii. F. 44. 
 
 4. Paffio S. Gregorii martyris, 
 ix Kal. Maii. F. 45, b. 
 
 5. Paffio S. Alexandri martyris, 
 viii Kal. Maii. F. 47. 
 
 6. Paffiio S. Marci Evangeliftse, 
 vii Kal. Maii. F.48. 
 
 7. Sermones in Litania majorl. 
 F. 49. 
 
 8. Vita S. Hugonis Abbatis, 
 
 V Kal. Maii. F. 50, b. 
 
 9. Paffio S. Vitalis martyris, 
 iv Kal. Mail. F. 54, b. 
 
 10. Paffio S. Torpetis martyris, 
 ivKal. Maii. F. 55. 
 
 11. Paffio S. Maximi martyris, 
 11 Kal. Maii. F. sy. 
 
 12. Vita S. Philippi Apoftoli, 
 Kal. Maii. F.5y,b. 
 
 13. De inventione S. Crucis, 
 
 V Non. M.iii. F. 58. 
 
 14. Paffio SS. Alexandri Pap^, 
 Eventii & Theodoti , Pref- 
 byterorum. F. 60, b. 
 
 15. Paffio S.Jud^, qui&Qui- 
 riacus, iv Non. Maii. F. 6i,^. 
 
 1 6. Vica S. Odilonis Abbatis. 
 
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 TIBERIUS D. 
 
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 17. In natale S. Joannis ante 
 portamLatinam lediones, & 
 Sermo Petri Damiani, 11 Non. 
 Maii, F. 70. 
 
 18. Vita Sandli Joannis Epifcopi 
 Beverlaci, Non. Maii. F.74, b. 
 
 19. Paffio S. Viftoris martyris, 
 viii Idus Maii. F. y^. 
 
 20. Sermo in tranflatione S. An- 
 dreas Apoftoli, vii Idus Maii 
 &SermodeS. Andrea. F. 77. 
 
 21. Miracula S. Andrese Apo- 
 ftoli, per Gulielmum mona- 
 chum Malmefburienfem. F.85. 
 
 22. Sermo in tranflatione S. Ni- 
 colai Epifcopi, eodem die. 
 F. 94. 
 
 23. PafTio S. Gordiani martyris, 
 vi Idus Maii. F. 100. 
 
 24. Paffio S. Pancratii martyris, 
 eodem die. F. loi. 
 
 25. Paffio SS. Nerei & Achil- 
 lei, eodem die. F. 102. 
 
 26. Refcripta S. Marcelii ad 
 eofdem; in quibus agit de S. 
 Petro & Simonc Mago, & 
 etiam de Obitu S. Petronillje, 
 & de paffione Feliculse Virgi- 
 nia. F. 104. 
 
 27. Vita S. Servafii, Tungrenfis 
 Epifcopi, iiild. Maii. F. 106. 
 
 28. Vita S. Brendani de diverfis 
 , miraculis, qus vidit in Ocea- 
 
 no, xvii Kai. Junii. F. 107. 
 
 29. Relatio Paftoris Prefbyteri 
 de titulo S. Potentianas, xiv 
 Kal. Junii. F. 118. 
 
 30. Vita S. Dunftani, Archiepif- 
 copi Cantuarienfis, xiv Kal. 
 Junii: per Ofbernum Mona- 
 chum Cantuarienfem. F. 119. 
 
 31. VitaS. Auguftini Anglorum 
 Archiepifcopi, vii Kal. Junii. 
 Deeft initium : fed in aliis co- 
 
 ' dicibus Cottonianis integra 
 habetur. F. 135. 
 
 32. Tranfitus venerabilis Bedse 
 perCuthbertum Monachum ; 
 eodem die. F. 142, b. 
 
 33. Intitulatio opufculorum Be- 
 das ab ipfo edita. F. 143. 
 
 34. Vita Sandlorum Abbatum 
 Monafterii in Wiramutha, & 
 Gyrwin -, viz. Benedifti, Ceol- 
 fridi, Eafterwini , Sigfri ;i. 
 
 ataus
 
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 TIBERIUS D. 
 
 arque Whetberti-, ab ejufJem 
 Monafterii Prefbytero & Mo- 
 nacho Beda Compofita. F. 
 144. 
 
 35. Vita S. Germani Parifiacen- 
 fis Epil'copi •, a Fortunato, 
 Piftavienfi Epifcopo, edi^ta 
 — . V Kal. Junii. F. 149. N?;;:^ 
 
 ^6. PafTio S. Cononis martyris, 
 iii. Kal. Junii. F. 156, b. 
 
 37. Vita S. Mauritii Epil'copi, 
 iii Kal. Junii; qua; camen, uc 
 illic adnotacur. Id. Septem- 
 bris debet legi. F. 157. 
 
 38. Paffio Sanftorum Marcelli- 
 ni Prefbyteri & Petri Exor- 
 ciftjE, iv Nop. Junii. F. 159. 
 
 39. Pafiio S. Herafmi, Epifco- 
 pi& Martyris, iii Non. Junii. 
 F. 161. 
 
 40. Paffio S. Bonifacii, Epifco- 
 pi & Martyris, Non. Jun, 
 F. 163. 
 
 41. Vita S. Bonifacii, per S, 
 VV^illebaldum , A. Ch. 781. 
 F. 165. 
 
 42. Paffio S. Juliani Martyris, 
 viii Id. Jan. F. 175. 
 
 43. Vita S. Medard-i Pontificis, 
 vi. Id. Jun. F. 176. 
 
 44. Paffio SS. Primi & Felicia- 
 ni, V Id. Junii. F. 177. 
 
 45. TranOatio & Vita S. Mar- 
 garitse, Reginse Scotorum, 
 per Turgotum Dunelmenfem , 
 ad Mathildem Reginam, F. 
 
 46. Vita S. Niniani, Epifcopi 
 & Confeffbris, ab Aelredo 
 Rievailcnfi Abbate de Angli- 
 co in Latinum tranflata. 
 F. 186, 
 
 47. Vita & Miracula S. Colum- 
 bi£ Epifcopi. F. 192. 
 
 48. Paffio S. Gethulii Martyris, 
 & aliorum Sanftorum, v Id. 
 Junii. F. 217. 
 
 49. Vita S. Barnabje Apoftoii, 
 iii Id. Jun. F. 218. 
 
 50. Paffio Sanftorum Martyrum, 
 Nazarii & Celfi, 11 Id. Jun. 
 F. 219. 
 
 5i.PaffioSanftorum Martyrum, 
 Viti, Modefti & Crefcentise, 
 xvii Kal. Juo. F. 220. 
 
 52. Paffio
 
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 52. Paflio SS. Cyiiaci & Julit- 
 tae, xvi Kal. Jun. F. 223. 
 
 53. Vita S. Botulphi Abbatis, 
 per Fulcardum Monachum, 
 ad Walchelmum Epifcopum, 
 F. 224. 
 
 54. Paffio S. Diofcori Martyris, 
 qui pafTus eft in j^gypto, & 
 fuic Curialis; xv Kal. Jul, 
 F. 226. 
 
 ^^. Pafllo Sandlorum Marty- 
 rum, Marci, & Marcelliani, 
 xiv Kal, Jul. F. 227. 
 
 56. Traftatus S. Ambrofii de 
 inventione Sanftorum Mar- 
 
 . tyrum , Gervafii & Protafii, 
 xiii Kal. Jul. F. 229. 
 
 Ciy. Vita S. Leufredi Abbatis, 
 xi Kal. Jul. F. 230, 
 
 58. Paffio S. Albani Martyris, 
 X Kal. Jul. F. 231, 
 
 S^. Vita S. Etheldrith^ Virgi- 
 nis, ix Kal. Jul. F. 232. 
 
 60. Sermo Leonis Papge in na- 
 tale S. Joannis Baptiftae. F.233. 
 
 61. Sermo alius S. Auguftini, 
 
 F. 235- 
 
 62. Paffio Sanftorum Marty- 
 rum, Joannis &Pauli, vi Kal, 
 Jul. F. 236. 
 
 6^. Paffio S. Julii martyris apud 
 Provinciam Afyam in Civi- 
 tate Dorovenfi, eodem die. 
 F. 238. 
 
 64. Paffio S. Symphorofe, uxo- 
 ris S. Gethulii, cum vii. filiis, 
 V Kal. Jul. 238,^. 
 
 6e^. Paffio S. Irenxi, Epifcopi 
 & Martyris, cum multis Lug- 
 dunenfibus,ivKal.Jul.F. 239, 
 
 66. Paffio SS. Andochii Prefby- 
 teri, Tyrfi Diaconi, & Feli- 
 cis, viii Kal. Oftobris. F. 241, 
 
 67. Vita S. Yvonis Epifcopi in 
 Perfide, viii. Kal. Maii, per 
 per Andream Abbatem Ra- 
 mefienfem, ut teftatur Goce- 
 linus in prsefatione. F. 242, 
 
 68. Inventio S. Yvonis, viii, 
 Kal. Maii. F. 249. 
 
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 TIBERIUS D.E, 
 
 VI. Regiftrutn Chartarum Mona- 
 fterii Ecclefise Chrifti de 
 Twynham in agro Hampto- 
 nienfi 
 
 VII. Rafiulf of Che/ier his Books 
 of Chronicles, put into Eng- 
 lifh by John de Trevifa. 
 
 X. fincent's Ordinary of Arms. 
 
 E. 
 
 * I. Vitas Sanftorum gentium Bri- 
 
 tannicarum, & quas collegit 
 Joannes de Tinmouth ; qui 
 floruit Anno 1366. 
 
 * II. Les anciennes Chroniques de 
 
 Pife en Italic, a primis tem- 
 poribus Romanorum, h. e. 
 antequam Antenor Italiam 
 appulerif, ad Annum 1430, 
 ut ex ultimo capite patet. 
 Pifanorum tarn mari quam 
 terra celebriageftaenarrat, & 
 fumma cum laude profequi- 
 tur Auftor. 
 
 III. Redditus & valor omnium 
 terrarum ac poffeflionum ad 
 Cantarias, Gildas & Collegia 
 in Comitatu Lincolnienfi fpe- 
 dtantium. 
 
 Prasmittitur brevis narratiode 
 fundatione cujufque Canta- 
 rije, ac de intentione iftius 
 fundationis. 
 
 IV. I. Sexta Seculi setas, five 
 Annales de Winchcumbe a 
 Chrifto nato ad Annum 1205. 
 Fo. I. 
 
 2. Bonifacii Papas Bulla, in qua 
 Ecclefiaftici inhibentur, ne 
 tallias, decimam, vicefimam 
 feu centefimam fuorum terra- 
 rum proventuum vel bono- 
 rum Laicis folvant, nifi venia 
 ab Apoftolica fede impetrata ; 
 cum ejufdem Epiftola ad Nun- 
 cios fuos de ejufdem Bullae 
 publicatione. F, 27, b. 
 
 3. Litera R. Edwardi I. ad Ab- 
 batem & Conventum de 
 Winchecombe de tranfcripto 
 
 made only the edges of the 
 Leaves, in great meafure, flick 
 together. 
 
 This is a Bundle of loofe fliri- 
 vell'd Leaves j but wants only 
 nine. 
 
 This wants the feventy three 
 firft Leaves. 
 
 This valuable Book of 471 
 Leaves has loft 1301 and the reft 
 are burnt at the Ends into the 
 Writing. 
 
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 And alfo the next. 
 
 This is a Bundle of loofe Leaves 
 burnt at the Ends and Sides j and 
 therefore of little Ufe. 
 
 This Book is burnt fo as the 
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 half of it may be made ufeful. 
 
 Lite-
 
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 "TIBERIUS E. 
 
 Literarum, inquibusProceres 
 Scotici agnofcunt ejus jus ad 
 Regnum Scotise, uc idem in 
 Chronicis fuis ad perpetuam 
 rei geftsB memoriam annocari 
 faciant. 28,^. 
 
 4. Annotatio, quod idem Rex 
 Edwardus adjudicavit Reg- 
 num iftud D. Joanni Bayliol, 
 falvo fibi jure fuo. 29. 
 
 5. Bonifacii Papae Epiftola ad 
 R. Edwardum de Pace facien- 
 da interipfum & Regem Fran- 
 cise. ib. 
 
 6. Regis Edwardi I Breve, in 
 quo amovet omnes religiofos 
 alicnigenas de domibus fuis 
 p'opter guerram. ib. 
 
 7. SubmilTio, quam fecit Joan- 
 nes Rex Scotis R. Edwardol 
 de fe & Regno fuo, cum prae- 
 ftatione homagii. 29, b. 
 
 8. Literse R. Margarita, uxo- 
 ris R. Edwardi I, ad Abbatem 
 dc Winchecumbe ; in qua de 
 fpeciali mandate D. Regis ip- 
 fi fignificat, fe primo die Ju- 
 nii filium peperifie, Thomam 
 nomine, apud Brotherton, 
 anno 1300. ib. 
 
 9. De Ventis, eorumque natu- 
 ris, cum eorum fchematif- 
 mo. 30. 
 
 10. Annotatio, quod poft mor- 
 tem Henrici de Lacy, ultimi 
 Comitis Lincolnise, Henricus 
 de Lancaftria jure uxoris a R. 
 Edwardo II, homagio oblato 
 Berewics, fa<ftus fuerit Comes 
 quinque Comitatuum , viz. 
 Lancaftris, Leyceftrise, de 
 Ferrers, Lincolnije & Sarif- 
 burisc. 30,^. 
 
 11. Tabulse Chronologicse ab 
 origine mundi, tum fecun- 
 dum Hebraicam veritatem, 
 tum fecundum feptuaginta 
 Interpretes. 31. 
 
 12. De Cycio magno Pafchali, 
 & etiam de CycIo decen- 
 novennali. 32. 
 
 13. Calendarium : in quo, prater 
 felosdies aliaque cseteris Com- 
 munia, fit annotatio Men- 
 
 nutn,
 
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 TIBERIUS E. 
 
 fium, Ebrasorum, Grseco- 
 rum, h. e. Syro-Macedonum, 
 & Anglorum, h.e. Saxonum. 
 
 14. Qujedam de compoto rLC- 
 clefiaftico, 41. 
 
 15. Qualiter, &quando, &per 
 quos, Prioratus S. Benedidti 
 Oxon. incepit, fundatur, & 
 aedificatur, quod ordiaatum 
 erat in Capiculo generalL Be- 
 nediftinorum Abendonise ce- 
 lebrate Anno 1290, five de 
 fundatione & dotatione Aulse 
 Gloceftrienfis Oxon. 43. 
 
 16. Bulla, in qua Prselati & 
 Ecclefiaftici Perfonas in Reg- 
 no Francije prohibentur, ne 
 fub adjutorii mutui aut doni 
 nomine Imperatoribus, Regi- 
 bus & Principibus aut Prs- 
 fidentibus ceteris prsftenC, 
 abfque Sedis Apoftolicas au- 
 ftoritate, fubfidia, quocunque 
 nomine cenfeantur, nifi pro 
 ejufdem Regni defenfione. 
 44, b. 
 
 ly. Compofitio inter Archiepif- 
 copum Cant. & Capitulum 
 "Wigornienfe pro jurifdiftione 
 Sedis vacantis. 4-5- 
 
 18. Commiffio juxca Compofi- 
 tionem confefta. 45, b. 
 
 19. Inhibitio ArchiepilcopiCant; 
 contra Archiepifcopum Ebor. 
 pro Crucis delatione in Pro- 
 vincia Cant. ib. 
 
 20. Liber venerabilis Bedx 
 Prefbyteri deTemporibus. 46. 
 
 21. Eiufdem liber de quadrifa- 
 rio Dei opere, five de natura 
 rerum. 125. 
 
 22. Ejufdem liber de tempori- 
 bus, horis & momentis. 132. 
 
 23. Dionyfius Abbas urbis Ro- 
 mse de Pafchalis Fefti ra- 
 tione, 137. 
 
 24. Figurata delineatio lerofo- 
 Jymorum, locorumque adja- 
 centium. 143. 
 
 25. Hifperici viri doftiflimi 11- - 
 ber de compoto. 144. 
 
 26. Liber Mariani, Scoti genere, 
 excerptus de Evangeliftarum 
 
 volu-
 
 (i? ) 
 
 i- 
 
 TIBERIUS E. 
 
 Voluminibus five Doftoribus. 
 
 27. Traftatuli alii de temporum 
 ratione: nifi potius ejufdem 
 Libri funt Appendices, ab 
 eodem Audtore concinnatse. 
 
 175- 
 
 28. Compendium Geographi- 
 cum. 183. 
 
 *V. Liber Chartarum cum con- Burnt to a Cruftt as are the 
 
 firmationibus Regum , Ar- two following. 
 
 chiepifcoporum , Epifcopo- 
 
 rum , Comitum , Baronum, 
 
 Militum & aliorum, cum om- 
 nibus libertatibus ad Eccle- 
 
 fiam S. Jacobi extra Nor- 
 
 thamptonam fpeftantibus , 
 
 conditus A. D. 13 13. 
 *VI. Regiftrum Chartarum Ab- 
 
 batis S. Albani. Prsmit- 
 
 tuntur, gi^ 
 
 1. Figuratas delineationes prse- ^f 
 cipuarum Civitatum mundi. 
 
 F. I. 
 
 2. Brevis Hiftoria Regum An- 
 glise. F. 4, b. 
 
 3. De ventis cardinalibus, col- 
 lateralibus, & de iis, qui in- 
 ter ipfos interveniunt, nume- 
 ro 16. F. 7. 
 
 * VII. Verfus in veteri Lingua 
 
 Anglicanaconfcriptide variis 
 - rebus Theologicis, przecipue 
 
 vero de Hiftoriis Novi Tefta- 
 
 menti, five expofitio fiiper E- 
 
 vangelia, additis multis ex 
 
 Hiftoriarum Ecclefiafticarum 
 
 Libris, & Vitis Sanftorum, 
 VIII. I. Breve Chroiiicon ab orbe A great Part of the Ends of the 
 
 condito ad R. Gulielmum I. Leaves of this Book are burnt; 
 
 F. 8. and alfo of the next fcJlowing. 
 
 2. De dilatatione Fidei Chri- 
 fiiians, & de ortu Religionis 
 in Britannia. F. 9, b. 
 
 3. De ortu Religionum. lo. 
 
 4. De quibufdam Perfonis famo- 
 fis, & proeliis. 10, b. 
 
 5. De regno & civitatibus ma- 
 joribus Britannise. 13. 
 
 6. De fex setatibus Mundi, & 
 
 de Bruto. 14. . 
 
 7. Chronica compendiofa de 
 Regibus Anglic; tantum a 
 Noe ufque ad coronationcm 
 
 IV R. Han-
 
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 riBERIUS E. 
 
 R. Henrici IV, i. e. ad An- 
 num 1399. F. 14, ^. 
 
 8. De Proceflu ad Coronatio- Mr. Cart has a Copy of this: 
 nem D.Ricardi II, cum peti- And alfo of Tradi 12, 13, 17 and 
 tionibus coram Senefchallo 43 following, 
 
 pro Feodis & Pfficiis in die 
 Coronationis. 26. 
 
 9. Officiarii principales in die 
 Coronationis. 3:5. 
 
 lb. Auftoricas Senefchalli An- 
 glic. 34,/'. , 
 
 11. Audtoritas Marefchalli An- 
 glire. 36. 
 
 1 2. Coronatio R.Ricardi 11.39,^. 
 
 13. Orders obferved at the Co- 
 ronation of the Kings and 
 Queens of England. 43. 
 
 14. Modus tenendi Parliamen- 
 tum. 46. 
 
 15. Modus faciendi duellum co- 
 raffl|Rege. 51. 
 
 16. ordinationes de Hofpitio 
 R. Edwardill, cum officiariis 
 cjufdem-, Gallice. 54, b. 
 
 ly. Orationes dicendai fuper 
 Regem & Reginam Anglia: 
 in die Coronationis & Confe- 
 crationis, & de ferviciis Mag- 
 natumin Coronatione R. Hen- 
 rici V. 75. 
 
 18. Le Ordre pour faire Ics 
 Chevaliers de la Bathe felong 
 le coftume d'Engleterre, & 
 de les antient Romayngs. 79. 
 
 19. Le Ordonnance de enoindre 
 & coronner le Roy deFraunce: 
 h.e. Coronatio R. Henrici VI. 
 Paris. 1 6 Decemb. 1 43 1 . F. 83. 
 
 20. Ordo ad Reginam benedi- 
 cendam, eodem tempore. 93. 
 
 21. Benediftio vexilli Regis 
 Gallic. 95. 
 
 22. Serement des Pers de 
 France, les Chevaliers & au- 
 tres. 96. 
 
 23. Nomina Sanftorum & Re- 
 gum, quorum corpora requi- 
 efcunt in Ecclefia ccenobit 
 B. Dionyfii in Francia Pari- 
 fienfis Ecclefise. 98. 
 
 24. Declaratio Reliquiarum in 
 eodem Monafterio. 99. 
 
 25. The Coronation of K. Hen- 
 ry VIII. 100. 
 
 a i6. No-
 
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 TIBERIUS E. 
 
 26. Notationes de Sanftis, qui 
 in Anglia patria requiefcunc. 
 III. 
 
 27. Rotulus expenfarum Hofpi- 
 tii R. Edwardi I in expcdi- 
 tioncScotica, Anno ejus Reg- 
 ni 28. F. 112. 
 
 28. The Arms of King Henry, 
 Edmond Earl of Lancajler , 
 Gilbert of Clare, Earl of Glo~ 
 cefler, and feveral other noble 
 Perfonages. 132. 
 
 29. Order for placing of Lords 
 and Ladies, according to their 
 Degrees. 140, 
 
 30. The Title and Place of No- 
 blemens Sons. 141. 
 
 31. Form of Crowns for feveral 
 Degrees, ib. 
 
 32. Of the Original and Office 
 
 of Heralds, with the Oath of ^ 
 
 an Herald. 143. ^ 
 
 23. Of Jufts, and how Prizes 
 fhall be given at them. 1 47, b. 
 
 34. Genealogy of King £Jwflr^ 
 III. 148. 
 
 35. Orders made by John Tip' 
 toft ^ Earl of Worcefter and 
 Conftable of £K^/i2«^, in the 
 fixth Year of King EdwardlY, 
 for the placing of the Nobili- 
 ty in all Proceedings. 149. 
 
 36. Of the Defcent of feveral 
 Princes and great Men, both 
 EngUJh and Foreigners : and 
 of Queen Elizabeth, and of 
 her Right and Title to feve- 
 ral great Honours and Digni- 
 ties. 150. 
 
 37. Rules forbearing and quar- 
 tering of Arms. 152. 
 
 38. Order of Sword-bearing be- 
 fore the King. 154. 
 
 39. Of the fize of Standards, 
 Banners, Pennons, and Gui- 
 dons, of what Length they 
 ought to be. 155. 
 
 40. Orders and Statutes for Jufts 
 and Triumphs, made by John 
 Tiptoft R-irl of fVorceJler. 158, 
 
 41. A Briefe for the Order of 
 every State at his Creation. 
 158, b. 
 
 42. Order for wearing of Appa- 
 
 fel. 159,^. 43- Of
 
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 TIBERIUS E. 
 
 43. Of the Coronation of King 
 Richard II. ib. 
 
 44. About the Manner of Fune- 
 rals, lyi, b. 
 
 45. Order of the Office of Earl 
 Marfhal of £?z^/a«i. 173. 
 
 46. A Determination of the 
 Debate between the Kings of 
 Arms and Sergeants of Arms. 
 
 ^75- 
 
 47. The Form and Manner of 
 
 keeping of the Parliament of 
 England. 175, b. 
 
 48. The Rights and Fees belong- 
 ing to the Officers of Arms. 
 178. 
 
 49. Ordinances and Statutes 
 made by Thomas Duke of 
 Lancajler, High Conftable of 
 England, for the Reformation 
 and good Government in the 
 Office of Arms. 177. 
 
 50. Orders formerly obferved, 
 when the King was in the 
 Field, and went to Battle. 
 
 180, ^. 
 
 51. Standards and Banners of 
 feveral Kings of England. 
 
 181, b. 
 
 52. Of the Order of Knight- 
 hood. 182. 
 
 53. Order of K. Henry the 
 Eighth's Army in France ; and 
 the fummoning the Town of 
 Boulogne Anno ^6 of K. Hen. 
 VIII, Jnno 1544. F. 185. 
 
 54. Declaration of a Combat be- 
 tween Party and Party with- 
 in Lifts, fet forth by Thomas 
 Duke of Gloucejler, high 
 Conftable of England. 190. 
 
 55. Of the Officers of the Co- 
 ronation of the Kings and 
 Qutens of England. 193, ^• 
 
 g6. Cafes of Defcents of Baro- 
 nies to Heirs general. 194. 
 
 57. Original of feveral Orders 
 of Knighthood. 194, b. 
 
 58. A difplaying of Standards 
 and Banners, and their Mea- 
 fures for all Degrees, with 
 their Figures. 195. 
 
 59. Of the notes and differen- 
 ces of Arms appointed unto 
 
 Baftards. 197, ^- ^o. Or-
 
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 TIBERIUS E. 
 
 60. Orders made by Richard 
 Duke oi' Glocejler, high Con- 
 ftable, and the Earl Marlh.1l 
 of England, for Reformation 
 of Abules in the OHice of 
 Arms. 199. 
 
 61. Reception du Corps du Roy 
 Charles de France , faic en 
 Paris, & ainfi conduit tn 
 I'Eglife Noftre Dame, Anno 
 1400. F. 205. 
 
 62. Order and Manner of Crea- 
 tion of Henry FitZ'Roy Earl 
 of Nottingham and Duke of 
 Richmoudaud Somtrfef, and of 
 the M.irquifs of Exeter, of 
 the Earls of Lincoln, Rttlland 
 and Cumberland. 206. 
 
 6^. Pedigree and Defcent of die 
 Founder of rhe Monaftery of 
 Rook.jl'y , in the County of 
 Lincoln, figned by the Abbot 
 and Monks. ioS. 
 
 64. Pedigree of Edmund Bon- . 
 tier, Bi(hop of London. 212. 
 
 6^. Antienc Articles concern- 
 ing the Office of Garter King 
 of Arms. 218. 
 
 66. Series five tituli numifma- 
 tum Imperatorum Romano- 
 rum a Julio Csfare ad Valen- 
 tinianum III. 219. 
 
 6y. The lafl; Will of Queen Ca- 
 therine, made unto King Hen- 
 ry her Son. 224. 
 
 68. A meteorological Diary, or 
 Prognoftication for the Year 
 1609 ; calculated according 
 to the moft cxadt Obferva- 
 tions of 'Ticbo Brabe, for the 
 City of London, vvhofe Ele- 
 vation is 51, 52', and Longi- 
 tude 24, 15'. 225. 
 
 69. Epiftola magiftri Derham 
 de nuptiisSacerdotum. 243. 
 
 70. Excerptum ex [ofcelino de 
 fundatione Coenobii S. Ma- 
 ri£E Eboraci. 244. 
 
 71. A Particular of the Hofpi- 
 tal of St. John, in the Town 
 of Bedford. 246. 
 
 72. A Survey of the Manors 
 of Kenelworth and Riidfin. 
 247, 
 
 73. Ar-
 
 ^ 
 
 TIBERIUS E. 
 
 7S- Articles of Agreement be- 
 tween K. He?n-y VI and Ri- 
 chard D\ike of I'ork, in a Pro- 
 clamation, wherein the- Title 
 of the faid Richard to the 
 Crown is fet down and ac- 
 knowledged. 249. 
 
 74. Exemplar Charts Regis 
 Edwardi Confefibris, Epifco- 
 po & Ecciefije Welle nfi datas. 
 250. 
 
 75. Note concerning the Death 
 and Burial of T/jcodoric King 
 of Gwent. 251, 
 
 y6. Chronica compendiofa de 
 Regibus Anglic tantum, a 
 Noe, confcripta a Ranulpho 
 Higden, Monacho Ceftrienfi, 
 252. 
 
 yj. Excerptionesdelibro Gildse 
 Sapientis. 264. 
 
 78. De mirabilibus Britannije. 
 269, 
 
 y^. Excerpta ex Lelando de fi- 
 bris, quos ille reperit in Bi- 
 bliothecis Monafteriorum, per 
 Johannem Stow. 271, 
 
 80. Vita Hildebrandi Paps, per 
 Bennonem Cardinalem. 289, 
 
 81. Defcriptio five Noticia Co- 
 mitatus Huntingdonenfis ex 
 LibroDoomfday. 301. 
 
 82. Figura Monument! Sepul- 
 chralis Thorns Becchetti in 
 Ecclefia Cant. 313. 
 
 83. Eftablifhment and Right of 
 Richard Duke of 7'ork to the 
 Crown of England by Aft of 
 Parliament. 318, 
 
 *IX. Colledtanea de Infignibus 
 gentilitiis nobilium familiarum 
 gentis Anglorum, de Genea- 
 logica ftirpe quorundam Co- 
 mitum aliorumque -, de no- 
 minibus & infignibus illu- 
 ftrium virorum, qui R, Ed- 
 wardum III ad obfidendum 
 Caletum comitati funt vicefi- 
 mo primo Regnt fui: item 
 excerpta ex regiftris Charta- 
 rum Monafterii de Colne in 
 in Comitatu Edexienfi, Hof- 
 pitaiis S, Joannis Jerufalem in 
 Anglia, Monafterii de Cogf- 
 
 ( 34) 
 
 hall
 
 (35) 
 
 TIBERIUS E. 
 
 hall aliorumque, & ex variis 
 
 Hiftoriis de Rebus Anglica- 
 
 nis. 
 !C. The Hiftory of King Richard A few Leaves of this Book are 
 
 the third comprifed in five left, burnt round. 
 
 Books, gathered and written 
 
 by Sir G. Buc Knight, Matter 
 
 of the King's Office of the 
 
 Revels, and one of the Gen- 
 tlemen of his Majefties Privy 
 
 Chamber: correfted and a- . " 
 
 mended in every Page, 
 'XI. 1. Aftusfive procelTusgene- 
 
 ralium Capitulorum Mona- 
 
 chorum S. Benedidi ab anno 
 
 1338 ad annum 1363, cum 
 
 Bullis Pontificum Romano- 
 rum de Statutis & Conftitu- 
 
 tionibus ejufdem Ordinis auc 
 
 moderandis & mitigandis auC 
 
 mutandis, i. 
 
 2. Traftatus mifcellaneus de 
 emendatione Confcientise, de ' 
 confeffione, de inftruftione 
 Confeflbris erga confitentem, 
 
 de inftruftione contra malas 
 cogitationes v de diverfis vitiis 
 & virtutibus; de Pfalmodise 
 modulatione falubri ; de Sa- 
 cramento Corporis & Sangui- 
 nis Chrifti; de fumma con- 
 templatione aiiifque. 36. 
 
 3. SoHIoquium five traftatus de 
 inftruftione animas , fcriptus 
 per quendam Adamum ad 
 Wakerum Priorem & Fratres 
 in Ecclefia S. Andrese in 
 Scotia. 59. 
 
 4. Epiftola Michaelis Abbatis 
 Monafterii S. Albani de Sta- 
 tutis, Conftitutionibus & Re- 
 gimine HofpitaJis S. Juliani 
 juxta S. Albanum. 79. 
 
 5. Charta Galfridi Abbatis fuper 
 fundatione Hofpicalis S. Ju- 
 liani juxta S. Albanum, cum 
 Chartis Confirmatoriis & Pri- 
 vilegiis ejufdem. 84. 
 
 6. Ordinatio tangens focios 
 commorantes in curfu apud 
 Rudborne, fafta per Thomam 
 Abbatem & Conventum Mo- 
 nafterii S. Albani, anno i'366, 
 86. 
 
 B. II,
 
 ( 5^ ) 
 
 B. II. 
 
 Books deftioyed or defaced in 
 
 CALIGULA 
 
 the Prefs called 
 
 CALIGULA D. 
 
 Originals for the mnft Part. _ 
 I. T~^Ranfafta inter Angliam 
 JL &Scociam, AnnisifS;, 
 
 15S8, 1589- 
 
 Part Origimih, Part Copies. . 
 II. Tranf.ifta inter Angliam & 
 Scotiam, ab Anno 1590 ad 
 Annum 1603. 
 
 *III. Tranfafta inter Angliam & 
 Franciam a temporibus R. 
 Edwardi III ad R. Edwar- 
 dum IV. In hoc Volumine 
 reperitur, 
 
 1. Tabula de Geftis Epifcopo- 
 rum Dunelmenfuim per Ri- 
 cardum Stockton, ejufdem 
 Ecclefife Monachum. F. 199. 
 
 2. Verfus Rhythmici de Hypo- 
 gnoftico Laurentiii Dunel- 
 menfis. F. 202, b. 
 
 3. Oratio ad Decanum & Capi- 
 tulum S. Pauii London, tem- 
 poribus Vifitationis; in qua 
 continetur officium boni Pa- 
 ftoris. F. 20,^ 
 
 4. Arguments tor the Succeffion 
 of "he Kings of England zo 
 the Kingdom of France, with 
 fevera! Papers of the fame Ar- 
 gument. F. 205. 
 
 Originals. 
 IV. Tranfafta inter Angliam & 
 Franciam, tempore R. Hen- 
 rici IV. 
 
 Originals. 
 Y. Tninfada inter Angliam & 
 Franciam, a primo Anno R. 
 Hcnrici V ad Annum deci- 
 mum quartum R. Henrici VI. 
 7 
 
 Confifted of 651 Leaves; of 
 which 480 are rernaining, but 
 burnt much ac the Top. A con- 
 fiderable Part of it may ftill be 
 made ufe ot : and it may be bound 
 again at one End. 
 
 Confifted of 545 Leaves; ^'6 
 of which are remaining, mi;ch 
 burnt on thebackParc, and at boih 
 Ends. Pai t of it may ftili bt uled : 
 and it may be bound ag.iin. 
 
 Confifted of 2 2 2 l^cavts. 
 
 Confifted of if^S Leaves; 72 
 of which are remaining, bi.t fo 
 much burnt as to be of little Ufe. 
 
 Confifted of 220 Leaves; 56 
 are remaining, but 31 o( them, be- 
 ing Parchment, are fo contradted 
 
 as CO be almoft ufelefs. 
 
 VI. Con-
 
 ( 37 ). 
 
 CALIGULA D. 
 
 Originals for the imfi Part. 
 
 VI. Tranfafta inter Angliam & 
 Franciam, ab Anno 1485 ad 
 1518. 
 
 Origiimh. 
 
 VII, Tranfafta inter Angliam & 
 Franciam, ab Anno 152 1 ad 
 Annum 1524. 
 
 Originals. 
 
 VIII. Tranfadta inter Angliam & 
 Franciam, ab Anno 1518 ad 
 Annum 1521. 
 
 Originals. 
 
 IX. Tranfafta inter Angliam & 
 Franciam, ab Anno 1524 ad 
 Annum ^S^y. 
 
 X. Tranfadta inter Angliam & 
 
 Franciam, Anno 1527. 
 
 *XI. Tranfafta inter Angliam & 
 Franciam, Anno 1529. 
 
 *XII. Tranfafta inter Angliam & 
 Franciam, ab Anno 1529 ad 
 
 Confifted of 370 Leaves -, all 
 remaining, burnt at one End, and 
 both the Sides. Some Part of ic 
 may ftill be ufed. 
 
 Confided of 327 Leaves: ?68 
 of them are remaining, burnt on 
 on the back Part and at the Top. 
 A confiderable Part of it may ftill 
 be ufetul : and it may be bound a- 
 gain at one End. 
 
 Confifted of 338 Leaves: 318 
 of them are remaining, burnt ac 
 the back Part and at both Ends. 
 A confiderable Part of it may ftill 
 be ufed. 
 
 Confifted of 361 Leaves: 348 
 are remaining ; but fomuch burnt, 
 that half of them are of very lit- 
 tle Ufe. 
 
 Confifted of 324 Leaves: 9 
 Pieces of Leaves only are remain- 
 ing. 
 
 Confifted of 317 Leaves. 
 
 Confifted of 398 Leaves, 
 
 CALIGULA E, 
 
 Originals. 
 L Tranfafta inter Angliam & 
 Franciam, regnante R. Hen- 
 rico VIII ; fine aliqua deno- 
 tatione temporis. 
 Originals, 
 
 II. Tranfafta inter Angliam & 
 Franciam, regnante eodem v 
 fine aliqua denotatione tem- 
 poris. 
 
 Originals for the moft Part. 
 
 III. Tranfafta inter Angliam & 
 Francum , regnante Henri- 
 co VIII; fine aliqua denota- 
 tione temporis. Ad finem 
 apponitur ampliflima Narra- 
 tio feu Apologia D. Nevilli 
 feu de Neufville, regnante 
 Henrico IV, R. Gal lite. 
 
 Part Originals., Part Copies. 
 
 IV. Tranfafta inter Angliam & 
 Franciam, ab Anno 1538 ad 
 Annum 1553.. 
 
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 remaining ; but burnt fo much on 
 both Sides, and at the Top, aS 
 to be of very little ufe. 
 
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 remaining •, but fo much burnt on 
 the back Part, and at the Top, as 
 to be of little ufe. 
 
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 remaining, (amongft which is the 
 Apologia Nevilli;) but burnt fo 
 much on both Sides, and at the 
 Top, as to be of little ufe. 
 
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 remaining; but fo much burnt 
 on both Sides, and at the Top, 
 as to be of very little ufe. 
 
 K 
 
 V. T 
 
 ran-
 
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 CALIGULA E. 
 
 Part Originals, Part Copies. 
 T. Tranfadita inter Angliam & 
 Franciam, ab Anno 1553 ad 
 Annum 1556. 
 Part Originals, Part Copies. 
 
 VI. Tranfafta inter Angliam & 
 Franciam, ab Anno 1567 ad 
 Annum 1577. 
 
 Originals for the moft Part. 
 
 VII. Tranfadta inter Angliam & 
 Franciam ab Anno 1577, ad 
 Annum 1591. Vide etiam 
 Galb. E.Vi. 
 
 Galba E. VI here referred to, 
 contains TranfaBions with France 
 from 1580/0 1590, and is intirely 
 preferved. 
 
 Part Originals, Part Copies. 
 
 VIII. Tranfafta inter Angliam & 
 Franciam, Annis 1591 & 
 1592. 
 
 Copies for the mofl Part, 
 
 IX. Tranfada inter Angliam & 
 Franciam, ab Anno 1593 ad 
 Annum 1600. 
 
 Originals for the mofl Part. 
 
 X. Tranfadla inter Angliam & 
 Franciam, ab Anno 1600 ad 
 Annum 1604. 
 
 Part Originals, Part Copies. 
 
 XI. Tranfafta inter Angliam & 
 Franciam, ab Anno 1604 ad 
 Annum 1614. 
 
 Part Originals, Part Copies. 
 
 inter Angliam 
 
 & 
 
 XII. Tranfafta 
 
 Franciam , tempore Regina; 
 Elifabetha;, & in initio Reg- 
 ni R.Jacobi; fine aliquacer- 
 ta temporis Notations 
 
 Contain'd 275 Leaves: 222 are 
 remaining, fo burnt on the Fore- 
 part, and at the Top, as to be 
 render'd in a manner ufelefs. 
 
 Contain'd 407 Leaves : all are 
 remaining , burnt much on the 
 Forepart, and at the Top. A con- 
 fiderable Part of it may ftill be 
 ufed, and it may be bound again. 
 
 Contain'd 357 Leaves; all re- 
 maining, burnt much on the Fore- 
 part, and at the Top. A confi- 
 derable Part of it may ftill be 
 made ufe of. 
 
 Contain'd 493 Leaves ; ail re- 
 maining, burnt much on the Fore- 
 part, and at the Top. A confi- 
 derable Part of it may be made 
 ufe of. 
 
 Contain'd 506 Leaves : all are 
 remaining , burnt much on the 
 Forepart. The main of it may 
 ftill be ufeful. 
 
 Contain'd 373 Leaves; all re- 
 maining, burnt fo much on the 
 Forepart, and at both Ends, thac 
 only a fmall Part of it is ufeful. 
 
 Contain'd 293 Leaves; all re- 
 maining, burnt fo much on the 
 Forepart, and at both Ends, thac 
 a fmall Pare only of it can be 
 made ufe of. 
 
 Contain'd 418 Leaves; all re- 
 maining; but burnt fo much on 
 the Forepart, and at both Ends, 
 that a very fmall Part of it only 
 can be made ufe of, 
 
 B.m.
 
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 B. III. 
 
 Books deftroyed or defaced in the Prefs called 
 
 G A L B ^. 
 
 GALEA A. 
 
 *I. i.x'~^Ontinuatio Chronicarum 
 V-y Regum Anglise, cum 
 intcrpofuione quorundam Ca- 
 fuum contingencium in Curia 
 Romana & Regno Francise ; 
 per Adamum Merimoth Cano- 
 
 nicum London, five, Chro- ^ 
 
 nic£e, tradancesacla &contin- 
 gentia tempore Edwardi I, II 
 & III : h.e. ab anno 1303 ad 
 ad annum 1342. F, i. 
 
 2. Bulla Eugenii IV Paps de 
 unione Armenorum cum Ro- 
 mana Ecclefia in Concilio 
 Florentine : data Florentis 
 X Kal. Dec. anno incarnatio- 
 nis Dominica; 1439. F- 43* 
 
 3. Publii Ljelii Romani Carmi- 
 num liber, ad Leonellum 
 principem Heftenfem. 6-^. 
 
 4. Oratio habita a Leodryfio 
 CribelloMediolanenfi, anteiN 
 luftriffimum D. Francifcum 
 Sfortiam Ducem Mediolani, 
 Idibus Martiis, in Moguntia, 
 1 450, cum verfibus edicis per 
 eundem. 100. 
 
 5. Ejufdem oratio de ornatiffi- 
 mo triumphalique in urbem 
 Mediolanenfem ingreffu il- 
 luftriflimi & excellentiffimi 
 Francifci Sfortias Vicecomitis, 
 Ducis Mediolani. 108. 
 
 6. Ubi fepeliuntur Sanftorum 
 corpora in Anglia. 124. 
 
 7. Verfus de S. Martino, de 
 fandificatis in utero, de An- 
 glia, de Conftantino & Hele- 
 na, de Sandlo Spiritu, de die 
 Judicii, de arciculis Fidei, de 
 
 fsrvatione
 
 ( 40 ) 
 
 GALEA A. 
 
 fervacione cicatricum, de ex- 
 trema unftione multifque a- 
 
 liis. 127. 
 
 'II. I. Diverfi i'ermones ad popu- 
 ' lum in felVis diebus habici, & . 
 de variis argumentis-, puta, 
 ad facerdoces, de Epilcopis, 
 in dedicacione, ad Luaniam 
 majorem, de nativicate Do- 
 mini, ad pcenitentes &c. i. 
 
 2. Runica qusedam •, prscipue 
 in fine Libri. F. loi, 127, 
 
 129. 
 
 3. Saxonica qusdam de compu- 
 
 to Ecclefiaftico. 
 
 4. Exorcifmi quidam & medici- 
 naliai parcim Latine, partim 
 Saxonice. 126. 
 
 5. Nomina ventorun:!-, Saxonice. 
 
 129. 
 ••Ill I. Sermones ad populum: 
 pars fecunda. Incipit a fer- 
 mone XLIV, & defmit m 
 fermone LXXXVI. 
 2. Caufa Regis Stephani, more 
 plane oratorio. Pro fe enim 
 introducit auftor Regem Ste- 
 phanum perorantem contra 
 lus & titulum IVlatildis Impe- 
 ratricis. Occurrit in medio 
 Alphabetum literarum Runi- 
 carum. Liber olim S. Mans 
 de Fontibus. 
 * IV Regimento e Ceremonias de 
 'Capella; h.e. Eftas faoas vef- 
 poras & miffas cantadas de 
 todo anno, que S. A. ouve : 
 in lingua Portugallica. Erat 
 olim Liber Edwardi Hobey, 
 & poftea Georgii Carew. 
 V. Pfakerium Davidis, charafteri- 
 bus Hibernicis vetuftiffimis, 
 cum cantico Mofis,Hanns, & 
 trium puerorum. Adduur 
 in fine folium, Hibernice. Di- 
 citur fuiffeolim Ofwini Regis. 
 VII. I. Defcriptio totius orbis fafta 
 ' quondam a Principibus Ro- 
 manis, cum excerptis e libris 
 Solini & natural! hiftoria Pli- 
 
 nii. F. I. . 
 
 2. Qusedambreviculshiftorics 
 
 narrationcs de Francis & Pha- 
 
 ramundo. 4I5 ^• 
 
 2 
 
 Of this there 
 loofe Leaves. 
 
 remain feveral 
 
 This Book is a burftt Lump: 
 and Part of the edges of the Wri- 
 ting burnt away. 
 
 Ere-
 
 (4r ) 
 
 GALEA A. 
 
 3. Brevis defcriptio terra fandse. 
 F. 42, 
 
 4. Defcripcio quarundam gen- 
 tium ; viz. Indorum, Scy- 
 tharum, &c. deinde flibulolas 
 narrationes de Cynocephalis, 
 Sacyris, Cyclopidibus &c. 
 F. 43, b. 
 
 5. Hiftoria brevis & fuccinaa 
 ab orbe condito ad morcem 
 R. Gulielmi I, & paulo ul- 
 tra; i. e. ad annum 1090. 
 
 F.47. 
 
 6. Hiftoria rerum geftarum m- 
 ter Anglos & Scoco a Guliel- 
 mo I, Rege Anglic, ad A. 21 
 R.Edwardilll; i.e. ab anno 
 1066 adannum 1346. F.87. 
 
 7. Chronica de eventibus ab ad- 
 ventu Normannorum in An- 
 gliam, anno ab incarnatione 
 Domini 1065. ad temporaR. 
 Joannis ; fcripta per quendam 
 Monachum de Ofneya. F. 
 100. 
 
 *VIII. i.TraftatusRogeriBacon, 
 ordinis Minorum, de impedi- 
 mentis Sapientise. Pofterior 
 
 V Libri pars continet Gramma- 
 
 ' ticalem infticutionem Gr^ecae 
 
 Lingua;. Liber olim Tho- 
 rns Gafcoigne Cancellarii 
 Univerfuatis Oxon. tempore 
 R.Henrici VI. F. i. 
 
 2. Excerpta quorundam Gram- 
 maticalium ex Roberto Lin- 
 colnienfi. F. 55. 
 
 3. Verfus Rhythmici de Hofpi- 
 tio apud Monachos •, in qui- 
 bus mali mores Monacho- 
 rum acerrime perftringuntur. 
 F. 61. 
 
 IX. Liber precum •, Arabice. Moft of the Leaves of thefe two 
 
 X, Alter Codex Arabicus. Arabic Books are preferved, loofe 
 
 *XIV. I. Computatio Grascorum 
 de menfibus anni. F. i. 
 2, Liber precum & hymno- 
 rum ; Latine & Saxonice. II- 
 larum prima videtur efle cu- 
 juldim Regis Saxonum tem- 
 pore belli. In eo quoque 
 connnentur feptem Pfalmi 
 pocnicentiales, cum colledtis 
 
 and torn.
 
 (4^ ) 
 
 GALEA A. 
 
 ad fingulos, litania majori & 
 aliis oracionibus ; forma con- 
 feffionis inter Sacerdoces, pre- 
 cefquealife, Latine, & Saxo- 
 nice. Forfna maledidli hym- 
 nique & cantiones, muficali- 
 bus notls infignicas. F. 2. 
 3. Exorcil'mus luper Caftore, e- 
 jufque vifceribus; Saxonice. 
 
 *XV. I. Annales aBruto: inqui- 
 bus continentur anciquicates 
 quasdAm ad fundationem Ec- 
 clefiac Wintonienfis fpcftan- 
 tes -, ad mortem R. Henrici V. 
 F. 1. 
 2. Annales Wintonienfes a pri- 
 ma Britannorum ad Fidem 
 Chriftianam converfione tem- 
 pore Lucii : ubi agitur de 
 prima fundatione & antiqui- 
 tate EcclefiEE Wintonienfis , 
 & de ejufdem prsfulibus 
 uique ad Hcnriciim Beau- 
 fort, R. Henrici IV Fratrem. 
 
 F-52- 
 *XV1. Alcoranum; Arabice. 
 
 * XVII. 1. Vita S. Godrici; fcrip- 
 ta per quendam Monachum 
 de Finchale, qui eam Tho- 
 rns Priori & fratribus in 
 Finchale infcribit. F. i. 
 
 2, Vita S. Bartholomsei Mona- 
 chiDunelmenfis & Heremitse 
 apud infulam Fame ; per eun- 
 drm. F. 25. 
 
 3. Narrationes qusdam legen- 
 dariae de quodam Theodofio, 
 Principe Judsorum, & Phi- 
 lippe argentario &c. (quae 
 fabula habetur apud Suidam) 
 de S. Bartholomso, de ima- 
 gine Chrifti, de ejeaione 
 Adas, de paradifo &c. F. 
 41. 
 
 4. Regula & Statuta fratrum 
 Holpitalis S. Joannis dejeru- 
 falem -, per varies Magiftros, 
 variis temporibus fafta. F. 
 
 5. Ufogia, efgardia & antiquae: 
 cenfuetudines ejufdem domus. 
 F. 114. 
 
 <5, Modus
 
 GALEA A. 
 
 (43 ) 
 
 6. Modus recipiendi fratrem ad 
 Ordinem, de eledione Ma- 
 giftri , de caftigatione fra- 
 trum delinquencium, aliifque. 
 F. 1^1, b. 
 
 y. Chronica Magiftrorum de- 
 funftorum : h. e. brevis nar- 
 racio eorundem a Girardo, 
 qui fuit Gardianus Hofpita- 
 lis pauperum in JeruHUem, 
 & repertus fuit ibidem , 
 quando Godefridus de Boul- 
 lon & peregrini Chriftiani 
 ceperunt eandem , ad Pe- 
 trum Cornelianum, qui erac 
 vicefimus oflavus Magifter. 
 F. 143, b. 
 
 * XIX. Monica qusedam moralia 
 
 R, Alfred!; Saxonice. 
 *XX. I. Phyfical Receipts. F. i 
 and 288. 
 2. Annales de rebus Anglicanis 
 ad A. D. 1447. F. 5. 
 
 * XXI. I. Calendarium. F. i. 
 
 2. Anniles breves a creacione 
 Mundi ad A. D. 1436. F.16. 
 
 3. Sanftorum loca, mirabilia 
 Mundi &c. F. 49. 
 
 4. De Roma, S,acionibus& Mi- 
 rabilibus ejus. F. 94. 
 
 5. Nomina lummorum Ponti- 
 ficum ufque ad Calixtum III. 
 F. 119. Et iterum. F. 145. 
 
 6. Nomina Romanorum Impe- 
 ratorum ufque ad Fred. Ill, 
 A. D. 1440. F. 123, b. 
 
 7. Nomina Regum Francise 
 ufquead A. D. 1422. F. 126. 
 
 8. Nomina Regum Chriftiano- 
 rum, Cardinalium & Epifco- 
 porum. F. 128. 
 
 9. Verfus, quibus dignofcuntur 
 primatio Lun^e, Annus bif- 
 fextiiis, Licera Dominicalis 
 &c. F. 131. 
 
 10. De Fide Chrifti, & qui & 
 quo tempore receperunt earn. 
 
 F. 135- 
 
 11. De ortu Religioforum & 
 quibufdam famofis perfonis. 
 
 f'- '37- 
 
 12. De proeliis tardi tempo- 
 
 ris. [Sic in Autographo.j 
 F. 14c, 
 
 B.II-
 
 (44 J 
 
 GALEA B. 
 
 II. A£la inter Angliam & Bel- 
 
 gium, temporibus Maximi- 
 liani Imperatoris & Phiiippi, 
 Archiducum Auftris & Du- 
 cum Burgundis, & Henri- 
 ci VII, Regis Anglis: h. e. 
 ab anno i486 ad annum 
 1508. 
 
 III. Ada inter Angliam & Bel- 
 gium, ab anno 1509 ad an- 
 num 1 515) inclufive. 
 
 I>. 
 
 X. Afta inter Angliam & Bel- 
 gium, ab anno 1593 ad an- 
 num 1595. 
 
 XI. Afta inter Angliam & Bel- 
 gium anno 1595. 
 
 XII. Afta inter Angliam & Bel- 
 gium, ab anno 1596. ad an- 
 num 1 602. 
 
 XIII. Adla inter Angliam, Ger- 
 maniam & Belgium , ab an- 
 no 1583 ad annum 1603. 
 
 E. 
 * XIV. Compotus Johannis de 
 Neubury , Thefaurarii Hof- 
 pitii nuperse Regins Ifabel- 
 Ije, anno 32 E. iii. 
 
 A few burnt Leaves of this are 
 preferved ; of little ufe. 
 
 This Book is burnt at one End 
 and the Side, in feveral Places into 
 the Writing: yet a great deal of it 
 is flill ufeful. 
 
 Some of the Leaves of this 
 Book are mifplaced ; but, I think, 
 none wanting. 
 
 The two firft Leaves are want- 
 ing in this Book. 
 
 This is a Bundle of loofe 
 Leaves, burnt at the Sides into 
 the Writing, fo as not to be of 
 much ufe. 
 
 A Bundle of loofe Leaves, burnt 
 at the Ends and Sides ; not of 
 much ufe. 
 
 B. IV,
 
 (4J) 
 
 t> 
 
 B. IV. 
 
 Books deftroyed or defaced in the Prefs called 
 
 r H 0. 
 
 or HO A. 
 
 *I. I. CYnodalia gefta a Curhber- 
 O CO, Arcliicpifcopo D )ro- 
 bernenli, aliifqutEccIcfurum 
 Chrifti Praslulibus, ex diverfis 
 Bricannise provinciis congre- 
 gacis, initio mcnfis Septem- 
 bris, prope loca, qua? vocan- 
 tur DebeOioas, anno Domi- 
 nicre incarnationis d.cc.xlvii. 
 indidlione xii. anno vero reg- 
 ni yEchilbaldi, Regis Mercio- 
 rum, qui tunc aderat, cum 
 fuis Principibus ac Ducibus, 
 trigefimo fecundo. F. i. 
 Epiftola Bonifacii, in Germa- 
 nia Romans Ecclefije Lega- 
 ti, ad Cuthbertum, Archi- 
 epifcopum Cantuarienfem, 
 F. 26. 
 
 Donatio five conceffio iEthel- 
 baldi, Regis Mcrciorum, Mo- 
 nafteriis & Ecclefiis , ut a 
 publicis vecftigalibus, oneri- 
 bus & fervitutibus fint literal, 
 nifi in quibufdam cafibus il- 
 lic expreffis ; perafta anno 
 C. D. CG. xLix, trigefimo ter- 
 tio anno regni ejus, cum fub- 
 fcriptionibus Epifcoporum. 
 F. 40. 
 
 Paftoralis S. Gregorii pars 
 fecunda. 'Tantum debet a£iio- 
 nem popiili a£lio tranfcendere 
 PrtefuUs quantum a grege dijlare 
 filet vita Paftoris. F. 43. Pro- 
 logus partis tertije. ^da igi' 
 tur, qualis ejfe deb eat Pajlor^ 
 ofiendimtis, nunc qualiter do- 
 ceat, demonftremus. F. 52. b. 
 Codex fane venerabilis, lice- 
 ris Lombardicis exaratus. 
 
 M * II. Re-
 
 {4<^ ) 
 
 o r H o A. 
 
 *II. Regiftrum Monafterii deBeg- 
 
 ham in Comitatu Canciano, 
 
 continens redditualia, chartas 
 
 Poncificales, Regias aliafque, 
 
 in quibus aut terras donantur 
 
 auc privilegia firmantur, alia- 
 
 que ejus generis. 
 Monafterium illud primo erat 
 
 conditum a Radulpho de De- 
 
 na in Otteham in Suflexia, 
 
 in ufum Canonicorum ordinis 
 
 Prasmonftratenfium , poftea 
 
 tranflatum ad Begham in 
 
 Cantio, per Elam de Sankvil, 
 
 ejus filiam. 
 *ni. Rituale Ecclefiafticum anti- 
 quum de prjefentatione, con- 
 
 firmacione & confecratione 
 
 Epifcopi, de ordinatione Sa- 
 
 cerdocum, de Abbacibus be- 
 
 nedicendis, de confecratione 
 
 Ecclefurum & vaforum facro- 
 
 rum, aliifquecongenerisargu- 
 
 menti. Hymni pafTim inter- 
 
 fperfi notis muficis diftinguun- 
 
 tur. Additur verfus finem 
 
 ordo in coena Domini ad re- 
 
 conciliandos poenitentes. 
 *IV. I. Liber Annalium Regura 
 
 Anglorum, ab adventu Wil- 
 
 lielmi Conquelloris ad Ricar- 
 
 dumlli h. e. ab anno io65 
 
 ad ann. 1336; per quendam 
 
 Monachum de Bruiton. F. i. 
 
 2. Nomina Capitaneorum ve- 
 nientium cum Willielmo 
 Conqueftore in Angliam. 
 F. 121. b. 
 
 3. Epiftola Senatus Romani ad 
 Papirium Decemvirum, Pro- 
 confulem Gallise, de cavenda 
 Gallorum incurfione. Epi- 
 ftola dicicur reperiri inter 
 epiftolas Quinti Curtii. Plane 
 fpuria eft. F. 122, b. 
 
 4. Romani Pontifices, ab ad- 
 ventu Normannorum ad Be- 
 nediftum Papam XII ; h. e. 
 ad annum Ch. 1334. F. 123. 
 
 5. Nomina Regum Anglise, 
 poft adventum Normanno- 
 rum, quot annos regnarunt, 
 & quando mortui funt, ufque 
 ad R. Edwardum III 1 h. e. ad 
 annum Ch. 1337. F. 125. 
 
 7 - 6. Ar-
 
 (47) 
 OT HO A. 
 
 6. Archiepifcopi Cantuarienfes, 
 ab adventii Normannorum, 
 h.e. a Lanfranco, ad Joannem 
 deSrratford; h.e. ad annum 
 Ch. 1333 -, cum notatione 
 temporis illorum promocionis 
 & obitus. F. 1 26. 
 
 7. Epifcopi Bathonise, ab ad- 
 ventu Normannorum, a Jo- 
 anne, annoCh. 1088. ad Ra- 
 dulphum de Salopia : h. e. ad 
 annumCh.1329 -, cum cadem 
 notatione. F. 127. 
 
 8. Liber Italice fcriptus de cu- 
 rationibus morbonim ac de 
 medicamentis prseparandis ; 
 cum aliis mifcellaneis de duo- 
 decim fignis, Latine, fuper- 
 fliciofis quibufdam obferva- 
 tionibus de nominibus Ange- 
 lorum, qui prsfunt menfibus 
 anni, initrfertis; de origin!- 
 bus & antiquitate Ci vitatis Eu- 
 genias, quse poltea Patavium 
 dicebatur, & Venetiarum, & 
 de aliis memorabilibus Italise. 
 F. 128. 
 
 *V. I. Tabula ad inveniendum 
 Pafgha in perpetuum. F. i. 
 
 2. Calendarium Latinum, cum 
 notatione motus folis perZo- 
 diacum. F. 3. 
 
 3. Defcriptio p.nni, five explica- 
 tio Kalendarii, Anglice, ele- 
 gantiPiinis Charadteribus deli- 
 neata cum tabulis & figuris 
 fcripta circa annum Ch. J 534. 
 F. 14. 
 
 * VI. I. Boethius, Saxonice verfus 
 per R iElfredum. F. r. 
 
 2. Excerpta qujedam Hiftorica 
 de S. Edwardo Rege & Con- 
 feflbre. F. 141. 
 
 3. Hiftoriola de quodam infano 
 ad bonam mentem reftituto 
 permeritaS.Edwardi. F. 14?. 
 
 4. Vita S. Regis Edwardi, per 
 Ailredum, Abbatem Rieval- 
 lis. F, 143. 
 
 *VII, I. Andres Dominict Flo- 
 rentini ad Cardinalem Placen- 
 tinum de Romanis Poteftad- 
 bus libri duo: Editi funt fub 
 nomine Feneftellae. F. i. 
 
 2. Com- 
 
 n.*
 
 ( 48 ) 
 
 O t HO A. 
 
 2. Comparatio quasdam Alexan- 
 dri, Hannibalis & Scipionis, 
 de prascedentia, per Minoem 
 judicem decifa. Ex Graseo 
 in Latinum verfa. F. 60. 
 
 3. Leonard! Aretini Ifagogi- 
 cum moralis difciplins , ad 
 Galeoctum. F. 6^. 
 
 *VIII. I. Vita S. Praxidis virgi- 
 nis. F. I. 
 
 2. Vita S. Mildritha? virginis : 
 fcripta tempore Scotlandi, 
 Abbatis S. Auguftini Can- 
 tuarienfis, ut manu fua anno- 
 tavit Joannes Jofcelinus. F.2. 
 
 3. Textus tranilationis & infti- 
 tutionis Monafterii B. Mil- 
 drithse, cum miraculorumat- 
 teftatione. F. 22. 
 
 4. De obitu Beds, Cuthberti, 
 ejus difcipuli, epiftola. F. 42. 
 Joh.Jofcelini manu. 
 
 5. Vita S. Machuti, Epifcopi, 
 Ventani, Saxonice. F. 43. 
 
 6. Homilis in nataliS. Machuti, 
 Chrifti Confeflbris ; ita titu- 
 lus fe habet: fed defiderantur 
 ipfe, unico folio tantum re- 
 lifto. F. 87. 
 
 7. Verfus de duodecim Apofto- 
 lis. F.88. 
 
 8. Oratio in Hebdomada majo- 
 ri, feria quarta. F. 88, b. 
 
 9. Oratib S, Gregorii Pap^, 
 cum interlinear! glofla Saxo- 
 nica. ib. 
 
 10. Fragmentum orationis Beds 
 Prefbyteri, itidem Saxonice 
 interlineatum. F. 90, b. 
 
 11. Tabulse Chronologicje a 
 Chrifto nato ad annum Ch. 
 1550. interfertis paflim me- 
 morabilibus hiftoricis. F. 91. 
 
 1 2. Epitome Privilegiorum Mo- 
 nafterii S. Auguftini Cantua- 
 rjje a prima fundatione per 
 Regem ^thelbertum, ex va- 
 riis Regum Chartis. Vixit 
 Audor tempore R. Henrici V 
 Regis AnglijE. F. 115. 
 
 ' IX. I . Anfegifi Abbatis Capitu- 
 lare. F. i. 
 2. Capituli Caroli Imperatoris. 
 
 3. Gapi-
 
 (49 ) 
 
 or HO A. 
 
 3. Capitula Ludovici Augufti, 
 & Clotarii Csefaris. F, 60. 
 
 4. Excerpta ex libris legum Ro- 
 manorum , & Francorum. 
 F. 61. 
 
 5. Fragmentum vetus codicis 
 Theodofiani. Incipit a fine 
 libri IX : & continuatur ad fi- 
 nem libri xvii. F. 68. 
 
 6. Leges Novellje Divi Theo- 
 dofii. F. 72, b. 
 
 7. Leges Novelise Divi Valen- 
 tiniani. F. 75. 
 
 8. Leges Novelise Divi Marti- 
 niani. F. 78. 
 
 9. Leges Novelise Divi Majo- 
 riani. F. 78, b. 
 
 10. Leges Novelise Divi Seve- 
 ri. F. yg. 
 
 11. Caii Liber inflitutionum. ib. 
 
 12. Pauli Sententiarum libri 
 quinque. F. 83. 
 
 13. Gregorian! liber primus. 
 F. 104. 
 
 14. Papiniani liber primus. 
 F. 105. 
 
 *X. I. Fabii Quseftoris iEthelwer- 
 di Chronicon ab initio mundi 
 ad tempora R. Eadgari. Li- 
 ber vecuftus, & pulcherrime 
 fcriptus. F. I. 
 
 2. HiftorisB gentis Langobardo- 
 rum libri fex, per Paulum 
 ■Warnefordum, charaderibus 
 antiquis & elegantiffimis. 
 
 F-55- 
 
 3. Concilium R. i^thelredi & 
 magnatum regni apud Wudu- 
 ftock de gubernatione regni, 
 Saxonice fcriptum, Solum- 
 modo duas paginas continet. 
 F. 194, b. 
 
 * XL I. Concilium Romanorum 
 Innocentiilll, Papse. F. i. 
 
 2. Fragmencum Chronici, quod 
 incipit a Concilio, quod Ale- 
 xander III Papa tenuit Ro- 
 mse. Verfatur in rebus enar- 
 randis, quse contigerunt tem- 
 poribus Henrici I & II, Re- 
 gum AnglijE. F. 16. 
 
 3. Liber, qui dicitur Secretutn 
 Philofophorum. Continec in- 
 ftitutiones Scientiarum , & 
 
 N multa
 
 O T H O A. 
 
 multa curiofa ad cognitionem 
 nacur.-e Ipeftantia. F. 20. 
 
 4. Libtllus Aftronomis ; Gal- 
 lice. P'. 60. 
 
 5. Seneca ad Paulum de virtuti- 
 bus Cardinalibus. F. -jG. 
 
 6. Liber Pro verbiorum Seneca:. 
 F. 80. 
 
 7. Flos totius Philofophise. 
 Dialogus inter Philofophum, 
 & Ducem Normannorum. 
 F. 86, h. 
 
 S. De diebus &horis^gyptia- 
 cis. F. 151. 
 
 9. Figuraca mundi delineatio. 
 F. 152, Z-. 
 
 10. Traftatus Philofophicus de 
 dementis & hyle, de corpo- 
 ribuscsleftibus, demixtione, 
 compofitione, aliifque Phy- 
 fiologicis. F. 153, 
 
 *XII. I. Allerius Menevenfis de 
 geftis Alfredi Regis, chara- 
 ftere antique, F. i. 
 2. Exorcifmus fuperftitiofus ad- 
 verfus febres ; Latine ; prje- 
 mifTis & intermixtis Saxoni- 
 cis. F. S5, b. 
 
 3. Fragmentum quoddam Hi- 
 ftoricum de rebus geftis 
 Byrhtnodi &c. Saxonice, & 
 poetice fcriptum. F. 57. 
 
 4. Vita & Paffio S. i^lphegf, 
 Archiepifcopi Cantuarienfis 
 & martyris, per O/bernum, 
 Monachum Cantuaricnfem. 
 F.63. 
 
 5. Tranflatio S. iElphegi. F. 85. 
 
 6. Vita S. Odonis, Cantuarien- 
 fis Archiepifcopi, per O/ber- 
 num, Monachum Cantuaricn- 
 fem. F. 87. 
 
 7. iElmeri, Monachi Ecclefia; 
 Chrifti Cantuarienfis, epifto. 
 ]«; in quibus traftatdemun- 
 ditia cordis, de difcretioneju- 
 dicii, de affabilitate in fer- 
 mone, de amore liberaJicatis, 
 profecutione juftitis, vigore 
 difciplinje, doftrinas ftudio, 
 cura pauperum, & erga de- 
 biles vel mente vel corpore 
 compaffione ; de bono vit^ 
 cUuftraJis, cum m#ditationi- 
 
 ( JO) 
 
 'JS
 
 o r H O A. 
 
 ( 51 ] 
 
 bus facris, tujufmodi funt 
 excitatio mentis in inquifitione 
 Dei, & querimonia de ab- 
 fentia metus Dei. Liber af- 
 ccticus & vere pius. F. 100. 
 
 8. PafTio undecim mille virgi- 
 num, a Rogero Fordonenft 
 Monacho fcripta, anno iiSi. 
 F. 139. 
 
 9. Trandacio S, Vulfhildis vir- 
 ginis. F. 146. 
 
 10. Vita S. Bertini Abbacis. 
 F. 147,/;. 
 
 11. Vita B. Vulfhildis virglnis. 
 F. 148,^. 
 
 12. Excerpta de vita S. Virgi- 
 nis iEthe]burg?e. F. 150, h. 
 
 13. DeS.Erchenwaldo. F. 155,/;. 
 *XIir. r. Vicarum colleftio ajiti- 
 
 qua, fafta tcmporibus Saxo- 
 num : in qua continentur, 
 
 1. Paffio S. Euftachii martyris* 
 F. I. 
 
 2. Paffio S. Marci Evanseliil.-e. 
 F. 22. 
 
 3. FafTio S. Cafllani martvris, 
 F. 28. ^ 
 
 4. PafTio S. Cornelii, Epifcopi 
 & marcyris. F. 30, h. 
 
 5. Pafflo S. Ferrioli martyris. 
 F- 33- 
 
 6. Paffio S. Saturnini, Epifcopi 
 & martyris. F. 38. 
 
 7. Vita five Paffio B. Tecls: 
 Virginis. F.41. 
 
 8. Paffio beatiffimorum marty- 
 rum, FauftfE Virginis, Evi- 
 lafii, & Eufebii. F. 57. 
 
 9. Vica & vifio S. Furfei. F.57, 
 
 10. Revelatio fafta Baronto, 
 Monaclio in MonafterioS. Pe- 
 tri in pago Biturico. Ad fi- 
 nem : Aitafunt bee omnia vrii 
 Kalendas Aprilis, anno vi, rpg- 
 Jtante Tbeodorico, Rege Fran- 
 conm. Ita mentiunturSuper- 
 ftitiofi Monachi. F. 94. 
 
 *i. Vifio, qu?e pridie nonas 
 Maii Fratri Rotheario oftenni 
 ell. F. l^lJ,, 
 
 12. Vifio, qua? apparuit Fratri 
 Wettino tcmporibus Hludo- 
 vici , Principis Francorum,. 
 F. 125. 
 
 Quod-
 
 ( 5^ ) 
 
 O T H O A. 
 
 2. Quoddam miraculum B. Mar- 
 tini, quod contigic in feftivi- 
 tacetranflationisejus, perHu- 
 gonem Archidiaconum , ad 
 Fulbertum , cum fequentia , 
 five hymno muficisnotulis di- 
 ftindo: cujus inicium, Dei 
 virtus i^ fapientia, cujus nutit 
 fubfijlunt omma^ i^c. F._ 1 5 1 . 
 
 3. Vita, five potius miracula 
 S. Swichini Epifcopi. F. 161. 
 
 4. Oratio Hiftorica in feftotran- 
 flationisS.Edwardi, Regis & 
 Confeflbris, quae celebrata e- 
 rat anno Chrifti 1163, 3 idus 
 Oftobris, die Dominico, a 
 Rege Henrico, Affiftentibus 
 Thoma, Archiepifcopo Can- 
 tuarienfi, Gilberto, Epifcopo 
 Londonienfi, mulcifque aliis 
 Prsfulibus & Magnatibus. 
 F. 165. 
 
 5. Traftatus de officio Miffse. 
 
 F. 173- 
 
 6. Conftitutiones cujufdam con- 
 cilii Anglican! circa tempora 
 Henrici ITI. F. 200. 
 
 7. Traftatulus de confeffione. 
 F. 20i, h. 
 
 8. Sermones fivehomilisv i. in 
 die Nacalis Domini ; 2. in E- 
 piphania-, 3. in die palma- 
 rum -, 4- in hsec verba, Ele- 
 vatus eft Sol in aelum, i^ luna 
 ftetit in ordine fuo ; 5. Sermo 
 
 de S. Jacobo Apoftolo; 
 
 6. Sermo de Dominica ; 
 
 7. Sermo B. Maris Virginis ; 
 
 8. Sermo de S. Maria Mag- 
 dalena-, 9. Sermo de Apo- 
 ftolis; 10. in iiaec verba, Ego 
 fum panis vivus, qui de ccelo de- 
 fcendit; veteri fermone An- 
 glicano compoficse circa tem- 
 pora Henrici II. F. 202. 
 
 9. Incantatio contra variolam 
 oculorum -, in qua nomen S. 
 Nicafii ufurpatur. F. 216. _ 
 * XIV. I . Narratio de morte fubita- 
 nea Joannis WiclifF; fcripta 
 propria manu Tho.Gafcoigne, 
 qui olim erat Dodtor facrse 
 Theologiae in Academia Ox- 
 onienfi. F, 2. 
 
 2. Ex-
 
 ( 53 ) 
 
 T H A. 
 
 i. Excerpta five Chronica Ivo- 
 nis, Epifcopi Carnocenfis. 
 
 3. Compendium de primis Re- 
 gibus Francorum ; h. e. a Pha- 
 ramundo ad Clodoveum, fi- 
 lium Dagoberci. F. 100, b. 
 
 4. Indicuius annorum & tempo- 
 rum, quibus vixeruntlmpera- 
 tores & Paps, a Chrifto & 
 Oiflaviano ad Henricum, fi- 
 lium Conradi & Gregorium 
 Succeflbrem Alexandri. F. 
 101, 
 
 5. Verfus Nicolai Manuacutiiad 
 incorrupta Pontificum nomina 
 conlervanda ; ne videlicet di- 
 camus Eleutherius pro Eleu- 
 therus, & Hilarius pro Hila- 
 rus, & ad fciendum, qui fine 
 antiquiores. Initium: 
 Pnino Papatus Petrus ejlinfede 
 
 locatus : 
 ^li confederunt, Linus Cletuf- 
 qiie fuerunt. F. 1 04. 
 
 6. Annocata qusedam de S. Bri- 
 gita & miraculis ejus, manu 
 propria Tliomas Gafcoigne, 
 F. 106. 
 
 7. Verfus in laudem aut vitupe- 
 rium Pontificis, prout ordine 
 re6to aut retrogrado leguntur. 
 Initium : 
 
 Ecdefia Pater aut Pajlor^ non 
 gaudia mundi, 
 
 Luhrica feSfaris ^ dans tua 
 largiflue, i^c. F. 106, b. 
 
 8. Libellus Provincialis; h. e, 
 nomina xi Regionum conti- 
 nentium infra fe Provincias 
 cxiii. 
 
 Regiones funt Italia, Gal- 
 lia, Africa, Hifpania, Illyri- 
 cus, Thracia, Afia, Oriens, 
 Pontus, vEgyptus, Britannia. 
 F, 107. 
 *XV. I. Liber Epifcopalis ; in 
 quo continentur adla beato- 
 rum Pontificum UrbisRoms, 
 cum Epiilola S. Hieronymi ad 
 Damafum P. & cum DamaQ 
 refponfo. Liber olim erac 
 S. Andreas RofFenfis. Con- 
 tinuatur ad Stephanum inclu- 
 
 five,
 
 ( 54 ) 
 
 O T H A. 
 
 five. Sequitiir indiculiis Pa- 
 parum ab Adriano ad Calix- 
 tum, cum nocacioneannorurn 
 Ponuficacus &obitus illorum. 
 F. r, 
 
 2. Petri Alphonfi Judaifmus ; 
 five dialogus de capitibus 
 Chriftians Religionis concra 
 Judsos & Saracenos, inter 
 Petrum, tunc converfum ad 
 religionem Chriftianam , & 
 quendam Moyfen. Ilium de 
 facro fonte levavit Alphon- 
 fus. Rex Hifpanis-, die nata- 
 li S. Petri, anno C. I io6: un- 
 deilliutrumquenomen, F. 8r. 
 * XVI. I. Decreta feu leges GulieJ- 
 mi Conqueftoris. F. i. 
 
 2. ProfapiaDucum Normannire 
 a Rollone ad Stephanum R, 
 
 - F. 4, b. 
 
 3. Prodigiofe qusdam narra- 
 tiones de S. Godmanno, Fur- 
 feo, aliifque, qus plane fa- 
 bulam (apiunt. F. 5. 
 
 4. Forma eligendi Prslatum ia 
 Monafteriis. F. 17. 
 
 5. Capitulum generale Canoni- 
 corum Regularium Ordinis S. 
 Auguftini, celebratum apud 
 Sourhwarke, extra Londi- 
 num, Odtabis S. Trinitatis, 
 anno mccix: in quo recen- 
 fentur ftatuta & ordinationes 
 in variis generalibus capitulis 
 in Anglia fads. F. 18. 
 
 6. Conftitutiones Ottonis, quon- 
 dam Legati in Anglia ; edits 
 London, anno Ch. 1222 
 F. 28. 
 
 7. Conftitutiones Ottoboni, Le- 
 gati in Anglia anno Ch. 1228. 
 F.38, ^. 
 
 8. Statuta Oxonienfis Concilii, 
 anno C. 1222. F. 58. 
 
 5. Statuta Concilii de Lamhethe ; 
 edita per Bonifacium, Archi- 
 epifcopumCantuarienfem, an- 
 no Ch. 1 261. F. 64. 
 
 10. Conftitutiones Fratris Joan- 
 nisdePecham, quondam Ar- 
 chiepifcopiCantuarienfis; edi- 
 tje apud Lamheth, anno Ch. 
 12S1. F.71. 
 
 BE. Con*
 
 ( JJ ) 
 
 o r H O A. 
 
 11. Conftitutiones Benedidi Pa- 
 pje de Retbrmatione Cano- 
 nicorum Rcgularium Ordinis 
 S. Auguftini. F. 8i. 
 
 12. Conftitutiones Joannis Pec- 
 cham, Archiepifcopi Cantua- 
 ricnfis ; edits apud Reading 
 3 Kal. Augufti, anno Ch. 1 279. 
 F. 105, b. 
 
 13. Conftitutiones Provinciales 
 Roberti de Winchelfea, Ar- 
 chiepifcopi Cantuarienfis-, edi- 
 tas apud Mercon. F. 109,/'. 
 
 14. Conftitutiones Provinciales 
 Stephani Langcon, Cantuari- 
 enfis Archicpilcopi -, edits a- 
 pud Lamhyth anno Ch. 1206. 
 F. 1 1 1 . 
 
 15. Conftitutiones Simonis Me- 
 pham •, edits in Concilio Pro- 
 vinciali apud S. Paulum Lon- 
 don, menfe Februario, anno 
 Ch. 1318. F. 112. 
 
 16. Conftitutiones Joannis Strec- 
 ford, Archiepilcopi Cantua- 
 rienfis; edits London, in Con- 
 cilio Provincial!, 10 Odtob. 
 anno Ch 1342. F. 114. 
 
 17. Conftitutiones alls ejufdem, 
 die Mcrcurii poft ftftum S. Ed- 
 ward! Regis & martyris, an- 
 no Ch. 1342. F. 1 20. 
 
 18. Conftitutiones Provinciales, 
 edits in Concilio apud Weft- 
 monafterium, an. Ch. 1065. 
 F. 127, b. 
 
 19. Conftitutiones Provinciales 
 S. Edmundi , Cantuarienfis 
 Archiepifcopi. F. 128, b. 
 
 20. Conftitutiones Provinciales 
 Simonis Mepham, Archiepif- 
 copi Cantuarienfis ; edits a- 
 pud Lamhith. F. 133, b. 
 
 2 1. Conftitutiones Si monislflepe, 
 Archiepifcopi Cantuarienfis, 
 anno Ch. 1362. F. 135. 
 
 22. Charts Regis -, continentes 
 cafus, in quibus Judex Eccle- 
 fiafticus poteft cognofcere , 
 Regia prohibitione non ob- 
 ftante. F. 136. 
 
 23. Conftitutiones Simonis Win- 
 chelfea , Archiepifcopi Can- 
 tuarienfis; edita: apud Magh- 
 
 7 
 
 field
 
 ( jO 
 
 O T II A. 
 
 field 1 6 Kal. Augufti, anno 
 
 Ch. 1^4-2. F. 138, b. 
 24. Cohllitutiones cujufdam fa- 
 
 crseSynodi, Epifcopi Winto- 
 
 nienfis ad clerum fuum lice- 
 
 ris municae. F. 141. 
 * XVII. I. Cereorum & hidarum The lare Johu Bridges ECq-, of 
 
 Humerus, quasad Coenobium Lincoln'' s-Lm, had a Copy ot this 
 
 Petriburgenfe fpedVant. F. i. whole Book. 
 2. Paffio SS. Ultadi & Ruffini, 
 
 filiorum Wlferi Regis, Fun- 
 
 datoris iftius Domus •, quo- 
 rum paffio erac occafio funda- 
 
 tionis F. 4. 
 '^. Hiftoria Ccenobii Petnbur- 
 
 genfis, a prima fundationead 
 
 annum Ch. 1220 aut circicer i 
 
 in qua tradat Auftor de an- 
 
 tiquitatibus, de ficu loci, de 
 
 charcis Regiis & Pontificali- 
 
 bus, de reliquiis lacris, de 
 
 Abbacibus &c. F. 2J. 
 
 4. Vetufta defcriptio Anglise 
 quoad longicudinem & lacicu- 
 dinem, comitatus & Epiico- 
 patus & numerum hidarum. 
 F. 76. 
 
 5. Prgedii de Pokebroc menfura 
 & redditus. F. 77,/'. 
 
 6. Hiftoria vetus Ccenobii Pe- 
 triburgenfis, verfibus rhyth- 
 micis Gallicanis. F. 78. 
 
 7. Regiftrum terrarum & pr^e- 
 diorum ad idem Coenobium 
 fpedantium, cum nominibus 
 Tenentium, & confuetudini- 
 bus & fervicutibus debitis. 
 
 F. 94- 
 * XVIII. I. Vita SS. Pacrum ■, ab 
 Hieronymo Prefbytero ad 
 ^gyptios Monachos fcripta. 
 Liber anciqua manu accurate 
 defcriptus. F. i. 
 
 2. Confuetudines Cartufiae ; 
 Lxxx capitulis comprehenfe. 
 
 F. 94. 
 
 3. Brevis Hiftoria PnorumCar- 
 tufije, a Brunone Fundatore 
 ad Guigonem. F. 125. 
 
 4. Ricuale -, in quo continentur 
 exorcifmus Salis, ordo ad vi- 
 fitandum infirmum moribun- 
 dum & ritus de cura mortuo- 
 
 rum. F. 127, b. 
 
 ^. Vita
 
 ( )7 ) 
 O T H U A. 
 
 j. Vita S, Nicolai i perjoannem 
 Diaconum. F. 136. 
 
 6. Breve Compendium hiftori^e 
 Anglicanre, a Bruto ad Ri- 
 cardum II, prasmiflis quibuf- 
 dam epochis Chroiiologicis. 
 F. 153. 
 
 7. Fragmentum Saxonicum dc 
 Sanclo Laurentio, unico folio 
 trontentum. F. J56. 
 
 8. De ordinatione Monachorum 
 in Scliireburnenfi Ecclefu ; 
 per Wultfinum Epilcopum , 
 ex confenfu & mandaco R, 
 ^thelredi, anno DominicjE 
 incarnacionis Dccccxcvai. 
 F. 157. 
 
 9. Liters Gulielmi Conquefto- 
 ris, fignacie ab Epifcopis & 
 Magnatibus, de concroverfia 
 agitata inter Azfaftum Epif- 
 copiim & Baldwinum Abba- 
 tem de Ecclefia B. Edmundi, 
 quam Epifcopus pro fua fedc 
 Epifcopalivendicat. F. 157,^. 
 
 10. Liters Alexandri Papse ad 
 Balduinum, de fufcipiendo 
 Monafterio S. Edmundi, ad 
 poftulationem Gulielmi Regis, 
 in tutelam Romans Eccleiis. 
 F. 158. 
 
 11. Liters Alexandri Regis 
 Scotoruni ad Friorem & Con- 
 ventum Coenobii Wigornien- 
 fis •, in quibus gratias agit pro 
 munere quodam, h. e. ficon- 
 jedturam facere licet, quod 
 admiflfus fuifTet in fraternita- 
 tis illius confortium. F. 158, b. 
 
 12. Hiftoria Britonum ; quo- 
 modo terra Anglis conque- 
 fta fuit per Bricones a Gigan- 
 tibus, & poftea sdificata per 
 cos Britones. F. 159. 
 
 13. Recognicio confuetudinum 
 & libertatum Anglis apud 
 Clarendon per Alexandrum 
 III, anno quarto Regis Hen- 
 rici II, anno Ch. 1164. F. 
 1 6 1 , Z'. 
 
 14. Liters gratulatoris Alexan- 
 dri III ad Henricum Regem, 
 Epifcopos, Comites ac Ba- 
 rones, quod deftinarint: mit^ , 
 
 tere
 
 ( 58 ) 
 
 O T H O A. 
 
 tew Epifcopos ad celebratio- 
 nem Concilii. F. 162, b. 
 J 5. Charta donationis Conftan- 
 tini Pap:e Sylveftro. F. 163. 
 
 16. Bulla Papas Bonifacii, tnifla. 
 ad Edwardum I Regem An- 
 glic per Robertum de Win- 
 chelfea, Archiepifcopum Can- 
 tuarienfem, pro terra Scotias. 
 F. 164, b. 
 
 17. Rerponfio D. Robert! de 
 Wincheirca , Archiepifcopi 
 Cantuaricnfis, ad Bullam Pa- 
 ps, 8 Idus Odob. anno Ch. 
 1300. F. 166, b. 
 
 18. Refponfio Comitum & Ba- 
 ronum Anglise ad Bullam Pa- 
 pse, 12 Febr. anno Ch. 1300. 
 F. 168, b. 
 
 19. Refponfio D. Edwardi Re- 
 gis Anglife, ad eandem Bul- 
 lam, 7 Mail, anno Ch. 1301. 
 F. 170. 
 
 20. Homagium Joannis Bailliol, 
 miirum D. Edwardo, Regi 
 Anglise, apud Berwicum Ca- 
 ftrum, 5 Aprilis, A. D. 1 296, • 
 per Gardianum fracrum Mi- 
 noriim de Rokefburgh & fo- 
 cios fuos. F. 174. 
 
 21. Nota de Ranulpho, Ceftri- 
 enfi Monacho ; & quod Flo- 
 rentius Wigornienfis adauxic 
 ipfius Chronicon. Recenci 
 manu. F. 174, b. 
 
 S2. Vita & Virtuces S. Germani, 
 Antifllodorenfis Ecclefias E- 
 pifcopi ; per Conftantium 
 Prefbyierum; quilibrumde- 
 dicat S. Patienti, LugdunenQ 
 Epifcopo, ac S. Cenfurio, E- 
 pifcopo Antifliodorenfi. F. 
 
 175-, 
 
 23. Miracula ejufdem S. Ger- 
 man! -, per Henricum, Mo- 
 nachum Antiffiodorenfem, ad 
 gloriofum Regem Carolum. 
 F. 187. 
 
 24. A Ballade, made by Gef- 
 frey Chaucer upon his Death- 
 bed, lying in his Anguifli. 
 F. 208. 
 
 25. Ballade ryall i made by 
 Chaucer, ib. 
 
 26. Chau-
 
 ( 59 ) 
 
 O T H O B. 
 
 26. Chaucer's Ballade to his 
 Purfe. F. 208, b. 
 
 27. Cantiis Troili. ib. 
 
 28. Pidtura GuJfridi Chauceri. 
 F. 209. 
 
 B. 
 
 * I. I. Johannis Forcefcue Militis, 
 
 de Lcgibus Anglic, Liber. 
 F. I. 
 
 2. Ejufdem, of the Difference 
 between Dominium Regale & 
 Dominium Politicum Regale. 
 F. 40. 
 
 3. Ejufdem Defenfio juris Do- 
 mus Lancaftrise. F. 98. 
 
 4. A Defence of the Houfe of 
 Lancajler : one Leaf. F. no. 
 
 5. S'xrjohn Fortefcue'sGsnsdXo^y 
 of the Houfe of Lancajler. 
 F. 1 1 r. (butfhou'd be 91, be- 
 ing mifplac'd by the Binder.) 
 
 6. Ejufdem, Of the Title of the * 
 Houfe of Tork to the King- 
 dom of England. F. 92. 
 
 7. Genealogia Regum Scotise a 
 R.Jacobo 2'* ufque ad Adam, 
 F. 96, b. 
 
 8. Sir John Fortefcue*^ Defence 
 of the Houfe of Tork and K. 
 Ed.lY. F. 67. 
 
 9. Nots in Cjefaris Commenta- 
 rios. F. no. 
 
 ID. VerfusProphetici de Regno 
 Anglic & Scotia. F. 113,^. 
 
 * II. Liber Paftoralis Gregorii M. 
 
 Papse ; Saxonice converfus a 
 Rege Alfredo. 
 III. I. Annales a Chrifto nato ad Of this 84 loofe Leaves remain, 
 annum Ch. 1255 '■ '" quibus burnt at the Ends and Sides, fo as 
 multa de rebus Anglias adno- jq be of no ufe. 
 tantur, prsfertimpoftadven- 
 tum Normannorum in An- 
 gliam ; & verfus finem de ob- 
 fidione Ceftrias, & de prjelio 
 ibidem, & de geftisRanulphi, 
 Comitis de Cellria. F. i. 
 
 2. Annales ab orbe condito ad 
 annum C. 1 137. F. 51. 
 
 3. Chronica Frodoardi, Mona- 
 chi S. Albani, ab Oftaviano 
 Imperatore ad annum Ch. ^66. 
 F. 73. _ 
 
 4. Chronica Reginaldi, Archi- 
 diaconi Andegavenfis : conti- 
 
 2 ' duatid
 
 ( 6o ) 
 
 or HO B. 
 
 nuatio nempe prioris ad an- 
 num 1277. In fine ell Ge- 
 nealogia Regum Francorum 
 a Pharamundo ad Phihppum 
 
 filium Hamonis. F.76, ^. _ 
 g. Figura de difporuione tn- 
 
 buum Ifraelis in eremo. F.81. 
 (5. Annales ab initio mundi ad 
 
 R. Joannem, cum figuris & 
 
 Schematifmisgenealogicis. F. 
 
 U. ... 
 
 7. Annales Acephah, qui inci- 
 piunt ab anno 1195* conti- 
 nuad ad annum 1307 : deinde 
 ab alia manu ; alii Annales, 
 ad annum decimum R. Ed- 
 wardillv in quibus res gefts 
 illius regni accurate tradan- 
 tur: ad annum vero 131 1, 
 h. e. in quarto Edwardi II, 
 inferuntur proceflus five «- 
 ^ teftationes de flagitiis Tem- 
 plariorum, & inquifitiones la 
 Concilio Provincial! traftan- 
 d£E, & multa quoque de re- 
 bus Londinenfium, & circa 
 id temporis multa; ordinatio- 
 nes fadse. F. m. 
 
 8. De prima inftitutione Tem- 
 ' plariorum, ex hiftoria Antio- 
 
 chena, circa annum Domini 
 J 120. F. 188, />. 
 
 9. De prima inftitutione Hofpi- 
 taliorum, circa annum Ch. 
 612. F. 189. 
 
 *1V. I. Gefta paucula Abbatis 
 Joannis VI, i. e. Joannis Whe- 
 thamfted, Abbatis Monafteni 
 S. Albani, de tempore lUo, 
 quo prsfuic primo in officio 
 Paftorali. F. i . 
 
 2. Annotates Suffragiorum, 
 concelfe eidem Abbati a lo- 
 cis diverfis, propter varia be- 
 neficia impenfa ipfis. F.7, ^. 
 
 3. Caufa fub brevibus, quare 
 Abbas didus baculum ad 
 tern pus repofuit regiminis pa- 
 ftoralis. F. 17. 
 
 4. Proceflus fub brevibus totius 
 fu£e moleftationis port fua; 
 temporarefignationis. F". 17,^. 
 
 5. Exclamationcs Varias, quas 
 Abbas diftus in fucceflbrem 
 
 cruc^
 
 ( 6i ) 
 
 O T H O A. 
 
 eruftaverat, propter inhuma- 
 nitatem, ingeneroluatcm &: 
 ingracicudinem, quas in fua, 
 perfona inveniebat. h'.iijb. 
 
 6. Declaracio qusdam folennis 
 in his, qus fibi primo obji- 
 cicbantur per ingracicudinem 
 fuccefibris. F. 28. 
 
 7. Metra varia, tarn inveftiva 
 quam etiani alia, dc torma 
 & modo, quibus ipfe fuccel- 
 for in fimilem accufacionis Ja- 
 qiieum incidic, qualem para- 
 vit concra prsdecefToreni feu 
 parari fecic. F. ^;^. 
 
 8. FrocelTus fub brevibus forma 
 & modo, quibus fucceflfor 
 diftus veniam petiit a prede- 
 ceflbre pro exceffibus fuis. 
 F. 38, i'. 
 
 9. Nomina & numerus Libro- 
 rum, quos ipfe fcribi fierique 
 fecit, cemporibus fui regimi- 
 nis & ante praelationem. F. 
 
 10. Procefllis indudlionis mane- 
 rii five prioratus de Penbroke 
 in partibus South-Wallias i 
 metrice. F. 44. 
 
 11. Proceflfus ereftionis Ecclefias 
 de Wymundham de Ceila ia 
 Abbatiam ; metrice. F. 45. 
 
 12. Proceflus brevis fuper trina 
 variatione fortunee in regno 
 Anglise-, metrice. F.46, ^. ;..;..' 
 
 13. Proceflfus brevis fuper qua- 
 dam plebis infurreftione in 
 regno Anglic-, metrice. F. 
 
 47- 
 
 14. Articuli illi omnes, quos 
 
 contra Joannem porrexerac ..lO'.iJ 
 
 fuccelTor. F. 49. ■r.miliu 
 
 15. Refponfiones ejufdem ad nvutti' 
 eofdem. F. 66. 
 
 16. Metra varia; puta de mife- IrVIfiU::- 
 
 ra force regni Anglic, de '■BJiliidui ?\i^u. 
 
 hello commiflb infra viliam ■ '[ 
 S. Albani. Item, Epitaphia * 
 
 varia. F. j6, b. 
 
 17. Excerpta varia de prima 
 parte Rupinarii Abbatis prjE- 
 didli. Concinet explicatio- 
 nem communium locorum, 
 alphabecice digeftorum, Ab- 
 
 Jlinire,
 
 ( ^^ ) 
 
 o r 11 o B. 
 
 fthiere^ Ailvocatm , Aiiwitio- 
 fus &c. Liber olim erac Hen- 
 rici , Comicis Scaffbrd , filii 
 Edwardi, Ducis Buckingha- 
 mix, 1560. F. S<). 
 
 * V. Chronica Rogeri de Wendo- 
 
 ver, a Chrifto nato ad A. C. 
 1234: in qua res Ecclefiafticje 
 & Civiles fecundum ordinem 
 temporum fufe enarrantur. 
 VI. Liber Genefeos; pulcherri- 
 mis figuris hiftoriam facram 
 diverfimode reprxfentancibus 
 illuminatus, & antiquiflimis 
 liceris capitalibus ante mille 
 quadringentos annos aut cir- 
 citer exaratus ; quern de Phi- 
 lippis in Angliam fecum ad- 
 portarunt duo GrasciEpifcbpi 
 tempore HenriciVIII, ei do- 
 noofferentesi &periiibentes, 
 ex antiqua tradicione recep- 
 tum, quod olim polTeflbrem 
 agnofceret Origenem. Eliza- 
 betha Regina, felicis memo- 
 rije,eum in BibliothecEB Regis 
 Archivis repertum dedit D. 
 Joanni Fortefcue Equici, fuo 
 in Grjecis Prasledtori , qui 
 confulens pofteritati eodem 
 beavit Thefaurum Cottonia- 
 num. Ita D. Jamefius, hjec 
 omnia ii D. Roberto Cottono 
 edoftus, annotavit. Incipit 
 a verfu decimo tertio capitis 
 primi, definit vero in verfu 
 penultimo capitis quinquage- 
 fimi : ultimus verfus cum fi- 
 guradeeft. Defuntquoquepaf- 
 lim folia qu^edam -, quaedam 
 vero tranfponuntur, errore 
 bibliopegi. In fine ultimo 
 paginje appofuit nomen fuum 
 Thomas Wakefeldus. 
 
 * VIII. Abuel Birkat Abdalla Naf- 
 
 fii Thefaurus fubtilitatum. 
 Continet Syncpfin religionis 
 & legis Mohammedicas; A- 
 rabice. Ubi habentur multa 
 de peregrinatione fandla, five 
 vifitatione Templi Meccani. 
 IX. Evangelia, quse j^ithelftanus 
 dedit Ecclefiae Dunelmenfi. 
 Prfefiguntur prtefatio S, Hic- 
 
 Of this valuable Monument of 
 Antiquity, about 60 Pieces of 
 Leaves remain. 
 
 ' ., « r 
 
 :ii til) i.'h 
 
 
 ..- t3;if;<^r!. 
 
 
 mjilliv 
 
 oii^d 
 
 ^r.vqh. . 
 
 .ini.dIA .?. 
 
 A dozen Pieces of Leaves re- 
 main of this old Boofei ' iT^^" 
 
 4 IX. E.
 
 r H O A. 
 
 ( 6i ) 
 
 tony mi ad Damarum P. arau- 
 
 nitntuin S. Hieronymi , & 
 
 epiftoIaEulebii de Evangelio, 
 
 cum canonum tabulis. Argu- 
 
 menta eciam casceris Evan- 
 
 geliis pn-emictuntur; & fuis 
 
 Jibris figure iv Evangelifta- 
 
 rum apponuntur. Habetur 
 
 quoque figura R. iEchelftani, 
 
 roronam in capite geftantis, 
 
 cum libro in dextra, & fcep- 
 
 tro in finiftra, & poplite flexo 
 
 offerentis Evangelia S. Cuth- 
 
 berto fedenti in Cathedra. 
 
 Enumeratio capitulorum S. 
 
 Macthsi 8i : habentur verfus 
 
 2700. 
 
 S. Marci46: verfus 1700, 
 S. Lues 62 : verfus 4800. 
 
 SJoannis 35: verfus 1700. 
 Sed hi Humeri funt male ad- 
 pofiti. 
 
 Prsmittitur lex omnium 
 veniencium ad feftum S. Cuth- 
 berci. Dedicatio hujus libri 
 ad S. Cuthbercum, per R. 
 vEthelftanum ; Saxonice. Ca- 
 picula Evangeliorum, h. e. 
 index Evangeliorum, qus ia '. 
 diebus feftis legi folebant per 
 fingulos menfes. In fine ap- 
 ponicur liber Homiliarum & 
 vitarum; Saxonice. 
 *X. I. Homiliadecreatione, cafu 
 Dasmonum, &adventu Chri' 
 fti. F. I. 
 
 2. In Hexaemeron. F. 8. 
 
 3. Depofitio S. Bafilii. F. 17, . • 
 
 4. De S. Mauro Abbate. F. 27. 
 
 5. Pafllo S. Julian! & ejus fponfse 
 BafilifTs. F. 32, /-. 
 
 6. Paffio S. Sebaftiani, marty- 
 ris. F. 40. 
 
 7. PafTio S.A.gnetis, virginis & 
 marcyris. F. 48, 
 
 8. Paffio SS. Joannis & Pauli. ;..;.',•.. 
 
 9. Paffio S. Eugenias, virginis. .^^^^.a 
 F. 55. 
 
 10. De S. Euphrofyna. F.6i,^. 
 
 11. De S. Chriftophoro, mar- 
 tyre. F. 6^. 
 
 12. De S. Maria .(Egyptiaca. 
 F. 77. 
 
 '3. D«
 
 o r H B. 
 
 13. De SS. feptem Dormienti- 
 bus. F. 96. 
 
 14. De invencione S. Crucis. F. 
 116, b. 
 
 i5.-Paflio Alexandii Papre, E- 
 vencii, ac Theodoli. F. 118. 
 
 16. Sermones tres ad infticuen- 
 diim populum in religione ; 
 in quorum alcero incroducitur 
 diabolus, oftendens cuidam 
 Anachoretse omnes pjenas in- 
 ferni. F. 120. 
 
 17. In natalem S. Joannis Bap- 
 tirts. F. 136. 
 
 18. Ritus ordinandi Monachum, 
 cum precibus. F. 140, b. 
 
 19. Hiftoria Holofernis & Ju- 
 dichse; ubi plura de captivi- 
 tate Judasorum : & ad finem 
 hiltoria Malchi Monachi ex 
 Hieronymo. F. 143. 
 
 20. Hiftoria libri cadentis de 
 cslo coram porta Ephraim a- 
 pud Hierofolymam ; in qua 
 varia func prjecepta de fanfti- 
 ficando fabbato, &c. Ec in 
 fine ait, tertimn hoc fcriptum 
 ejfe^ quod Dens de ccbIo miferit^ 
 neqiie pojl hoc aliud expeEian- 
 diim. F. 152. 
 
 21. Canones antiqui Synodales. 
 Illic reperitur confeflio fidei 
 Catholicae, quam PapaDama- 
 fus mifit ad Paulinum, An- 
 tiochenumEpircopum.F.15/;. 
 
 22. Pcenitentiale Saxonicum. F. 
 161. 
 
 23. Charadleres Alphabeti pe- 
 regrini , numero tafttum de- 
 cern. Aliqui ex his videncur 
 effe liceris Runicis fimiles. F. 
 165, b. 
 
 24. Liber Genefeos ; h. e. 357 
 
 capite ad finem ; Sasonice. '^- '?''ii^^"' 
 F. 166. 
 
 25. Depofitio S. Swithini; & 
 ejus miracula, de quorum fi- 
 lentio Auftor recencior incre- 
 pat priora tempora. F. 182. 
 
 26. Natale S. Edmundi, Regis 
 & Martyris. F. 186. 
 
 27. Nacale S. Georgii marty- 
 ris. F. 190, 
 
 28. De
 
 ( 6j ) 
 
 r H O B. 
 
 28. DeS. Etheldrytha. F. 193. 
 
 29. Pafllo S. Margaretae. ¥^1^5. 
 *XI. I. Venerabilis Beds gentis 
 
 Anglorum hiftoria, a R. JE\- 
 fredo convcrfa ; Saxonice. p.i. 
 Addicur Appendix, viz. 
 
 2. Chronicon a Chrifto nato, 
 continuatum ad annum Ch. 
 looi. Saxonice. p. 231. 
 
 3. Nomina Pontificum Romanae 
 Urbis per ordineni ; Petrus, 
 Linus, Cletus, Clemens, Eua- 
 riftus, nulla fafta mentione 
 Anacleti ; ad Damafum P. 
 p. 302. 
 
 4. Nomina Archiepifcoporum 
 Ecclefis Dorobernenfis, ab 
 Auguftino ad Dunftanum, & 
 alia manu ad jElfheah, qui 
 eft ordine vicefimus fepti- 
 mus. p. 303. 
 
 5. Nomina Epifcoporum Hro- 
 fonenfis Ecclefis, a Paulino 
 ad Godwinum. ib. 
 
 6. Nomina Epifcoporum Orien- 
 taiium Saxonum, a Mellico 
 ad iElfhun. ib. 
 
 7. Nomina Epifcoporum Au- 
 ftralium Saxonum, aWilfriJo 
 ad JElmerum. p. 304. 
 
 8. Nomina Epifcoporum Ocd- 
 dencalium Saxonum, a Birino 
 ad ^chelwoldum. ib. 
 
 9. Nomina Epifcoporum Scire- 
 burnenfis Ecclefiae. Solum- 
 modo duo ponuntur. Aid- 
 helm & Forthhere. Hie fo- 
 lium exfeftum videtur. ib. 
 
 10. R. ^ifredi") in unum cor- 
 leges, ( puscolledts; 
 
 11. R. In£B le-( Saxonice. p. 
 ges, & alls,) 305. 
 
 Liber fane venerabilis, primitus 
 S. Marias de Suwica. v. p. 18 
 & 19. 
 -* XII. I. L'ordenance du Confeil 
 du Parlement, & de la cham- 
 bre des comptes, faice a SainC 
 Germain en Laye au mois de 
 Juigne: I'ann mill ccc xvi, que 
 le Roy eftoitlors regent. F. i. 
 2. Autre ordenance du maifon 
 du Roy. In initio Paginse ab 
 alia manu fcribitur, leu ne fit. 
 
 R 
 
 q^uanf
 
 { 66 ) 
 
 o r H O B. 
 
 quant cejle ofdenance fut faite : 
 mats elle fu du Pen Monfieur^ 
 qiii ores eft. F. 5. 
 
 3. L'ordenance de I'oftel Phi- 
 lip Roy de France & de Na- 
 varre, qui ores eft : faifte au 
 bois de Vincennes aumois de 
 Decembre, I'ann mill ccc xvi. 
 F. 13. 
 
 4. Ordenances extraordinares, 
 qui fe faiflent en I'hoftel. F. 
 25, h. 
 
 5. Ordenances de I'hoftel de 
 Madame de Poitiers, ih. 
 
 6. La maniere de compter des 
 Offices de I'hoftel de Mon- 
 feigneur pour chafcun jour. 
 F. 28, k 
 
 7. Les ordenances de I'hoftel 
 de Monfeiur le Roy d'Angle- 
 terre, Edoard troifieme, F. 
 
 36. 
 
 8. Les ordenances de I'hoftel 
 de Monfieur le Due de Bur- 
 goign en tou eftas, donne a 
 Bruxelles, i Januar. A. 1468. 
 F.65. 
 
 *XIII. I, Topographica Croylan- 
 dis delineatio. F, i. 
 
 2. Hittoria, five, u: titulus ha- 
 bet, defcriptio compilataper 
 D. Ingulphum, Abbatem iVlo- 
 nafterii Croylandis, natione 
 Anglicum , quondam Mona- 
 chum Fontavillenfem ; conti- 
 nuaca per Petrum Blefenfem 
 & alios ad tempora R. Hen- 
 rici VII. Inferta eft hiftoria 
 de Slandardo, ita infcribitur, 
 qUafi effecinitium operis: fed 
 nihil aliud eft, quam narratio 
 de bello inter Davidem, Re- 
 gem Scotias, pro Nepotefuo 
 Henrico, & R. Stephanum. 
 Sic autem nuncupatur ob Re- 
 gium fignum five vexillum a 
 Tjanftiumbranis Proceribus 
 in campo juxta Alvertonam 
 confticucum; ad quod omnes 
 debebant confluere in defen- 
 fione regni contra Scotos il- 
 iac irrumpentes. F. 2. 
 
 3. Chronica de Geftis Anglo- 
 rum poft Conqueftum, ab an- 
 
 no
 
 or H B, c. 
 
 noC. 1067 ad annum C. 1307 •, 
 h. e. a coronatione R. Guliel- 
 mi I ad mortem R.Edvvardil. 
 Eadem quoad magnam par- 
 tem habentur apud Mat- 
 thseum Weftmonafterienfem : 
 alia vero in hoc libro fufiiis 
 enarrantur. F. 208. 
 
 *XIV. Charcularium Prioratus de 
 Lenton in agro Notcingha- 
 mienfi, a Gulielmo Pevereilo 
 fundati, cum fyllabo maneri- 
 orum, advocationum Eccle- 
 fiarum, portionum garbarum 
 & foeni, penfionum, terra- 
 rum & reddituum ad ejufdem 
 Priorem & Conventum fpe- 
 ftancium. 
 
 *XV. Regiftrum Monafterii S. 
 Augurtini CantuarijE, aprimo 
 Augufti die anno Cii. 1434, ' 
 ad annum Ch. 149 1 : in quo 
 preefentaciones & permuta- 
 tiones Ecclefiarum & inden- 
 turze maneriorum, reftoria- 
 rum, grangiarum , & tene- 
 mencorum, &c. ad idem Mo- 
 nafterium fpeftantium, conti- 
 nentur. 
 
 C. 
 
 * I. I. Codex Evangeliorum; 
 
 Saxonice. Liber <»k£<p<xa@': 
 incipit enim a verfu cap. 
 
 XXVII fecundumi Matthseum, 
 F.I. 
 
 2. Pofl: Evangelium S. Luc^ 
 adduntur liters Sergii Papas 
 ad Aldhelmum, Abbatem 
 Meldunenfem, ejufque Suc- 
 ceflbres, ut ipfe & Monachl 
 fint ab oneribus temporalium 
 ditionum liberi. F. 93. 
 
 3. Libri quatuor Dialogorum 
 Gregorii Papje ; Saxonice. 
 F. 136. 
 
 4. Vic£e Patrum ^gyptiaco- 
 rum, per S. Hieronymum ; 
 Saxonice. F. 273, b. 
 
 5. De Creatore & creatura-, 
 Saxonice. F. 285. 
 
 6. De fex setatibus hujus feculi ; 
 Saxonice. F. 288. 
 
 7. Item, depopulolfrael, quan- 
 do vohuris ; Saxonice. F.290. 
 
 * II. I. Brevis defcriptio Angli^e, & 
 
 Chfonicon
 
 ( 6% ) 
 
 O T H O C. 
 
 Chronicon Reguni ufque ad 
 Ed 3. F.I. 
 
 2. Mattlisi Weftmon. Florum 
 hiftoriarum fragmentum. F. 9. 
 
 3. Continuacioejuldem Matchfei 
 ufque ad annum 1379: non 
 impreffa. F. 244. 
 
 * IV. Liber nonus Chronicorum, • 
 
 five pars fecunda hiltorise a 
 Conftantino Magno ad Ludb- 
 vicum III, Regem Francis; 
 ex Latino in Gailicum tran- 
 flaca per Fr. Joannem Golein 
 Carmelitam, MagiftrumTheo- 
 logiag, juffu Caroli V Regis 
 Francis, pulchriseleganribuf- 
 que pifturis paffim ornata. 
 
 V. Evangelia fecundum SS. Mat- 
 
 th£Bum & Marcum ; Latine ; 
 charaftere admodum antique. 
 Prsfiguntur utrifque indices 
 capitum prscipuorum, five 
 breves caufa, & nominum He- 
 brsorum interpretatio, &ar- 
 gumenta. Ante Evangelium 
 S. IVIatthseiponitur imago ho- 
 minis: ante Evangelium S, 
 Marci, imago leonis. In 
 margine numerus capitulorum 
 in refto ordine fignatur, nu- 
 meratis capitulis aliorum E- 
 vangeliftarum, ubi in eadeni 
 hiftoria conveniunt. 
 
 Dicitur fuifle liber dim 
 S. Auguftini, Anglorum A- 
 poftoli: fed id mihinullo mo- 
 do conftare poteft. Fortafle 
 folium exfcinditur, in quo 
 continebatureiufmodi traditio. 
 Sane videtur efle ipfius tem- 
 pore fcriptus. 
 
 VI. A breif abftraft of EngliHi 
 Hiftory, called The Fiowers 
 of England , from Brutus \ 
 Written by Thomas Gardiner, 
 Monk of JVeJlminJIer, in the 
 time of King Hem-y VIII. 
 
 * VII. Ivonis, Carnotenfis Epifco- 
 
 pi, varii traftatus. 
 I. De dedicatione BafilicfE •, de 
 unftlone altaris -, quid fignifi- 
 cet defcriptio Alphabeti ; de 
 Sacramentis Neophytorum -, 
 de excellentia facrorum Ordi- 
 4 
 
 Some Pieces of the Leaves of 
 this old Book are preferv'd. 
 
 The Ends of the Leaves are fo 
 burnt, that the Book is ufelefs. 
 
 num
 
 ( 6? ) 
 
 T H C. 
 
 num; devicaOrdinandorumj 
 de fignificationibus indumen- 
 torum Sacerdocalium ; dc 
 convenientia veceris & novi 
 Sacerdocii. F. i. 
 
 2. Plomilias qusedam-, quarum 
 ultima habec hunc titulum; 
 De ?duIterinohabitu virorum 
 vel mulierum. F. i8. 
 
 3. Sylloge Epiftolarum Ivonis, 
 fed non Integra; non enim 
 refpondet numero, qui in 
 indice argumentorum prasfixo 
 continetur. Unde patet, E- 
 piftoias fexaginta & unamde- 
 fiderari. F, 33. 
 
 * VIII. I. Provifio deRonnemede 
 fadta per R.Joannem cum ju- 
 ramentoejus&Baronum. F. r. 
 
 2. Charta R. Joannis de Homagio 
 faftoEcclefisRomanEe. F. 4. 
 
 3. Confirmatio Charts deRone- 
 mede per Henricum3. F. 5. 
 
 4. Ciiarta de Forefta, per eun- 
 dem. F. 7, 
 
 5. Sententia in Tranfgreffores 
 prjediftarum Chartarum lata. 
 
 F. 7, h- 
 
 6. Provifiones deMertoun, cum 
 variis aliis Statutis H.3. F. 8. 
 
 7. Charta Henrici 6, Thomse 
 Draper concefTa, pro sedifica- 
 tione CoUegii in Ecclefia Pa- 
 rochiali de Neweport in Co- 
 mitatu Salop. F. 18, b. 
 
 8. Charta, quas per Henricum 6 
 conceditur Priori & Conven- 
 ventui de Erdebury in Com' 
 War' propter depauperatio- 
 nem ex adverfante forcuna & 
 minus provida gubernatione, 
 uc fibi comparenc in terris, te- 
 nementis feu advocationibus 
 Ecclefiarumad valentiam 100 
 Marcarum per annum, non 
 obftante Scatuto de mortua 
 manu. F. 19. 
 
 9. Charta 2''' ejufdem Regis 
 WiliielmoDominode Lovell, 
 Burnell & de Holland -, uc 
 affignenc quafdam terras ei^ 
 dem Monafterio , non ob- 
 ftante Statute de mortua ma- 
 nu. F. 19,/'. 
 
 10. Ad-
 
 (7°) 
 
 o r H o c. 
 
 lo Advocatio ParochijE de 
 Preftcote Dioceleos Coventry 
 & L.ichfcild, data per H. 6. 
 in doteni Collegii Regalis 
 Cancabrigis. F. 20. 
 
 11. Appropriatio Ecclefise pa- 
 rochi'alis de Manceftre, ejuf- 
 dem Dioceleos, Monafterio 
 B. Marine de mira-valle in ea- 
 dem Diocefi. F. 21. 
 
 12. Affignatio certje portionis 
 redicuum ejul'dem Ecclefiae 
 Vicario. F. 21, b. 
 
 I?. Epiftola Edwardi R. ad 
 lummurn Pontificem Roma- 
 num, pro declaratione juris 
 Regum Anglise in regnum 
 Scoria. F, 22. 
 
 14. Luftratio terrarutn & feodo- 
 rum in Agro Eboracenfi, 
 tempore R' Edwardi I' F. 27. 
 
 15. Chartx & Monumenta Mo- 
 nialium de Killing in Com' 
 Ebor' F. 86. 
 
 IX. Ad finemlibriimpreffi Roms 
 1588, qui appellatur, Statii- 
 ta Holpitalis Hierufalem , 
 apponitur coUcdtio inftruflio- 
 num, narrationum, & litera- 
 rum a Magiftris Hofpitalio- 
 rum, Hierofolymis, Rhodi, 
 Melits, &alicubi, &abaliis 
 ad ipfos fcriptarum ; e quibus 
 hiftoria rerum illorum tempo- 
 rum (h. e. ab anno 15 10 ad 
 annum 1540.) geftarum opti- 
 nie illuftrari pofTit. 
 
 X. I. Defenfio libri, ab anonymo 
 
 Audlore fcripti, in quo tefti- 
 monia turn, veterum Patrum 
 tum recentiorum pro relcin- 
 dendis nuptiis R. Henrici 
 VITI & R. Katlierina2 haben- 
 tur. p. I. 
 
 2. Liters & Ada de divortio 
 inter R. Henricum & Katha- 
 rinam Hifpanam. p. 31 7-. 
 
 3. De negotio nuptiarum inter 
 R. Henricum VIII & Annam 
 Bolenam, & de illius incarce- 
 ratione, literje & afta Authen- 
 tica: cum duabus Uteris Prin- 
 cipis Elifabethje, una Italice, 
 altera Anglice, fcriptisad Re- 
 ginam Novercam. p. 434' 
 
 Fifty Leaves of this ColleBio in- 
 ftruSlionum i^c. being Originals, 
 are remaining, and tho' burnt on 
 the Edges may ftill be made ufe 
 of. 
 
 Some Pieces of Leaves of this 
 Book are faved. 
 
 De 
 
 2
 
 {7i } 
 
 O'T II O C. 
 
 4. De negotio nuptiarum inter 
 HenricLim VIII & Annam 
 Cliveni'em. Inter alia occur- 
 rit declaratio R. Henrici, ma- 
 nu propria Icripta, & literce 
 Cromvvelli &c. ex Turri ad 
 Regem fcripts. p. 465. 
 
 5. De negotio nuptiarum inter 
 Henricum VIII & R. Kathari- 
 nam Howardam. p. 499. 
 
 6. Qujedam mifcellanea de 
 Principibus Maria & Eiiza- 
 betlia. p. 507. 
 
 7. Liter^e Principis Marine, alia- 
 que a6ta authentica ad illam 
 fpeftantia. p. 525. 
 
 8. Liter:c Regis Edwardi, ad P. 
 iVIariam. p. 581. 
 
 * XL Quarta pars libri confuetudi- 
 
 narii ; five de variis obfervan- 
 
 tiis, officiis, & Confuetudi- 
 
 nibus ad iVIonachos pertinen- 
 
 tibus, de modo vificandi fra- 
 
 tres infirmos, & de exequiis 
 
 fratrumdefundlorum ; fcripta 
 
 ad prEceptum D. Ricardi de 
 
 Wara, Abbatis Weftmonafte- 
 
 rii, a Fratre Gulielmo de Hafe- 
 
 leya, Weftmonafterii Sub- 
 
 priore, & Novitiorum Magi- 
 
 ftro, qui totum opus in 4 par- 
 tes dirtinxit, anno gratise 
 1266. 
 * XII. I. Ordinatio pro auxilio & 
 
 contributione pro bonis per 
 tempeftatem e navibus ejedtis, 
 
 F. I. 
 
 2. Statuta anno 27 R. Edwardi I 
 edifa: viz. Ordinatio de fini- 
 bus, de onere Vicecomitis, 
 de retinendis plegiis per Vice- 
 comites,dehominibus replegi- 
 andis, degaolis dcliberandis. 
 Ordinatio Jufticiariorum de 
 Nifi prius. F. i, b. 
 
 3. Ordinatio de moneta apud 
 Stibenhith, 27 R. Edwardi I. 
 F. 4, /'. 
 
 4. Ordinatio de placitis apud 
 Londinenfes. F. 6. 
 
 5. Compofitio inter Gives Lon- 
 doniarum, & cives Winton. 
 F. 9. 
 
 6. Les reulesde Robert Grofteft 
 
 Eveque de Nicole, h. e. Lin- coflney
 
 { 7^ ) 
 o r 11 o c. 
 
 cohie, a l.i Councafs de Ni- 
 cole de confervandis & regen- 
 dis terris. F. lo. 
 
 7. De pondcribus. F. 16. 
 
 b. Desulligesde Gavelkind ufees 
 en Kent. F. 17. 
 
 c). Ordinances pour la garde de 
 la cite de Loundres. F. 19. 
 
 10. De Tenentibus in civicatc 
 Londoniarum. F. 28. 
 
 11. Obfervationes de damnis, 
 prifonis, prtefcripcione tem- 
 poris,pcenis diverfisad fedlam 
 Regis, de replegiabilibus & 
 iircplegiabilibus per com- 
 mune Breve. F. 28. 
 
 12. Modus & ordo, qualiter 
 Barones & univerficas civium 
 London, fe debenc habere 
 & gerere erga D. Regem & 
 Jufticiariosfuos, tempore, quo 
 D. Regi placuerit tenere pla- 
 cica coronas fujB apud Turrim 
 Lond. capitulis xix. F. 31, 
 
 13. De alTiia panis facienda in 
 London, poft feftum S. Mi- 
 chaelis. F. 35. 
 
 14. Quomodo procedendum fie 
 in civitate, in aflifa pro ma- 
 ris & feverundis, i.e. Scillici- 
 diis. F.36. 
 
 15. Divifio Brevium in fuas va- 
 rias Ipecies. F. 39, 
 
 16. Magna Charta de libertati- 
 bus Anglias. F. 39, b. 
 
 17. Charca de Forefta. F. 43. 
 
 18. Sucuca de Mertone. F. 44, b. 
 I g. Scatuca de Marleberge. F. 46. 
 
 20. Les Eftablicements faices a 
 Weftmonafter par Roy Ed- 
 ward ; five Statuta Weftmo- 
 nafterii prima. F. 51. 
 
 21. Expoficiones quorundamvo- 
 cabulorum in quibufdam char- 
 tis de libercate contentorumo 
 F. 61. 
 
 22. Statuta de mercatoribus. 
 F. 62. 
 
 23. Statuta Glouceftrife, & Quo 
 warranto. F. 6^. 
 
 24. Statuta Weftmonafterii fe- 
 cunda. F. 69. 
 
 25. Nomina Regum Anglias 
 Chrillianorum, ad R. Henri- 
 
 cum I. F.78, b. 26. Sea-
 
 ( 73 ) 
 
 O T H O C. 
 
 26. Statuta Weftmonafterii III. 
 F. 7g, b. 
 
 27. Statuta \\incon. F. 89,^. 
 
 28. Statuta Scaccarii. F.gi^l. 
 
 29. Diftridioncs Scaccarii. F. 94. 
 
 30. Articuli de inoneta. F. 94, Z*. 
 
 31. De homagio, feoditate, & 
 villenia facienda. F. 96. 
 
 32. Statutum de Morcmairt. 
 F. ^6. 
 
 33. Sententia lata excommuni- 
 cationis in tranfgrefTores, qui 
 contra libertatesmagns Char- 
 ts & foreftse veniunt. F. 96, b. 
 
 34. Dies communes in Banco, & 
 dies in Brevibus_ de dote. 
 F.97, i'. 
 
 35. Extenta maneriorum. F. 98. 
 
 36. Didum de Kenelworth. 
 F. gg. 
 
 3 7. Exceptions ausbnefes. F.I 01. 
 
 38. Ordo & dlvifio eorundem, 
 cum variis exemplis. F. 104, b. 
 
 39. Summa, qus vocatur, Fet 
 afcaz'oir, per Radulphum de 
 Kengham. F. 117. 
 
 40. Modus ordinandi brevia in 
 variis cafibus & actionibus. 
 F. 129. 
 
 41. Proprietates narrationum. 
 
 42. Statuta de militibus. F. 135, 
 
 43. Summa, quje vocatur South- 
 ampton. F. 136. 
 
 44. Modus calumpniandi EiTo- 
 nium. F. 139. 
 
 45. Judicium Eflbniorum. F. 
 139, b. 
 
 46. De placitis coronas tarn ve- 
 teribus quamnovis. F. 145,^. 
 
 47. AiTife panis & cerevifise. 
 F. 149. 
 
 48. Rageman ad inquirendum, 
 audiendum, & terminandum 
 coram Juftitiariis itinerantibus 
 querelas, & de criminibus in- 
 tra 25 annos admiffis, h. e. 
 ante tempora Edwardi 4. F. 
 151 & 153. 
 
 49. Statutum de quinta decima 
 parte. F. 152. 
 
 50. Regiftrum Cancellaris, five 
 potius fumma formularum 
 Br<rvium ex ifta curia pro re 
 
 nata prodeuntium. F, 163, T *XTTT, Hi->
 
 ( 74) 
 
 o r H o c. 
 
 * XIII. Hifloria Britonum a Bruto 
 ad iEchelftanum, veteri lin- 
 gua Anglicana. 
 
 *XIV". i.EpillolsRoberri Grofle- 
 tefte, Epilcopi Lincolnienfis, 
 numeroi28: quanim antepe- 
 nulcima valde longa eft, ni 
 potius tradtatus appellari me- 
 reatur, nempe contra exemp- 
 tionem Capiculi Lincolnien- 
 fis. F. I. 
 
 2. Ejufdem fermopropofitus co- 
 ram Papa Innocenuo IV & 
 Cardinalibus in Concilio Lug- 
 diinenfi. F. 145. 
 
 3. Expofuio brevis oracionis Do- 
 minicfe. F. 165. 
 
 4. Nomina Philofophorum, Hi- 
 ftoricorum, Poetarum, Ora- 
 torum, ordine Alphabetico. 
 F. 168. 
 
 5. Nota de fundatione Abbatise 
 S. Marije de Fontibus. F. 
 168, b. 
 
 6. Epiftola Turftini Archiepif- 
 copi Eboracenfis, ad Guliel- 
 mum Cantuarienfem, de rcfor- 
 matione & difcordiis Mona- 
 chorum Ecclcfise S, Mariae 
 Ebor. anno Ch. 1132. ib. 
 
 7. EpiftoljB tres Satyricse ; dus 
 contra Malgerum, & una con- 
 tra Rixvaldum. F. 175, b. 
 
 8. Inveftio, h. e. invedtiva in 
 quendam, in defenfione R. 
 Epifcopi Herefordenfis, F, 
 176, k 
 
 9. Epiftola Bernard! Abbatis 
 Clarevallenfis ad Lucium Pa- 
 pam fuper eledtione Gulielmi 
 ad Archiepifcopatum Ebora- 
 cenfem. F. 178. 
 
 10. Ejufdtm Epiftola ad Euge- 
 nium Papam fuper eadem re. 
 Initium , Importunatus futtty 
 fed habeo exciifationem : uti & 
 fequens ejufdem epiftola de 
 eodcm quoque negotio. F. 
 179. 
 
 11. — ad Cardinales Ro- 
 
 man£e Curiae. F. 179, b. 
 
 12. ad Eugenium Pa- 
 pam ; Auditum ejt i>t terra no- 
 Jtra, & celebri fennone vulga- 
 
 5 
 
 turn.
 
 (75 ) 
 
 O T H C. 
 
 turn ; pro Archiepifcopo Can- 
 tuarienfi contra Eboracenfem 
 & Wintonienfem fuper que- 
 rela de legatione. F. i8o. 
 
 13. Epiftola Imari Tufculani E- 
 pifcopi adCanonicos Ecclefis 
 London fuper tiedlione Ri- 
 cardi Epifcopi. F. 181. 
 
 14. Epiftola Eugenii Papa;, ad 
 Epilcopum Dunelmeniem, & 
 Carleolenfem , Decanum & 
 Canonicos S. Petri, fuper e- 
 le6tione pr^edifti Gulieimi in 
 Archiepifcopatum Eboracen- 
 fem. F. I? i^ b. 
 
 15. Epiftola Barnard! Abbatis 
 Clarevallenfis ad Innocentium, 
 Papam de hasrefibus Magi- 
 ftri Petri Abclardi. F. 182. 
 
 16. Ejufdem Epiftola de eodem 
 ad Cardinales. F. i 83. 
 
 17. Refponfio Petri Abelardi, 
 contra caiumniis objedlorum 
 articulorum. F. 184. 
 
 18. V Rhetoricje orationes. F. 
 185. 
 
 19. Epiftola Henrici Imperato- 
 - ris ad Philippum Regem Gal- 
 lic contra Papam. F.188. 
 
 20. Epiftola Rhetorica, ad Mo- 
 nachum fugitivum. F. 189, b. 
 
 21. Epiftola Eugenii Papje: ea- 
 dem cum ilia, qus prius po- 
 nitur, num. 14. F. 190. 
 
 22. Epiftola Eugenii Papas, ad 
 Stephanum R. Anglire de ho- 
 norando Ricardo Epifcopo 
 Londinenfi. F. 190,/'. 
 
 23. ad Macildam Regi- 
 
 nam Anglic, ib. 
 
 24. Epiftola cujufdam Cardina- 
 lis Epifcopi Hoftienfis, ad 
 Canonicos S. Pauli. F. 191. 
 Epiftolse fequentes continent 
 hiftoriam Schifmatis, inter PP. 
 Alexandrum & Odavianum, 
 quern elevavic Imperator; 
 nimirum orti ex eleftione & 
 confirmatione utriufque, viz. 
 
 25. Alexandri P. ad Theobal- 
 dum Archiepifcopum Cantua- 
 rienfem, &ejus SufFraganeos. 
 ib. 
 
 26. Epiftola Patriarcharum Schif- 
 
 maticorum,
 
 {7<5) 
 
 T H O C. 
 
 maticorum, h. e. Peregrini 
 Aquileienfis Patmrchx, a- 
 liorumq-ue Archiepifcoporum, 
 Epifcoporum & Abbatum, in 
 Concilio Papae congregato- 
 rum de eledlione & confecra- 
 tione Odtaviani. F. 192, b. 
 
 27. Epiftola cujufdam, occulta- 
 to nomine ; ad Alexandrum 
 P. F. 194, b. 
 
 28. F.piftola Frederic! Romani 
 Imperacoris de eleftione & 
 confirmatione fui Apoftolici, 
 miflTa cundlis fidelibus ad con- 
 firmationem eleftionis ejuf- 
 dem. F. 195. 
 
 29. Altercatio fuper Formofo . 
 Papa. F. 196. 
 
 *XV, I. Roberti Epifcopi Lin- 
 col iiienfis epiftola monitoria 
 ad Priorem & Conventum de 
 Newenham. F. i. 
 
 2. Vifitatio ejufdem conventus 
 in craftino Cathedrse S. Petri, 
 A. D. 1232. per Archidiaco- 
 num Lincolnienfem ex au<5to- 
 ritate D. Papae. F. 5. 
 
 3. Ordinationes de proceffioni- 
 bus, jejuniis, confefiionibus, 
 licaniis, & miffis celebrandis, 
 & quibus modis, fubfidiis, & 
 remediis, Ecclefiafticis & 
 mundanis, refiftendum fit in- 
 curfionibus Tartarorum in 
 Hungariam, Poloniam, alia- 
 que loca. F. 7, b. 
 
 4. Regula S. Auguftini de vita 
 Clericorum. F. 9. 
 
 5. Conftitutio, vel potius ordi- 
 natio Canonicorum Regula- 
 rium fecundum Canonicam 
 regulam S. Auguftini, a Pa- 
 tribus inftituta. F, 33. 
 
 6. Confuetudinarium, ita appel- 
 latum, feu rituale de officiis, 
 & ritibus per fingulos dies 
 feftos celebrandis. F.68. 
 
 7. Fragmentum Homilias, Saxo- 
 ' nice, unico folio contentum. 
 
 F. 106. 
 
 8. Ordo converforum. F. 107. 
 
 ' g". Libellus a Magiftro Gulielmo 
 deMandagoto, Archidiacono 
 Nemaufenfi, compofuus, fu- 
 
 per 
 .2
 
 o r H o c. 
 
 {77 ) 
 
 per eleftionibus faciendis, & 
 earum proceffibus ordinandis. 
 F. 109. 
 
 10. Traftatus de feptem facra- 
 mentis, & eorum cafibus & 
 impedimentis: videtur a Ro- 
 berto Lincolnienfi efle com- 
 pofitus. F. 129. 
 
 11. Modus five forma confiten- 
 di fecundum bonx memorise 
 dominum Robertum, Lincol- 
 nienfem Epifcopum. F. 148. : 
 
 12. De inventione Mufics per 
 Pychagoram e diverfa malleo- 
 rum fuper incudem percuflio- 
 ne. F. 154. 
 
 13. De periculis, qus fepe ac- 
 cidunc circa officium Sacer- 
 dotis, aliifque rebus ad facra- 
 menca fpeftancibus. Videtur 
 efie pars libri numero 10 no- 
 tati. F. 155. 
 
 "XVI. I. Calendarium hifloricum 
 rerum in Angliageftarum. F.r. 
 
 2. Extraftus Chronicorum Ro- 
 geri Ceftrienfis. F.14. 
 
 3. Epiftola in metro ad Guliel- 
 mum Epifcopum Lincolnien- 
 fem, de vita & aftibus Ro- 
 berti Grofthead ; per Ricar- 
 dum Monachum Monafterii 
 Bardenienfis. F. 43, 
 
 4. Martyrium S. Hugonis pue- 
 ruli, apud Lincolniam a Ju- 
 dasis csfi, anno 1255J per 
 eundem; metrice. F. 63. 
 
 5. Rogerus Dymmokus, ordinis 
 Prsdicatorum, contra errores 
 & hsrefes Lollardorum ; ad 
 Ricardum, Regem Angli^e. 
 F. 70. 
 
 6. A Sermon in Defence of the 
 Scripture, in Englifh. Frag- 
 mentum. F. 136. 
 
 7. PaffioS.Kenelmi, Regis An- 
 glorum & martyris. F. 141, 
 
 8. Vita S. Edwardi, Regis & 
 martyris. F. 148. 
 
 9. De S, Guthlaco Heremita. 
 F. 150. 
 
 10. Vita S. EJphegi, Archiepif- 
 copi Cantuarienfis. F, 152. 
 
 11. Conftitutiones Eboracenfis 
 Ecclefis, 3 Non. Oft. edits 
 
 an. 0.1291. F. 154. tt ^jjj^
 
 (78 ) 
 o r H O C, D, 
 
 1 2. Vita S. Joannis Beverlaceiiris. 
 
 F. 157. 
 
 13. Nomina EpiicoporumEbo- 
 
 "racenfium, a Paulino adj. de 
 Thurfby, qui obiit 47 Ed- 
 wardi III, anno Ch. 1373. 
 F. 166, ^. 
 
 14. Colleftiones de vita & mi- 
 raculis D. Joannis Beverlaci; 
 ex Folcardo, Ccenobii Doro- 
 bernenfis Monacho, qui flo- 
 ruit fub Edwardo, Rege & 
 Confefibre, circa annum 1060. 
 
 F. 169. 
 
 D. 
 * I, i.Defcriptio Anglis, ex variis 
 Auftoribus coUefta, anno 
 Domini 1444, 23HenriciVI 
 Regis. F. 1. 
 
 2. Genealogiarum feries, cum 
 hiftoricis narrationibus, ab A- 
 damo per Reges Britannicos 
 perdufta ad Henricum VI Re- 
 gem Angli£E. F. 6. 
 
 3. Compendium hiftorise facrs, 
 ab orbe condito ad S. Joan- 
 nem Baptiftam & Chrifl:um 
 natum, cumcatalogo Impera- 
 torum Romanorum & Ponti- 
 ficum, ad Nicolaum V; & 
 narratione hiftorica interfper- 
 fa, ufque ad annum 1446 : per 
 eundem. F. 34. 
 
 4. Polychronicon Ranulpm Ce- 
 " ftrenfis, cum continuatione ; 
 in qua habetur plena narratio 
 de renunciatione , refignati- 
 one, dimifllone, ceffione & 
 depofitione R. Ricardi II, & 
 de vindicatione corona An- 
 glise per Henricum IV tunc 
 Ducem Lancaftrise, cumver- 
 fibus rhythmicis Joannis Go- 
 weri, ex libro ejus, qui dici- 
 tur, vox clamantis, dc illis re- 
 bus, qu£e accidebant tempore 
 R. Ricardi II ; & narrationi- 
 bus hiftoricis ufque ad mor- 
 tem R. Henrici V, h. e. an, 
 1422. F. 57. 
 5. Liber Bedae de imagine mun- 
 
 di. F.223. 
 6 Tradatus Fratris Rogen Ba- 
 * con, in quarta parte Mathc- ^^^.^^ 
 
 4
 
 ( 79 ) 
 
 Til O D. 
 
 matic£E,deruuOrbis.F.?36,/;. 
 
 7. Beda Prefbyter de fitu cerrse 
 Sandtae. F. 253. 
 
 8. Extradlus Itinerarii Joannis 
 Maundevill, milicis, de fando 
 Albano, qui iter fuum ince- 
 pit anno 1322. F. 254, b._ 
 
 9. Icinerarium Fratris Odorici de 
 Foro Julii, per partes five re- 
 giones Infidelium. F. 259, h, 
 
 10. Fragmentum hiftori^ de 
 temporibus Henrici VI. F. 
 265. 
 
 Series Fundatorum Mona- 
 fterii de Theokfbury, poft 
 genealogiam Henr. VI, occur- 
 rit. 
 II, I. Traifte de I'eftat & des con- 
 ditions de XIV Royaumes 
 d'Aife, & des Empereurs, 
 qui puis 1' incarnation de no- 
 ftre Seigneur ont regne en 
 yceulx , & regnent encore : 
 & du paffage d'oukre mere a 
 la terra fainte, & de la puif- 
 fance du Soudain d'^gypce, 
 qui nous appellons le Soudain 
 delaBabyionie; fait en Latin 
 par Mr. Ayton, Seigneur de 
 Curfey, Chevaliere, & ne- 
 vea du Roy d'Armenie , & 
 tranflate per Frere Jehan le 
 Long, ditd'Ypre, Moynede 
 I'abbaie de St. Bertin in St. 
 Omer, de I'ordre de St. Be- 
 noit. F. I. 
 
 2. L'ltinerair de la peregrination 
 & du voyage de Frere Bicult, 
 de I'ordre des Freres Pref- 
 cheurs •, trandate du Latin en 
 Francois, anno 1350, par le 
 mefme. F.^j,b. 
 
 3. L'ltenerair de la peregrinati- 
 on d'Odric de Foro Julii, de 
 rOrdre des Freres Mineurs; 
 tranflate par le mefme. F.60. 
 
 4. Traide de I'eftate de terre 
 fainte, & auffi in partie de la 
 terre d'^gypte -, fait par M. 
 Guillaume de Bondefelle, an- 
 no 1336, & tranflate par le 
 mefme. F. 84. 
 
 5. La copie des lettres , que 
 I'Empereur Soveraign des 
 
 Tartares,
 
 { 8o ) 
 o r H D. 
 
 Tartares, Le grand Caan de 
 Cathai, envoye au Pape Be- 
 noit le XII anno 1338 -, & de 
 la reponfe. F. 95, b. 
 
 6. L'eftate & la governaunce du , 
 grand Caan de Cathai, Sovc- 
 raign Empereur des Tartares, 
 & de la difpoficion de fon 
 empire; interprete en Latin 
 par un Arcevefque, que on 
 dit I'Arcevefque Saltenfis, au 
 command du Pape Jehan 
 XXII de ce nom. F, 9S. 
 
 7. Hiftoire de la noble fortrefs 
 de Lufignen en Poitou ; com- 
 pile felon diverfes croniques. 
 F. loi. 
 
 Liber ifte, elegantiffimis 
 figuris illuminatus, olim per- 
 tinebat ad D, Jaquettam 
 Luxemburgicam, Duciflam 
 Bedfordias; ut ilia propria 
 manu in fine libri teftatur, 
 
 III. Regiftrum chartarum Mona- A burnt Lump, 
 fterii S. Albani, de poffeffio- 
 
 nibus, libertatibus, privile- 
 giis, redditibus, aliifque re- 
 bus ad idem monafterium 
 fpeftantibus. 
 
 IV. 1. Nomina familiarumantiqua- This Book is a Bundle of loofe 
 
 rum gentis Anglicans, ex- Leaves, having the Sides burnt 
 cerpta e regiftris antiquis , ofF a good way into the Writing, 
 chartis, & rotulis. F. i. 
 
 2. Epitome hiftorias Rogeri Ho- 
 veduni. Ita infcribitur. Pro- 
 prie eft compendium hiftorise 
 Regum ScotisE a Rege Ewain, 
 qui obiit anno 721. Hie paf- 
 fim vitje & gefta illorum con- 
 tinentur in Epigrammatibus ; 
 verfus finem interfperfis rebus 
 Anglicanis, ad annum 1270. 
 F, 109. 
 
 3. Chartae antique & Stemma- 
 ta, excerpta ex libro charta- 
 ceo fcripto tempore R. Hen- 
 rici VI. Inter quas, i. The 
 Pedigree of Chaalons , five 
 GenealogiaComitum Cabilo- 
 nenfium: and 2. The Pedi- 
 gree of Boftock in comitatu 
 Ceftris, and of Egerton. F. 
 123, i^. 
 
 4. Excenta feodorum, quje fue- 
 
 runt
 
 ( 8i ) 
 
 V r H o c. 
 
 runt Hugonis de Courteney 
 Comitis DevoniEe. F. 136. b. 
 
 5. Nomina Nobilium, ad quo3 
 Papa Calixtus Icripfic, ut ter- 
 ras Ecclefise Landavenli ab- , 
 reptasreftituerenc. F. 138,/'. 
 
 6. Excerpta ex magna hiftoria 
 Britannia Armoricanse. F, 
 
 143- 
 
 7. Armes de Chevaliers, qui fa- 
 rent al Tornement, fiic a 
 Donftaple, I'ann feptiefme du 
 Roy Edward tiers. F. 150. 
 
 8. De monafteriis de Furnefia 
 & Ives, cum excerptis e regi- 
 ftris chartarum di<fti monafte- 
 rii S. Marias de Furnefia. F. 
 156. 
 
 g. Excerpta e regiflro Ramef- 
 cienfis Coenobii. F. 174. 
 
 10. Excerpta ex annalibus Ec- 
 clefise S. Auguftini extra mu- 
 ros Civitatis Cantuarienfis, 
 F. 180. 
 
 11. Interpretatio quorundam 
 vocabulorum forenfium, qu£e 
 occurrunt in legibus veterum 
 Regum Anglorum. 
 
 12. Progenies Gilberti Comitis 
 Brioniae. F. 227. 
 
 13. Chartapro mercatisdiverfis, 
 concefTis tempore R. Edwar- 
 dil. F.228. 
 
 14. The Pedigree of Chaalons. 
 F. 238. 
 
 15. Excerpta ex rotulis charta- 
 rum tempore R, Edwardi III, 
 F. 242. 
 
 1 6. The oath of a King of Armes, 
 Herald, and Purfuivant. F. 
 279, b. 
 
 17. A Proclamation concerning 
 the Office of Armes, x Reg. 
 Elizabeths. F. 281. 
 
 18. Original of Cities. F. 283. 
 
 19. A Draught of a Grant for 
 the painting of Armes, to 
 William Brooke from Mr. Cam- 
 den. F. 284. 
 
 Continet liber Ifte multa cu- 
 riofa ad hiftoriam & genea- 
 logias nobilium Familiarum 
 pertinentia, colledla e variis 
 libris opera & ftudiocujufdam 
 
 X i no«
 
 ( 8i 
 
 O f H D. 
 
 e noftris Heraldis. Erat o- 
 lim liber D. Burghley. 
 
 * V. Le livre, qui fe appelle li Char- 
 bociois d'armes, du conqueft 
 de la terre fainte de promifTi- 
 on i par Frere Roger de Sta- 
 vegne: R. Edwardo III infcri- 
 bitur, in quomukadei^igyp- 
 to, Saracenis, &c. habentiir. 
 
 *VIl. I. De viris illuftribus, quo 
 tempore fcripferunt. F. i. 
 
 2. Varia ex antiquis Scriptori- 
 bus excerpta. viz. 
 
 1. Prfeflitio Juftini in libros 
 Trogi Pompeii. F, i,^. 
 
 2. De Gallis,ex Eutropio. F.2. 
 
 3. Teftimonium Jofephi de 
 Chrifto. ib. 
 
 4. Egefippi prologus. ib. 
 
 5. Prologus Auguftini de civi- 
 tate Dei. F, 2^b. 
 
 6. De Orofio. F. 3. 
 
 7. Initium hiftorise Beds. ib. 
 
 8. Ex S. Hieronymo. F. 4. 
 
 3. AbbreviatioChronicorum, de 
 diverfis fcriptorum codicibus 
 diligentur excerpta, ab Ada- 
 mo ad tempora Haroldi; 
 nempe annum Ch.1063. F.4,^. 
 
 4. Bulla Innocentii Papae de ca- 
 nonizatione S. Eadmundi , 
 Archiepifcopi Cantuarienfis. 
 F. 40. 
 
 5. Imagines hiftoriarum, perRa- 
 dulphum de Diceto, Londo- 
 nienfem Decanum, ab anno 
 1 1 48 ad annum 1197. F. 42. 
 
 6. Compendium hiftoris An- 
 glicanas, a morte R. Edwardi 
 Confeflbris ad annum C. 1 1 47 j 
 fcriptum per Abbatem Ro- 
 bertum. F. 49. 
 
 7. Concinuacio ejufdem, five 
 imagines hiftoriarum ; per Ra- 
 dulphum de Diceto iterum, 
 fed amplius & perfeftius. 
 F. 62. 
 
 8. EpiftolaAbbatis Rievallenfis 
 ad illuftrem Normannorum 
 Ducem, Henricum II •, poft- 
 modum Anglorum Regem, 
 deGenealogiaipfius : ubimul- 
 ta praeclara de Regibus Saxo- 
 nicis, de RcgeMalcolmo, de 
 
 Regina 
 - i
 
 ( 83 ) 
 
 o r H D. 
 
 Regina Matilde-, quorum vi- 
 tjE & gefta compendio enar- 
 rantur. F. 142. 
 g, Nomina Epifcoporum Eaft- 
 Anglorum, vel Orientalium 
 Anglorum. F. 149, b. 
 
 10. Nomina comitatuum An- 
 glice. ib. 
 
 1 1 . Hiftoria Anglorum ; ab Hen- 
 rico Huntendunienfi Mona- 
 cho, pecidone AlexandriLin- 
 colnienfis Epilcopi, contexta. 
 F. 150. 
 
 12. Ejufdem Epiftolas ad Hen- 
 ricum Regem, de Regibus 
 Hebrfeorum, ad Imperato- 
 rem Conradum. F. 199. 
 
 13. Miracula de St. Thoma, 
 Cantuirienfi Archiepifcopo & 
 Marty, e. F. 200. 
 
 14. Padum inter Abbatem 
 Clun. & Comitem Warenum 
 fuper nominatione & inftitu- 
 tione Prioris Lewenfis.F.201. 
 
 VIII, I. Kalendarium. A burnt Lump of little ijfij. 
 
 2. Paffio S. Ignatii, Epifcopi. 
 
 3. Vita S. Brjgidas, Virginis. 
 
 4. Paflio S. Blafii, Epilcopi & 
 martyris. 
 
 5. PalTioS. Tryphonis, martyris. 
 
 6. Paffio S. Aguhse, virginis. 
 
 7. Vita S.Vedaiti, Epifcopi. 
 
 8. Vita S. Amandi, Epifcopi. 
 
 9. Vita S. Anfb.Tti, Epifcopi. 
 
 10. Vita S. Auflrobert^, Virginis. 
 
 11. Vita S. Eufrafias, Virginis. 
 i2.PafiiL) S.Valentini, Martyris. 
 
 13. Paffio S. Julianas, Virginis. 
 
 14. Paffio S. Ananise, martyris. 
 
 15. A<Stus Theophili, qui Chri- 
 ftum negavit. 
 
 16. VitaS.WingualofijConfeiTo- 
 ris. 
 
 17. Paffio SS. Marty rum, Per- 
 petus & Felicitatis. 
 
 18. Paffio earundem, aliomodo 
 diftata. 
 
 19. Paffio SS. quadraginta mili- 
 tum. 
 
 20. Vita S. Gregorii Papje -, per 
 Joannem Diaconum. 
 
 21. Paffio S. Longini, Martyris. 
 
 22. Vita S. Gertrudis, Virginis. 
 43. Miracula ejufdem Virginis. 
 
 24. 
 
 Par^
 
 ( 84) 
 
 r H D. 
 
 24. PafTio S. Theodori, Pre%- 
 teri & marcyris. 
 
 25. Vica S. Cuchberti, Epifcopi 
 & ConfefToris ; per Bedam. 
 
 26. VicaS.Wulframni, Epifcopi. 
 
 27. Annalcs Regum AngliaCj 
 Fratris Ricardi Trivet, Or- 
 dinis Praedicatorum : viz. a 
 Rege Scephano ad A. D. 1307, 
 F. 143. 
 
 28. Nomina Regum Saxonico- 
 rum. F. 199. 
 
 29. Liber B. Methodii, marty- 
 ris Chrifti, de principio mun- 
 di, & fine ieculorum ; a S. 
 Hieronymo, ut dicitur , ex 
 HebrjEO & Grsco in Lati- 
 nuin converfus. Brevis tra- 
 ftatulus, quatuorpaginiscort- 
 tencus. F. 2co. 
 
 30. Prophetia Thomse, Archie- 
 pifcopi Cantuarienfis, quam 
 Virgo illi fomnianti fuggeffit. 
 F. 201. 
 
 31. Prophetia Hermeri, qui ibi 
 eikkur Dens fapie!7tu?n. ib. 
 
 32. Chronica MonafteriiRame- 
 fienfis, ab A. D. 1341 ad 
 mortem R. Ricardi II ; h. e. 
 ad A. D. 1401. F. 202. 
 
 3$. Compofitio pacis & concor- 
 diee inter Henricum regem 
 Anglije, ScLeweliinumfilium 
 Griffini, Principem Wallis, 
 fafta per Cardinalem Ottobo- 
 num SalopijE 7 KaJ. Oftob. 
 A. D. i2ty. F. 222. 
 
 34. Narratio diflenfionum inter 
 Henricum III & Proceres, 
 tarn profa quam verfibus 
 rhythmicis. F. 223. 
 
 35. Proceffus in Curia Cantua- 
 rienfi inter Redorem Eccle- 
 fi£e S. Joannis de Burgo S. Pe- 
 tri, & inhabitantes villae de 
 Dodefthorpe, de capella ibi- 
 dem. F. 229, b. 
 
 36. Chronicon breve, a Bruto 
 ad an. Ch. 1388. F. 235. 
 
 37. Prophetic quzedam de An- 
 glia & Scotia; viz. Merlini, 
 Sibyllas, & de Aquila; ver- 
 fibus confiac-E, & Egerlini de 
 afino coronato, &c. profa. 
 F. 236. 4 
 
 IX. Vi:
 
 ( 8j ) 
 
 o r H o D. 
 
 *IX. Vit£ Sanftorum AnglifE, 
 Colledtore Joanne Capgravio ; 
 qui hoc ordine fecundum fe- 
 riem literarum recenfentur. 
 Adrianus, Abbas. 
 Aidanus, Abbas. 
 Aidanus, Epifcopus. 
 Albanus, Protomartyr. 
 Aldelmus, Epifcopus. 
 Alredus, Abbas. 
 Amphibalus, Martyr. 
 Anfelmus, Archiepifcopus 
 
 Cantuarienfis. 
 Audoenus, Epifcopus. 
 Auguftinus, Epifcopus. 
 Barcholomsus, Monachus. 
 Beda, Prefbyrer. 
 Benignus, Epifcopus. 
 Bernadtus, Epifcopus. 
 Birinus, Epifcopus. 
 Bonifacius, Epifcopus. 
 Botulphus, Abbas. 
 Breguinus, Epifcopus. 
 Brendanus, Abbas. 
 Brigida, Virgo. 
 Britiiunus, Abbas. 
 Cadocus, Epifcopus. 
 Cedd Frater S.Ceddx, Epif- 
 
 copi. 
 Caradocus, Eremita. 
 Cedda, Epifcopus. 
 Clarus, Prefbyter & Martyr, 
 Clitaucus, Rex & Martyr. 
 Colfidus, Abbas. 
 Columba, Abbas. 
 Columbanus, Abbas. 
 Cuthbertus, Epifcopus. 
 Cuthberga, Virgo. 
 David, Epifcopus. 
 Deufdedit, Epifcopus. 
 Dubritius, Epifcopus. 
 Dunftanus, Epifcopus. 
 Eata, Epifcopus, 
 Eanfwide, Virgo &Abbatifla. 
 Ebba, Abbatiffa. 
 Edburga, Virgo. 
 Editha, Virgo. 
 Edmundus, Epifcopus. 
 Edmundus, Rex. 
 Edwardus, Rex & Confeflbr. 
 Edwinus, Rex & Mart. 
 Edwoldus, Confeflbr. 
 Egbertus, Monachus. 
 Edgbinus, Monachus, 
 
 y Egwinus
 
 r H D. 
 
 Egwinus, Epifcopus. 
 
 Elphega, Virgo & Abbatina. 
 
 Elphegus, Epifcopus. 
 
 Erkenwoldus, Epifcopus. 
 
 Ermenilda, Regina. 
 
 Efterwinus, Abbas. 
 
 Ethelbertus, Rex. 
 
 Echelburga, Virgo. 
 
 Ethelreda, Virgo. • 
 
 Ethelredus & Ethelbriftus, 
 Martyres. 
 
 Ethelwoldus, Epifcopus. 
 
 Felix, Epifcopus. 
 
 Fiacrus, Confeflbr. 
 
 Finanus, Epifcopus. 
 
 Foillanus, Epifcopus. 
 
 Fremundus, Rex. 
 
 Fridefwida, Virgo. 
 
 Furfeus, Abbas. ^ 
 
 Gilbertus, Confeflbr. 
 
 Gildas, Abbas. 
 
 Godricus, Eremita. 
 
 Grimbaldus, Abbas. 
 
 Gudwallus, Epifcopus. 
 
 Gundleus, Rex. 
 
 Guthlacus, Confeflbr. 
 
 Henricus, Eremita. 
 
 Hewaldus albus & Hewaldus 
 niger, Mart, 
 
 Hilda, AbbatiflTa. 
 
 Hildelitha, Virgo. 
 
 Honorius, Epifcopus. 
 
 Hugopuer, aJudjeis-Lincol- 
 nias crucifixus. 
 
 Hugo, Epifcopus. 
 
 Iltucus, Abbas. 
 
 Indraftus & focii ejus. Mar- 
 tyres. 
 
 Joannes Beverlacus, Epifco- 
 pus. 
 
 Itamarus, Epifcopus. 
 
 Ivo, Epifcopus. 
 
 Iwius, Martyr, 
 
 Juftinianus , Monachus & 
 Martyr. 
 
 Juftus, Epifcopus. 
 
 Juthwara, Virgo. 
 
 Kebius, Epifcopus. 
 
 Kyena, Virgo. 
 
 Kenedus, ConfeflTor. 
 
 Kenelmus, Rex & Mart. 
 
 Kentegernus, Epifcop. 
 
 Kynefwida & Kyneburga, & 
 
 Tidba, Virg. 
 Lanfrancus, Epifcopus. Laursnti;i'
 
 ( 87) 
 o r H T>. 
 
 Laurentius, Epifcopus. 
 Lethardus, Epifcopus. 
 Machutus, Epifcopus. 
 Maglorius, Epifcopus. 
 Malachias, Epifcopus. 
 Margarita, Reg. Scotias. 
 Maxentia, Virgo & Martyr. 
 Mellitus, Epifcopus. 
 Mello, Epifcopus. 
 Melorus, Martyr. 
 Milburga, Virgo. 
 Mildreda, Virgo. 
 Modwenna, Virgo. 
 Neotus, Abbas. 
 Ninianus, Epifcopus. 
 Odo, Epifcopus. 
 Ofitha, Virgo. 
 Ofmanna, Virgo. 
 Ofwaldus, Epifcopus. 
 Ofwaldus, Rex & Marc. 
 Ofwinus, Rex & Mart. 
 Oudoceus, Epifcopus. 
 Paternus, Epifcopus. 
 Patricius, Epifcopus. 
 Petrocus, Abbas. 
 Piranus, Epifcopus. 
 Ricardus, Epifcopus. 
 Robertus, Abbas. 
 Rumwoldus, Confeflbr. 
 Sampfon, Epifcopus. 
 Sexburga, Regina. 
 Swithinus, Epifcopus. 
 Theliaus, Epifcopus. 
 Theodorus, Epifcopus. 
 Thomas, Epifcopus Herefor- 
 
 denfis. 
 Thomas, Archiepifcop. Can- 
 
 tuar. & Martyr, exfcinditur. 
 Thomas, Monachus a Gallis 
 
 occifus. 
 Walburga, Virgo. 
 Wallenus, Abbas. 
 Wenefreda, Martyr. 
 Werburga, Martyr. 
 Wilfridus, Epifcopus. 
 Willibrordus, Epifcopus. 
 Willielmus , puer a Judjeis * 
 
 crucifixus. 
 Willielmus, Epifcopus. 
 "Winwalcus, Abbas. 
 Wiftanus, Rex. 
 Withburga, Virgo. 
 Wilfhilda, Virgo. 
 "Wlricus, Confeflfor. 
 "Wlfinus, Epifcopus. 
 
 Wiftanus,
 
 ( 88 ) 
 
 or HO D. 
 
 Wlftiinus, Epifcopus. 
 
 X. Opera Roberci Gi ofthead, 
 Epifcopi Lincolnienfis : viz. 
 
 1, Tradatus de oculo morali. 
 F. I. 
 
 2. Deveneno. F. 21, &c. tra- 
 ftatus 66. 
 
 XI. Hiftorica qusdam. 
 
 1. De diftindtionibus regnorum 
 in Anglia ; de Regibus An- 
 glic, h. e. deSledda, Seber- 
 to, Egfrido, Offa, Withre- 
 do, Ethelbaldo, Elredo, Ed- 
 berto, iEthelberco, Alfredo ; 
 de difputadone de Pafchas ob- 
 iervatione, & de primis rega- 
 Jibusornamentis regni Anglic. 
 F. I. 
 
 2. De dedicatione Ecclefise B. 
 Petri, Weftmonafterii. F. 15. 
 
 3. De renovatione Ecclefi^e S. 
 Petri, per R. Edgarum & 
 S. Dunftanum. F. 16, h. 
 
 4. Charta Regis Edgari. F. 17. 
 
 2. La genealogie de Pierre de 
 Luxemburg, Conte de S. 
 Pol. F. 19. 
 
 3. La genealogie de Madam 
 Marguerite fon Efpoufe. F. 
 
 4. ReguljE quomodo Dominus 
 terrarum debet conftituere 
 Senefchallum, aliolque officia- 
 rios & miniftros, &difponere 
 de fuis terris -, Gallice. F. 28. 
 
 5. Modus parandi cibos, alia- 
 que ad rem culinariam fpe- 
 ftantia; Galilee. F. 30, />. 
 
 6. Medicamenca aliquot. F. 34. 
 
 7. De gemmis pretiolis & her- 
 bis falutaribus. F. 34, />. 
 
 8. Decima triennalis, antiqua 
 taxatio beneficiorum appro- 
 priatorum , & nova taxatio 
 eorundem, foluta pro Eccle- 
 fiis, Abbatiis, Prjebendis in 
 Epil'copatu Eboracenfi, cum • 
 firmis & Ecclefiis pertinent!-' 
 bus ad Abbatiam B. Marias 
 Eborac. & redditibus perti- 
 nentibus ad Prs-bendas, & 
 feodis militum. F. 40. 
 
 9. Propheiiia de mails & bellis, 
 quze contingerent inter Gal- 
 los, Germanos, Itajos, An- 
 
 glos,
 
 ( 8? ) 
 
 O T H O D. 
 
 glos , Briconas, & Scotos, 
 A. D. 1290-, oratione foluta 
 & ligata. F. 105. 
 
 10. Literse Edwardi III Regis 
 Angliae ad univerlbs, decla- 
 rantes injurias fibi illatas a 
 PhilippoValefio RegeFran- 
 cise, eo tempore, quo cxpe- 
 ditionem in terram fandlam 
 contra Saracenos meditatus 
 eft. F. 106. 
 
 11. Literae dus Benedidlii P. ad 
 Edwadum Regem Anglis, 
 de caula inter Romanam Ec- 
 clefiam & Ludovicum de Ba- 
 varia agitata. F. 107, b. 
 
 12. Liters ejuldem ad eundem 
 de componenda pace inter 
 ipfum & Philippum. F. 1 10. 
 
 13. Liters Regis Edwardi III 
 ad Cardinalium collegium, de 
 eodem argumento. F. no, ^, 
 
 14. Liters relponforis R. Ed- 
 wardi III ad Papam. F. 112,^. 
 
 15. Liters R. Edwardi III 
 ad univerfarum Ecclefiarum 
 Prslatos & Perfonas, & alios 
 Ecclefiafticos, Pares, Duces, 
 Barones, Nobiles ac Plebeios, 
 in regno Francis conftitutos, 
 de fuo jure fucceflbrio ad reg- 
 num Francis. F. 113. 
 
 16. Liters patentes Johannis 
 Regis Bohemis, & Comitis 
 Luxemburgici, Radulphi E- 
 pifcopi Leodienfis aliorumque 
 de treucis inter iftos Reges 
 paftis initifque; Gallice. F. 
 113, J. 
 
 17. Mutus Liters Ludovici 
 Romanorum Imperatoris & 
 Edwardi III Regis Anglis, 
 de eadem re. F. 1 14, /;. 
 
 18. Liters Ambaldi & Rai- 
 mundi Cardinalium ad R. Ed- 
 wardum de eleftione demen- 
 tis VI Pontificis, in ipfius du- 
 catu nati, & de illius volun- 
 tate erga ipfum. F. 115. 
 
 19. Liters Edwardi Regis ad 
 Cuftodem fpiritualitatis Ar- 
 chiepifcopatus Eboracenfis, ut 
 celebrari faciat per civitatem 
 & provinciam miflas, prsdi- 
 cationes, procefliones, acalia, 
 
 pise
 
 ( 90 ) 
 
 O T H O D. 
 
 pis placationis officia, ob fe- 
 licem expeditionis in Scotos 
 fucceffum. ib. 
 
 20. Liters Ricardi Laurentii, 
 Severi & Clementis, libertatis, 
 pacis , jufticiseque Tribuni, 
 ac facrs RomariEe Reipubli- 
 cje liberatoris. F. 115, I?. 
 
 21. LiterjB R. Edwardi III ad 
 Bartholomjeum de Burgerf- 
 ham , Conftabularium caftri 
 Dovor, & cuftodem Quinque 
 Porcuum, uc impediat, quo 
 minus quifquam Bullas, Pro- 
 ceflus , relervationes benefi- 
 ciorum, inftrumenta, feu ali- 
 qua alia in regnum Anglise a 
 Papa deferar. F. 1 18. 
 
 22. Literae R. Edwardi III ad 
 Archiepifcopos , Epifcopos , 
 Abbates, Decanos , Archi- 
 diaconos, de iifdem Papali- 
 bus provifionibus inhibendis. 
 F. 119. 
 
 23. Liters R. Edwardi III ad 
 Vicecomitem Eboracenfem , 
 de eadem re. F. iig,b. 
 
 24. Liters R. Edwardi ad H. 
 Epifcopum Lincolnienfem , 
 vel ad ejus Vicarium genera- 
 lem, ipfo Epifcopo in remo- 
 tis agente, ut non exigi finac 
 per Coiledores decimam nu- 
 per a Clero in Parlamento 
 conceflam, ab Abbate & 
 Fratribus Abbatis B. Maris 
 Eborac. ob illorum paupe- 
 riem. F. 120. 
 
 25. De modo circuitus Judicum 
 itinerantium; Gallice. F. 123. 
 
 26. Articuli , ut appellantur, 
 Itineris. F. 123, b. 
 
 E. 
 
 * I. Didlionarium Latino- Saxoni- 
 
 cum, ordine Alphabetico : 
 fed non continuatur ultra li- 
 teram P. 
 
 * II. Vita Cofmi Ducis Florentis; 
 
 incerto Auftore. 
 III. Copies of Charters granted to 
 Merchants trafficking into 
 Spain and Portugal, and to 
 the Merchants Adventurers, 
 and to the Merchants of the 
 Weft Countrey, trading into 
 
 Of this about 100 loofe Leaves 
 remain : but burnt fo at the Ends 
 and Sides, as to be of little ufe. 
 
 France
 
 o r H D. 
 France, from the Time 
 
 {9^ ) 
 
 of 
 
 King Henry VIII. 
 
 * IV. Copies of Letters to Sir 
 
 Francis Walfingbam and others, 
 about the Year 1580. 
 
 * V. Pars Libri lecundi Hiftoris 
 
 Elienfis, quomodo Ecclefia 
 eft reftaurata, & a quibus di- 
 tata; recenti manutranfcripta. 
 
 * VI. A Hiftory, beginning from 
 
 the Affyian Monarchy, with 
 an Account of the feveral Em - 
 pires, Kingdoms and States 
 of the World. 
 VII. Letters, Warrants and o- 
 ther Papers relating to the Of- 
 fice of the Ordnance and Na- 
 vy -, from the Time of K. 
 Ed. VI to K. Charlesl; with 
 feveral Things relating to the 
 Filhery : where is alfo a little 
 Difcourfe about the Domini- 
 on of the Sea, and that the 
 King of England has an exclu- 
 five Propriety and Dominion 
 in the Seas coafting upon his 
 Kingdoms, both concerning 
 the paffage and fifhing in the 
 fame. 
 
 VIII. Colledions of Letters, and 
 Relations concerning Voyages 
 an Expeditions to Sea, by 
 feveral Perfons. 
 
 IX. Colleftions of Expeditions at 
 Sea •, containing original Let- 
 ters, Relations and Inftru- 
 aions , from King H. VIII 
 till after K. James I. 
 
 X. I. Of Minerals, of Gold, Sil- 
 
 ver, Copper, Lead and Iron, 
 out of ancient Records. F. i. 
 
 2, Of a Gold Mine in Stotland. 
 F. 13. 
 
 3, Of Weights, Meafures, Mo- 
 ney, Orders to bring in Bul- 
 lion, Proportions and Alloy 
 of Money, Exchange of Mo- 
 ney, and about the Exchange 
 of Money in King //.VIIl's 
 time ; written by Sir Tho.Grc- 
 Jham. F. 15. 
 
 4. About prohibiting the expor- 
 tation of Gold and Silver. F. 
 ()l., 82, 146. 
 
 5. A way to increafe the reve- 
 
 A Bundle of loofe Leaves, fo 
 much burnt at the Ends, as to be 
 of little Ufe. 
 
 The End burnt; 
 of much ufe. 
 
 fo as not to be 
 
 This is burnt a little at the End 
 and Side: but moft of it may be 
 made out. As alfo are the two 
 following. 
 
 nue
 
 ( 9* 
 
 o r H o E. 
 
 nue of the Crown by advan- 
 cing the Coin, 1610. F. 236. 
 "With feveral matters relating 
 to the Mint. 
 XI. I. Colleftions about levying 
 of men for the fervice ot the 
 War, out of ancient Records. 
 F. I. 
 
 2. Several original Warrants of 
 K. Henry VIII, Ed. VI, Q^Mz- 
 ry, and Q^ Eliz. about Ma- 
 ilers. F. 22. 
 
 3. Expences of the Warr againfl: 
 France and Scotland, in the 
 time of K. Henry Ylll and K. 
 Ed.Yl. F.69. 
 
 4. Ways and means for eafy 
 trayning in the fervice of Har- 
 quebiifs. F. 410, 
 
 5. Orders to be obferved in the 
 marflialling the City of Lon- 
 don in the true form of difci- 
 pline. F. 418. 
 
 * XII. Braftonus de legibus & 
 
 confuetudinibus Anglicanis. 
 
 * XIII. Statuta Synodorum , per- 
 
 anciquo charadtere fcripta, ex 
 
 colledione, utdicitur, nefcio 
 
 qua audtoritate, Theodori 
 
 Archiepifcopi Cant. 
 
 Prsfigitur, poft x prjecepta. 
 
 Epitome judicialium legum 
 
 Mofaicarum ; deinde Canones 
 
 & Conflitutiones Ecclefiafti- 
 
 C£e fub 67 titulis comprehenfje. 
 
 In primo folio Liber S. Auguft. 
 
 Cantuar. h. e. Monafterii S. 
 
 Auguftini. 
 
 Reperi quendam Theodorum 
 
 ter citatum. 
 
 Inferitur Epiftola, five potius 
 
 fabulofa narratio de vn dor- 
 
 mierrtibus, qui in Ephefo dor- 
 
 mierunt. 
 
 Occurrunt etiam Canones A- 
 
 damanni; &e Synodo Roma- 
 
 na fub Gregorio non pauca. 
 
 Ifidorus citatur ftepe, ut &; 
 
 S. Patricius. 
 
 Poft fequuntur multi alii mif- 
 
 cellanei Canones. 
 
 Liber fane prteclarus & quan- 
 
 tivis pretii. 
 
 * XIV. Hugonis de S. VicTrore de 
 
 Sacramencis Libri 2. 
 
 B. V.
 
 (P3 ) 
 
 B. V. 
 
 Books deftroyed or defaced in the Prefs called 
 
 y 1 r E L L I u s. 
 
 VITELLIUS A. 
 
 II. 4. ^Harta R. Henrici con- This is fo fhrivell'd up as not 
 V-f firmans prscedentes to be read 
 
 Charcas & Privilegia Eccle- 
 fise Cantuarienfis. F. 19 to 28, 
 
 to be read. 
 
 Twelve 
 End of this. 
 
 Ill, I. Liber PanormiEc Ivonis, ve- TwpJvp t «n.,» i n. r 
 
 n^rabilis Carnotenfis Epifco- End of this ^'^'^ '""^ 
 
 pi, de multimoda diftindione 
 
 Scripturarum fub una cafto- 
 
 rum eloquiorum facie conten- 
 
 tarum. F. i to 123. tv,:„ 'r rt • r /, . 
 
 3. Cauf^ XXXVI Gratiani. Ad- be ufeJefT '"''^' '''° 
 
 duntur quaedam de Confecra- 
 
 tione ScDedicatione Ecclefia- 
 
 rum, de Matrimonio & affi- 
 
 nitate, de Simonia, aliifque. 
 
 F. 151, ^. 
 *V. Traftatus de poteftate gene- 
 
 ralium Conciliorum, & Ro- 
 
 manorum Pontificum : in quo 
 
 favet Auftor Conciliorum au- 
 
 ftoritati, illam prjeponendo 
 
 poteftati Romanorum Ponti- 
 ficum. Creditur, quod eun- 
 
 dem Traftatum compofuic 
 
 magifter Joannes de Segobia, 
 
 Hifpanus. 
 * VI. I. Hymni ad B. Mariam vir- 
 
 ginem &c. F. i. 
 
 2. Gildas de excidio Britannise. 
 Liber charadlere affini Saxo- 
 nico exaratus. F, 2. 
 
 3. Hymni ad Theodorura Archi- 
 prsfulem & Abbatem Adria- 
 num, ad finem paginarum 
 prasfationis. ib. 
 
 4. Hymni ad S. Auguftinum 
 Cantuarienfem, in fincLibri. 
 F. 72,_^. 
 
 Hymni omnes notulis muG- 
 calibus infigniti. Ex dono 
 
 A a Clarif-
 
 (94) 
 
 VirELLIUS A. 
 
 ClarilTHTii Gulielmi Camdeni. 
 * VII. Rituale antiquum •, in quo 
 variae Rubricse habentur de ri- 
 tibus facris in omni officio eu- 
 chariftico. 
 
 VIII. I. Calendarium vetus: in quo 
 Obitus quorundam Magna- 
 tum, Abbacum, Sacerdotum, 
 Monachorum aliorumque ad- 
 nocacur. 
 
 10. Annales a Chrifto nato ad 
 annum 1448, fcripti a quo- 
 dam Monacho de Lacock. 
 F. ii8. 
 
 11. De Gulielmo Longfpee, 8e 
 filiis ejus. F. 135, b.^ 
 
 12. Convencio & finis, quern 
 Willielmus, R. Scoti^e, fecit 
 cum Domino fuo R. Henri- 
 co II, quo tempore devenie- 
 bat ejus homo ligeus; cum a- 
 liis exemplis ex Regiftris & 
 Hiftoriis defumptis ad pro- 
 bandum jus Regum Anglise 
 in Scotiam. F. 139. 
 
 13. Epiftola R. Edwardi I ad 
 Papami qua tuetur jus fuum 
 ad regnum Scotias ; fcripta vi- 
 cefimo nono Regni fui; h. e. 
 anno 1301 : quam idem Rex 
 in ada publicaCancellarise in- 
 rotulari five referri juffit. 
 F. 144, h. 
 
 IX. I. Colledio ordinationum, 
 . compofuionum , concordia- 
 
 rum, & confirmationum de 
 variis Cantariis, Vicariis, & 
 Hofpitalibus &c. in Dioecefi 
 Dunelmenfi. F. i. 
 
 2. Statutum R. Edwardi III; 
 in quibus cafibus locum ha- 
 bea. regia prohibitio contra 
 judicem fpiritualem. F. 74. 
 
 3. Petitiones Cltri, & Refpon- 
 fiont-s Regis ad Articulos Sta- 
 tuti prsdifti in Parliamento 
 Regis. Solummodo prooe- 
 mium illic extat, castera defi- 
 derantur. 74, h. 
 
 4. Refponfiones Prioris Dunel- 
 mife ad querelas Majoris & 
 Bnrgenfium Vills Novi Ca- 
 ibri kiper Tinam. F. J^. 
 
 5. Compilatio venerabilis patris. 
 
 All but the laft Leaf wanting. 
 
 Shrivell'd, and Part wanting. 
 And the three following Trads 
 are wanting. 
 
 This Book is fo fhrivell'd up, as 
 to be quite ufelefs. 
 
 Joannis
 
 (95 ) 
 
 FITEL'L^IUS A,B,C. 
 
 Joannis WefTington, Prions 
 Dunelmias, pro tucela & de- 
 fenfione jurium, libertatum 
 & pofTeflionum Ecclefise Du- 
 nelmias adverfus malicias & 
 machinationes ipfa molien- 
 tium impugnare. F. 83. 
 
 B. 
 
 XIV. Ada inter Angliam & Ro- 
 mam ab anno 1527 ad annum 
 
 ■I539- 
 XVIII. Ada inter Angliam &Ger- 
 
 maniam ab anno 1 5 1 o ad 1 5 1 6. 
 
 XIX. 
 
 XX. 
 
 Anno 15 1 6. 
 
 ab Anno 1517 ad 
 
 XXI. 
 
 1524. 
 
 m 
 
 lingua 
 
 ab Anno 1525 ad 
 
 1545- 
 
 C. 
 
 * V. Sermones varii 
 Saxonica. 
 
 XIV. I. Sermo Roberti, epifcopi 
 Lincolnienfis, habitus coram 
 Innocentio IV Papa & Car- 
 dinalibus apud Lugdunum. 
 F.I. 
 
 2. Notabilia excerpta ex epifto- 
 lis ejufdem. F. 6, 
 
 3. Tradlatus ejufdem de oculo 
 morali. F. 13. 
 
 4. Traftatus ejufdem de modo 
 conficcndi. F. 61. 
 
 5. Traft. ejufdem de x preceptis 
 Dei. F. 69. 
 
 6. Traft. fratris Malachise, Or- 
 dinis Minorum, & Provincis 
 Hibernife, de veneno, i. e. de 
 7 peccatis mortalibus. F. 1 13. 
 
 7. Tracft. Parifienfis de Prjeben- 
 dis, auro pretiofwr, ut ibi in 
 fine dicitur, tit patet intuenti. 
 F. 129. 
 
 8. Tradt. docens homines, quo- 
 modo deberent prjedicare. 
 F. 144. 
 
 9. Tradb. WillLelmi de Sandlo 
 amore, de periculis novifTi- 
 morum temporum, ex Scrip- 
 turis divinis excerptus, & in 
 capitulacertadigeftus. F.155. 
 
 10. Tra6tatus extradtus de libro 
 S. Auguftini de civitate Dei, 
 de omnibus diftis poetarum, 
 quse Auguftinus tangit, cum 
 
 This burnt at the End : and a 
 third Part of the Writing gone. 
 
 Thefe four burnt at the Sides and 
 Ends , fo that part of the Writing 
 is burnt. 
 
 This Book has the End con- 
 traded with Heat, and part burnt 
 away. 
 
 quadam
 
 (9^) 
 
 yiTELLIUS- C. 
 
 quadamexplicatione-, fivepo- 
 tius abbreviatio iftius libri. 
 F. 179. 
 
 11. Traftatulus, qui vocatur 
 Convertimini, a primis verbis, 
 Convertimini adme in toto corde ; 
 five Sermones Roberti Lin- 
 colnienfis. F. 247. 
 
 12. Bonus poftillator fuper li- 
 brum Ecclefiaften. F. 317. 
 
 XVI. I. A Dilcourfe abour Mar- This Book has the Side burnt, 
 riages and Divorces: wherein and Part of the Writing in forae 
 the Queftion about the lawful Places. 
 liberty of marriage after di- 
 vorcement for adultery is ful- 
 ly ftated, withfeveral mifcel- 
 laneous Papers relating to rhe 
 cafe of Robert Earl of EjfeXy 
 and Frances Howard., daugh- 
 ter of the Earl of Suffolk. F. i. 
 
 2. Traftatus matrimoniales in- 
 ter Reges Anglise & exteros 
 Principes, viz. 
 
 I. inter Henricum VII 
 
 Regem & Margariram Du- 
 
 ciffkm Subaudise. F. 129, b. 
 
 138, 167, 242. 
 2. inter Mariam, filiam 
 
 Henrici VIII, & Caroluni 
 
 Hifpaniarum Regem & Im- 
 
 peratorem. F. 130, Z". 234, 
 
 246, 30S. 
 
 3. inter Henricum VIII 
 
 & Annam Clivenfem: with 
 feveral other Papers relating 
 to that marriage. F. 238,248, 
 
 4. ■ inter Comitem Pala- 
 
 tinum & Mariam, filiam R. 
 Henrici VIII. F. 102, 277. 
 
 5. ■ inter R. Edwardum 
 
 VI & Ehzabetham, filiam 
 Henrici II R. Gallic, anno 
 1551. F. 238,^. 298. 
 
 6. inter Principem Ed- 
 wardum & Mariam Reginam 
 ScotijE. F. 239, 307. 
 
 7. inter Reginam Ma- 
 riam & Philippum Principem 
 Hifpani^. F. 133, 309. 
 
 8. Lady Elixaleth\ Anfwer in 
 April., 1558, to Sir Thomas 
 Pope., fen t from Queen Afrtr^y, 
 to know how her Grace liked 
 the motion of Marriage made 
 
 by
 
 (.97 ) 
 
 V ir E L L lU s c. 
 
 by the King o{ Sweden's Mef- 
 fenger. F.323. 
 
 9. Inquifuion of what is next to 
 be done in the matter of the 
 Requeft of Archduke Charles, 
 AiDio 1567. F. 325. 
 
 10. Confiderations about the 
 Neceffity of Q^ Elizabelb's 
 marrying. F. 332. -vib 3:1. 
 
 11. Articuli propofui fuperma- ■■ • 
 trimonio R. Elizabeths & 
 
 Ducis Andegavenfis, in 1549. 
 F. 285, 335^347-. 
 
 12. Tradlatus Matrimonialis in- 
 ter Fredericum Principem Pa- 
 latinum, & Elizabetham, fi- 
 liam Regisjacobil. F. 346. 
 
 13. inter H. Principem 
 
 Walli^ & Mariam Infantem 
 Sabaudise : cum politicis qui- 
 bufdam obfervationibus: Ita- 
 lice. F. 372. 
 
 14. inter Dominam Eli- 
 zabetham, filiam unicam R. 
 Jacobi I, & Principem Pede- 
 moncii. F. 382. 
 
 15. Facultas five commiffio a 
 R. Jacobo I data ad tradtan- 
 dum de Matrimonio inter Ca- 
 rolum, Principem Wallis, & 
 Principiflam Chriftianam, fe- 
 cundam filiam Francias. F, 
 
 i39> 393- 
 
 16. Several Papers relating to 
 
 the Cafe of the Earl of EJfex 
 and Lady Frances Howard his 
 Wife : ubi de difTolutione Ma- 
 trimonii ratione impotentis 
 fufeagitur. F. 79, 116, 150, 
 
 1 72, 39 ' ' 395».404> 45S, 506- 
 
 17. De nuptiis inter Comitem 
 Hertfordise, & D. Kathari- 
 nam Greiam, anno 1560. F. 
 150, 398, 442, 500, 510. 
 
 18. A Difcourfe of Sir Walter 
 Rawleigb, touching the Mar- 
 riage of Prince Henry and the 
 eldeft Daughter of the Duke 
 of Savoy, and the Marriage of 
 the Lady Elizabeth with the 
 Prince of Piedmont, Anno 
 161 1. F. 511. 
 
 19. A rough Draught of the 
 Propofitions for a Treaty of 
 
 B b Marriage
 
 (98 ) 
 
 ^FITE LLIUS C, D. 
 
 Marriage between Charles 
 Prince of Wnles, and the fe- 
 cond Daughter of the King 
 of Spain, Juno 1 6 1 5. F. 5 2 1 . 
 D. 
 * I. I. MiiTa multum devota de 
 nomine Jefu. F. i. 
 
 2. Liber de quibufdam volucri- 
 bus & animalibus, quae divi- 
 na fcripcura annumerat, cum 
 myfticis expofitionibus , & 
 cum eorundem pifturis. F. 3. 
 
 3. Pidura monftrorum, quse ^ 
 finguntur efle in India, aliif- 
 
 que exteris Regionibus. F.47. 
 
 4. Liberhieroglyphicusfiveem- 
 blematicus, continens varias 
 rerum reprefentationes, cum 
 illarum morali expofitione ; 
 veteri lingua Gallicana. F.^x. 
 
 5. Verfus eadem lingua condi- 
 ti de quibufdam moralibus ar- 
 gumencis. F. 65. 
 
 6. Narrationes quzedam de Mo- 
 nachis, praefertim iEgyptia- 
 cis : h. e. de diftis, moribus 
 & vitaeorum; Gallice. F. 67. 
 
 7. Elucidarium, five Dialogus 
 inter magiftrum & difcipu- 
 lum, in quo obfcuritas diver- 
 farum rerum Theologicarum 
 elucidatur, F. 102. 
 
 8. Libellus Petri Blefenfis, Ba- 
 thonienfis Archidiaconi, de 
 transfiguratione Domini, ad 
 Atrebatenfem Epifcopum. F. 
 127. 
 
 9. Ejufdem homilia de conver- 
 fioneB. Pauli. F. 130. 
 
 10. Ejufdem libellus de vita B. 
 Jobi ; five, expofitio in caput 
 primum, fecundum, & ulti- 
 mum illius libri, ad R. Hen- 
 
 ricum II. F. 132. ^<. , . , • i.« ^ --- 
 
 II. I. Hiftoria Anglorum poft Con- Of this there rcmam about 120 
 
 quifitionem Anglic, & Nor- loofe Leaves. 
 
 mannorum, ad finem Regni 
 
 R. Henrici III. F. i. 
 * 2, Infignia gentilitia coloribus 
 
 depifta Haroldi, Godefridi 
 
 R. Hierofolymitani &c. qui 
 
 floruerunt fub H. III. F. 279. 
 ♦ill. I. De fundatione Abbatijede 
 
 Fifcamps in Normannia, h. e. _..
 
 ( 99 ) 
 
 V ITE LLIUS D. 
 
 Fifcanenfis; de trunco fangui- 
 nis Chrifti ibidem invenco, & 
 de portione ejufdem fangui- 
 nis, per Epifcopum Norwi- 
 cenfem advcdta. F. i. 
 
 2. Liber de via bona-, five dc 
 bello facro cruce fignatorum. 
 Initium : Cum jam appropin- 
 quajfet ille terminus, quern Do- 
 tninusquotidie fuis demonftrat fi- 
 delibus y atque fpiritualiter, in 
 Ecclefia dicenSy Si quis vuU ve- 
 nire pojl me, abneget fejnetipfum, 
 £5? tollat crucem fuam, & fe- 
 quatur me, fa£la eft mentio vali- 
 da in univerfis Galliarum Re- 
 gionibus, ut &c. F. y,b. 
 
 3. Verfus dehiftoriis facrisvete- 
 ris & novi Teftamenti, veteri 
 lingua Gallicana. F. 49. 
 
 4. Verfus de amoribus Florifii 
 juvenis & Biancheflorje puel- 
 Jse, lingua veteri Anglicana. 
 F.60. 
 
 5. Gefta Amyfii & Amylonis, 
 verfibus Gallicanis. F. 78. 
 
 6. Meditationes pise & preces 
 dc Jefu & Maria, ejus paf- 
 fione,alii<qae ; verfibus Galli- 
 canis. F. 85. 
 
 7. Expoficio Kalendarii, five de 
 ratione dit-rum, menfium, & 
 anni, de feftis diebus, aliif- 
 que ad computum Ecclefiafti- 
 cum fpeftantibus, per Ran- 
 dulphum de Lynham, anno 
 1256; ut patet ex p. ^6, b. 
 rhythmisGallicanis. T.go,b. 
 
 8. Verfus Gallicani de Upupa, 
 Pelecano, aliifque. F. ^6, b. 
 
 9. Expofitiones qusedam five 
 commencaria in Macrobii Sa- 
 turnalia. F.98. 
 
 10. Liber Pentachronon ; i. e. 
 quinque temporum futuro- 
 rum i compilacus de Prophe- 
 tiis B. Hiidegardis Virginis, 
 qujE coeprrunt anno D. 1 100 : 
 cum epiltola & etiam prologo 
 G.ibcnonis, Prioris Ciftrenfis, 
 ad Reymundum Scholafticum 
 & Reynerum, Canonicos S. 
 Stephani in tVlaguntia, de vita 
 & libnsillius Virginis. F. 197. 
 
 IV. i.Ca-
 
 ( 100 ) 
 
 V J r E LLIUS D. 
 
 ^IV. I. Cat.ilogus fcriptorum pro 
 religione litigancium , manu 
 propria Joannis Balisi. F. i. 
 
 2. Cacalogus fcriptorum aliquid 
 lucis habentium; h. e. qui 
 contra kiorum temporum er- 
 rores fcripferunc ; ejufdem 
 manu. F. 2. 
 
 3. Joannis Paleonidori, Batavi 
 Carmelite liber de principiis 
 & proceffu OrdinisCarmeliti- 
 
 ci. F. 4. . 
 
 4. Fratris Baptiftfe Mantuani 
 Carmelitas ad S. Virginem 
 Mariam votum ; non minus, 
 uti dicicur, cultum, quam 
 pium. F. 120. 
 
 5. Ejufdem de contemnenda 
 morte carmen. F. 122. 
 
 6. Ejufdem in Divum Albertum 
 carmen. F. 125, b. 
 
 7. Libellus, qui dicitur Ignea 
 Sagitla, editus a Fratre Nico- 
 lao Narbonenfi, quondam 
 Priore generali Ordinis Fra- 
 trum B. MarijE de monte Car- 
 meli: In quo deploratreligio- 
 nem primariam penitus exftin- 
 ftam. F. 130. 
 
 ' 8. Antiquitas Carmelitana; an- 
 
 gufte continens illuftres viros 
 
 & pr^clara gefla, ab Helia 
 
 prophera ad noftra ufque tem- 
 
 pora: Quam edidit venerabi- 
 
 lis Pater, Frater Petrus de 
 
 Lilla Bellenavenfis de Borbo- 
 
 nia, Carmelita. F. 161. 
 g. Catalogus quorundam Scrip- 
 
 torum; perjoannem Balsum, 
 
 manu propria. F. 173. 
 » V. .1. Gualteri Coventrienfis Hi- 
 
 ftoria Regum Anglic, a tem- 
 pore R. Cadwalladri ad tem- 
 pera R. Edwardil: i. e. ad :■.:.. 
 
 annum 1296.' F. i. . ' 
 
 2. Chronica a primo anno R. 
 Edwardi II, ad primum an- 
 num R. Henrici IV, exclufive ; 
 i. e. ab anno 1307 ad annum 
 1400-, a quodam Fratre Ordi- 
 nis Minorum fcripta ad mag- 
 nificum Dominum & venera- 
 bilem Comitem Northumbro- 
 rum, D. Henricum Parccy. 
 F, 108. 4 Prsemit-
 
 ( loi ) 
 VITE LLIUS D. 
 
 Prjemittitur tradatulus de Re- 
 ligioforum ordinum primaria 
 inchoatione & aliquorum do- 
 ftorum librorum compofui- 
 one, & de quibufdam mira- 
 bilibus Anglis. F. 107. 
 
 3. Epiftolse tres Petri, Blefen- 
 fis, (ita in MS. fed male) 
 Londinenfis Archidiaconi, 
 
 1. Ad Priorem&Conventum 
 de Evefham, five confo- 
 latio Monachorum in fui Ab- 
 batis abfentia. F. 135, 
 
 2. Invedtio ejufdem in rebel- 
 lionem quorundam Clerico- 
 rum & Canonicorum. F. 136. ' 
 
 3. Dehortacio a vinculis car- 
 nalibus. F. 137. 
 
 4. Tabuize qusdam viciorum & 
 virtutum. F. 140. 
 
 5. ConftirutionesSynodales Ec- 
 clefije B. Petri Eboracenfis. 
 F. 142. 
 
 6. Conflitutiones provinciales 
 Eborac. per D. Walterum 
 Gray , quondam Archiepif- 
 copum Eborac. cumaliis con- 
 fticutionibus de decimis feni, 
 agnorum, ladlicinii, &c. F. 
 149. 
 
 7. Conftitutiones Curiae five 
 Confiftorii Eboracenfis. F. 
 162, b. 
 
 8. Regiftrum Chartarum Mo- 
 nafterii de Thorney in infula 
 EHenfi. F. 175. 
 
 9. Petri Blefenfis aliorumque 
 mifcellanea quredam pii argu- 
 ment! ; viz. dediledioneDei, 
 de conceptione feu origine af- 
 feftionum, quibus ad diligen- 
 dum Deum animus excitacur, 
 &c. F. 201. 
 
 *VI. I. Hiftoria Hamburgenfis 
 Ecclefise, fcripta per Aimun- 
 dum Bremenfis Ecclefije Ca- 
 nonicum, ad Vemarum, Ar- 
 chiepilcopum Hamburgen- 
 fem. F.I. Additur tanquam 
 appendix. 
 
 2. Defcriptio regionum & infii- 
 larum Aquilonis. F. 122. 
 
 3. Leges Schanics, five Scha- 
 nienfes, compofitse per D. 
 
 '' C c Andrearti,
 
 ( loi ) 
 
 y i-r E L L lu s D. 
 
 Andreum , Archiepifcopum 
 
 Lundenfem, Suecise Prima- 
 
 tem, & Apoftolics fedis Le- 
 
 gatum ; qui etiam Converfor 
 
 extUit totius Livonice ad fidem 
 
 ChriJH, ^ idea Apoftolus apud 
 
 illos nominatus eji. ^d fepul- 
 
 tus in muro in capella Marthce 
 
 Lunden, i^ beattis in pluribus 
 
 ajlimatur. F. 144. 
 VII. Colleftanea Johannis Jofce- About a hundred 
 
 lini: i^ non Latirentii Noelli, of this Book remain •, but fo burnt 
 
 lit Catalogus habet. at the Ends and Sides, as to be of 
 
 little ufe. 
 * VIII. I. Rota fortunse depida, 
 
 cum aliis figuris earn circum- 
 
 ambientibus. F. i. 
 
 2. Pictura fex virtutum, & op- 
 pofuorum viciorum. F. 2. 
 
 3. Verfus de Philomela. F. 3. 
 
 4. De confliitu vitiorum & vir- 
 tutum; Metrice. F. 4. 
 
 5. Libellus, qui infcribitur, 
 Forma vits honeftfe. F. 10. 
 
 6. CoUeftio, five potius brevia- 
 rium epiftolarum Decretali- 
 lium, & Canonum Ecclefia- 
 llicorum. F. 26. 
 
 7. Canones quidam mifli gene- 
 ' ris, de Clericis, Monachis, 
 
 aliilque. F* 147. 
 
 8. Verius de Ipeciebus viciorum, 
 eorum materia, & remediis* 
 
 F. 152. 
 g. Verius Gualteri Mapes de 
 Clericis & Laicis, de S. Ed- 
 mundo, de S. Maria Virgine, 
 de feftivitate omnium Sando- 
 rum ; altercatio inter Magi- 
 ftrum Henricum de Albrin- 
 cis & Leonium Teutonicum, 
 cum aliis ejufmodi. F. 152, b. 
 
 10. Qjiomodo Apoftoli compo- 
 luerunt fymbolum. F. 156,^. 
 
 11. La vie S. Edmund ie Con- 
 feffeur ; tranflate de Latin en 
 Rumaunz. F. 159. 
 
 12. La vie S. Alban, le primier 
 martyr de Angleterre, & de 
 S. Amphibal. F. iyo,b. 
 
 13. Verfus Latini de iifdem 
 Sanftis. F. 188. 
 
 14. Meditationes & elogia de 
 Chrifto. F, 188, ^, 
 
 i5i Elogia
 
 ( 103 ) 
 
 V ITELLIUS D. 
 
 15. Elogia B. Marine Virginis; 
 Gallice. F. 189. 
 
 16. Verfus de proprietatibus 
 menfuim. F. i<^o,b. 
 
 *X. I. Regiftrum charcaruin Mo- 
 
 nafterii S. Auguftini Cantua- 
 
 rienfis. F. i. 
 2. Libellus Provincialis. F. 237. 
 XI. I. Liber Methodii Epifcopi 
 
 de principio & fine feculi. 
 
 F. I, 
 
 2. Qusdam fabulofs narrati- 
 ones de vifionibus & appari- 
 tionibus, aliifcue. Inter hsc 
 occurrit epiftola Jefu Chriftt 
 de incerdidione omnium ma- 
 lorum, & de obfervantia om- 
 nium bonorum, quam Ange- 
 lus (uo digito fcripfic. F. 4, 
 
 3. Hiftoria Anglis, a Bruto ad 
 R. Henricum II. F. g,^. 
 
 4. Nigelli de Burnelio Fragmen- 
 tum, cum aliis verfibus. F.36. 
 
 5. .fliftimationes decimarum, 
 Ecclefiarum, & Vicariarum 
 in Nafib burgo, faftse per D. 
 NorwicenfemEpifcopum, an- 
 no 1273. F. 42. 
 
 6. Fragmenta quasdam de ne- 
 gotio inter Stephanum, Ar- 
 ciiiepifcopum Cantuarienfenl 
 & Cardinalem, & R. Joan- 
 nem, continens quafdam de- 
 clarationes & epiftolas Epif- 
 copales & Papales. F. 43. 
 
 7. Compendium hiftorise Angli- 
 canse, a Bruto ad coronatio- 
 nem R. Henrici IV. F. 48. 
 
 8. Chronicon breve, aBrutoad 
 R. Henricum III} Gallice. 
 F. 5 [ , ^. 
 
 9. Chronica Monafterii S. Au- 
 guftini Cantuarienfis , per 
 Thomam Spratt, Monachuni 
 Auguftinenl'em , extradta ex 
 Tib. A. IX. 12. F.60. 
 
 10. Libellusbrevitercompilatus 
 de Aatu Anglise, a tempore, 
 quo ccepit primo fub Regibus 
 gubernari, ulque ad tempora 
 R.Henricilll; a quodam Mo- 
 nachoElienfisEcclefias. F. 9^. 
 
 11. Liber de fitu Britannise, 
 dimenfione, divifione illius. 
 
 natura,
 
 ( I04 ) 
 
 iiatura, n.irabilibus in ea ftu- 
 pcndis , de Cainbri;e prae- 
 coniis&mirabilibus, de iniu- 
 lis Britanniasadjacentibus, de 
 famofis fluminibus, anciquis 
 urbibus, cpmitatibus, Icgibus, 
 par icioiie in vii regna, Epif- 
 copatibus, incolis vetuftis & 
 novis, & eorundem lingais 
 & moribus. F. 154. 
 ♦XII. I. Extradus Chronicarum 
 Qftrenfis Ecclefu^, perjoan- 
 nem Rochford, a Chrifto naco 
 ad annum 1410. F. t. 
 
 2. Hiftoria Anglis a Bruto ad 
 t: mporaR. HenriciVI. F.33. 
 
 3. FrMgiiiencum Prophetiae Mo- 
 nachidc Bridlington, cumaliis 
 prophetiis; Mctrice. F. 118. 
 
 4. Verfus de Fratribus. Invefti- 
 va contra Fratres mendican- 
 tes. F. (26, /». 
 
 5. Norma Anachoretalis vitac 
 perfedl^. F. 129, b. 
 
 6. ReguliE & ftatuta monialium. 
 
 F. 139- 
 
 7. The Rule of S. Aagujiin, in 
 
 old Englifh. F. 151. 
 
 8. Three letters of a Devout 
 Man to a Nun. F. 160. 
 
 9. Diredions and Rules for the 
 Management of private De- 
 votion in the Courfe of Life 
 and in the Ufe of the Offices 
 of Religion. F. 168. 
 
 10. The Seige of Rhodes, writ- 
 ten by John Hay, and dedi- 
 cated to King Edward IV. 
 F. i8r. 
 
 11. The Seige of Harpt and 
 Battle of Agencourt by King 
 Henr-j V; in old Englifh 
 Verfe. F. 214. 
 
 1 2. The Tale of a little Boy and 
 the Friar; in old Englifh 
 Verfe. F. 223. 
 
 *XIII. i.VitaB. Auguftini, Hip- 
 ponenfis Epifcopi -, per Ivo- 
 nem Carnotenfem Epifco- 
 pum. F. I. 
 
 2. Homilia in verba: Tanquam 
 ovis ad occifionem du£ius ejl. 
 F.7. 
 
 3. Epiftola ad Ogerium, Fer- 
 
 ranicsE
 
 ( i<^5 ) 
 Vlt^ LLIUS D. 
 
 ranica: congregationis Praepo- 
 fitum, & ejus Conventum, 
 & ad omnes in Canonico 
 ordine fecundum Deum vi- 
 ventes; de dignitate ordinis 
 Canonici & Sacerdotalis. 
 F.I I. 
 
 4. Bulla Urbani P. mifTa ad Al- 
 bertum Abbatem S. Ruffi 
 ejufque fratres Canonicam 
 vitam profeffos , confirmans 
 iftum ordinem Canonicorum. 
 F. 12. 
 
 5. Sermones varii Hugonis Ab- 
 batis Baizellse. F. 13. 
 
 6. Regula S. Patris Auguftini 
 Epifcopi de vita Clericorura. 
 F. 28. 
 
 7. Sermo de S. Cruce. F. 32. 
 
 8. Epiftola Poncii Pilati ad 
 Claudium Imperatorem, dc 
 Chrifto. F.39. 
 
 9. Oratio S. Jacobi ad Judsos, 
 de Chrifto. F. 39, b. 
 
 10. De S.Maria; excerptum ex 
 Hiero.nymo contra Helvidi- 
 um. F. 40, b. 
 
 11. Sermones duo S, Auguftini 
 Epifcopi in vigiliis PafchzB, 
 F. 41. 
 
 12. Eufebii, Epifcopi Csefarien- 
 fis, de Pafcha homiliae 12 5 de 
 Graeco in Latinum tranflats. 
 F. 49. 
 
 13. Sermones alii S. Atiguftini. 
 F. 6^., b. 
 
 . 14. Bulla Joannis Papse de Pri- 
 oratu de Stoke, Ordinis S. 
 Benedifti, Dioecefeos Norwi- 
 cenfis, qui dependebac a Mo- 
 nafterio Beekerlewin in Nor- 
 mannia, in Collegiatam & fe- 
 cularem Ecclefiam transfe- 
 rendo. F. 73. 
 
 15. Charta fundationis Ecclefise 
 Collegiatae Canonicorum fe- 
 cularium apud Stoke, ubi eraC 
 Prioratus, per Edmundum 
 Comitem Marchias & Ulto- 
 niae, anno feptimo regni R. 
 Henrici V. F. 75. 
 
 16. Liters ejufdem Edmundi, 
 in quibus facukas Canonicis 
 illius Ecclefias ftatuta conden- 
 
 Dd dt
 
 ( io« ) 
 
 VITELLIUS D. 
 
 di conceditur, cum quorun- 
 dam Statiitorum enumera- 
 tione. F. "JJ. 
 
 17. Bulla Martini V Papje, COD' 
 firmans ejufdem fundationem. 
 
 F. 79- 
 
 18. Statuta & Ordinationes Ec- 
 clefise Collegiatas S. Johannis 
 Baptiftje de Stoke juxta Clare, 
 & Norwicenfis Dioecefeos, 
 fada & edita per Thomam 
 Barneflay, ejufdem Ecclefise 
 Decanum, vi & vigore indul- 
 ti Apoftolici, ac per Ricar- 
 dum Epifcopum Lincolnien- 
 fem confirmaca anno 1422. 
 F.81. 
 
 19. Quasdam mifcellanea de 
 feptem peccatis capitalibus, 
 de monachis & monialibus, 
 & de information e parochia- 
 norum, per Sacerdotes qua- 
 ter in anno facienda. F. 90. 
 
 20. Narracio Petri, Abbatis 
 Cluniacenfis de quibufdam 
 miraculis. F. 94. 
 
 21. Sermo in nativitate Domini. 
 F. 107. 
 
 22. Verfus de Virginitate S. Ma- 
 rise, deduobus Apoftolicis, de 
 templo Solomonis, de Sarah 
 & Pharaone ; & monita Ethi- 
 ca. F. 109. 
 
 *XTV. I. Vita S. Guthlaci Sacer- 
 dotis; per Gulielmum, Ab- 
 batem Ramefeyenfem, verfi- 
 bus hexametris defcripta, an- 
 no 1 1 80. F. I. 
 
 2. Vita S. Edmundi Regis & 
 martyris ; per Gulielmum 
 Croylandenfem, verfibus ele- 
 giacis ; cum verfibus rhyth- 
 micis in laudem ejus, in fine. 
 F. 28,Z'. 
 
 3. Vita S. Birini, Epifcopi & 
 Confefforis, ad Petrum, Win- 
 tonienfem Epifcopum; per 
 eundem, verfibus hexametris. 
 
 F- 39- 
 
 4. Vita S. Fridemundi, Regis 
 
 ac Martyris ; per eundem, 
 verfibus hexametris. F. 48,^. 
 
 5. De tranflatione veteris Eccle- 
 fias Sarifburienfis -, per eun- 
 dem, verfibus ekgiacis. F. 57. ^ i^s Ver^
 
 ( 107 J 
 
 VITELLIUS D. 
 
 6. Verfus de allegationibus & 
 refponfionibus habicis incer 
 Innocentium Papam & Ro- 
 manos pro imperio, quando 
 Otto Imperator & Fredericus 
 ad invicem litigabant. F. 60. 
 
 7. Liber de vita B. Cuthberti, 
 Lindisfarnenfis Epifcopi, de 
 Hiftoriis Hibernorum excerp- 
 tus. F. 67. 
 
 8. ProcefTus faftus contra R.Jo- 
 annem per Innocentium Pa- 
 pam, anno 1 21 2. F. 80. 
 
 9. Hiftoriola de pietate R. Hen- 
 rici III. F. 85. 
 
 10. De G. Belluacenfi Epifcopo 
 bellicofo a Ricardo R. An- 
 glorum capto, &incarcerem 
 conjedto, cum epiftola ejus 
 ad P. Cseleftinum: & bulla 
 D. Papje refponforia ad eun- 
 dem proRege Anglias. F.86. 
 
 IX. Fragmentum, continens ex- 
 empla ambitiofe pontificalem 
 cathedram afcendentium, & 
 de miferis efFeftibus ambitio- 
 nis honoris terreni. F. 91. 
 
 12. Gemma virginalis ; fivePoe- 
 ma de humiiitate & gratia 
 gloriofe Dei genitricis, & 
 virginis Maris, &deejusmi- 
 raculis -, verfibusalterutrinquc 
 refonantibus. F. 92. 
 
 13. Verfus quidam de figura 
 Crucis, aliifque mifcellaneis, 
 nullius momenti. F, 162. 
 
 «XV. i.VitaS.Dunftani, Arc+ii- 
 epifcopi Cantuarienfis ; per 
 Ofbernum Monachum. F. 1. 
 
 2. Chronica Jofcelini de Brake- 
 londe de rebus domefticis cce- 
 nobii S. Edmundi de Burgo: 
 h. e, de Abbatibus, Priori- 
 bus , & cseteris ofEcialibus, 
 de eledtionibus, dejitibus, & 
 rebus qualitercunque ad iftud 
 ccenobium fpeftantibus. F.32. 
 
 3. Index imperfeftus Chartarum 
 
 de terris ad idem ccenobium * 
 
 fpedantibus. F. 114, 
 
 4. The Life of Gilbert, Foun- 
 der of the Order of Sempring' 
 ham i tranflated by Frere 
 John Capgrave, 1432, in old 
 
 EngUfh. F. X16. XVI. Li-
 
 { io8 ) 
 
 VITELLJUS D. 
 
 *XVI. Liber ordinis Ecclefiae S. 
 Auguftini Cantuarienfis ; h.e. 
 de difciplina, confuetudint- 
 bus, facris ritibus, &ferviciis 
 in feftis anni diebus. 
 
 * XVII. I. Vita & Pafllo S. m- 
 fegi, Archiepifcopi Cantuari- 
 enfis & Martyris > per Ofber- 
 num, S. Cantuarienfis Metro* 
 politinEE Ecclefiae filium. 
 
 2. Tranflacio ejufdem. 
 
 3. Pafllo S. Paterni Epifcopi. 
 
 4. Homilise, Saxonice : viz. 
 
 1. De Paffione SS. Petri & 
 Pauli. 
 
 2. In natali S.Jacobi, fratris 
 Joannis. 
 
 3. In natali S. Joannis, Apo- 
 ftoli & Evangel iftse. 
 
 4. In natali SS. Apoftolorura, 
 Philippi & Jacobi. 
 
 5. De S. Jacobo. 
 
 6. In natali S. Bartholomsi, 
 Apoftoli. 
 
 p. De pafllone Apoftolorum, 
 Simonis, &Jud£e. 
 
 8. In natali S, Marci, Evan- 
 geliftas. 
 
 9. De quatuor Evangeliftis. 
 
 10. In natali S. Scephani, 
 Protomartyris ; item, 
 
 11. De S. Stephano. 
 
 12. In natali Innocentium. 
 
 13. In natali S. Sebaftiani. 
 
 14. In paflione S. Pantaleo- 
 nis. 
 
 15. In natali S. Matthjei, A- 
 poftoli. 
 
 1 6. In depofitione S. Benedi- 
 fti, Abbatis. 
 
 17. In natali S. Martini, Epif- 
 copi. 
 
 18. De S. Gregorio. 
 
 19. De S. Michaele, Archan- 
 gelo. 
 
 20. De Inventione S. Crucis. 
 
 21. De pafllone SS. Alexan- 
 dri, Eventii, & Theodoti. 
 
 22. De S. Andrea Apoftolo. 
 
 23. In natali S. Laurrntii. 
 
 24. In natali S. dementis, Pa- 
 pas. 
 
 25. In natali S. Ceciliae, Vir- 
 ginis. 
 
 iS. In 
 
 5
 
 VITELLIUS D. 
 
 26. In natali S. Apollinaris. 
 
 27. In natali SS. Abdonis, 
 & Sennes. 
 
 28. De Abgaro narratio, 
 
 29. In natali S, Euftachii, cum 
 foci is. 
 
 30. In natali S. Georgii, 
 
 3 1. In natali S. Ofwaldi Regis* 
 3 2. In natali S. Thomae, Apo- 
 ftoli, cum Sermone. 
 
 33. In natali S. Mauritii, cum 
 fociis fuis. 
 
 34. In natali S. Dionyfii, cum 
 fociis fuis. 
 
 S5- De aflumptione B. Ma- 
 rise. 
 
 ^6. De annunciatione S. Ma- 
 ris, Dei genitricis. 
 27- De exaltatione S. Crucis. 
 
 38. De uno Confeflbre inhasc 
 verba: Vigilate ergo.~~ 
 
 39. In hajc verba: Defignavit 
 Domims fcf alios feptuaginta 
 duos. 
 
 40. In hsBC verba: Homo qui- 
 dam peregre proficifcens. 
 
 41. In Dedicatione templi, 
 
 42. De paflione S. Eadmundi, 
 Regis. 
 
 43- In depofitione S. Bafilii, 
 Epifcopi. 
 
 44. In natali S. Pauli, Apo- 
 ftoli. 
 
 45. De paflione S. Maccha- 
 bsorum. 
 
 46. De paflione S. Agnetis. 
 
 47. Alia fententia, quam 
 fcripfit Terentianus. 
 
 48. De paflione S. Agathze, 
 Virginis. 
 
 49. De S. Lucia, Virgine. 
 
 50. De Cathedra S. Petri. 
 
 51. De paflione S. Albani, 
 Martyris. 
 
 ^2. De Injuftis. 
 Si . In natali S. ^theldry th», 
 Virginis. 
 
 54. Ubi Sanftorum Anglije 
 corpora requiefcunt. 
 *XX. I. Epiftola Adrianill P. in 
 qua prascipit, ut Monachi de 
 Boaleia folvant decimas paro- 
 chialibus Ecclefiis. F. i. 
 2. Quxdam breviufculs narra- 
 tiones de Beda. F. i,^. 
 
 3. Hym-
 
 ( iio ) 
 V ir ELL ]US Ti,E. 
 
 3. Hymni in S. Cuthbprtum, 
 notulis muficalibus infignici. 
 F. 2. 
 
 4. Officium, cum Leftionrbus 
 in feftivhatibus ejufdem. F. 
 
 '14. 
 
 5. Reliquia;, qure in Ecclefia 
 Dunelmenfi continenlur. F. 
 19, b. 
 
 6. De firu Dunelmi, & de San- 
 dtorum reliquiis, qus ibidem 
 continentur, carmen compo- 
 fuum S ixonice. F. 20, b. 
 
 7. Uf tribus M.iriis. ;/'. 
 
 8. Nomina & defcripcio trium 
 Magorum, qus muneraobcu- 
 lerunc Domino, ib. 
 
 9. Nomina Epifcoporum Lin- 
 disfiirnenfis feu Danelmenfis 
 Ecclefis, ab Aidano ad Phi- 
 lippum. F. 21. 
 
 10. Vita S. Cuthberti , Lin- 
 disfarncnfis Ecclefia Antifli- 
 tis ; partim ex Beda, parcim 
 ex Turgoto defumpta. F. 22. 
 
 11. De Drychelmo a morte re- 
 fiifcicato, cum narrationeake- 
 rius vifionis. F. 1 15. 
 
 12. Vira & miracula Gloriofini- 
 mi & Sanftiffimi Regis, Of- 
 waldi, ex libro Ecclefiaftico 
 gentis Anglorum. F. 121. 
 
 13. Vica S. Aidani, Lindisfar- 
 nenfis Ecclefise Antiftitis, ex 
 eodem. F. 130, /;. 
 
 Liber o]im erat Robert! Kegg 
 Dunelmenfis. 
 E. 
 * I. I. Beds; Ecclcfiaflics hiftoris 
 Anglorum quinquelibri. P". i. 
 
 2. Epiftola de cranfuu venerabi- 
 ]is Beds, Prefbyteri, & Gir- 
 venfis Monachi. F. iio, ^. 
 
 3. Enumeratio librorum Bedie. 
 F. Ill, ^. 
 
 4. Vita venerabilis Bedas, Pref- 
 byteri. F. 1 12. 
 
 5. Sergii P. epiftolje ad Ceolfri- 
 dum Abbatem, ut Bedam 
 mittat Romam. F. 115, b. 
 
 6. Vita; SS. Abbatum Monafte- 
 rii in Wiramutha & Girwin -, 
 viz. Benedidti, Ceolfridi, 
 Eaftermini, Sigfridi, & Aerh- 
 
 wetberti,
 
 ( iii ) 
 flTELLIUS E. 
 
 wetberti a Beda compofits. 
 
 ib. 
 y. Gefta Britonum; a Gilda fa- 
 piente compofica. F. 121. 
 
 8. Nomina Epifcoporum Lin- 
 disfernenfis & Dunelmcnfis 
 Ecclcfias, ab Aidano ad Hu- 
 gonem. F. 127, b. 
 
 9. Orationes duse ad S. Cuch- 
 bcrtum. ib. 
 
 10. Donatio R. Egfridi. F. 128. 
 
 11. Liber devica, miraculis, & 
 tranficu S. Cuchberti, Lindif- 
 farnenfis Epifcopi. ib. 
 
 12. Reliquise, qus in Duncl- 
 menfi continentur Ecclefia. 
 F. 170. 
 
 13. Vifio S. Ofwaldi, cum effet 
 paratus ad beilum contra 
 Cuthlonem Regem, cum qui- 
 bufdam miraculis ejuifdem. 
 F. 171. 
 
 14. De ampulla olei revelata per 
 B. Mariam Virginem S. Tho- 
 rns Cantuarienii, qua>ungen- 
 di erant Reges Anglis. F. 
 
 II. 1. Fragmentum de regibus 
 Francorum, a Rege Childeri- 
 co, a Scephano Papa depofito 
 & detenco ; ubi de btrllis Re- 
 gis pocentiffimi Caroli agitur. 
 F. 1. 
 
 2. Defcriptio locorum, quae vi- 
 dit B-rn.irdus fapiens, quando 
 iv'it in Jerufalem, & rediit ; & 
 de ipla Jeriilalem, & de locis 
 circa earn. F. 3, ^. ■ 
 
 3. Hiftoria Langobardorum ; 
 per Paulum Diaconum. F. 4. 
 
 4. De locib fandlis in Palaeftina, 
 &de Conllantinopoli, ScBafi- 
 lica, quce crucem Domini 
 continet. Ni fallor, efl pars 
 Itineiarii Bernardi. 
 
 5. Hiftorica quasdam analeda, 
 & Geographica. 
 
 6. GelTra Alexandri magni, quse 
 fcripfit Ariftoteli magiftro fLio. 
 
 7. Orofius de tribus partibus 
 t-n;E ; Afia, Europa, Africa. 
 
 8. Dares de Trojana liiftoria. 
 F. ^i. 
 
 5. Quasdam fragmenta hiftoris 
 
 Romans:,
 
 ( iiO 
 
 VITELLIUS E. 
 
 Romanae, Gr^cse, & facra:. 
 ib. 
 
 10. Eutropius. F. 35. 
 
 11. Excerpta ex quadam hifto- 
 ria Regum Francorutn, F. 
 38,/^. 
 
 12. Excerptum ex Martiano. 
 F. 44, b. 
 
 13. Libere dida vel fafta, ib. 
 
 14. De mutatione morum & 
 fortune. F. 45. 
 
 15. Mifcellaneaquasdamhiftori- 
 ca excerpta. ib. 
 
 Juftinus de Sardanapala. 
 
 16. Excerptum ex libro Julii 
 Firmici Materni. F. 46. 
 
 17. Excerpta ex geftis Romano- 
 rum Regum, ac Pontificum, 
 a Tiberio Csefare ad R. Da- 
 gobertum. F. 48, b. 
 
 J 8. Excerpta de Angelis, ani- 
 ma, came, aliifque, ex libro 
 Rabani Mauri. F.65. 
 
 19. Sumptum ex libro demen- 
 tis Papse. F. 66. 
 
 20. Fragmentum de tempio 
 Hierofolymitano. F. 69. 
 
 21. Fragmenta Geographica de 
 provinciis Galjiae, Scythis, 
 Italia, 8cc. F, 6^, b. 
 
 22. Hiftoria de Regibus Fran- 
 corum, a R. Philippo, qui in 
 oriente cum exercitu degebat, 
 ad R. Ludovicum Craflum ; 
 cum elegantibus piduris. Li- 
 ber prseclarus ; mutilus vero 
 aliquantulum principio &fine : 
 Galilee. F. 72. 
 
 23. Fragmentum hiftoria de R. 
 Ricardo I, & fratre ejus, R. 
 Joanne. F. 248. 
 
 24. Fragmentum de decimis. 
 F. 249. 
 
 25. Apologia de verfutiis & per- 
 verfitatibus Pfeudo-theologo- 
 rum & Religioforum. F. 250. 
 
 26. Prophetia venerabilis Joa- 
 chimi contra reJigiones tenen- 
 tes ordinem mendicantium. 
 F. 268. 
 
 27. Opus Arnoldi de Villa nova, 
 de generibus abufionum ve- 
 ritacis & de pfeudo-miniftris 
 Antichrifti cognofcendis, & 
 
 de
 
 ( 113 
 
 Ti 
 
 P ITE LLIUS E. 
 
 de paftorali officio contra gre- 
 gem exercendo. F. 258, b. 
 28. Philofophia Catholica adni- 
 chilandi arrem & vcrfutias 
 Antichrifti & omnium mem- 
 brorum ejus, fecundum Ma- 
 giftrum Arnoldum de Villa 
 nova. F. 260, ^. 
 
 III. Liber authenticus taxationum 
 fori, & mercium in regno 
 Portugallias, per R. Manue- 
 lem, anno 1504. figillo Re- 
 gis, & quorundam Confilia- 
 riorum Subfcriptionibus mu- 
 nitusi inter fpoiia, qufe ab 
 expedicione Lufitanica redux 
 rcportavit Robertus Comes 
 EITexise, repertus. 
 
 * IV. I. Hiftoria Anglias, aBruto 
 ad tempora R. Hunrici VI. 
 F. I. 
 
 2. Fragmenta cujufdam piaeme- 
 ditationis. F. 50. 
 
 3. Epiftola Wintonienfis Eccle- 
 fis ad Alexandrum Papam ' 
 anno 1071 ; in qua fupplices 
 petunt, ne malevolorum fug- 
 geftione ab ifta Ecclefia, 
 quam a tempore R, Edgari & 
 S. Dunftani poflederant, a 
 Clericis decurbarentur ; cum 
 epiftola vel relcripto ejufdem 
 Papas, ut Ecclefia ifta in eo 
 ftacu Monaftici ordinis, quo 
 haftenus manfit, deinceps fine 
 omni lasfione&perturbatione 
 confiftac. F. 55, b. 
 
 4. Alexandri Papas Epiftola ad 
 Lanfrancum Doroberniae Ar- 
 chiepifcopum, de eodem ar- 
 gumenco. F. s7' ^• 
 
 5. Ejufdem altera ad eundem 
 in favorem Monachorum , 
 conrra cos, qui moliuntur de 
 Ecclefia S. Salvatoris in 
 Dorobernia illos repellere, 
 & Clericos inibi ftatuere. 
 F.57,^. 
 
 6. Epiftola Honorii P. ad Wil- 
 lielmum, Cancuarienfis Ec- 
 clefiae Archiepifcopum, &cse- 
 teros Anglic Epifcopos, de 
 queremoniis Urbani, Epifco- 
 pi Landavenfis, contra Epif- 
 
 Ff 
 
 copo.?.
 
 ( 114) 
 
 VITELLIUS E. 
 
 copos, Bernardum S. Dewi, 
 & Ricardum Herefordenfem , 
 de quadam Parochia ab ipfo 
 detenca. F. 58,^. 
 
 7. Fragmencum hiftorise Tho- 
 mse Sprott, Monachii Mona- 
 fteriiS. AuguftiniCantuarien- 
 fis, ab anno 1055, ad annum 
 1202, fecundum feriem Ab- 
 batiim, a Wilfrico ad Roge- 
 rum primum. F, 69. Vide co- 
 ram Tib. A. IX. 12. 
 
 8. Liber Thorns Scubbs, ordi- 
 nis Prsdicatorum, de Epifco- 
 pis Eboracenfibus, a S. Pau- 
 lino ad Chriftophorum Bayne- 
 brigg. F. 115. 
 
 9. Adami, Herefordenfis Epif- 
 copi, qusedam, ad Joannnem 
 P. de rebus quibufdam &con- 
 rroverfiis ad Ecclefiam fuam 
 fpeftantibus. F. 161. 
 
 10. Walter!, Archiepifcopi Can- 
 tuarienfiSjmandatum direftum 
 ad W. Epilcopum Herefor- •> 
 denfem, ad levandasprocura- 
 tiones Nunciorum fedis Apo- 
 ftolicse, cum aliis ad id nego- 
 tium fpcftantibus. F. 165. 
 
 11. Stephani Epifcopi Londi- 
 nenfis mandatum adDecanum 
 & Capitulum Ecclefis Lon- 
 don, pro Hofpitalariis. F.i65. 
 
 12. Liters Prjelatorum Cantua- 
 rienfis provincis, direds D. 
 P. Joanni pro Canonizatione 
 D.Joannisde Ealderbi, quon- 
 dam Lincolnienfis Epifcopi, 
 datse London. 7 Idus Martii, 
 anno 1326. F. 166, b. 
 
 13. Litera Joannis, Epifcopi ^ 
 Elienfis, direftaJoanniP.de 
 vexationibus fu£e Ecclefis, & 
 contra provifiones Papales. 
 ib. 
 
 14. Liters dugs Epifcopi Lin- 
 colnienfis ad Joannem Papam, 
 ejus opem pro fua Ecclelia 
 implorantis. F. 167. 
 
 15. Epiftola AlexandriPaps ad^ 
 univerfos Epifcopos Anglije, 
 de Confuetudine, qus tunc 
 inoleverat, qua Laid Eccle- 
 fias & Ecclefuttica Beneficia 
 
 folerent
 
 ( iiy ) 
 
 VlfELLIUS E. 
 
 folerent paffim in regno, qui- 
 bus veiJenc, conferre ; data 
 Avenioni 2 Id. Jul. Pontifi- 
 catus anno undecimo. F, 
 167,^. 
 
 16. Bulla Joannis P. pro appro- 
 priatione Ecclefias de Al- 
 brichton, Coventrienfis & 
 LichfeldenfisDioecefeos, Ab- 
 bati & Conventui de Dora, 
 Ciftercienfis ordinis, in Dioe- 
 cefi Herefordenfi. F. 168. 
 
 17. Gratia fadla per Joannem 
 Papam D. Thomse de Tril- 
 lak de canonicatu & prsben- 
 da in Ecclefia Wellenfi, una 
 cum executoria & procelTu. 
 F. 16%, b. 
 
 18. Gratia altera fafta eidem de 
 canonicatu in Ecclefia Here- 
 fordenfi. F. 170. 
 
 15. Gratis alise de Ecclefiis va- 
 cant ibus. F. 171. 
 
 20. Sententia lata pro appro-' 
 priatione Ecclefia de Swyter- 
 field, & prasfentatione Vica- 
 rias ejuldem, contra Epifco- 
 pum Wigornienfem, & tunc 
 Vicarium inc'umbentem, F. 
 172. 
 
 21. Ariftotelis Ethicorum ad 
 Nicomachum pars ; Latine 
 verfa. F. 173. 
 
 22. Brevia quasdam colleftanea 
 de provinciis & civitatibus 
 Orientis, &c. recenti manu. 
 F. 213, b. 
 
 v. I. Giraldi Cambrenfis de- 
 fcriptio Wallis, ad Huber- 
 tum , Archiepifcopum Can- 
 tuarienfem. Lib. 2. F. i, ; 
 
 2. Ejufdem traftatus retradla- 
 tionum. F. 13. 
 
 3. Ejufdem catalogus. F. i^,b. 
 
 4. Ejufdem dialogusde Ecclefia 
 Menevenfi, ad Stephanum, 
 Archiepifcopum Cancuarien- 
 fem. F. 15. 
 
 5. Ejufdem poemata qusedam. 
 F.51. 
 
 Haec omnia recenti manu de- 
 fcripta. 
 
 6. Mr. Jones's Anfwer to Mr. 
 Tate\ Queftions about the 
 
 About 200 Leaves of this Book 
 are faved ; but burnt round into 
 the Writing.j 
 
 Druids,
 
 ( 11^) 
 
 ^ITELLIUS E. 
 
 Druids, and other Britilh An- 
 tiquities. F. c,6. 
 
 7. Tranfcripta ex rotulis Pipse, 
 annis primo & fecundo R. 
 Henrici II, decomputis red- 
 ditis in comitacibus & civita- 
 tibus Anglias, cum novis pla- 
 citis&conventionibus. F. 64. 
 
 8. Tranfcripta ex libro in Scac- 
 cario de divcrfis inquifitioni- 
 bus ex officio captis tempore 
 R. Edwardi I : in quibus con- 
 tinentur nomina feodorum mi- 
 litarium & baronatuum An- 
 glise. F. 82. 
 
 9. Excerpta ex quodam antiquo 
 Regiftro Prioris de Tyne- 
 mouth, remanente apu \ Co- 
 mitem Northumbris, de Ba- 
 roniis & feodis. F. 124, 
 
 ID. Nomina Epifcoporum In 
 Somerfet, a tempore Danie- 
 lis Epifcopi, anno ab incar- 
 natione 704, ad Joannem de 
 Harewell, qui erat Edwardi 
 Principis, primogeniti R. Ed- 
 wardi III, in Vafconia Cancel- 
 larius, cum brevi rerum gefta- 
 rum narratione, F. 139. 
 
 11. Colleftanea qujedam Saxo- 
 nica de donationibus terrarum 
 faftis a Regibus Eadfrido, 
 Eadgaro, & Edwardo. F, 
 139, b. 
 
 12. Catalogus Epifcoporum Ba- 
 thonienfium & Wellenfium. 
 F. 140, b. Hffic tria per 
 Francifcum Thynne. A. D. 
 1592 tranfcripta. 
 
 13. Scholies and other Notes 
 out of Sir Thomas de la Moore*% 
 Life of King Edward II. F. 
 
 14. Appendix hiftori^e Hiber- 
 nije, ab anno 1369 ad annum 
 1433- F-I44, i'. 
 
 15. Chronica Glaftoniae Guliel- 
 mi Malmefburienfis, colieda 
 per Laurentium Noell ; in qui- 
 bus occurrit charta S. Patritii 
 Epifcopi. F. 147,^. Et haec 
 tria per F.TliynneA. D.1592 
 tranfcripta. 
 
 16. Epiftola Bonifacii, Archic- 
 
 5 
 
 pifcopi
 
 ( 117) 
 VITELLIUS E. 
 
 pifcopi Cantuarienfis , ad 
 Henricum R. Anglise, quod 
 Epifcopus RofFenfis omnia 
 temporalia, qus in Epifcopa- 
 tu fuo obtinec, teneat a fcdc 
 Cantuarienfi. F. 163. 
 
 17. Literse R. Henrici III, de 
 corde patris fui ad monafte- 
 rium Fontis Ebrardi deferen- 
 do, uc illic fepeliretur. F. 
 164. 
 
 18. Leges R. Edwardi Confef- 
 foris. F. 165. 
 
 19. Leges Canuti Regis. F, 172. 
 
 20. Leges & Confuetudines, 
 quas Willielmus Rex poft ac- 
 quificionem Angiise cum po- 
 pulo Anglorum conceffit ce- 
 nendas ; esdem fcil. quas prse- 
 deceflbr fuus & cognatus, 
 Edwardus Rex, fervavit in 
 Anglorum Regno. F. 174,^. 
 
 21. Charta R. Henrici I de li- 
 bertatibus, quam conceffit S. 
 Ecclefi^ & populo Anglo- 
 rum. F. t8o. 
 
 22. Charta R.Joannisde iifdem. 
 F. 181,^. 
 
 23. Charta R. Henrici III de 
 iifdem. F. 186. 
 
 24. Colledlanea brevia de variis 
 regnis Saxonum, de Archie- 
 pifcopis Cantuarienfibus & 
 Eboracenfibus, & de Comi- 
 tatibus & Epifcopatibus An- 
 glias. F. 1^6, b. 
 
 25. Leges & Inftirutiones R. 
 Canuti, quje vocantur Dane- 
 lave. F. 189, b. 
 
 26. Decreta Willielmi, R. An- 
 glise, quae funt iegum muta- 
 tiones & emendationes, quas 
 in Anglia pofuit. F. 199. 
 
 27. Genealogia Ducum Nor- 
 mannorum, a Rollone, pri- 
 mo Duce, ufque ad R. Joan- 
 nem R. Anglije: & cua Au- 
 dorit.ite S. Edwardus Ducem 
 Wiilielmum conftituit hsre- 
 dem. F. 199, b. 
 
 28. Leges qusdam Anglise j 
 G.illicc. F. 202. 
 
 29. Rhychmi, Latine & Gallice, 
 
 g de
 
 ( ii8 ) 
 
 VirZLLIUS E. 
 
 de corruptis temporum mori- 
 bus. F. 206. 
 
 30. Bulla Alexandri IV Paps 
 ad Archiepircopum Cantua- 
 rienfem, Epifcopos, Clerum- 
 que iftius Frovmcis, de juri- 
 bus & privilegiis Abbatum 
 & Monachorum Ciftercienfis 
 ordinis conlervandis, & ne 
 decimse ab ipfis exigantur & 
 extorqueancur. F. 208. 
 
 31. Bulla Innocentii Papas de 
 iifdem privilegiis. F.ioS,^. 
 
 32. Donationes qusdam R. R. 
 Ethelredi &Eadgiri. F. 210. 
 
 33. Chronica excerpta de me- 
 dulla diverforum Chronico- 
 rum, prsecipue Ranulfi Mo- 
 nachi, fcripta per Henricum 
 de Marleburgh, Vicarium de 
 Balifchadan, unacum quibuf- 
 dam capiculis de Chronicis 
 Hibernis. Excerpta autem 
 A. D. 1406, anno R. Henri- 
 ci IV poll: conqueftuni fepti- 
 mo. F. 212, 
 
 Incipiunc haec colleftanea a 
 nativicate Chrifti, & conti- 
 nuantur ad annum R. Henri- 
 ci VI duodecimum. 
 
 34. Vita & mors R.Edwardi 11; 
 Gallice confcripta a genero- 
 filTimo milice, Thoma de la 
 Moore -, Lacine verfa. Ex 
 vetuftifllnio exemplari, quod 
 penes Gulielmum Lambard 
 erat, tranlcripfiC Laurencius 
 Noelus. F. 276. 
 
 VI. I. Excerpta quaedam ex Chro- About a hundred Leaves of this 
 
 nicis Hollandise. F, i. Book are faved ; alio burnt round, 
 
 2. Chronicarum Hollandenfium and in feme Places into the Wri- 
 
 libri decern, a prima gentis ting. 
 
 origine ad annum 1470. Prs- 
 
 mittuntur prologi tres fuper 
 
 hilce Hollandrinoium Chro- •^ 
 
 nicis: i. Cujufdam devoti: 
 
 2. Joannis Bceck : 5 Fratris 
 
 Johannis Gherbrandi de Ley- 
 
 dis, ordinis Fratrum B. Ma- 
 ris de monte Carmeli. F. 4. 
 *VII. I. Vita /Edhelberti, Regis 
 
 & Martyris, a Giraldo Cam- 
 
 brenfi digefta. F. i. 
 2. Vita S. Davidis, Archiepif- 
 
 copi
 
 ( Iln 
 
 FITELLIUS E. 
 
 copi Menevenfisi ab eodem 
 digefta. F. 17. 
 ''3. Vita S. Patricii, Archiepif- 
 copi & Confeflbris, Primatis 
 totius Ibernije, & Doftoris 
 ejufdem gentis. F. 31. 
 
 4. Regula D. Ailredi Abbatis, de 
 infticutionelnclufarum. F. 39. 
 
 5. Ordo Includendi famulam Dei. 
 F. 57, b. 
 
 6. Reguls vita? Anachoreta- 
 rutn utriufque fexus; fcriptje 
 per Simonem de Gandavo, 
 Epifcopum Sarum, in ufum 
 fuarutn fororum. Hunc li- 
 brum Frater Robertus de 
 Thorneton , quondam Prior, 
 dedit Clauftralibus de Barde- 
 nay. F. 61. 
 
 7. Regula Anachoretarum ; ex 
 fuperiore (uc videtur^ extra- 
 aa. F. 133. 
 
 8. Rob. GrofTeteft Epifcopi 
 Line. Tradtatus de oculo. 
 F. 140, 
 
 * VIII. I. Liber ^chici tranflatus, 
 philofophico editus oraculo 
 ab Hieronymo Prefbycero, 
 dilatus ex Cofmographia, an- 
 tique charadtere. In fine haec 
 verba occurrunt : Explicit 
 Liber Mthici Philofophi , Cof- 
 mographi, natione Schiiica, no- 
 hili profapia parent um. Ab eo 
 enim ethica Philofophia a reli- 
 quis fapientibus originem traxit. 
 F. I. 
 
 2. Liber Honorii folitarii de 
 imagine mundi. Continet 
 mifcellanea Geographica & 
 Hiftorica de Romano Imperio 
 & Romanorum Imperatori- 
 bus, &c. F. 102. 
 
 3. Epiftola B. Bernard!, ad Rai- 
 mondum, Dominum Caftri 
 Ambrofii, de cura rei fami- 
 liaris utilius gubernanda. F. 
 136, b. 
 
 4. Oratio Leonard! Are ini ad 
 Nicolaum de Tolentino Ca- 
 pitaneum, die Joannis Bap- 
 tiftee, anno 1442, F. 137. 
 
 5. Clariffimi & eloquentiflimi 
 Leonard! Aretini hiftoriaj 
 
 luiice. F. 137, b. 7. Epi-
 
 ( lio) 
 
 FITELLIUS E. 
 
 7. Epiflola Poggii ad Scipio- 
 nem Ferrarienlem, quis fic 
 prjeferendus, anScipio Csfa- 
 ri, an Csefar Scipioni Africa- 
 no. F; 138. 
 
 8. De magiftratibus Romanis. 
 F. 140, i*. 
 
 9. Epitaphia Scipionis & Au- 
 gufti Csfaris. F. 141. 
 
 10. Vita M. Tullii Ciceronis ; 
 traduftaper Aretinum. F. 141, 
 
 11. Epiflola Lentuli ad Roma- 
 nos de Phyfiognomia Chrifti. 
 F. 146. 
 
 12. Alcercatio Scipionis Africa- 
 ni, Alexandri M. & Hanniba- 
 Jis; & Minois fententia de 
 eorum prsvalicura. "f/'. 
 
 13. Liber Senecje de remediis 
 fortuicorum. F. 146, b. 
 
 14. Proverbia Senecs, & alio- 
 rum. F. 147. 
 
 Epiftols inter eum & S. Pau- 
 lum. F. 149. 
 
 15. Seneca de confolatione, ad 
 Martiam. F. 149, /». 
 
 16. Concroverfia habita inter 
 Publium Cornelium &Caium 
 Flaminium ante Senatum de 
 nobilicate. F. 150. 
 
 17. Quaedam notabilia Senecse 
 in Epiftolis ad Lucilium, & 
 in Hbris aliis. F. 152, h. 
 
 iS. Leonardi Aretini invedliva 
 contra hypocritas. F. 154. 
 
 19. Excerpta ex tragoediis Se- 
 necse, &c. F. 156, 
 
 20. Epiftola Laurentii Grimani 
 Veneci ad Pontificem de ex- 
 pugnatione Conftantinopolews 
 per Turcas, quos Tettcrosz^- 
 pellat, anno 1453. F. 160. 
 
 21. Epiftola Confolatoria Fran- 
 cifci Barbari ad Leonardum 
 Juftinianum. F. 162, b. 
 
 22. Hiftoria fuccindta, edita 
 avenerabili Ivone, Carnoten- 
 fi Epifcopo ; in primis de ge- 
 ftis quorundam Regum Affy- 
 riorum, & de geftis omnium 
 Romanorum Imperacorum, 
 & ad ultimum de Carolo mag- 
 no, Rege Francorum, & ip- 
 fius fucceflbribus. h. e. ad 
 
 tempus
 
 ( III ) 
 
 riTELLIUS E. 
 
 tempus Ludovici Pii, anno 
 814. F. 163. 
 
 23. Compendiofa Chronica de 
 Regibus Francorum, a Pha- 
 ramundo ad Philippum, fili- 
 um Henrici. F, 201, b. 
 
 24. Fragmentum de diverfitate 
 idololatri£e. F, 203. 
 
 25. Solutio de Joanne Baptifta. 
 F. 203, b. ^ 
 
 * IX. r. Calendarium Vetus. F. r. 
 
 2, Orationes, cum pidluris hi- 
 ftorias varias N. Teftamenci 
 repraefentantibus. F. 8. 
 
 3. Pfalcerium Latinum cum 
 verfione Gallicana ad fingulos 
 verfus appofita ; mutilum ab 
 initio ; incipit enim a verfu 
 fexto Pfalmi tercii. Item Can- 
 tica V.Teftamenti, Symboliim 
 Athanafianum , Oratio Do- 
 minica, Symbolum Apoftolo- 
 rum, hymnus Te Deum, qui 
 ibi appellatur S, Niceti Epif- 
 copi, canticum trium Puero- 
 rum , canticum Zacharise, 
 Gloria in excelfis Deo, uti & 
 alia cantica N. Teftamenti, 
 itidem cum verfione Gallica- 
 na, cum orationibus & Lita- 
 nia. F. 290. 
 
 Erat olim liber Katherins, 
 DucifTas Norfolcienfis, filias 
 Radulphi, Comitis Weftmor- 
 landise, & Jans uxoris, fills 
 Joannis de Gandavo, Duels 
 Lancaftriae, quam dono de- 
 dit Cecilise Dudleije, nepti 
 fu^ei ut ilia propria manu 
 . teftatur. 
 X. I. Hiftoire de Leys, Due d'Or- About 150 Pieces of Leaves of 
 leans, Frere du Roy de this Book are preferv'd ; but fo 
 France, Charles le bien ame ; much of them burnt away, that 
 vel potius Hiftoria Rerum ge- they are entirely ufelefs. 
 ftarum in Gallia & Burgundia 
 poft ejus mortem, viz. ab an- 
 no 1407 ad annum 1424; 
 Gallice. F, i. 
 
 2. Les Rues de Paris, verfibus. 
 F. 62. 
 
 3. De lege Salica, & mafcula 
 Francorum regno & imperio; 
 carmen Elegiacum, Philippi 
 Valefii, quondam Francorum 
 
 H h Regis
 
 . ■ ( •" ) 
 
 VirELLIUS E. 
 
 Regis inviftiffimi, ftacuse 
 equeftri appenfum. F. 74. 
 
 4. Buchanani quidam verlus de 
 Aula, cum verfione Anglica- 
 na. F.78. 
 
 5. Formulse qujedam Notario- 
 rum. F. 81. 
 
 6. EpiftolaRupertiRomanorum 
 Recris ad Henricum, R. An- 
 glic, de morte Nurus fiias, 
 qujeerac filia ejus; i4junii, 
 anno 1409. F. 82, ^. 
 
 7. Epiftola Lodowici, Comitis 
 Palatini & Ducis Bavaiis, ad 
 eundem Regem, de morte 
 Uxoris, filiae ejus. 4 Junii, an- 
 no 1409. F. 83, b^ 
 
 8. Epiftola Alexandri Pap^, 
 contra quendam Thomam in 
 fedem Cantuarienfem eleftum 
 per Simoniam: quam ekdio- 
 nem caffat, & irricam pro- 
 nunciat -, jubetque , ut ifte 
 fatuus joculator five bijlrio ab 
 aula expellatur, & in arfto 
 monafterio recludatur: fcrip- 
 ta Romas fecundo Die De- 
 cembris, Apoftolatus anno 
 prime. Videtur effe fuppofi- 
 titia & plane irriforia. F. 85. 
 
 9. Literasquamplurims R. Ed- 
 wardi III ad Papam, Comi- 
 tes, Epifcopos, Abbates &c. 
 & exteros Principes, & alio- 
 rum viz. Ifabells Reginas, 
 Philippi, filii regis Gallic, & 
 Ducis Burgundia;, Caroli re- 
 gis Francias &c. 
 
 ID. Epitome variorum trada- 
 tuumde pace, aliifque. F. 87. 
 
 11. Monitiones, quas Rex Lo- 
 dowycus fecit Philippo filio 
 fuo, & manu propria fcripfic 
 anno 1270. F. 112. 
 
 12. Bulla revocationis fafta a 
 D. Papa Joanne fuper privile- 
 oio Univerfitatis Oxon. in 
 caufa vifitationis Metropoli- 
 tic£, dataRoms 12 Kal.De- 
 cemb. Pontificatus fecundo: 
 h. e. tempore R. Henrici IV. 
 
 F. 115. 
 
 13. Liters quasdam Univerfita- 
 tis Oxonienfis. F. 115, Z^. H • • 
 
 14. Literae quamplurimas R. Henrici
 
 ( 1^3 ) 
 
 VITE LLTUS E. 
 
 Henrici IV & aliorum de re- 
 bus ad id tempus fpedantibus. 
 F. 115. 
 
 15. LiterjE Thorns Arundel, 
 Archiepifcopi Cantuarienfis , 
 ad Academicos Oxonienfes, 
 &c. F. 125, b. 
 
 16. Quomodo Reges & Prin- 
 cipes Ecclefiam defenfare, & 
 in fuis juribus tueri, ac Leges 
 & ftaruta contra hsreticos e- 
 dita & promulgata obfervare, 
 exequi, & debitse execucioni 
 demandare debenc ex legibus 
 Imperialibus, decretis Apo- 
 ftolicis, & SS. Patrum Au- 
 doritacibus. F. 132. 
 
 ly. Literse Gilbert! Stone, Can- 
 cellarii Epifcopi Winton. ad 
 Archiepifcopum Cantuarien- 
 fem ; uti etiam Univerfitatis 
 Oxon. ad Regem Henricum, 
 & aliorum. F. 134. 
 
 i8. Colloquium inter R. Csfa- 
 ris Burgi Pr^fulem & cubi- 
 cularium fuum de rebus auli- 
 cis fub initio regni R. Edwar- 
 di IV, de Aulicorum rapinis & 
 grafTationibus, &decohiben- 
 dis in proximo Parliamento 
 illis, quos Regis fervit ores ap- 
 pellat, ne cupidines fuas exe- 
 qui valeanc. F. 146, 
 
 19. A Sermon made at the be- 
 ginning of a Parliament about 
 King Richard the Ill's time , 
 anno 1483, on thefe Words: 
 In imo cor pore mult a membra ha- 
 bemus ; omnia autem membra 
 nan eundem aHim hahent. F. 
 167. 
 
 20. Oratio habita in Capitulo 
 RofFenfi in eleftione Prioris. 
 F. 171. 
 
 21. Sermo habitus in vifitatione 
 Monialium apud Steliyfwold 
 in Dioecefi Lincolnienfi, in 
 hasc verba : Erant mitheres af- 
 ficientes a longe, inter quas e- 
 rat Maria Magdalena. F. 174. • 
 
 22. Sermo in inftallatione cujuf- 
 
 dam . Ingrejfus Angelus 
 
 ad earn dixit, Ave, circa an- 
 num 1481. F. 177. 
 
 2 
 
 23. A
 
 ( iM ) 
 
 VltELLIUS E. 
 
 23. A Speech or Sermon in Par- 
 liament, in the firft Year of 
 King Edward V, in hasc ver- 
 ba : Audite infulce, l^ attendite 
 populi de lotige. F. 182. 
 
 24. A Speech or Sermon in Par- 
 liament, annoprimoR.Ricar- 
 di III, in hsec verba : Lucerna 
 corporis ttii ejl ocidus tuus. F. 
 189. 
 
 25. Dialogue between the Un- 
 derftanding and Faith, writ- 
 ten by Sir John Fortefcue, in 
 the Time of King Henry VI : 
 in quo oftendit, quibus modis 
 fc? rationibus Deusfape cafligat 
 ^ punit Reges per eos , qui 
 magis contra ilium deliq^uerunt. 
 F. 196, 
 
 26. Confirmatio privilegiorum, 
 donationum & decimarum 
 pertinentium ad monafterium 
 Lewes in comitatu Suflexienli 
 Latifaquenfe, Ordinis Cifter- 
 cienfium , per Radulphum, 
 Epifcopum Ciceftrenfem, an- 
 no 1 121. F. 203. 
 
 27. The Bible of EngliOi Poli- 
 cy, exhorting all England to 
 keep the Sea environ; and 
 namely the narrow Sea; in 
 old Englifh Verfe. F, 206, 
 
 28. Poems of Skelton, LaureaC 
 Poet. F. 223. 
 
 29. Inflitutio&ftatuta Collegii 
 Jefu & Rotheram, Dicecefeos 
 Eboracenfis, fundati per Tho- 
 mam Archiepifc. Eboracen- 
 fem. F. 242. 
 
 30. Figura feretrorum Joannis 
 de Bridlington Confeflbris , 
 Gregorii Prioris, & Georgii 
 de Ripley. F. 251. 
 
 31. Epiftola Regis Henrici ad 
 Concilium Bafileenfe, & alia 
 ejufmodi. F. 252. 
 
 32. Prophetia Thoma^ Aflel- 
 don; in old Englifh Verfe, 
 F.255. 
 
 33. Tradlatus Bartholomjei de 
 Tyranno. F. 259. 
 
 34. Tradtatusfuper materia Hee- 
 reticorum: ubi etiam multa 
 habentur de Inquifitione & 
 
 Inquift-
 
 V irElLIUS E. 
 
 inquificoribus, per Laughi- 
 num Hugolini Advocatum^ 
 F. 269. 
 * XII. I. Martyrologium anti- 
 quum. Vide an non fu Beds.'* 
 PrsBmittitur prasfatio ex S. 
 Hieronymo df fcftivicatibus 
 SS. Apoftolorum feu JVIarcy- 
 rum, quas antiqui pacres ill 
 venerationis mylteriocelebra- 
 ri fanxerunt. F. i. adhujusfi- 
 nem apponitur, 
 
 2. Adjuratio five obteftatio Eg- 
 wini Epifcopi, cum teftimo- 
 nio WilFridi, fuccelloris fui, 
 qui monafterium in Cronu- 
 chomme conftruxit, de Ab- 
 bate ex Monachis inrer le, fi 
 habeanc quendam idoneum, 
 eligendo, & ne fibipotenciam 
 hac in re vindicenc Reges be 
 Principes. 
 
 3. Lediones & poftills breves 
 in Dominicis & fellis tocius 
 anni. F. 61. 
 
 4. Calendarium -, in quo Benc- 
 faftorum monafterii Evcfha- 
 menfis, qui dicbus illic figna- 
 tis commemorantur, nomina 
 apponuntur. F. 73. 
 
 5. De dilacione fi;iei Ciiriftianse, 
 & orcu religionum. F. 84. 
 
 6. Traftarus de prima Mona- 
 chorum inflitutione & eorun- 
 dem fucceffione: concinet hi- 
 ftoriam Monachorum, &enu- 
 merationem librorum, quoa 
 fcripfere. F. 85. 
 
 7. Brevis Monachorum hifloria, 
 ordine alphabctico, five tabu- 
 la, ut ibi appellattir, quje 
 compilata erat in Monafterio 
 Dunelmenfi, ex libris ad fi- 
 nem illic adnotatis. F. 91. 
 
 8. Chronica brevis Regum An- 
 glise, a Bruto ad R. Ricar- 
 dum II h. e. ad annum 1377 J 
 per quendam Monachum Du- 
 nelmenfem. F. 102. 
 
 9. Colledtio Sententiarum pro- 
 verbialiumrhythmicc. F. 107. 
 
 10. Articuii e.xtrafti ex rcgula 
 S. Benedicfti, inquirendi in vi- 
 Ctatione Moaachorum illiiw 
 
 i t ofdmk,
 
 ( ^i6 ) 
 
 VlfELLIUS E. 
 
 ordinis, per magiftrum Ricar- 
 dum de Rypon. F. ioj,b. 
 
 11. Articulialii, feciindiim Ma- 
 giftrum Uthredum. F. io8. 
 
 12. De fundatione Monafterio- 
 rum Nigrorum Monachorum 
 in regno Anglis. F. io8, b. 
 
 13. Pecitio, ad Regem, Ducem, 
 & cteteros Magnates Regni 
 Anglican!, cam feculares quam 
 Ecclefiafticos viros, in Par- 
 lamento congregatos, contra 
 Monachos & alios religiofos. 
 Vide annon fit Wicliffi.F. 112. 
 
 14. Summa decimarum cujufli- 
 bet Dioecefeos Regni Angli.-E, 
 cum numero Ecclefiarum Pa- 
 rochialium, villarum, feodo- 
 riim militum, comitatuum, 
 &c. Anglic. F. 114, ^. 
 
 15. Taxatio bonorum Epifco- 
 porum Anglic; imperfefta. 
 F. 115. 
 
 16. Nomina Abbatum citato- 
 rum ad Provinciale Capitu- 
 lum, fecundum librum Ab- 
 batis de Selby. F. 115, b. 
 
 17. Nomina Priorum citatorum 
 ad CapitLilum Provinciale. ib. 
 
 18. Inquirenda in vifitatione Ec- 
 clefiae Parochialis vel Colle- 
 giatje. F. 116. 
 
 19. Nota, quod Ordo IVIona- 
 chorum per figuram Cherubi- 
 ni apte reprsefentatur. F, 
 117, b._ 
 
 20. Nomina Sanflorum de or- 
 dine Monachorum, extrafta 
 de tabula, lecundum ordinem 
 dignitatis & modum depin- 
 gendi ; h.e. Paparum, Impe- 
 ratorum, Cardinalium, Pa- 
 triarcharum, Regum, Archi- 
 epifcoporum Cantuarienfium 
 & Eboracenfium, & aliorum 
 regnorum Epifcoporum, Ab- 
 batum , Priorum feu Pr.TS- 
 pofuorum, Doftorum & Mar- 
 ty rum. F. n8. 
 
 21. Hiftoris qusedam de SS. 
 Cedda & Wiltrido. F. 122,^. 
 
 22. De regioneNortliumbricE, & 
 Epifcopatibus illius. F. 123,^. 
 
 23. Brevis annotacio deantiquo 
 & moderno ftatu Hauguftal-
 
 VITELLIUS E. 
 
 denfis Ecclcfia;, & de Ponci- 
 fieibus ejufdem; per Ricir- 
 dum, MoDLichum Hauguftal- 
 denfem: percingit ad annum 
 II 14. F. 124. 
 
 24. Bulla Eugcnii IV, P. de privi- 
 legio fpiricuali Priori Dunel- 
 menfi conceflb, libere dif- 
 penfare cum fuis fuper obfcr- 
 vatione ftatutorum & pi JEcep- 
 torum, qua; non func de lub- 
 ftantia Regulse, & etiam li- 
 bere abfolverede coram tr in - 
 gr'efTione : daca Florcntife viii 
 Kal. Martii, anno 1439. Qt'^ 
 Bulla impetrata fuit per folici- 
 tudinem D. Joannis WelTing- 
 tonPrioris. F. 130. 
 
 25. Nomina Ecclefiarum & ca- 
 pellarumconftruilarum inho- 
 noremS. Cuthberti. F. 130, ^. 
 
 26. Forma profefTionis Monachi 
 Ordinis S. Benedi6ti. F. 1 3 2, h. 
 
 27. Primum Capitulum proviri- 
 ciale nigrorum iVIonachorum 
 celebratum apud Northamp- 
 ton anno 1338. F. 134. 
 
 28. Capitulum provinciale eo- 
 rundem Monachorum , cele- 
 bratum apud Weftminfter, 
 anno 1422, ad mandatum R. 
 Henrici V, ejus regni anno 
 o(5tavo. F. 136. 
 
 29. Regiftrum taxationum Ab- 
 batiarum & Prioratuum ordi- 
 nis S. Benedidi. F. 138,^. 
 
 30. Secundum Capitulum pro- 
 vinciate nigrorum Monacho- 
 rum, celebratum apud North- 
 ampton anno 1340. F. 141. 
 
 31. Memoria aduum Capituli 
 provincialiseorundem Mona- 
 chorum, celebrati apud Nor- 
 thampton anno 1443. F. 144. 
 
 32. Numquid licitum fit Mona- 
 chis,fecundum B.Benedifti re- 
 gulam profefTis, carnes edere, 
 exceptis debilibus & infirmis? 
 per Uthredum, Monachum 
 Dunelmen'fem. In utramque 
 partem fufe difputat Audlor. 
 In fine dicitur efi'e tra<Status 
 utilis & compendiofus. F.150. 
 
 33. Tabulse & Cyclus Pafcha- 
 
 iis. F. 168., 3 [. Notcc,
 
 V ITE LLIUS E. 
 
 ( 1^8 ) 
 
 34. Note, quomodo alicujus 
 Ballrs ApoltolicE valor cog- 
 nolci poflic. F. 171. 
 
 35. Anciquus Ordo Romanus, in 
 quo occui'iic benediftio agni 
 in F.ifcha &c. F. 173. 
 
 XIII. I. Florentius Wigornienfis, 
 cum continuanone ad tcmpo- 
 ra R. Henrici III: h. e. ad 
 annum i 226. Occurric index 
 hiftoricus in fine. F. i. 
 
 s. Concilium Turonenfe. F. 
 204. 
 
 4. Concilium Lateranenfe, fut) 
 Alex mdro III P. celebratum, 
 anno 1 180. F. 205, b. 
 
 5. Epiftols Alsxandri HI Papse, 
 fex Itbris comprehenfe: in 
 quibus q'.iamplurim^ ad quof- 
 dam Archiepifcopos, Epiico- 
 pos, & Abbatcs Angliae &c. 
 habentur. InlVruntur Epi- 
 ftolas Luciilll, Grt-gorii VIII 
 aliorumquePaparum.F. 210. 
 
 XIV. I. Annales Angliae, ex variis 
 
 The End of this Book h con- 
 trafted with Heat, and a Line or 
 two of each Pa^e burnt off. 
 
 Moft of the Leaves of this Book 
 chronicisSihilloriisiVlSS.de- are prefcrv'd; but burnt round. 
 
 fumptjei viz. 
 
 1. Roffenfis Ecclefise. 
 
 2. Matthtei Paris. 
 
 3. Mattha:i Weftmonafterien- 
 fis. 
 
 4. Flcrentii Wigornienfis. 
 
 5. Rerum geftarum Lanfran- 
 ci , Archiepifcopi CanCua- 
 rienfis. 
 
 6. Hibernicenfis. 
 
 7. Ailredi Rievallenfis. 
 
 8. Ricardi Higulftadenfis. 
 
 9. Joannis Hagulftadienfis. 
 
 10. Simeonis Dunelmenfis. 
 
 11. Radulphi de Diceto. 
 
 12. Stephani, primi Abbatis 
 Coenobii S. Mariae Ebora- 
 cenfis. 
 
 13. Joannis Sarifberienfis. 
 
 14. Rogeri Hovedeni. 
 
 15. Gualteri Coventrienfis, 
 
 16. Glaftonienfis Monafterii. 
 
 17. Gualteri Gilburnenfis. 
 
 18. ThomjeGray; Gallice. 
 
 19. Thorns Rudborn. 
 
 20. Joannis Stubbs. 
 
 21. Anonymi, apud M. Lo- 
 velis Jurifperitum. 
 
 7 
 
 and into the Writing in many 
 Places. 
 
 22. Ana-
 
 ( 12*; i 
 
 VITELLIUS E. 
 
 22, Anonymi, apud M, Savile 
 Eboracenfem ; & ex mulcis 
 aliis hiftoriis, quarum Au- 
 ftores flint incogniti. In 
 fine adjiciuntur cxcerpta c 
 quadam hiftoria cujufdam 
 Monachi S. Albani, qu^ 
 fcripta fuit circa tempora 
 Joannis Wicliff, ab anno 
 1067 ad annum 1387. In 
 excerpcis ultimse hiftorise 
 occurrunc muka de Joannis 
 Wicliffi conclufionibus & 
 propoficionibus, & procefTu 
 contra ipfum, & articulo- 
 rum damnatione. 
 Colleftanea erant viri pra- 
 ftantifTimi &Antiquarii op- 
 timi, Joannis Jofcelini, pro- 
 pria manu defcripta; qui 
 contenta fui libri in initio 
 pr:Enotavit. F. 137,^. 
 
 2. Annales Aflerii Scireburnen- 
 fis, ab anno ^,(^6 ad annum 
 914; perjoannemjofcelinum 
 exfcripti. F. 158, 
 
 3. Chronicon Monafterii S. Au- 
 guftini abadventu S. Augufti- 
 ni ad annum 1406; excodice 
 bibliothecse aulze S. Trinitatis 
 Cantabrigis extraftum , per 
 Arthurum Agard. F. 193. 
 
 4. Leges Canuti Regis ; excerp- 
 tas per eundem, cum notis 
 miniatulis , & explicatione 
 quorundam difficilium verbo- 
 rum. F. 217. 
 
 5. Excerpta ex Chronicis Gu- 
 lielmi Thorn, Monachi Sanfti 
 AuguftiniCantuarijB ; perjo- 
 annemjofcelinum. F. 236. 
 
 6. Epitome hiftorije Simonis 
 Rawley, ab anno 854 ad an- 
 num 1399} per eundem. F. 
 161. 
 
 7. Excerpta ex hiftoria Roffenfi, 
 de Ecclefiis fundatis ante ad- 
 ventum Normannorum •, per 
 eundem. F. 265. 
 
 8. Excerpta ex Chronica Tho- 
 mas Sprott, Monachi Au- 
 guftinenfis Monafterii ; per 
 eundem. F. 266. 
 
 9. Excerpta ex libro Ricardi 
 
 K k aporte.
 
 ( 130 ) 
 
 VirELLIUS E. 
 
 Sporte, Monachi Weftmona- 
 fterienfis ; per eundem. F. 
 283. 
 
 10. Excerpta ex chronico Mo- 
 nafterii de Alnewich, in bi- 
 bliotheca CoUegii Regalis 
 Cantabrigise. F. 284. 
 
 11. Excerpta ex hiftoria aurea, 
 in eodem Collegio. F. 286. 
 
 12. Excerpta ex regiftris Roffen- 
 fis Ecclefias. F. 287. 
 
 13. Conftitutio Urbani V, P. 
 contra pluralitates in benefi- 
 ciis; in Romana curia edita 
 per ediftum. F, 291. 
 
 14. Excerpta ex regiftro Priora- 
 tus de Lewes ; per Joannem 
 Jofcelinum. F, 293. 
 
 15. Excerpta ex Regiftro Mo- 
 nafterii de Whitby ; per eun- 
 dem. F. 2P5. 
 
 16. Excerpta ex Joanne Roflb 
 Warwicenfi ; per .eundem. 
 F. 296. 
 
 17. Excerpta ex hiftoria Theo- 
 keftjcrienfis Monafterii ; per 
 eundem. F. 298. 
 
 18. Hiftoria Ecclefiaftica An- 
 glic, & de vitis Archiepifco- 
 porum Cantuarienfium; per 
 Joannem Jofcelinum. F. 301. 
 
 19. Index exaftionum in An- 
 glia, Edwardi Confeflbris, & 
 W. T. F.4J8. 
 
 20. Excerpta hiftorica ab anno 
 prirro R. Joannis ad 25 an- 
 num R. Edwardi III, inclu- 
 five. F. 420. 
 
 21. Chronicon Gervafii Doro- 
 bernenfis, a R. Stephano ad 
 R. Ricardum I •, exfcriptum 
 per Joannem Jofcelinum. F. 
 429. 
 
 XV. I. Chronica Anglorum ; five Burnt to a Cruft. 
 de Eventibus ab adventu 
 Normannorum in Angliam ad 
 annum 1179; per quendam 
 Monachum Ofneyenfis mo- 
 nafterii. F. I. 
 2. Series Abbatum Monafterii 
 S. Maris Ofeneye, quod fun- 
 datum erat per Robertum de 
 Oyley fecundum, A. D. 1 1 29, 
 & anno R. Henrici I tricefi- 
 
 moj
 
 yiTELLTUS E. 
 
 mo; h. e. aRaduIpho, primo 
 Priore, ad Willielmum Wen- 
 dover, Abbatem XVI, qui 
 obiit anno 1435. F. 4. 
 
 3. Regiftrum Chartarum Mona- 
 fterii Ofneyenfis. F. 5. 
 * XVI. I . Taxationes Ecclefiarum 
 per Singulas Anglis Dicece- 
 fes. F. I, 
 2. Regiftrum Chartarum mona- 
 fterii de Selby in Comitatu 
 Eboracenfi, de tempore D. 
 Joannisde Shireborn Abbatis. 
 F. III. 
 
 ^rVnifSf ""^'"T' f-'- • ^ ™^ ^^^'^ ^^^ the following 
 
 S^r^leIT"« •^°'""''^' burnttoCrufts; yetmaybemadi 
 barelbena. K 8. fo^e ufe of. 
 
 3. Cnronicon ab anno 1170 ad 
 mortem R. Ricardi I : non Sy- 
 meonis Dunelmenfis, ut fta- 
 tuit R. Jamefius, fed Benedi- 
 fti Pecro-Burgenfis: Symeon 
 enim mortuus eft fub Henri- 
 co II, ut obfervat T. G. 
 Ex dono (ut fcribit D. R. 
 Coctonus) doaifTimi & fui 
 chariflimi WiiJielmi Camdeni 
 Clarencieulz. F. 18. 
 
 Imperfedtum eft poft an- 
 num 1192. 
 
 4. Chronicon Joannis Caftoris, 
 qui & Fiber & vulgo Bever 
 dicitur, Monachi Weftmo- 
 nafterienfis, ab lEnta. ad R. 
 Henricum IIIj i.e. ad annum 
 1216. F. 191. 
 
 5. Feoda Comitis Glouceftric 
 & hasredum fuorum in inthro- 
 nizatione Archiepifcopi vel 
 elefti in Archiepifcopum Can- 
 tuarienfem. F. 218. 
 
 6. Feoda ijiius, qui inthronizare 
 debet fingulos Epifcopos 
 Cantuarienfis Provincije, tarn 
 fede vacante quam plena. F. 
 218,^. 
 
 7. Jura Ecclefias Chrifti Cantua- 
 rienfis debita poft mortem 
 fuffraganeorum fuorum. ib. 
 
 8. Compofitio inter Archiepif- 
 copum & Conventum Eccle- 
 fis Chrifti Cantuarise. F.219. 
 
 9. Series Archiepifcoporum, qui 
 prsfidebant in Ecclefia Can- 
 
 cuarienfi, ab Anno D. t^<^(^ , 1,^ e.
 
 ( ^sO 
 
 V irELLlUS E. 
 
 h. e. ;i S. AuguRino ad Ro- 
 bercum deWinchelfea. F.225, 
 
 10. Conventio fada inter Ab- . 
 batem MalmefburienfisEccle- 
 fi.-E, Robertum II, & Abba- 
 tem Evefhamenfis Ecclefis, 
 Rogerumll, & utriufque loci 
 Conventum, de communi- 
 candis omnibus inter ipfos be- 
 neficiis, tarn carnalibus quam 
 fpiritualibus. F. 226. 
 
 11. Conventionesqusdam, alia- 
 que ad libertates & Confuecu- 
 dincs monafterii Evefhamen- 
 fis percinentia. ib. 
 
 12. Le feremenr, qe le Reys 
 fift a Ion coronement. F. 
 228,^. 
 
 13. Dediebus anniverfariis Re- 
 gum &Abbatum, quomodo 
 debent obfervari in Convcntu 
 Evcihamenfi. F. 229, b. Ec 
 
 14. Donationes terrarum, & red- 
 dituum, annuatim percipien- 
 dorum, fpedancium ad eof- 
 dem dies anniverfarios. ibid, 
 fromlfcue. 
 
 15. De arte inveniendi diem 
 Lunas, & ubi fingulis annis 
 cycli decennovennalis Jicera 
 mutatur. F. 241, h. 
 
 16. Calendarium ; in quo obitus 
 Abbarum, Priorum, Fratrum, 
 & Benefaftorum iftius mona- 
 fterii adnotantur. F. 243. 
 
 17. Litera certificatoria, mifTa 
 ad Willielmum, Abbatem 
 monafterii de Perfchore in 
 dioeceft Wigornienfi, de fu- 
 tura iftius monafterii vifita- 
 tione. F. 249. 
 
 18. Liters fraternitatis conceflje 
 D. Radulpho de Botelaro, 
 Domino de Sydeley, & aliis. 
 ib. 
 
 19. Memorandum, quod A. D. 
 1480 fuit recepta five admif- 
 fa Cecilia mater fereniffimi 
 Regis Edwardi IV in conforo- 
 rem totius noftrs religionis, 
 i. e. Ordinis S. Benedidi, in 
 Concilio generali apud Nor- 
 thampton ; uti & Anna Ducif- 
 fa de Buckingham. F. 250. 
 
 20. No-
 
 FITE LL lU S E, F. 
 
 20. Nomina Benefadtorum, Fra- 
 trum & Sororum viventium 
 
 monafteriiEvefhamenfis/crip- 
 ta anno 1444, & anno 1450. 
 F. 250, b. 
 
 21. De Officio Prjecentoris. F. 
 252. 
 
 22. Solennis excommunicationis 
 formula. F. 252, b. 
 
 XVIII. Pfakerium Lacinum, cum 
 
 inceriineari verfione Saxo- 
 
 nica. 
 
 In margine ufque ad LI Pfal- 
 mum apponicur declara- 
 tio concencorum in iildem j 
 Saxonice. 
 
 Prjemictuncur Calendarium & 
 qusdam compuciftica & 
 tabulse, cum multis aliis 
 ad computum Ecclefiafti- 
 cum fpeftancibus, tarn Sa- 
 xonice quam Latine. 
 
 Ad finem adduncur cantica 
 veneris & novi Teftamenti, 
 hymnus S. Ambrofii, can- 
 ticum trium puerorum , 
 Symbolum Apoftolorum, 
 fides Catholica Athanafii, 
 Epifcopi Aiexandrini ; om- 
 nia cum verfione Saxonica 
 inceriineari, cum precibus 
 & Litania, Sec. 
 F. 
 *I. I. Magna Charta de libertati- 
 
 bus Anglic. F. i. 
 
 2. Charta de Forefta. F. 3. 
 
 3. Sententia lata in tranfgreffo- 
 resiftarum Chartarum. F, 4,'^. 
 
 4. Provifiones de Merton. F. 5. 
 
 5. Statuta deMerleberg.F. 6,^. 
 
 6. Di(5lum de Kenilworth.F. 10. 
 ■7. Statuta Weftmonafterii pri- 
 ma. F. 1 1, h. 
 
 8. Diftri(5tiones Scaccarii. F. 
 18. b. 
 
 9. Statuta de Scaccario. F. 19. 
 
 10. Statuta de Jufticiariis aflig- 
 natis. F. 20. 
 
 n. Capitula prima in itinere 
 Juftitiariorum. F. 20, b. 
 
 12. Statuta Glouceftris. F.22. 
 
 13. Explanationes eorundein 
 Statutorum. F. 24. 
 
 14. Capitula nova in itinere Juf- 
 
 L I titiariorumi
 
 (134 ) 
 
 titiariorum Coron;r. F. 74,*. 
 
 15. Statuta WcRnion.itu-ni !e- 
 cunda. F. 27. 
 
 16. Articuli contra prohibicio- 
 nem Regis allocandi. F.33. 
 
 17. Tradacus de antique domi- 
 nio Coronre. ib. 
 
 18. Statuiumdchabencibus red- 
 diciis in London. F. 33,/'. 
 
 ly. Conllicutiones & AlUl-TS de 
 Foreftis. F. 34. 
 
 20. Statucum de excentis Mane- 
 riorum. F. 34, b. 
 
 21. Vilus franci Piegii. F.3r. 
 
 22. AfTifa panis & ccrvifia;, & 
 lucrum Piftoris, ib. 
 
 23. Modus calumpniandi eflo- 
 nia. F. 35, h. 
 
 24. Dies communes in Banco. 
 F.36. 
 
 25. Statuta Wintonife, ib. 
 
 26. Statuta Exoni.'E. F. 37, />. 
 
 27. Articuli Exonias. F.38,/'. 
 
 28. Scatutum de libertate cla- 
 manda. F. 40. 
 
 29. Statutum de emptoribus 
 terrarum & tencmcntorum. 
 F. 40, b. 
 
 30. Modus faciendi homagium 
 & fidelitatem. ib. 
 
 31. Stacucum de quo Waranco 
 vetus. F. 41. 
 
 3a. Statutum de quo Warranto 
 novum. F. 41, b. 
 
 33. Statutum de confpiratoribus. 
 
 ib. 
 
 34. Statutum de Berewick. F. 
 42. 
 
 35. Placita qujedam cum brevi- 
 bus. ib. 
 
 36. Statuta K'/ fly^wr. F. 45. 
 
 37. Summa magna Hcngliam. 
 F. 53, b. 
 
 38. Summa parva Hengham. 
 F. 65, b. 
 
 39. Judicium EfToniorum. F. 
 
 71- 
 
 40. Tradatus de Baftardis. F. 
 
 75. 
 
 41. Summa, Cum fit necejjariiim. 
 
 F.77,/;. 
 
 42. Summa, Cadit AjfSa. F. 80, 
 
 43. Exceptiones contra brevia. 
 
 F.84. 
 
 44, Tr»- 
 4
 
 ( 135 ) 
 
 riTELLIVS F. 
 
 44. Traftatus Corona?. F. 87. 
 4 V Placita Coronre. F. 88, b. 
 4L). Q,u()C modis dicitur excep- 
 
 tio. F. go,/'. 
 47. Collfftanea ex variis Char"- 
 
 tis & Librisantiquis, inScac- 
 
 cario & alibi excantibus. F. 
 
 II. i.StationesUrbisRomfe. F.I. This Paper Book is burnt at the 
 
 2. Ddcripcio Jefu Chnfti, quoad End and Sides into the Writing, 
 Stacuram & lineamenta oris, fo as to be of little ufe. 
 
 lb. 
 
 3. Dc conftrflione & virtutibus 
 Agni Dei. ih. 
 
 4. Regiltrum five formularium 
 Cunre Romans; : in quo con- 
 tinentur Epiftols, Decrcta, 
 BliI1;e, Edifta & Conftitu- 
 tioncs quorundam Poncificum 
 Romanorum, dc difpenfanoni- 
 bus, gratiis, collarionibus, 
 priviiegiis, provifionibus, in- 
 dulgenciis, exempcionibus , 
 confirmacionibus , furroga- 
 tionibus , quamplurimifque 
 alJis ad Papas poceftatem & 
 iurifdidlionem & praxin iftius 
 Curisefpeftantibus. F. i, ^. 
 
 5. Tenurs; qusdam ex Charcis 
 & Rocuiis anciquis, tempori- 
 
 ; bus R. R. Edvvardorum I, II 
 & III, Ricardi II & Henrici 
 IV. F. 224. 
 
 6. Collectanea ex variis Chartis 
 anciquis, per Henricuni Bow- 
 ler, ex interior! Templojurif- 
 confukum. F. 265. 
 
 7. Chronicon Monafterii de Hi- 
 da juxta Wincon, five Novi 
 Monalterii, a tempore R. ]E- 
 thelitani ad R. Edwardum III ; 
 exlcriptum per eundem. F, 
 
 303- 
 
 8. Genealogis qusdam Gilber- 
 ti, Comitis Brionis & Au- 
 cenfis, Hannonis de S. Claro, 
 Guliclmi de Mandevil, Ra- 
 diilphi Baflet , aliorumque 
 Magnatum Anglise J pereun- 
 dem. F. 309. 
 
 *IIl. I. Vita & Miracula S. Ed- 
 wardi Regis ; per Ailredum, 
 Abbatem Rievailis; ad Lau- 
 rentium VVeftmonafterii Ab- 
 Sbatem. F. i. 2.. Vita
 
 ( 15^ 
 
 ITELLIUS F. 
 
 2. Vita pacific! & pii Regis Da- 
 vid R. Scotia ■, per cLindem ; 
 ad R. HemicLim 11 : & genea- 
 Jogia iftius Regis -, in qua de 
 Regibus Saxonicis & Angliie 
 mulca habencur ulque ad R. 
 H. II. F. 43. 
 
 3. Vita & miracula S. Niniani 
 jEpjfcopi; pereundem. F. 66. 
 
 ,-4iijSfPiTio five homilias in tian- 
 flacionem SartdVorum Haiigu- 
 ftaldenfis Ecclefije, v Id. Mar- 
 tii. F. jy. 
 
 5. Miracula Sandtorum, qui in 
 Sandla Hauguft^ildenfi Eccle- 
 fia requiefcunt. F.82, b. 
 
 6. Vita & Paffio S. Agadias , 
 Virginis. F. 93, b. 
 
 IV. I. Collectanea ex variis Mo- 
 nafteriorum Regiftris & Char- 
 tis anciquis. F. i, 
 
 ■ * 2. Concordia five traftatus in- 
 ter R. Henricum V. & Caro- 
 lum R. Francis, anno 1428.. 
 F. 269. 
 
 V. Annals of Englifli Hiflory, be- 
 
 o;inning at the fourth Year of 
 K. Ed-ward VI, anno 1554, 
 and ending in the fifth Year 
 of Q^Eliz. anno 1563. 
 
 VI. I. Mifcellanea genealogica & 
 
 hiftorica, tarn lacra quam ci- 
 vilia, ex variis hiftoriis ex- 
 cerpta, prscipue de rebus 
 Anglorum. F\ i. 
 
 2. Succefllo Regum poft Cona- 
 num de Stirpe Saxonis, five 
 Anglica, fecundum ordinem. 
 F. 29. 
 
 3. Succeffio Regum Anglic de 
 ftirpe & fanguine Normanni- 
 co, a Gulielmo Conqueftore 
 ad mortem R. Edwardi III. 
 F.82. 
 
 * VII. La reule de Femmes religi- 
 oufcs & reclufes : five, de vita 
 folitaria & anachoretica; per 
 Simonem de Gandavo, Epif- 
 copum Sarifberienfem ; in u- 
 fum Sororum ipfius. 
 
 VIII. Colleftanea ex variis Mona- 
 fteriorum Regiftris & antiquis 
 Chartis in Scaccario & alibi 
 extantibus. 
 
 Burnt at the End and Side, fo 
 
 as to be ufelefs. 
 
 The End burnt off, fo as to be 
 ufelefs. 
 
 The End burnt off with a good 
 Part of the Writing. 
 
 About 50 Leaves of this Book 
 are preferved: but fo burnt as to 
 be ufelefs. 
 
 TX. 
 
 I. 
 
 4
 
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 VITELLIUS F. 
 
 IX. I. The Names of the Cufto- The End of this Book is burnt 
 des or Wardens and Bailives, off, with part of the Writing : As 
 and after, of the Mayors and alfo of the following. 
 Sheriffs of the City of Lon- 
 don, from the firft Year of 
 K. Richard J, Anno 1189, to 
 the feventeenth Year of K. 
 Henry VI, with the Hiftory 
 of the feveral Occurrences 
 happening, in that Interval. 
 F.I. 
 
 2. Two Books of the Hiftories 
 of Ireland, compiled by Ed- 
 tniind Campion , Fellow of 
 St. John BaptijVs College in 
 Oxford; dedicated to Robert 
 Earl of Leicejier. F. 76. 
 
 3. Chronica Regum Anglic, per 
 Thom. Outerburn, a prima 
 origine gentis ad tempora R. 
 Henrici V. F. 154. 
 
 i 4. Excerptiones de libro Gildae 
 
 Sapientis de primis habitato- 
 
 ribus Britannia. F. 249. 
 X. Chronica Mufcovidca ; Mufco- 
 
 vitice, Charadtere Sclavonico. 
 * XI. I. Pfalterium vetuftum, 
 
 cum Cantico Mofis ad filios 
 
 Ifrael; charaderibus Hiber- 
 
 nicis exaratum. F. i. 
 
 2. Qufedam Hibernica; chara* 
 Citre Hibernico. F. 97. 
 
 3. Oratio in benediflione panis 
 novi. F. 97, b. 
 
 *XIII. Poema mifcellanei argu- 
 menti, veteri Lingua Angli- 
 cana compofitum, & in tres 
 partes divifum. Capitibus 
 prsfiguntur tituli contento- 
 runi Latine; ut, inter alia, 
 de duodecim defedlibus ia 
 mundo exiftentibus, &c. de 
 difpofitionibus mundi, de ho- 
 minum conditionibus, decer- 
 tis fignis in Sole, Luna & 
 Stellis, de infolentiis Domi- 
 norum ac Subditorum in Re- 
 ligiofos propter corum inde- 
 votiones; cum qiiam plurirais 
 aliis. F. I. 
 
 2. Verfus prophetici per Prio- 
 rem de Brydiington. F. 87. 
 
 3. Prophecies, itn Englifh Verfe. 
 F. <)7. 
 
 M m » XIV.
 
 ( "38 ) 
 
 * XIV. I. Poemata; Lingua & 
 charafteribus Hibernicis. F.i. 
 
 2. Speculum pedoris ; eadem 
 lingua. 
 
 3. Herbarium; Latine&Hlber- 
 nice ; ordine Alphabecico. 
 F. 61. 
 
 4. Tradatulus de morbis ; La- 
 tine & Hibernice ; mutilus 
 initio & fine. 
 
 B. VI. 
 
 Books deftroyed or defaced in the Prefles called 
 VESPaSIANUS, and TITUS, As alfo 
 Charters, Pidures, ^c. 
 
 VESPASIANUS D. 
 
 * XXI. i."KT^""'' Hiftoria de 
 
 J^ Britannia. Exem- 
 plar vetuftum & emend.uum. 
 
 2. Vita S. Guchlaci; per iElfri- 
 cum Monachum ; ad Alf'wol- 
 dum, Oriencalium Saxonum 
 Regem; Saxonice. F. 35. 
 
 3. Sedulii Verfus-, charafteribus 
 ' vetuftis & psene evanidis. 
 
 F-42. . - 
 
 *XXV. Pfilmi 98 priores, verfi- 
 bus Alcaicis fcripti. 
 
 r / r t/ s D. 
 
 * IX. Leges Howelis Dha ; i. e. 
 
 Boni ; Lingua Wallica. 
 
 Three Charters or Grants of Ed- 
 ward the Confefibr to IVeJlmin- 
 Jler- Abbey, with the Broad Seals 
 (he being the firft, that generally 
 ufed the Bi oad Seal in England.) 
 
 One Grant of PrtlHam the Con- 
 queror to iVeftminller-Abbey. 
 
 Henry the Firft's- Grant to I'P'eJi- 
 minfler-Abbey. 
 
 Anotlier of his to St. Andrew's, 
 Eochrjler. 
 
 Another to Chrijl's Church, Can- 
 terbury. 
 
 The Seal of one is not much da- 
 maged j the other two burnt. 
 
 The Seal fpoiled. 
 The Seal melted. 
 The Seal melted. 
 The Seal melted, 
 
 ' T'-»
 
 /? 
 
 The Terms of ReconciJiation be- 
 tween K. Henry the Second and 
 
 t- his Sons. 
 
 King John\ Magna Charta of the 
 I-iberties of England. 
 
 39) 
 
 YJ\n% Edward \}i\t Firft his Confir- 
 mation of Magna Charta and 
 Charta de Forefta. 
 
 A Grant o'i William King of Scots 
 
 •- to the Monks of Salterey. 
 
 A Grant of the Abbot and Monks 
 of St. Aujiin'% Canterbury. 
 
 * Medals of 13. 
 
 * Five Pi<5lures, viz. 
 
 The Altar Piece of St. Bartho- 
 lomew's Hofpital. 
 
 Sir Harry Spelman. 
 
 Judge Dodderidg. 
 
 fVilliam Lambert, who wrote 
 the Survey of Kent. 
 
 Thomas Jllen, Principal of Ch- 
 ceJler-HalL 
 
 The Seal melted. 
 
 The Impreffion of the Seal is 
 melced away : And rhe Charter fo 
 fcorched and (hrivcJIfd up, that 
 it is hard to be read in fome Places. 
 But by the Diredtion of the Right 
 Honourable the Speaker of the 
 Houfe of Commons, a Copy hath 
 been taken of it, attefted by feve- 
 ral Perfons. 
 
 The Seal melted. 
 
 The Seal melted. 
 
 Several Seals that hung at this 
 Grant, are quite meked oj. 
 
 Several other Parchments of 
 Value, in the Drawers where the 
 abovenamed are kept, are da-- 
 maged. 
 
 e. To
 
 ( "4° ) 
 
 c. 
 
 To the Honourable Comm'tttee appointed to view the 
 Cottonian Library, and fuch of the pnblick Re- 
 cords of this Kingdom^ as they think proper^ and 
 to report to the Houfe the Condition thereof, toge^ 
 ther with what they Jhall judge fit to be done for 
 the better Reception, Prefervation, and more con- 
 venient Ufe of the fame j 
 
 The Humble Memorial of Charles Grymes, 
 
 Setting forth, 
 
 THAT in the Year 1687. his Father William Grymes was direft- 
 ed by the Lords Commiffioners of the Treafury to infped the 
 Records belonging to the late Court of Wards, and give an 
 Account thereof: Accordingly, after he had forted them, he made his 
 Report to their Lordfhips of the State he found them in ; upon which 
 their Lordfhips ordered, he (hould have the Cuftody of them, and pro- 
 mifed to fettle an annual Allowance to enable him to employ Clerks to 
 digeft them, and make Indexes thereto. 
 
 Altho' no fuch Allowance was ever made, yet Grymes continued to 
 employ Clerks, and alfo his three Sons, to methodize and make Indexes 
 to the mofl: ufeful of the faid Records until the Year 1709, when they 
 were removed from under his Care to the Rooms, where they now 
 lye. 
 
 The Indexes and Calendars fo made by the Diredion of the faid 
 Gryjnes are now in the Cuftody of your Memorialift, viz. 
 
 Two Calendars in Folio bound, containing the Names of all the 
 Manors and Lands colleded into their feveral Counties from thirteen 
 large Folio Books, containing fpecial Liveries in the Reigns of Henry 
 the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, and 
 King James ; and to which thefe two Calendars refer : 
 
 One Folio Index bound, containing the fame Names as in the Calen- 
 dars above, taken from the fame thirteen Books of Liveries, but al- 
 phabetically coUefted into diftind Counties ; but it wants Suffolk and 
 Tork ; which are done in two other Books unbound : 
 
 Onefmall Folio Index bound, containing alphabetically the Names 
 of Perfons fuing out their Liveries, contained in the faid thirteen Books 
 of Liveries : 
 
 One large Folio Calendar bound, containing the Names of the Lands 
 (each County feparate) contained in a great Number of Certificates 
 made by the Feodaries of feveral Counties, after the Office taken up- 
 on the Deaths of the King's Tenants , containing the Particulars of 
 
 their
 
 ( hO 
 
 their PofTeffions -, Thefe Certificates themfelves are alfo in the Cufto- 
 dy of your Memorialilt, and fill eleven Bags : 
 
 One Calendar unbound, containing the Names of Lands mentioned 
 in five Books of Decrees made in the laid Court, entered as they occur 
 in the Books : 
 
 Another Calendar unbound of the fame Thing, but digefted into 
 their feveral Counties: 
 
 Another Calendar unbound, referring to other Books of Decrees, 
 tetnp. Eliz. Jac. & Car. 
 
 A large Folio Calendar of the Names (alphabetically) of all thofe 
 Perfons, after whofe Deaths any Office hath been found, from the firft 
 Ereftion of the fiid Court to the Time of the fupprefTing thereof 
 Jum 1645, which refer to the Bundles of Tranfcripts of the Inquifitions 
 pojl Mortem : 
 
 This Memorialift hath alfo feveral other Calendars and Alphabeti- 
 cal Indexes, which he conceives refer to fome of the faid Records ; but 
 they wanting proper Titles, and he not having had free Accefs to the 
 faid Records thefe twenty Years, he is not able to fay exprefsly to what 
 or which of them they refer. 
 
 Tour Memorialift therefore hmnlly prays, you will take the Premijfes 
 into Confideration ; And alfo prays, that if any Provifion he made 
 for digefiing the faid Records, -he may have Employmetit therein, having 
 been always bred ainongft Records, and made them his whole Study ; and 
 he, not having Employment at prefent in any Fuhlick Office., is wil- 
 ling to apply his whole Time to fuch Service. 
 
 CHARLES GRYMES. 
 
 D. I. 
 
 Report by the Keeper of the Records in the Chapter- 
 Hoiife concerning the State of Records in his 
 Cuftody. 
 
 To the honourable Committee appointed to view the 
 Cottonian Libravy^ and fuch of the Publick 
 Records of this Kingdom^ as they think proper, 
 and to report to the Houfe the Condition thereof 
 together with what they Jhall judge fit to be done 
 for the better Reception^ Prefervation^ and more 
 convenient Ufe of the fame. 
 
 IN Obedience to the Order of the Committee of the i;""" Inflant, 
 whereby I am directed to give an Account in Writing of the Na- 
 ture of the Records in the Chapter-Houfe, in what State they are, 
 and what is neceffary to be done to put the fame into a more proper 
 
 N n Condi-
 
 ( 142 ) 
 Condition, and make them more ufeful to the Publick ; I prefume to 
 acquaint the Committee, that in the Chapter-Houfe, and a fmall Office 
 near the Tally-Court in his Majcfty's Receipt of Exchequer^ are depo- 
 fited the following Records, viz. 
 
 The Records of the Curia Regis, from Richard I. inclufive to Hen- 
 ry III. when (it is fuppofedj that Court was firft divided into the 
 Kin^s-Bench and Co?nmon- Pleas. 
 
 The King's-Bench Records from Henry III. to HeJjry V. inclufive. 
 
 The Records of the Common- Pleas from Henry III. to Henry VII. 
 inclufive. 
 
 The Rolls of Affife and ^lo JVarranto, and the Placita Corona of 
 Henry III, Edward I, II, and III. 
 
 Fines from the latter End of the Reign of Henry II. to James II. 
 inclufive. 
 
 Writs of every Species from Ed-wardl. to James II. inclufive. 
 
 In the abovementioned Records is a perfeft Syftem of the old Englijh 
 Law contained, and the Principal, if not the only. Evidences of the 
 Riorhts, Privileges, and Liberties of many publick Bodies, as alfo of 
 particular Perfons, efpecially in regard to Honours, Manors, and 
 Lordfhips. 
 
 Bills, Anfwers, Interrogatories, Depofitions, and Commifllons of 
 the Court of Star-Chamber. 
 
 Records and Papers of various kinds, fome ufeful, fome curious, 
 viz. Treaties, Letters of Publick Minifters and Ambaffadors, Ac- 
 counts, Court Rolls, Pope's Bulls, Privy-Seals, Contrails, Perambu- 
 lations of Forefts, and Indentures of the Mint. 
 
 It may not be improper here to mention, that it has been the 
 Opinion of the Houfe of Lords, (as appears by a Report agreed to 
 and laid before his Majefty Amio 1728,) that the Records of the 
 Court of Wards and Liveries, and of the Court of Requefts (now 
 decaying in Rooms belonging to the Black-Rod) ought to be 
 fent to the Chapter-Houfe to be methodifed, preferved, and bound 
 
 up properly. 
 
 Amongft the Records of the Court of Wards and Liveries, are many 
 Inquifitions pft Mortem very valuable, as are the Decrees of that 
 Court, which together afcertain and diftinguifli the Boundaries, as well 
 as Privileges of mod of the beft Eftates in England. 
 
 The Rolls of the Curia Regis, Kin^s- Bench, Common Pleas, Jffife, 
 9luo Warranto, and the Placita Corona are generally forted with Care 
 and properly difpofed. 
 
 To fome Rolls of the Kin^s-Bench, and fome few of the Common- 
 Pleas, there are Indexes, which I found in the Office and colledted to- 
 gether i and at a Sale of the Books of Mr. Le Neve (v/ho was formerly 
 a Deputy-Chamberlain) I purchafed a large Quantity of Indexes to 
 AJfife and ^0 Warranto Rolls, and to fome of the Fines, with which I 
 acquainted the Commiffioners of his Majefty's Treafury, who were 
 pleafed to order Payment for them for the Benefit of the Office, to 
 which, it is reafonable to believe, many of them heretofore of Right 
 belonged : Thefe ferve for prefent ufe very well, but are not quite 
 . corrcft. 
 
 Therefore I humbly propofe, that perfeft Indices Nominum ^ Lo- 
 corum to thefe Records rfiould be made and printed, as well as to thofe 
 of the Court of Wards and Liveries; and that all the fpecial Judg- 
 ments in the Rolls oi ih^ Curia Regis, Kin^s-Benchy and Common- Pleas, 
 
 (hould.
 
 ( '43 ) 
 
 fhould, with the Pleadings, be literally tranfctibed, and publiflTed. As 
 this Copy would be made from the Records themfelves, fo it would be 
 more authent/c, more ufeful, and lefs troublefome than the Volumes 
 of Year-Books, and Reports, often uncertain in the State of Fadts, 
 and often miftaking the Record. 
 
 This Work (which I flatter myfelf will be very valuable, when finifli- 
 ed, in regard both to the Law and the Hiftory of the Nation) might 
 be brought to Perfeclion in a reafonable Time, by adding two Clerks 
 to the three already employed, and a Perfon to remove and clean the 
 Records; which is abfolutely neceffiiry to fave the Time of Clerks, and 
 to preferve the Records from their greateft Enemy — Dud. 
 
 The Papers and Letters of State, I propofe, fhould be placed in or- 
 der of Time, and bound up together. 
 
 All the other Records ought to be forted into Reigns, before the 
 Copies and Indexes are begun, left (as is often the Cale) any of the a- 
 forementioned Records fliould be mixed with them, and thereby the 
 Chain of the Work broke. 
 
 Paper, Parchment, Uc. fhould be allowed, and the Perfon, who 
 dufts the Records, ought to fow on Covers to thofe, that want them. 
 
 For the better Satisfadtion of the Publick, I humbly prOpofe, that 
 the Progrefs made in this Work fliould be laid before each Houfe of 
 Parliament every SelTions by the Perfon, who has the Condud; thereof. 
 If it is the Opinion of the Committee, that the Records of the Court 
 of Wards and Liveries, of the Court of Requefts, thofe over the Houfe 
 of Commons, and the Manufcripts of Mr. Ry!?ier i]-io\i\d be fent to the 
 Chapter-Houfe, Room would be wanted to difpofe them properly, 
 great Numbers of Writs having been tranfmitted tliither from the Of- 
 fice of the Ci/Jlos Brevii/m, fince the abovementioned Report of the 
 Committee of Lords. 
 
 It is therefore humbly fubmitted to the Confideration of the Com- 
 mittee, that other proper Conveniences be made, as well for the Re- 
 ception of thofe Records, as of fuch others, as may be fent from the 
 Treafuries of the Kuig^s- Bench and Common- Pleas: And here I beg Leave 
 to mention, that fome Rooms and Offices have been built contiguous 
 to the Chapter-Houfe, and Vaults made under ir, wherein I appre- 
 hend Brandy and other fpirituous Liquors may be fometimes kept, 
 which may expofe the Records to Accidents of Fire ; and that by re- 
 moving fome of the Buttereffes the Roof appears to be too heavy for 
 the prefent Support. All which is moft humbly fubmitted to the Con- 
 .fideration of the Committee. 
 
 February 4, 1 73 1- J O H N L AW TO N. 
 
 D.ir.
 
 ( 144 ) 
 
 D. II. 
 
 Report of his Majefty's Coroner, ^c. of the Records 
 in the Crown-OfEce. 
 
 To the Honourable Committee of the Houfe of Com- 
 mons appointed to view the Cottonian Library y 
 and fuch of the Publick Records of the Kingdom 
 as they think proper. 
 
 IN obedience to your Order, bearing date the Twenty-feventh Day 
 of March 1732, by which I am directed to give an Account in 
 Writing of the Nature of the Records in my Cuflody, and what 
 State they are in, i^c. 1 do humbly certify, that the moft ancient Re- 
 cords in my Cuflody commence about the firfi: Year of the Reign of 
 Edivard the Third, and confift of long Parchment Rolls bound up 
 together, every Year diftinft by it felf, with an outfide Roll of Vel- 
 lum fomewhat longer than the reft, the better to preferve them", v/hen 
 rolled up-, upon the Outfide of which faid Roll of Vellum is endorfed. 
 in a large old Text Charafter the Year of every particular King or 
 Queen's Reign. 
 
 Thele yearly Rolls, thus bound up, are diftinguiflied and forted un- 
 der their refpedfive Terms, by mentioning at the Top of each Roll in 
 a large Letter the Name of the Term, it is of. 
 
 And the Rolls of each Term are diftinguifhed under feveral Deno- 
 minations, and alfo forted in their proper Order •, as firft, the Bagg 
 Rolls, fecondly Controulment Rolls, and thirdly the Special Wric 
 Rolls. 
 
 And as to the Contents of them, the Bagg- Rolls contain an Abftratft 
 or Memorandum of every Caufe or Profecution inftituted or commen- 
 ced in each Term, viz. a Note of the Defendant's Name with his Ad- 
 dition, the Nature of the Offence, and whether the Caufe or Profecu- 
 tion is by way of Indiftment, Appeal, Information, Writ of Error, 
 or otherwife. 
 
 The Controulment-Rolls contain a Docquet or Memorandum of 
 all the Proceedings in every Caufe in each Term, as Appearances, 
 Pleas, Replications, Rejoynders, Sur-rejoynders, Demurrers, Con- 
 fcflions, Judgments, Pardons, and the like. 
 
 The Special Writ Rolls are thofe, upon which the Special Writs of 
 each Term are always inrolled; whether they be Original Writs as 
 Mandamus's., Scire Faciai's, No^anters, and the like; or Judicial Vvj its, 
 as Writs of Execution for Treafon, Felony, ^c. Capias's ad jaii'fa- 
 ciendinn. Capias's fro Fine, Levari's, i^c. 
 
 Upon thefe Special Writ Rolls are alfo entered all Returns of Refcues, 
 and Returns to Writs of Mandamus : And I find, that anciently all Re- 
 turns to Writs, of what kind foever, were enrolled, which was the moft 
 eiteftual Way to perpetuate them, and which I think ftiould have been 
 continued. 
 
 3 Upon
 
 Upon thefe Rolls were likewife anciently entered all the Proceedings 
 at large, in the fame Manner they are now entered upon the Plea 
 Rolls at the Treafury, as well in Capital Cafes, as in other criminal 
 Proceedings: But how thefe Inrollments came to be left off, is not at 
 this Time eafily to be accounted for, 
 
 Ic will not in this Place be improper to take Notice, that, whenever 
 the Proceedings in any Caufe branch out and terminate in an Iffue, the 
 IlTue or Plea Roll, containing thofe Proceedings, is fent into the Trea- 
 fury, to be there filed and kept-, but before it is fent thither, it is 
 numbered at the Bottom according to its Place, and the fame Num- 
 ber is alfo put to the Controulment of that IflTue, to tallie with it by 
 way of Reference. And without thofe References upon the Records in 
 the Crown Office, it would be very difficult to find any Entry-Roll 
 of any Antiquity at the Treafury. 
 
 There are alfo in my Cuftody other Records, which pafs under the 
 Denomination of Files; and they are of feveral Sorts, and are ufed for 
 different Purpofes ; fome for Indiftments, Appeals, Informations, 
 Writs of F>ror, and the like ; others for Orders, Returns for Manda- 
 vius's. Habeas Corpus's, Scire Facial's, NoSianten, &'c. others for Re- 
 cognizances and Articles of the Peace, &c. others for Fiats ; others for 
 the King's Procefs ; others for Interrogatories and Depofitions; others 
 for Certificates againft Popifh Recufants ; and others for Certificates 
 concerning the Qualification of Members to ferve in Parliament. 
 
 All thefe feveral Files are covered with Vellum ; and upon the Out- 
 Iide of eadi File is indorfed the Name of the Term it is of, in a large 
 Text Chara(5tcr. 
 
 They are all in good Condition, but go no farther back than about 
 the Time of the Revolution -, Mr. Harcotirt my Predeceffor having fenc 
 all the old Files to the Treafury, for want of Room (at that Time) in 
 the Office to contain them. 
 
 The old Records in the Time of Edward III, Rich. II, Hen. IV, V, 
 and VI, and Edw. IV, fome of them are greatly impaired, but the 
 greateft Part of them are very legible. The Records from that Time 
 are in very good Condition, in which the beft way to continue and pre- 
 ferve them, I think, would be to put them up into Preffes of fuch a 
 Size, that in Cafe of Fire or any other Accident they might be remo- 
 ved without any great Difficulty out of the Way of Ruin. 
 
 In order to make the Records of the faid Office more ufeful to the 
 Publick, I think, it would be neceflary to have the principal Matters 
 contained in the laid Records, efpecially the Names of the Perfons, 
 Titles, Places and Things, reduced into a proper Order, by making 
 Alphabetical Tables and Indexes to them. 
 
 And with Regard to Profecutions by Information, I find they were 
 very frequent in the Time of Hen. VII. and Hen. VII, and long be- 
 fore. 
 
 The Records of Attainder were formerly kept in the Baga de Secre- 
 tisy which is a Cheft or Prefs in the Treafury faftened with three Locks, 
 one Key of which was in the Hands of the Lord Chief Juftice of his 
 Majefty's Court of Ktng's-Beiicb, one other in the Hands of his Majefty's 
 Attorney- General, and the other of the Clerk of the Crown for the 
 Time being. 
 
 Thefe Records are not Records of the Court, but Proceedings upon 
 Special Commiffions in Cafes of High-Treafon, and other Capital Of- 
 fences ; and (as I have been informed) were originally kept by the 
 
 O o Clerk
 
 ( i4<5 ) 
 
 Clerk of the Crown, as being the proper Officer for that Purpofe. But 
 as they were Records of the higheft Importance in relation to the Ti- 
 tle of the Crown, this Method of keeping them was thought the Cakfi 
 and mofl; proper. 
 
 All which I humbly fubmir. 
 
 2 2 Jpril, 1732. W. BELL AMY, ///j M.iyjl^'s 
 
 Coroner and /Ittorney in the Court of 
 King's-Bench, Wefiminfter. 
 
 D. III. 
 
 Common - Pleas Treafury. 
 
 To the Honourable the Commtttee appointed to view 
 the Cottonian Libray^^ and fiich of the Puhlick 
 Records of this Kingdom as they think proper. 
 
 IN Obedience to your Honour's Order of the Twenty-ninth Day 
 of February lall, whereby I the Keeper of the Records in the 
 Treafury of the Court of Common-Pleas am required to lay before 
 your Honours an Account in Writing of the Nature of the Records 
 in my Cuftody, and of the Condition of the Rooms, in which they are 
 depofited, in what Order they are < igefted, whether there be any and 
 what Calendars thereof, and what is neceflary to be done to make 
 them more ufeful to the Publick -, I do humbly certify unto your Ho- 
 nours, that in the Treafury belonging to his Majefty's Court of 
 Cornmon-Pleas at IVefitninjler, being a large fquare Room under the 
 Court of Exchequer, are kept the Records of the faid Court of 
 CoittmoH- Pleas; which do contain all Common Recoveries, Entries of 
 the Money, which the King hath upon Fines, all Judgments and Iffues, 
 with the Pkadings and Verdifts thereon in all real, perfonai, and 
 mixed Adlions, Inrollments of Deeds, Warrants of Attorney, Re- 
 cognizances, and Philazers's, and Exigenters's Rolls containing the 
 Entries of Writs ifluing out of their refpeflive Offices from the firft 
 Year of YAn^Henry the Eighth inclufive down to this prefent Time; 
 which are bound up in diftindl Bundles of their refpedive Terms and 
 Years, and are all of them fo well digefted in their proper Order, and 
 due Courfe of Time, in Chefts and Prefles lined, and other conve- 
 nient Places, that they may be eafily and readily reforted to. 
 
 There are no Calendars of thefe Records kept in this Office; bur 
 at the Offices of the three Prothonotaries of the faid Court there are 
 Calendars (otherwife called Docquets) of the faid Records, which 
 arc ufually reforted to, before any Search can be made in the Trea- 
 fury.
 
 ( 147 ) 
 fury. The Clerk of the Effoigns of the fiid Court doth alfo keep 
 an Alphabetical-Table of all Judgments brought into this Office, 
 in purfiunce of the Stature of the Fourth and Fifth of King IFiUiam 
 and Queen A/.vv, and tiie Clerk of the Warrants of the Kiid Court 
 doth keep a Docquet of all Common Recoveries and Deeds in- 
 rolled. 
 
 I do not find, that there is any Thing wanting materially neceffary, 
 to put thefe Records into a more proper Condition, or to make them 
 more ufcful to the Publick, except lome few Repairs of the Floor, 
 Shelves and PrelTcs for the better preferving them from Duft, and 
 except fuch a Quantity of Vellum, or Parchment, and Cording, as 
 fliall be fufficient for new covering and binding fuch of them 
 whofe Covers and Bindings, and the Marking or Texting are worn 
 out, or greatly decayed by Time, which may be repaired and made 
 good at no great Expence. All which is humbly fubmitted to your 
 Honours by 
 
 Tour Homun 
 Common- Pleas Treafui-^y 
 
 1 6 March 1731. Moft Dutiful and 
 
 Obedient Servant^ 
 
 WILL. WATSON. 
 
 D. IV.
 
 D. IV. 
 
 Cuftos Brevium. 
 
 IN obedience to an Order of the Honourable Committee appointed 
 by the Houfe of Commons, dated the Twenty-ninth of February 
 1 73 1, to view the Cottonhw. Library, and fuch of thepublick Re- 
 cords of this Kingdom as they think proper, i^c. 
 
 Walter Ba'^nes, Deputy to the Right Honourable the Earl oi Litch- 
 field, Cujlos Brevium of his Majefty's Court oi Common- Pleas at IVell- 
 mi}ifter, doth lay before the (Iiid Committee an Account of the Na- 
 ture of the Records in his Cuftody, in what Order they are digefled, 
 and what Books or Calendars are made thereof, with the Condition of 
 the Rooms or Treafury, in which they are depofited ; and are as follows, 
 N. B. All the Writs and Records to the Revolution are tranfmitted 
 into the Exchequer, and depofited in the Chapter-Houfe belong- 
 ing to IVcJlminfier- Abbey. 
 The Kingdom is divided into the five Divifions of the Heart, 
 Ladder, Crow, Buckle and Bell 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 > 
 
 -« 
 
 J 
 
 
 I. Heart, which contains 
 
 C\i)'oi Norwich. 
 Norfolk. 
 Suffolk. 
 EJfex. 
 Herlforcl. 
 
 II. Ladder, which contains 
 
 Cambridgpyire. 
 HiintiiigtonJIjire. 
 Middlejex. 
 London. 
 City of Canterbury. 
 Kent. 
 Surry. 
 SiiJJex. 
 
 III. Crow, which contains 
 Vill. Southampton. 
 
 Hamifijire. 
 
 Wilts. 
 City of Brijhl. 
 
 SomerfetfAre. 
 Vill. Pool. 
 
 Dorfetfiire. 
 City of Ex on. 
 
 Devonflnre. 
 
 Corntuall. 
 
 Herefordflnre. 
 City of Worcejier. 
 
 Wore eft erjhire. 
 City of Gloiicefter. 
 
 Gloucefterjhire. 
 
 Monmouthjhire. 
 
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 And firft the 
 
 IV. Buckle, which contains 
 
 OxfordJJjire. \ 
 
 Berkjhire. 
 Buckinghamjhire. 
 Bedford/hire. 
 Northa7nptonJhire. 
 Rutland. 
 Shroj/Inre. 
 City of Litchfield. 
 
 Staffordjhire. 
 
 V. Bell, which contains 
 
 Warivickfiire. i 
 Cityof Co^'ifK/rj. 
 
 Leiceft erjhire. 
 Vill. Nottingham. 
 
 No 1 1 ingbamfijire. 
 
 Derby. 
 City of Lincoln. 
 
 Lincolnjhire. 
 City of Tork. 
 
 Torkjhire. 
 Vill. of Kingfton fuper 
 
 Hull. 
 Vill. Newcafile fuper 
 Tyne. 
 
 Northumberland. 
 
 Cutnberland. 
 
 Weftmorland. 
 
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 N. S. All Originals and Special Writs are filed according to the 
 faid fevenil Divifions; and in every Divifion is contained for 
 every Term twu Bundk-s, viz. one of the firfl: and lail Returns, 
 and the other of the middle Retiiins ; upon .il! which Bandits are 
 indorfed in a large Hand, the Term and Returns contained in 
 fuch Bundles. 
 
 Proclamations are filed, the whole Term in a Bundle. 
 
 Mittimus's and Tranfcripts upon Writs of Entry are filed, the whole 
 Year together. 
 
 Exigents are filed, one Term in a Bundle. 
 
 Pollea's are filed, the Year the Judgment is figned of, the whole 
 Year together. 
 
 Concords of Fines are filed according to the Term, they are pro- 
 claimed of, one Term in a Bundle. 
 
 Feet of the Fines are filed, one Term in a Bundle. 
 
 Writs of Fntry, Summorfs, and Seifinf, are filed, each Term in a Bun- 
 dle (except Writs of Seifin returned indiUite) are filed with the Writs 
 of Entry. 
 
 Venire faciai's, in London a.nd Middlefex are filed, EaJlerTtrmon one 
 File, and Michaelmas on another, and both put into one Bundle. 
 
 Inquifitions upon Utlawries, Elegies, Writs of Enquiry, and Bills 
 againft Attorneys and priviledged Pcrfons; and alfo Writs ad EUgend' 
 Coronator\ and other Writs of the like Nature are all filed together, 
 each Term in a Bundle. 
 
 The Writs of Covenant are every Teriti entered into a Book of the 
 fame Term, they are returnable, and according to the Term the Con- 
 cord is proclaim'd of. 
 
 The Treafury belonging to the Cujlos Brevium in JVeJl?ninJler-Hall, is 
 out of Repair, and wants very much to be amended, as your Ho- 
 nours will fee, when you view the fame. 
 
 The Order of fileing the Writs and Records, being very numerous, 
 and of fo many different Natures, yet being fo digcfted as above, any 
 Writ or Record (the Term and Year being known) may be found in a 
 quarter of an Hour : And whether any other Way, than what is now, 
 and always heretofore has been praftifed, can be found out to make 
 the fame more ufeful to the Publick, is humbly fubmitted to your 
 Honours. 
 
 N. B. There are no other Books or Calendars, than of Fines, as are 
 above mentioned. 
 
 WALT. BAYNES. 
 
 Pp D.V.
 
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 D. V. 
 
 The Report of the Deputy Clerk of the Pipe. 
 
 To the Honourable the Committee of the Honourable 
 Houfe of Commons^ appointed to view the Cotto- 
 nian Librar'yy and fuch of the Puhltck Records of 
 this Kingdom^ as they think proper. 
 
 IN obedience to your Honours Order of the Twenty-ninth of Fe- 
 bniary, which came to hand the Fourth of this Inftant, whereby 
 I am required to lay before your Honours an Account in Writing, 
 of the Nature of the Records in the Pipe-Office, in what Condition 
 the Rooms are, where they are depofited, in what Order they are 
 digefted, and what is neceflary to be done to make them more ufeful 
 to the Publick ; 
 
 I do in the humbleft Manner certify, that the Records of this Office 
 are of three Sorts: The great Roll of the Exchequer ; the foreign 
 Accompts ; and Leafes of the Crown Lands, and of Lands of Pcr- 
 fons out-Iawed, which pafs under the Exchequer Seal, 
 
 The Great Roll contains an Accompt of the ancient Revenue of 
 the Crown, writ out in Procefs every Year to the feveral Sheriffs 
 of England, who were the general Receivers and Colleftors thereof, 
 and by them levied, and anfwered to the Crown upon their an- 
 nual Accounts before the Clerk of the Pipe: Which Method is 
 continued for fo much of the faid Revenue, as yet remains, and hath 
 not been alienated from the Crown. For all which the refpedive 
 Sheriffs do now accompt, and take their ^ietus out of this Office 
 yearly. 
 
 The foreign Accompts are the Supplies, and that Part of the Re- 
 venue, which is granted by Parliament, and are made up by the Audi- 
 tors of the Revenue and Imprefts -, and all thcfe Accomptants do like- 
 wife annually receive their Quietus out of the Pipe. So that the Re- 
 venue of the Crown paffing through this Office, the Records thereof 
 -are both valuable and numerous. 
 
 The Great Rolls made up from the Time of King Stephen (as fup- 
 pofed) to King James the Second, do for the moft Part lie in good 
 Method and Order in Wainfcot Preffes in the Court of Exchequer 
 at Weft7ninfter ; and whatever is contained in them may eafily be found, 
 becaufe the feveral Counties and Cities are placed in an alphabetical 
 Order, and the Year of each King's Reign being texted (except thofe 
 defaced) on the Cover of each Roll in large Charaeters. The great 
 Rolls fince that Time are lodged in the Pipe-Office in Gra)'s,-hm \n 
 good Plight and Order, ready to be carried to the Exchequer at IVeJl- 
 7nmjier, when any Conveniency offers to put them in. 
 
 The Foreign Accompts before the Year One Thonfind Six Hun- 
 dred and Eighty Eight were not many ; Part of them are made up 
 in -large Rolls, and Part promifcuoufly thrown into Chcfts at the Ex- 
 chequer 
 
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 chequer at TFcJlmiuJltT. But fince that Time they are numerous, and 
 by reafon of Accountants lying many Years behind, it is almoft im- 
 prafticable to make any regular Calendar or Index thereof: But the 
 levera! Records, that contain theAccompts, arc indorfed with fuch pro-, 
 per Memorandums, that any Account may be found; and they are 
 kept at the Pipe-Office aforelaid. 
 
 There are a Series of Records of Leafes, from the Beginning of the 
 Reign of King James the Firft to this prefent Time, which are all 
 well digefted, each Reign being in a Prefs by it fclf, and each Year in 
 a feparate Bundle; fo that any Leafe from that Time may be prefently 
 found. They are kept at the Leafe- Office in d-ay's-Imi. As to the 
 Leafes before the Reign of King Ja?nes the Firft (if any) I cannot cer- 
 tify, where they ?re placed. 
 
 That the State and Condition of the Office in his Majefty's Court of 
 Exchequer at IVcpninJier, is not in extraordinary Repair; the Rain 
 finking through the Ceiling has damaged feveral Records ; the PrefTes 
 which contain the great Rolls are very old, and by reafon of the De- 
 cay of the Materials the Records are much injured, many of their Co- 
 vers and Texting being worn out and defaced. 
 
 To make the great Rolls, which want it, more ufeful to the Publick, 
 it is humbly propofed, that they be new covered, marked and textcd, 
 the Records which lye in Chefts to be bound up and labelled ; that 
 all the Prefles be made of found and well feafoned Wainfcot, the 
 Shelves whereof to be ftrong, broad and fufficiently fupported ; That 
 new Prefles be made, not only for the great Rolls, which for the future 
 muft be repofited there, but for thofe Accounts, which are at prefent 
 laid up in great Chefts; by which Means thofe valuable Records will 
 not only be made more eafy to be found for the Service of the Pub- 
 lick, but the Records be preferved to future Ages. 
 
 All which is humbly fubmitted to your Honours by 
 
 Pipe-Office, Grafs-Inn, ROB. GARDNER, 
 
 16 March i-j^i. Bep. CI. Pipe. 
 
 D. VI. 
 
 An Account of the Records in the Augmentation 
 
 Office. 
 
 To the Honourable the Committee appointed to view 
 the Cottonian Library , and fuch of the publick 
 Records of this Kingdom^ as they thmk proper. 
 
 IN obedience to your Honours Order of the Twenty-ninth of Fe- 
 bruary laflr, I do moft humbly certify. 
 That there are in the Augmentation Office feveral Accounts of the 
 ancient Revenues of the Crown in divers Counties before the Diffo- 
 
 lution
 
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 lution of the Abbies, ^c. made up in Parchmenc-RoIIs, according to 
 the feveral Counties, they rehice to, and are chitfly kept in Canvas 
 Bags. 
 
 Conventual Leafes before the Diffolution in feparate Bundles ac- 
 cording to the refpedtive Monaftcries they belonged to. 
 
 Surrenders of Abbies, Monafteries, <sfc. under the Hands and Seals 
 of the Abbots and Convents, put up in Wooden Boxes marked with 
 the initial Letter of every Abby, &c. they relate to. 
 
 Minifters Accounts (tho' not all) of the Poffefnons of the feveral 
 Religious Houles, which c.^me to the Crown upon their Dilfolution ; 
 thefe are fairly made up in Parchment-Rolls, and lodged in PrefTes; 
 each Prefs containing the Accounts relating to every relpedtive County. 
 
 Leafes made by the Crown of the Abby Lands aff^r the Diffolution, 
 under the Seal of the Court of Augmentations : Thefe are fairly inrolled 
 in large Parchment and Vellom Books, which want to be new bound 
 and clafped. There is an Index to the!e Books, which I have found to 
 be extreamly faulty, and therefore am now examining it with the faid 
 Books in order to make it corredl and exad:. 
 
 Particulars made out previous to the Grants of the Abby Lands, in 
 the Time oi lien. VIII. and Edw.'Vl. bundled together in an alphabe- 
 tical Order, according to the Names of the Grantees. There are two 
 Indexes of thefe Particulars, but of no other u(e, than togive the Names 
 of the Grantees in every Bundle. I have therefore, at a confidcrable 
 Expence to my felf, made one compleat Index to the Lands contained 
 in all the Particulars of Heu.VlW. 
 
 Divers ancient Court Rolls of Manors in feveral Reigns during their 
 Continuance in the Crown, never digefted into any Order, but lying 
 confufed in feveral Preffcs. 
 
 Accounts of the Revenues belonging to the feveral Colleges in both 
 Univerfuies, taken in the Thirty- fcventh of /:/«/. VIII, Thefe are en- 
 tered in two large Parchment Books. 
 
 Several Minilters Accounts of Lands, that came to the Crown by 
 Attainder, Purchafe , and Exchange , together with many original 
 Deeds of thofe Exchanges, in the Time of Hen. VIII. The Deeds 
 are put up in Boxes mark'd according to the feveral Years, they 
 were made in. Some of theie Minilters Accounts, which were made up 
 diftindly, are put into three diAerent Preffcs, according to the Na- 
 ture of them: But others are intermixed with the Minifters Accounts 
 of the Abby Lands. There is an Index to the Deeds of Exchanges, 
 which refers only to the Names of Perfons, but not to the Eftates con- 
 veyed by thofe Deeds. 
 
 Minifters Accounts of Lands within the Dutchy of Cornwall, for 
 the moft Part lying together in one Prefs. 
 
 Accounts of Receivers General, which lye in different Preffes. 
 
 Bills, Anfwers, Depofitions, Replications, and Rejoinders in the 
 Court of Augmentations, made up togetherin Bundles according to 
 Order of Time. There are fome few Decrees of the fiid Court in the 
 Time of Edward VI. in feparate Bundles. An Index to thefe has been 
 begun, but never finilhed. 
 
 Certificates of Colleges, Chantries,' free Chappels, Obits, ijc. in 
 
 the Time of Edw. VI And Particulars for Leafes, and their Tranfcripts 
 
 . in the Time of Q^Eliz. and Jac. I. As alfo Particulars for the Sale of 
 
 Fee- farm Rents in the Time of the Civil Wars, made up in Parchmenc- 
 
 Rolls, and lying in different Preffes. 
 
 3 • Surveys
 
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 Surveys of the Honors, Manors, and Hundreds, which Were the 
 Pofieffions of King Charles the Firfb, taken in 1649. and 1650 : The 
 Surveys of each County are put in diftinft Bundles, and lye in one 
 large Prefs. 
 
 Letters Patents under the Great Seal in feveral Reigns-, Cartularies, 
 Regifters, Leidger Books, Rentals, Deeds, and Records of fundry 
 Kinds without any Method or Order. 
 
 Befides the Indexes mentioned in the foregoing Account, there are 
 fome other fmall, loofe, and imperfcd Fragments of Indexes, which 
 therefore are of very little ufe. 
 
 The Augmentation Office is large, airy, and entirely free from any 
 Dampnefs ; the PreiTes are made of fubllantial Wainfcot, and well 
 lined; though fome fmnller Partitions in them would be very ufeful. 
 The Cieling of the Rooms over the Office is propped in fome Places-, 
 as are alfo the Lintels of fome of the Windows, which therefore want 
 new ones. 
 
 As to what is necefiary to be done to make the Records of this Of- 
 fice more ufeful to the Publick, I humbly conceive, that all the Mini- 
 ilers Accounts, and fuch other Records of this Office, which either 
 want to be mended, or quite new covered, ought to be accordingly 
 done with Vellum or Parchment, and proper Bandages to preferve 
 them from any Injury by Duft. 
 
 And, as there are great Numbers of Records in this Office of vari- 
 ous Sorts, which were never yet digefted and methodized, and the 
 Keeper thereof having no Salary, and the Perquifits, which were for- 
 merly confiderable, being now fmall, it is humbly hoped, that fuch 
 Encouragement may be given, and Allowance made to the faid Keep- 
 er, as may enable him, with the Affiftance of fit Perfons, to put the 
 JRecords of the faid Office into a proper and ufeful Order. 
 
 The Confideration of all which is moll humbly fubmitted to 
 your Honours great Wifdom. 
 
 Augmentation- Office^ OWEN D A V I E S. 
 
 March 15, 1 73 1. 
 
 D. VII. 
 
 Report of the Deputy of the King's Remembrancer. 
 
 To the Honourable Committee of the Houfe of Com- 
 mons, appointed to view the Cottonian Libra- 
 ry , and fuch of the Publick Records of this. 
 Kingdom^ as they think proper, &c. 
 
 IN obedience to an Order of your Honourable Committee, requir- 
 ing mc to lay before you an Account in Writing of the Nature of 
 the Records in my Cuftody, and of the Condition of the Rooms in 
 
 Q^q which
 
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 which they are dcpofited, in what Order they are digefted, whether 
 there be any and what Calendars thereof, and what is necefiary to be 
 done to make them more ufeful to the Publick-, I humbly certify, that 
 the Records of the Office of the King's Remembrancer in the Exche- 
 quer are of the following Nature, viz. 
 
 Me7norandaor Remembrances, which areefteemed the principal Re> 
 cords of the faid Office, confining all Matters inrolled in the faid 
 Office, and chiefly confiding of the Particulars following, viz. Writs 
 of Scire facias, and Proceedings thereupon, for Recovery of Debts 
 due to the Crown : Extents, and Proceedings thereupon: Commif- 
 fions of Enquiry, and Proceedings thereupon, whereby the Eftates of 
 Debtors and Accomptants to the Crown, and Eftates forfeited to, or 
 belonging to the Crown, are feized into the King's Hands : And Com- 
 milTions and Inquificions thereupon returned, or certified into the Court 
 of Exchequer on Attainders, or Forfeitures for Treafon or Felony : 
 Informations on Seizures, made in the feveral Ports of England^ of 
 Goods forfeited for Non Payment of Cuftoms, or unlawful Importa^ 
 tion, and Proceedings thereupon : Perfonal Informations, and Proceed- 
 ings thereupon, for Forfeitures arifing to the Crown, and fometimes 
 to the Crown and the Informer, by Otfences committed againft Penal 
 Laws : Tranfcripts of Outlawries certified into the Court of Exchequer, 
 and Proceedings thereupon, whereby Seizures are made of Lands a;id 
 Goods into the King's Hands : 
 
 All Recognizances taken in the faid Office: 
 
 Profers, being the particular Sums of Money payable half yearly 
 into the Exchequer by the Sherifi^s of the feveral Counties, Cities and 
 Towns in England, and Bailiffs of particular Liberties: 
 
 Several Grants and Patents under the Great Seal, and Privy Seals 
 for feveral Purpofes, and Warrants and Conftitutions under the Sign 
 Manual: 
 
 Several Deeds and Conveyances of Eftates made by private Per- 
 fons : 
 
 Affidavits of fuch Goods, for which Cuftoms have been paid, and 
 which have been afterwards either loft at Sea or taken by Enemies. 
 
 Aifo many Decrees and Proceedings in Equity on Englifli Bills and 
 Informations. 
 
 The above Memoranda begin in the Reign o^ Henry the Third, and 
 are digefted into Annual Rolls, which are lubdivided into Terms, and 
 the Year of the King or Queen is endorfed on the Outfide of each 
 Roll : Of which Memoranda, Entries or Calendars are made in Books 
 in the laid Office, ftylcd Books de Agendis, from the Reign of Edward 
 the Firft, which are likewife entered on Rolls called Repertories from 
 the Reign of Edward the Second to the Time of King Charles the Se- 
 cond, containing the Number and Contents of each particular Roll of 
 the laid Memoranda, 
 
 Other Records, not included in the faid Memoranda, are fuch as are 
 not Inrolled; particularly, Englifh Informations in the Name of the 
 Attorney General, for the Time being, on behalf of his Majefty's Re- 
 venue, and at the relation of private Perfons on account of Charities 
 and other Publick Trufts and Ufes ; and Englifti Bills between Party 
 and Party, and Anfwers thereto, and Proceedings thereupon. The 
 faid Informations and Bills, to which the Pleadings thereto are annexed, 
 are numbered, and filed in Parchment Covers, each Cover containing 
 one hundred Bills, all of the flimc County, on the Outfide whereof is 
 indgrfed the County, in what King or Queen's Reign, and the Number 
 
 of
 
 of the firft Information or Bill on each File ; And Entries are made 
 in Books kept in the faid Office, divided into parcicul ir Counties, 
 containing the Number of each Bill, together with the Names of the 
 Parties, Plaintiff's and Defendants, referring to the faid Bills and Infor- 
 mations. 
 
 Depofitions, taken by virtue of Commiflions for Examination of 
 Witneffes, are alio filed in Parchment Cdvers, formerly containing 
 whole Years, and lately only two Terms, each Cover being indorled 
 with the Terms or Years of the King's or Queen's Reign, the Depofi- 
 tions therein contained vvere taken; and Entries are alfo made, in 
 Books kept in the faid Office, of all fuch Commiffions, fpecifying the 
 Number of Schedules annexed to each Commiffion, the Term and 
 Year in which each Commiffion was returned, aiid the Names of the 
 Parties between whom taken, and of the County where taken. 
 
 Orders and Decrees made by the faid Court, on all Proceedings in 
 the faid Office, are entered in Books kept for that Purpofe; to the 
 former of which there are Calendars from Michaelmas Term, in the fe- 
 cond Year of K'xngjames the Second, and to the latter from HUlar-y 
 Term, in the fifteenth and fixteenth Years of King Charles the Second, 
 containing the Term and Year of the King or Queen, when they were 
 pronounced, the Names of the Counties where the C^ufe of Suit arofe, 
 and the Surname of the firft Plaintiff and Defendant mentioned in each 
 Order or Decree. 
 
 Port Books, annually fent to and returned by the Cuftomers and 
 Patent Officers 6f the feveral Ports of England and Wales ; containing 
 Entries of all Goods and Merchandizes imported arid eicported, and 
 carried Coaftwife. And 
 
 Forfeited Port Bonds, for carrying Goods Coaftwife, kept alpha- 
 betically in Prefles ; and Entries thereof are made in Books referring 
 to the faid Bonds, in the Cuftody and under the Care of the Clerk of 
 the Port Bonds. 
 
 Procefs againft Receivers and Colleflors of AfTeflTments and Taxes 
 granted to the Crown, to bring them in to pafs their Accompts, and 
 to pay the Money by them received, and to feize the Lands and Goods 
 of them, who refufe or negleft fo to do, kept on particular Files proper- 
 ly indorfed. 
 
 Bonds entered into by his M.ijefty's Subjefts to the Crown, upon 
 their Admiffion into feveral Employments under his Majefty, and for 
 their due Execution of other Offices and Trufts, which nre in the imme- 
 diate Cuftody of the Deputy to the King's Remembrancer for the 
 Time being, at the King's Remembrancer's Office in the Inner-Temple 't 
 all which Bonds are placed on Files, and Abftradts thereof are entered 
 in Books with an alphabetical Index, whereby eafy Recourfe may be 
 had to any of the faid Bonds. 
 
 Duplicates of Land and Window Taxes digefted into Years, and 
 kept in Bags, called Bags of Particulars , with proper Endorfements 
 thereupon, under the Care of the Clerk of the Duplicates. 
 
 States of the Accompts of the great Officers, Accomptants to the 
 Crown, and the Receivers General of the Land Tax and Duties on 
 Houfes, payable into the Receipt of his Majefty's Exchequer: And 
 Depofitions taken before Barons of the faid Court *, and an Abridg- 
 ment of Domefday Book; the Book called the red Book; and feve- 
 ral ancient Statutes in Manufcript; and other ancient Books, in the Cu« 
 ftody of the firft Secondary of the faid Office. 
 
 And in further obedience to your faid Order, I have carefully in- 
 
 fpefted
 
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 fpeded the Condition of the Rooms at IVeJlminfter, allotted and be- 
 longing to the King's Remembrancer's Office, for the Cuftody of the 
 Records, and Difpatch of the Bufinefs of the faid Court (the Keys of 
 which Rooms are kept by the Chief Ufher of the Exchequer, or his 
 Deputy, who, at the Entrance into his faid Office, takes an Oath well 
 and fafely to keep and preferve all the Records, Books, ProcefTes, 
 and other Evidences, Bonds and Writings whatfocver, remaining in 
 the faid Court, in his Cuftody, to the Ufe of the King's Majefty, his 
 Heirs and SuccefTors) and humbly certify, that the great and principal 
 Record-Room is a very convenient Room, and furniffied with good 
 Wainfcot Preffes for the fafe Cuftody of the Records there ; but the 
 fame want repairing in feveral Places, and alfo the Floors and Cieling, 
 and the Walls want to be lined in many Places with Deal or Wainfcot, 
 to preferve the Backs of the Records, and new Preffes are wanted, 
 with Doors thereto, and Ladders, Stools, and Tables to lay the Re- 
 cords upon, in order to be perufed, and copied from Time to Time 
 by the Clerks of the faid Office, for the Service of the Crown, and 
 his Majefty's Subjeds, as occafion may require : And the faid Room 
 is very much incumbered with a great Number of large old Chefts, 
 which greatly obftruft the PafiTage through it, containing great Quan- 
 tities of Papers undigefted, which are fuppofed to be of no great Ufe, 
 and moft of them not to relate to the Office of the King's Remem- 
 brancer. 
 
 The Room adjoining, called the Seizure Room, and the Room 
 •within the Office, where the Clerks fit, are incumbered alfo with old 
 Chefts, and undigefted Papers, and want repairing in feveral Places ; 
 and the two Rooms in the Brick Tower are in great Diforder ; in one 
 of which there are great Numbers of Tallies, and loofe Parchment and 
 Papers, fcattered promifcuoufty upon the Floor; and in the other. 
 Port Books relating to the Cuftoms, and Bags of Duplicates of Taxes, 
 and other loofe and undigefted Papers, 
 
 And I further humbly certify, that the beft Method, lean think of, 
 to make the faid Records more ufeful to the Publick, is, to make the 
 Alterations in the Rooms abovementioned ; and to new bind and co- 
 ver fuch of the Me7noranda Books and Files, as are likely to fuffer for 
 want thereof, and new indorfe the fame ; to fupply and perfcft fuch of 
 the Repertories and Calendars, as may appear to be deficient ; to fet 
 the Books of Decrees and Orders, which now lye in Chefts, with the 
 other Books, upon good Shelves in Prefles to be made for that Pur- 
 pofe, and indorfe on the Back of each Book the Contents thereof, fo 
 as to have a more ready recourfe to the fame ; and more particularly, to 
 methodife and digeft the Books and Papers in the Chefts abovemen- 
 tioned, and the other Records, that are in Diforder, under the Care 
 and Infpeftion of fome proper Perfon or Perfons, to be for that Pur- 
 pofe appointed, with fuitable Encouragements ; and to remove the 
 faid Chefts, and fuch of the Records and Papers as fhali be found of no 
 great Ufe, or effaced by Time, or other Accidents, or not to relate to 
 the Office of the King's Remembrancer, into fome other Rooms, in 
 order for the better Accommodation of fuch of the valuable Records 
 of the King's Remembrancer's Office, as are there at prefent, and for 
 the better Reception of fuch Memoranda^ and other Records, as ffiall 
 be fent, from Time to Time, to be there depofited, from the Office 
 of the King's Remembrancer in the Inner -Temple. 
 
 All which I humbly fubmit to the Honourable Committee. 
 
 21 March 173 1. C. TAYLOR, D. R. R. 
 
 D. VI ir.
 
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 D. VIII. 
 
 Report from the Deputy to the Trcafurer's Remem- 
 brancer in the Court of Exchequer. 
 
 To the Honour ahle the Committee of the Houfe of 
 Commons for tnfpeBmg Records^ &c. 
 
 From the Treafurer''s Rememhrancer's Office. 
 
 IN obedience to the Order of this Honourable Committee of the 
 Twenty-ninth Day oi February laft, whereby I am required to Jay 
 before you an Account in Writing of the Nature of the Records in 
 the Treafurer's Remembrancer's Office, and of the Condition of the 
 Rooms, in which tiiey are depofited, in what Order they are digefted, 
 whether there be any, and what Calendars thereof, and what is necel- 
 fary to be done to make them' more ufefui to the Publick -, I do hum- 
 bly certify, that the principal Records in this OfEce are the Memoran- 
 da, and the Originalia. 
 
 The Memoranda contain great Variety of Pleadings, relating to the 
 Tenures and Eftates of the Nobility and Gentry of England, with 
 Judgments given by the Court of Exchequer thereupon -, Plead- 
 ings and Judgments upon Claims of Franchifes and Privileges within 
 Manors, Towns and Liberties ; A61:s of the Court of Exchequer con- 
 cerning the Accounts of Sheriffs, Efcheators, &'c. Variety of Matters 
 concerning the Charge and Difcharge of the King's Debtors, and Ac- 
 comptants -, Entries of Accounts of greater and lefTer Accomptants ; 
 many A6ls and Orders of Court concerning the Land Revenue, and 
 Cafual Revenue of the Crown, fuch as Fee Farms, Fines, Poll Fines, 
 Iffues, Amerciaments, and Recognizances, Sc. Of all which Memo- 
 randa there is a Series from the Beginning of the Reign of King Hen- 
 ry the Third to the prefent Reign. 
 
 The Originalia are the Eflreats from the Chancery of all Patent 
 Rolls, and Grants from the Crown, and are tranfmitted into this Of- 
 fice to be put in Charge for the King's Service, and commence about 
 beginning of the fame King's Reign, and have been continued in a Se- 
 ries ever fmce: Thefe Records are bound up and fecured with ftrong 
 Covers and Banding, and the King's Reign, the Year, and Term, is 
 mentioned on the faid Covers ; and there are Repertories (or Calen- 
 dars) which contain a fhort Abftraft of each Record by way of Index 
 to the whole: The Rooms and PrefTes, in which thefe Records are kept, 
 are in very good Condition, and all the Records from the Reign of 
 King Henry the Third, down to the End of the Reign of King Charles 
 
 the Firfl:, are very properly digefted. But as many of the Covers 
 
 of thefe Records are either quite worn away, or greatly decayed by 
 Time, it is highly neceflary to have thoie Defeds made up -, to 
 which end a confiderable Quantity of Vellom will be wanted for new 
 covering the faid Records, and Cording to bind them up to preferve 
 
 R r them
 
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 them from Diifl: •, which Work will require a competent Clerk to exa- 
 mine the Records, and indorfe the Covers in the Manner before men- 
 tioned. 
 
 Since the end of the Reign of King Charles the Firfl: to the pre- 
 fent Time, the Memoranda Irave not been fo carefully preferved ; and 
 there are great Numbers, that have lain undigefted in Chefts, occa- 
 fioncd (as 1 apprehend) by the Clerks in the faid Office having had no 
 Recompence for the Labour and Time, that muft neceffarily be fpent 
 in methodizing and making Remembrances thereof, fince the fuppref- 
 fing the Court of Wards and Liveries, the Bufinefs of which Court 
 was tranfaded in this Office, and confequently was attended with a 
 confiderable Profit to the Clerks then in the faid Office. 
 
 The Originalia have likewife remained undigefted for feveral Years, 
 and partly upon the fame Reafon i and though fcveral EflTays have 
 been made at different Times to put them in a better Condition, ic 
 will require much Time and Labour to make them perfedt : For the 
 doing this confiderable Service, an ancient Fee of Forty IVIarks is al- 
 lowed by the Government (being the fame Fee, that, I prefume, hath 
 been allowed ever fince the Originalia have been tranfmicted into this 
 Office) •, but the Clerk in the faid Office (to whom by Ufage it belongs 
 to tranfadt this Bufinefs) finding great Numbers of Originals remaining 
 undigefted, that were tranfmitted from the Chancery in the Time of 
 his Fredeceflbrs, and that it would be a Work of mucli Difficulty 
 and Expence to put the faid Records in proper Order, hath for fe- 
 veral Years declined receiving the faid Allowance, as he apprehends 
 it to be by no Means a Recompence for doing that Bufinefs. 
 
 Under thefe Circumftances, I humbly fubmit it to the Confideration 
 of this Honourable Committee , whether it would not be for the 
 Publick Service to have reafonable Salaries eftablifhed, and an Al- 
 lowance made for Vellom and Cording, as an Encouragement to the 
 Remembrancer and his Clerks to methodize and digeft thefe Records, 
 which for many Years have lain in Diforder, and to carry on that Work 
 for the future in fuch Manner, that all the faid Records may be pre- 
 ferved and made ufeful to the Publick. 
 
 All which I moft humbly fubmit to the Judgment of this Honou- 
 rable Committee. 
 
 Dated this Twenty- firft of iWijrc^ 1731. 
 
 RO. BAR BO R, D. R. Uef. 
 
 D.IX.
 
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 D. IX; 
 
 Account of the Records in the Office of Pleas of the 
 Court of Exchequer, 
 
 To the Honourable the Committee of the Houfe of 
 Commons appointed to view the Cottonian Libra- 
 ry, and fitch of the Pub lick Records of this King- 
 dom as they think proper. 
 
 IN purfuance to your Order, I hereby certify, that the Records in 
 the Cuftody of the Clerk of the Pleas of his Majefty's Court of 
 Exchequer, confift of 
 
 I. Rolls, on which the Pleadings between Party and Party, the 
 Judgment of the Court thereon, and the Warrants of Attorney are en- 
 tered. 
 
 Thefe are rolled up in Bundles, and divided into Terms, diftin- 
 guifhed by an Indorfement of the Name of the Term, and the Year 
 of the King then reigning : Some few of thefe Bundles contain the 
 Proceedings of a whole Year together. 
 
 The oldeil Roll is one in the Reign of Edward the Firlf ; there are 
 two of Edward the Second; nine of Edward tht Third; three of Ri- 
 chard the Second ; eight of Henry the Fourth; twelve of Henry the 
 Sixth; twenty three of Edward tlie Fourth; two of Richard the 
 Third; thirteen of Hcfiry the Seventh; forty one of Henry the 
 E'giith ; eleven of Edward the Sixth ; nineteen of Philip and Mary ; 
 thofe from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth are compleat. 
 
 It. Books of Orders, in which Rules to plead, and Rules made by 
 the Order of the Court are entered; in thefe alfo Judgments are 
 figned. 
 
 III. Minute-Books, in which are contained the Minutes of Orders 
 pronounced by the Court, which are afterwards entered at large in the 
 Books of Orders. 
 
 IV. Writ Books, in which there is an Entry made of every ^o mi- 
 Kus, of the Day it ifTues, and of the Place, to which it is direfted ; in 
 thefe alfo is an Account of the feveral Records made up for Trial. 
 
 V. Appearance-Books, in which the Appearances of Defendants, 
 and Rules given for the Plaintiffs to declare, are entered ; in thefe 
 alfo Judgments are figned, in cafe the Plaintiff does not declare. 
 
 VI. Docquet-Books, fome of which refer to the Rolls, and others to 
 the Judgments in the Books of Orders : The oldeft of thefe is in the 
 Reign of jQueen Elizabeth. 
 
 There are two old Repertories; one refers to the Reigns of Edward 
 the Third, Richard the Second, and Henry the Fourth; the other to 
 the Reigns of Edward the Fourth, Richard the Third, and Henry the 
 Seventh. a 
 
 VII. Files
 
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 VII. Files of Bills, on which the Bills or Declarations, and Affida- 
 davits made in Caufes between Party and Party are filed. 
 
 Thefe Files have a Parchment Cover, and are divided into Terms ; 
 on each File is indorfed the Name of the Term, the Year of the King, 
 and the Year of our Lord. 
 
 VIII. Files of Writs -, on thefe all Writs returned by the Sheriff are 
 filed : Thefe are likewife divided into Terms, and have a Parchment 
 Cover, indorfed in the fame Manner as the Files of Bills. 
 
 Thefe Records are digefled into Order, and are in good Condition ; 
 they are kept at fVeftfiiinjter ; in a PafTage behind the Exchequer Court, 
 where they are locked up in PrefTes afTigned for them -, on the Outfide 
 of thefe PrefTes is affixed a Note, which lliews the particular Sort of 
 Records kept therein, and to what Reign they belong. 
 
 The Place, wherethey are kept, is inconvenient on feveral Accounts, 
 as well in refpeft of the Records themfelves, as of thofe, who confult 
 them i for as it is a common PafTage, where People are continually 
 pafTing, it is impofTible but the Records muft contradt a great deal of 
 Duft, efpecially the Files of Bills and Writs, which from the Nature 
 of them cannot be kept fo clofe as the Rolls : The Place is likewife 
 dark, and made ftill darker by being incumbered with feveral old 
 Chefls and other Lumber : If thefe Incumbrances were removed, the 
 Records might be confulted more commodiouQy ; but even then 
 there will remain an Inconvenience from their being in a PafTage. 
 
 The Records of later Date, beginning with the Reign of Charles the 
 Firft, are kept at the Office of Pleas in Lincoln's- hut, which are in 
 very good Condition digefled into Terms and Reigns, and locked up 
 in PrefTes in the fame Manner as thofe at IVeJlminJler. 
 
 W. HALL, Dep. Cler. Placitorim. 
 
 D.X, 
 
 4i
 
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 D. X. 
 
 To the Committee appointed hj the Honour ahle Houfe 
 of Commons to view the Cottonian Library^ and 
 fuch of the Ptihltck Records of this Kingdom as 
 they Jhall think proper ,• and to report to the Houfe 
 the Condition thereof ^ together with what they (hall 
 JJmll judge Jit to he done for the better Reception^ 
 Prefervation , and more convenient Ufe of the 
 fame. 
 
 The Humble Report of William Lowndes, Efq; 
 one of the Auditors of the Court of Exchequer, 
 
 IN obedience to your Precept of the Twenty-ninth of February hd 
 to me diredted, I have viewed and infpefted thefeveral Records, 
 Accompts, Books, Papers, and other Muniments now remaining 
 in my Cuftody, belonging to the faid Office of Auditor; the Nature 
 and Condition of which I find to be as follows : 
 
 In one large Ground Room next to the Water-Side adjoining to the 
 Exchequer in New-Palace-Tard IVeftminfter (the Ground Floor of which, 
 hath been feveral Times raifed, in order to keep it dry for the Prefer- 
 vation of the Records) are contained inWainfcot Prefles well lined, fe- 
 veral Minifterial Accounts ingrofled in Parchment Rolls, beginning in 
 the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, and continued down to the 
 Reign of- King Charles the Firft, though not in a regular Series, con- 
 fiding of the feveral Rents, Profits and Revenues arifing from the 
 feveral Lorddiips, Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, 
 which came to the Crown by the Diflxjlution of the feveral Monafte- 
 ries. Priories and Abbies, i£c. and likewife by Attainder, Efcheatand 
 other Forfeitures; as alfo the Accompts of the Receiver's General of 
 the Rents, Iflues, and Profits arifing out of the faid Honours, Ca- 
 ftles, ^c. containing the Receipts and Payments of the faid Revenue 
 for that Time. 
 
 There are alfo in the fiiid Room feveral ancient Surveys of divers 
 Manors, Lands, and Tenements, which were formerly held of the 
 Crown, and fome Copies and Entries of Surveys of fuch Manors, Lands, 
 and Tenements ; together alfo with feveral Books of Inrollment, con- 
 tinued down to this Time, containing the Inrollment of the feveral 
 Grants from the Crown in Fee, and alio for Terms of Years: There are 
 fome few Indexes to thefe Books of Inrollment not perfeft: There 
 are alfo in this Room fome few Books of Particulars, containing the 
 Eftates in the Crown, before granted away ; but no Schedules or Cata- 
 logues of the feveral Records abovementioned, which ought to be 
 made, and will be a Work of a great deal of Labour and Time, 
 
 There are likewife in this Room the Books of Inrollment of the 
 Joynture of Catherine late Queen Dowager, with Calendars to the fame 
 
 Sf in
 
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 in good Order: Moft of the Records in this great Room are in good 
 Condition, very ufeful, and may be turned to without much Trou- 
 ble. 
 
 At the Entrance into the Exchequer Court, on the Right Hand m 
 
 Wejhninjler-Hall, are likewife kept in a dry Wainfcot Prefs, and in 
 
 ' ftrong old Oak Tables, feveral Minifterial Accompcs, Accompts of 
 
 Receiver's General, Books of InroUment, i^c. very dry. Part of which 
 
 want binding, but all without Calendars or Indexes. 
 
 In a large dark Square Room up one Pair of Stairs over the Court 
 of Exchequer^ are contained great Numbers of old Minifterial and 
 Receiver's Accounts of the faid Revenue, without any Index or Cata- 
 logue, moft of which want new Labels ; and likewife View Books of 
 Receivers, moft of which want new binding and alphabeting ; and will 
 be a Work, if well done, of great Labour and Pains. • ■ 
 
 There are likewife in the faid Room feveral Accompts of the Re- 
 ceivers of the Revenue late in Joyntiire to Catherine Qjieen Dowager, 
 with Books of Entry, Court Rolls, Surveys, Counterparts of Leafes 
 (very valuable) depofited in about five or fix Wicker Hampers, moft 
 Part of which are rotten and in great Decay, and ought to be digefted 
 by proper Hands in dry Chefts or PreflTes, in order to preferve them 
 from the Weather, which will be a Work of feme Time and Expence. 
 
 Memorandum. Thefe Records by Decree of the Court of Exche- 
 quer, m Hillary Term Primo Georgii nuper Regis, were delivered into 
 the Office of my Predeceffor Thomas Jett, Efq; late one of the Audi- 
 tors of the Court of Exchequer, there to remain upon Record. 
 
 The Right Honourable the late Earl of Oxford, Lord High Trea- 
 2i Dec. lyt^-furer of England, did then appoint Thomas Madox Efq-, and William 
 Soley Gent, to digeft the faid Books, Accompts, Surveys and Wri- 
 tings, ^c. according to the refpeftive Natures thereof into feveral 
 Prefies for that Purpofe, and to make two exaft Schedules or Reper- 
 tories of the fame to be indented, whereof one to remain in the Office 
 of the Lord High Treafurer, and the other in fuch Office, as the Court 
 of Exchequer fliould appoint. But the faid Lord High Treafurer be- 
 ing foon after that removed from his Office, and the faid Mr. Madox 
 being then in an ill State of Health, and fince dead, nothing was done 
 therein. 
 
 In two long Rooms over the Top of the Exchequer fronting New- 
 Palace-Tard, are kept great Numbers of other Minifters and Receivers 
 Accompts, View Books of the fame. Entries of Surveys, and many 
 valuable Things; in the firft of which are alfo feveral Accompts in 
 Paper of the Stewards, Bayliffs, Reeves, and Beadles of divers Ma- 
 nors, which lye in great Diforder, and ought to be forted and digeft- 
 ed -, in the furthermoft Room are many Papers and Accompts of the 
 faid Revenue, tyed up in about feven or eight Canvas Bags, lying up- 
 on the Floor quite worn out ; Time hath made the Locks and Keys 
 fo very Rufty, that moft of the Prefles muft have new Locks, Keys, 
 and Hinges, &c. before they can be of any Ufe. 
 
 I beg Leave to obferve, that to put in Order in a requifite Manner 
 thje Books of Surveys, and other Books in my Office, is a very neceffa- 
 ry Work ; but the fame will take up a great deal of Time and Labour, 
 attended with fome Expence for proper Clerks, which I cannot readily 
 eftimate. 
 
 There are two large Leaden Drains, which go through thefe two 
 Rooms, to carry off the Water from the Top of the Court of Exchc' 
 quer; but being deep and well leaded, it does not appear that the 
 
 faid
 
 faid Rooms are damag'd thereby : the Cielings of thefe two RoomSj 
 and the Tileing thereof, are in a ruinous Condition, and now want 
 repairing, which if not fpeedily done, the Records therdn may be 
 much damaged thereby. 
 
 All which is moft humbly fubmitted to your Confideration by 
 
 March s, 1734. W. LOWNDES, And. 
 
 D. XL 
 
 To the honourable Committee appointed to view the 
 Cottonian Library.^ and fuch of the Publkk 
 Records of this Kingdom, as they think proper y 
 and to report to the Houfe the Condition thereof^ 
 together with what they Jhall judge fit to be done 
 for the better Reception, Prefervation, and more 
 convenient Ufe of the fame. 
 
 The humble Report of George Wright, Deputy 
 to Sidney Godolphin, Efq; one of the Auditors 
 of the Court of Exchequer^ and Auditor of Wales, 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 IN obedience to your Precept of the Twenty-ninth Day of Felruary 
 laft to me direfted ; I have viewed and infpefted the feveral Re- 
 cords, Accompt Books, Papers, and other Minuments now re- 
 maining in my Cuftody belonging to the faid Office of Auditor ; The 
 Nature and Condition of which I find to be in Manner following. 
 
 In one Ground-Room next to the Water-Side, adjoyning to the 
 Exchequer in New-Palace-Tard, Wejlminjler, (the Ground- Floor of which 
 hath been feveral Times raifed in order to keep it dry for the Prefer- 
 vation of the Records) are contained in Preffes well lined feve- 
 ral minifterial Accompts, ingrofTed in Parchment Rolls, beginning in 
 the Reign of King Hoiry the Eighth, and continued down to the Reign 
 of King Charles the Firft imperfedl; but confifl: of the feveral Rents, 
 Profits and Revenues arifing from the feveral Lordfhips, Manors, 
 Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, which canie to the Crown 
 by the Diflx>Iution of the feveral MonafterieS, Priories, and Ab- 
 byes, ^c. and likewife by Attainder, Efcheat and other Forfeitures j 
 as alfo the Accompts of the Receivers General of the Rents, IlTues 
 and Profits arifing out of the faid Honours, Caftles, &c. containing 
 the Receipts and Payments of the faid Revenue for that Time. 
 
 There are alfo in the faid Room feveral ancient Surveys of divers 
 Manors, Lands, and Tenements, which were formerly held of the 
 
 Crown
 
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 Crown, and fome Copies of Surveys and Entries of fuch Manors, 
 Lands and Tenements; together alfo with feveral Books of Inrollment 
 continued down to this Time, containing the Inrollment of the feve- 
 ral Grants from the Crown in Fee, and alfo for Terms of Years : 
 There are fome few Indexes to thefe Books of Inrollmnenc not per- 
 fe<5l : There are alfo in this Room, fome few Books of Particulars, 
 containing the Eftates in the Crown before granted away, but no Sche- 
 dules or Catalogues of the feveral Records abovementioned, which 
 is very necefiary to be done, and will be a Work of a great deal of 
 Labour and Time. 
 
 At the Entrance into the Exchequer Court on the Right-Hand in 
 IVeJlminjler-Halli are likewife kept in ftrong old Oak Tables, feveral 
 Minifterial Accompts, Receivers Generals Accompts, Books of In- 
 rollment, l^c. very dry and in tolerable Order, but without Calendars 
 or Indexes. 
 
 In a large dark fquare Room up one Pair of Stairs, over the Court 
 of Exchequer, are contained great Numbers of old Minifterial and Re- 
 ceivers Accompts of the faid Revenue, without any Index or Cata- 
 logue, mofl: of which want new labelling ; and likewife Books of Re- 
 ceivers Views, moft of which want new binding and alphabeting, and 
 will be a Work, to be well done, of great Labour and Pains. 
 
 In one fmall Room up two Pair of Stairs adjoining to the Court of 
 Exchequer, in the Round Tower, commonly called the Brick Tower, 
 fronting New-Palace-Tard , art kept great Numbers of other Mini- 
 fter's and Receiver's Accompts, View Books of the fame. Entries of 
 Surveys, and many valuable Things -, and alfo feveral Accompts in 
 Paper of the Stewards , Bailiffs , Reeves and Bedells of divers 
 Manors, which lye in great Difordcr, and ought to be forted and 
 digefted. 
 
 I beg Leave to obferve, that to put in Order, make Labells, In- 
 dorfements, new-bind the Books of Survey, and other Books in the 
 faid Auditor's Office, is a very necefiary Piece of Work; but the fame 
 will take up a great deal Time and Labour, attended with fame Ex- 
 pence for proper Clerks, which I cannot readily eftimate. 
 
 All which is moft humbly fubmitted to your Honour's 
 Confideration, per 
 
 ^'"Day of March, 1731. ' GEO. WRIGHT, 
 
 Deputy Auditor. 
 
 D. XII.
 
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 D. XII. 
 
 Mr. Hanmer's Account of the Records in the Cuffod^" 
 of the Remembrancer of the Firll-Fruits and Tentlis. 
 
 7c? the Hoyioiirahle Commtttee of the Houfe of Com- 
 moKs appointed to view the Cottonian Library ^ 
 and fuch oj the Puhhck Records of this Kingdom 
 as they think proper \ and to report to the Houfe 
 the Condition thereof, together with what they floall 
 judge fit to he done for the better Reception^ Pre^ 
 fervaiion, and more convenient Ufe of the fame. 
 
 IN humble Obedience to your Order of the eleventh of this Inftant 
 March, I certify, that the Records in the Cuftody of the Remem- 
 brancer of the Firft Fruits and Tenths, in the Court of Exchequer, 
 confift of four Parts, (viz.) Firjl, Of Surveys of all Ecclefiaftical Be- 
 nefices, ^c. and Copies of the fame ; Secondly, Of Rolls of Pleas and 
 Proceedings in the Court of Exchequer ; Thirdly, Of Certificates of all 
 Ecclefiaftical Livings not exceeding the yearly Value of Fifty Pounds j 
 and Fourthly, OfBifliops Certificates of Inftitutions and Patronages. 
 
 T. Surveys of Archbifliopricks, Bifliopricks, Abbacies, Monafteries, 
 Priories, Colleges, Hofpitals, Archdeaconries, Deaneries, Provoft- 
 fhips, Prebends, Parfonages, Vicarages, Chauntries, Free-Chapels, 
 or other Dignities, Benefices, Offices, or Promotions fpiritual within 
 this Realm, taken by Virtue of certain Commiffions of King Henry 
 the Eighth, according to the Tenor and EfFeftof an A61 of Parliament 
 provided in that Behalf in the Twenty-fixth Year of his Reign : 
 
 Of which thefe that follow are Originals, or reputed to be fuch. 
 
 ROLLS. 
 
 jflfdph Bifhoprick ; Bangor BiOioprick; the Counties of Bedford and 
 Buckingham ; Carlijle Bifhoprick ; the Counties of Chejter, Derby, Dur^ 
 ham, Dorfet, Gloucejler, Hereford, Leicejler ; Litchfield and Coventry 
 Diocefe •, Lincoln Penfions -, Valuation of the Bifhoprick and Cathedral 
 Church of Norwich ; the Counties of Northampton and Norfolk ; the 
 Archdeaconry of Richmond; the Counties of Southampton, Stafford, 
 Suffolk, Surry, Suffex, Warzuick, JVeJfmoreland, IVilts; and Admiffions 
 to Benefices, with their Values, in the Diocefe of I'ork in the Twenty- 
 eighth Year of King Henry the Eighth. 
 
 BOOKS. 
 
 Kent, upon Parchment (fuppofed to be an Original, but not allow- 
 ed to be given in Evidence in the Cafe of jB^/t-j at the AfTizes held at 
 Maidjlone in Trinity Vacation, in the fecond Year of his prefent Ma- 
 efly's Reign, for want of the Commifilon) Landaff upon Paper ; Lin- 
 coln in an old Paper Book, with an Index of the Deaneries ; Oxford 
 upon Paper; Somerfet upon Parchment; JVorceJier two Books upon 
 Parchment : 
 
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 And the following are 
 
 Copies of fome of the foregoing Originals, (viz.) two large old 
 Vellum Books, both bound in Wood, and covered with Leather; on 
 the Outfides of them are ftamped in Gold Letters the following In- 
 fcriptions : 
 
 Primicias & Decitnas Afferte Mkhl. 
 
 Decimas id Prmkias tuas non Tardalis Offare. 
 
 One of thefe Books contains 
 
 The Counties of Huntingdon., Lincoln., London and Midddlefex, and 
 Nottingham ; alfo the Valuations of all the new eieded Bifhopricks, 
 Deaneries, Prebends, i^c. in the Reign of KingA^w^y the Eighth: 
 
 The other Book contains 
 
 The Counties of Chejler, Derby, Lancafter, Salop, Stafford, Surrey, ' 
 Siiffex ; Landaff Diocefe, and St. Davids Diocefe. 
 
 Thefe Books are finely written, and have not yet received any con- 
 fiderable Damage by long ufe, except that the Binding of one of them 
 is fomewhat fliaken, and the Clafps broken off and loft: They are of 
 great Antiquity, fuppofed to be near as ancient as the Originals them- 
 lelves. It may be prefumed, that all the faid Surveys of King Henry 
 the Eighth were thus tranfcribed into Vellum Books-, but by what un- 
 happy Accidents the Publick hath been fo long deprived of the other 
 Parts of this valuable Colleftion, I am not able to account. The nrft 
 of the faid Vellum Books was recovered out of private Hands, and rc- 
 ftored to the Office by Sir George Wheeler, Knight, Doflor of Divinity, 
 in the Year 1702 -, and many of the aforefaid Rolls were likewife reco- 
 vered and reftored by Sir Thomas Hanmer Bart. 
 
 And it is humbly hoped, that fuch Bodies or Private Perfons, into 
 whole Hands any of the Rolls or Books of this kind are fallen, will be 
 generous enough to reftore them to the Office for the Publick 
 Benefit. 
 
 The following Surveys are wanting, (viz.) 
 
 Ely Diocefe ; Exeter Diocefe (faid to be with the Dean and Chapter 
 of Exeter) the Counties of Hertford, Effex, Berks, Rutland, Northum- 
 herland, I'ork, now in the Cuftody of the prefent Archbifhop of Tork^ 
 for which a Receipt was by him given to Mr. ESlon, late Deputy Re- 
 membrancer of the Firft Fruits and Tenths, dated the Eleventh of 
 February 1724 ; but the Roll has not yet been returned to the Office. 
 
 F 
 
 II. Eighteen Rolls of Pleas and Proceedings in the Court of Exche- 
 uer, from the Firft of Queen Mary, to the Third of King George the 
 
 irft; containing Variety of Privy Seals, and Judgments of the Courc 
 of Exchequer ; new Valuations of fome Bilhopricks, and other fpiritual 
 Promotions ; Orders concerning Sheriff's Accompts, Charges and Dif- 
 charges of Firft-Fruits and Tenths ; and fome Proceedings againft Re- 
 ceivers of thofe Revenues, for not accompting for Monies received. 
 
 III. Certificates of all Ecclefiaftical Livings, not exceeding the year- 
 ly Value of Fifty Pounds, returned into the Court of Excb-'quer, by 
 Virtue of an Aft of the Sixth of Queen Anne, and now difcharged 
 from Firft-Fruits and Tenths. 
 
 IV. Bifhops Certificates of Inftitutions and Patronages : Thofe be- 
 fore the Reftorat ion were but irregularly prefcrved, of which only the 
 
 following 
 2
 
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 folldvving do remain ; Archbifhops of Canterbury from 1594 to 1640 j 
 York from 161 5 to 1645-, Bifliops of St. Jfaph from 1614 to 1646 j 
 Bath and PFelb from 1615 to 1641 j Brijlol from 1614 to 1641 j 
 Carlijle from about 1565 to 1639; Chejler from 1617 to 1646; 
 Chicbejler from 1614 to 1640; Coventry and Litchfield from 1607 
 to 1640; 5^ David's from 1554 to 1613; £/)i from 161 5 to 
 161 8; Exeter from 16 14 to 1646; Gloucefter from 16 14 to 1639; 
 Hereford from 1614 to 1637; Lincoln from 1617 to 1642; Norwich 
 from 16 1 5 to 1645 J IVincheJler from 1637 to 16405 VVorcefter from 
 16 1 5 to 1646. 
 
 All the Certificates of Inftitutions in all the Diocefes from the Refto- 
 ration down to the Year 1720, are depofited in Prefles in the Court of 
 Exchequer at Weftminfter \ and all the Certificates fince that Time, are 
 kept filed and carefully preferved in the Firfl-Fruits Office in the 
 Temple. 
 
 Thefe Records afe for the moft Part in very good Condition ; but 
 the Surveys and Plea Rolls, for want of proper Calendars, are not at 
 prefent altogether fo ufeful to the Publick, as they may be made to be: 
 But they are all difpofed into good Order, in clofe Deal Prefles, well 
 lined, and the Rooms are in very good Repair. 
 
 All which is moft humbly fubmitted to this Honourable Com- 
 mittee by 
 
 Your Honours moft dutiful 
 
 Firft-Fruit-s Office, and moft humble Servant^ 
 
 March lo J 1731. 
 
 WILL. HANMER, Dep. Rem. 
 Primitiarum & Deci?/iarum. 
 
 D. XIII. 
 
 Mr. Holmes's Report concerning the Records in 
 
 the Tower, 
 
 To the Honourable the Committee appointed to view 
 the Cottonian Library-^ &c. 
 
 IN obedience to your Order of the Twenty-ninth of February 1731, 
 whereby I am directed to give an Account in Writing of the Na- 
 ture of the Records in the Tower of London, and of the Condition of 
 the Rooms, in which they are depofited, in what Order they are digeft- 
 ed, whether there be any and what Calendars thereof, and what is 
 neceflary to be done to make them more ufeful to the Publick •, I do 
 humbly acquaint the Committee, as followeth, viz. 
 
 That in the great Room in IVakefeildTower, the Parliament, Pa- 
 tent, Charter, Claus, French, Scotch, Roman, Vafconian, Norman, 
 
 Fines,
 
 ( i6% ) 
 
 Fines, Liberate, and other Rolls, in the Reigns of King John, Henry 
 the Third, Edivard the Firft, Second and Third, Richard the Second, 
 Henry iht Fourth, Fifth and Sixth, and Edzvard the Fourth, are re- 
 gularly depoficed in Years under each King's Reign in two great 
 Preflfes, which iland in the Middle of the Room, which I caufed to 
 be covered with Lead to preferve them from Dampnefs and Wet. 
 
 As to the Natures of the before mentioned RoJls, they are ofdi- 
 verfe Kinds. 
 
 The Parliament Rolls beginning Anw 5 Edw. II. and ending with 
 Edzv. IV. are abridged and pubiifhed by Mr. Prynn. 
 
 In the Patent Rolls beginning j^nno 3 Johan. and ending with the 
 Reign of Edw. IV. are contained Grants of Offices, Lands, and Re- 
 ftitution of Temporalities to the Bifhops, Abbots, i^c. Confirmations 
 of Grants made to Abbies, Priories, and Corporations: On the Back 
 of the Rolls are CommifTions to Juftices of the Peace, and Commiffio- 
 ners of Sewers, ^c. 
 
 In the Charter-Rolls, beginning with the firft Year oF King John 
 and ending with Edw. IV. are Grants and Confirmations of Liberties 
 and Privileges to Cities, and Towns Corporate, and to private Per- 
 fons, of Markets, Fairs, Free Warren, Common of Pafture, Waifs, 
 Strays, Felons Goods, Deodands, Return of Writs, i£c. 
 
 Foundations of Abbies, Priories, Colleges and Schools, Patents 
 of Creation of Noblemen. 
 
 In the Clauf. Rolls, beginning the fixth Year of King John, and 
 ending with Edw. IV. are Inrollments of Deeds between Party and 
 Party ; Proclamations •, Writs of Summons to Parliament, of Expences 
 of Knights, Citizens and Burgefles coming to Parliament; with other 
 Writs of various kinds. 
 
 In the French Rolls, beginning the firft Year of Edw. II. and ending 
 with Edw. IV. are Leagues and Treaties with the Kings of France, and 
 other Matters relating to that Kingdom. 
 
 In the Scotch Rolls are contained the Leagues and Treaties with 
 that Kingdom •, there are alfo three Ralls of the Homage of the Scots 
 to Edward the Firft : I have made an Abftradt of the Scotch Rolls. 
 
 In the Rovian Rolls are Letters to and from Popes and Cardinals, 
 and other TranfacStions of that See. 
 
 In the Vafcon Rolls, Matters relating to Gafcoign. 
 
 In the Norman Rolls, Things relating to Normandy ; of which I have 
 made an Abftrafl:. 
 
 In the Liberate Rolls, Writs direfted to the Treafurer and Barons of 
 the Exchequer, for the Payment of Money. 
 
 In the Fine Rolls are Fines paid to the King upon fcveral Occa- 
 fions. 
 
 In a litde Clofet adjoyning to the forefl^id Room, are 
 
 The Statute Rolls, beginning with the Statute of Gloucefler, Anno 
 6 Edw. I. and eliding with the eighth of Edw. IV. 
 
 The ChartcE Antique, containing old Charters granted to Abbies, Ci- 
 ties and Burroughs 5 of which I have made an Abftraft. 
 
 Original Letters from foreign Kings, Cardinals and Princes. 
 
 Popes Bulls. 
 
 In another little Room adjoyning, are 
 
 The Claims and other Proceedings before the Juftice in Eyre in the 
 
 Forefts of IVindfor, PFhittlewood.y Rockingham, Deane, Waltham, New- 
 '■ _ 3 / Forejl,
 
 ( 1^9 ) 
 
 Forefi, Chute, Alkeholt and Wolmere, in the Time of King Charles the 
 
 The AfTociacions of the Commons in Parliament, and of all the 
 
 v'"u"'i'«-^''^'-^"'^rS"''°"S^'' to King ^^7/;«^, upon the Difcovery 
 of the Aflaflination Plot. ' 
 
 In the Room up two Pair of Stairs are 
 
 Inquintions after the Death of Perfons, to inquire what Lands they 
 died ieifed of, and who was the next Heir, from the firft Year of King 
 Henr-j the Third, to the third Year of Richard the Third 
 
 Inquifitions adquodDampnum, from the firft of £ize;^r^ the Second 
 to the End of Henry the Fifth. ^--""u. 
 
 Petitions in Parliament, in the Reigns of divers Kings 
 Writs of Summons and Returns to Parliament, from the ReiVn of 
 hdward the Firft, to the feventeenth of Edward the Fourth 
 
 A Bundle or Roll of the Value of all the Churches, being the Taxa- 
 tion Roll of Pope Nicholas the Fourth, Anno 20 Ed. I. with other Re- 
 cords relating to Ecclefiaftical Affairs. 
 
 In CcEfar'i Chapel in the White Tower, ^re 
 
 Bills, Anfwers, and Depofitions in Chancery, in the Reigns of 
 Queen Ehzaheth King James the Firft. and King Charles the Firft, 
 placed ,n alphabetical Order, of which there aFe exad Calendars 
 made. 
 
 ..aVm^ S?l^"'^''r''- ^^"""^ ^'^ ^^^^'■^' '° ^ g'"^^^ rtiany of the Rolls, 
 and Bundles of Inquifitions, but very imperfeft, and want to be tran- 
 icribed anew, and made more perfedt. 
 
 The Rooms in which all the abovementioned Records are kenr 
 are at prefent in good Repair. ^ * 
 
 ' ^^ , GEO. HOLMES, Beputy to 
 
 10 March, 1731. DAVID POLHILL, Efq, 
 
 Keeper of his Majejly's Records 
 in the Tower of London. 
 
 ^ " D. XIV.
 
 ( 17° ) 
 
 D. XIV. 
 
 Report of the Clerk of the Chapel of the Rolls. 
 
 To the Committee appointed hy the Honourable Houfe 
 of Commons to view the Cottonian Library,, and 
 jfiich of the Publkk Records of this Kingdom^ as 
 they think proper ; and to report to the Houfe the 
 Condition thereof^ together with what they ffoall 
 judge fit to be done for the better Reception, Pre^ 
 fervation^ and more convenient Ufe of the fame. 
 
 • 
 
 IN obedience to your Order, dated the Twenty ninth Day of F^- 
 bruary laft, whereby I am required to lay before you an Account 
 in Writing of the Nature of the Records in my Cuftody, and of 
 the Condition of the Rooms, in which they are depofited, in what 
 Order they are digefted, whether there be any and what Calendars 
 thereof, and wha^ is neceflary to be done to make them more ufeful tp 
 the Publick ; I humbly certify, as follows i 
 
 I. As to the Nature of the Records in the Chapel of the Rolls, 
 they confift of, 
 
 1. The Parliament Rolls. 9. The Privy Seal Bundles. 
 
 2. The Coronation Rolls. lo. The Signed Bill Bundles. 
 
 3. The Treaty Rolls. 11. The Efcheat Bundles. 
 
 4. The Patent Rolls. 12. The Parliament Return Bun-* 
 
 5. The Confirmation Rolls. dies. 
 
 6. The Fine Rolls. 
 
 7. The Clofe Rolls. 
 
 8. The Decree Rolls. 
 
 1. The Parliament Rolls contain all publick Afts from the firfl: Year 
 of King Richard the Third, to the fecond Year of his prefent Majefty 
 inclufive, and are kept in the Rolls Chapel, being brought thither by 
 the Clerk of the Parliament, when they are inrolled. 
 
 N. B. There are no Rolls of Private Adts, but fuch as are brought 
 thither by Writs of Certiorari. 
 
 1. The Coronation Rolls begin with King Jarties the Firft's Reign, 
 and are continued to the Time of his prefent Majefty inclufive (fave 
 that the Coronation Roll of King Charles the Firft is wanting ;) and 
 thefe contain the Proceedings of the Commiflioners appointed to hear 
 and determine Claims of Services to be performed at Coronations. 
 
 3. The Treaty Rolls contain CommilTions to EmbaflTadors, as alfo 
 all Leagues and Treaties made between the feveral Kings and Queens 
 of this Realm, and Foreign Princes and States. 
 
 Thefe begin -in the firfl Year of the Reign of King Richard the 
 Third, and are continued to the feventeenth Year of the Reign of 
 King James the Firft; but from that Time to the prefent, they are 
 kept by the Prothonotary of the Court of Chancer'^. 
 
 4., The
 
 ( 171 ) 
 
 ^ 4. The-Patent Rolls begin with a fmall Roll of King Edward the 
 Fifth ; and the Patent Rolls of all the feveral Kings and Queens to the 
 laft Year of his late Majefty King William the Third, are kept in the 
 faid Chapel : Upon which Rolls are inrolled all Grants in Fee Farm ; 
 all Leafes, that pafs the Great Seal -, Grants of Charters and Liberties ; 
 Grants of Offices -, Licences and Pardons of Alienation •, Prefentations 
 (but thefe laft have not been inrolled of late as formerly,) Special Live- 
 ries and Grants of Wardfhips •, fpecial and general Pardons -, Licences 
 of all Sorts, that pafs the Great Seal: And on the Back of thefe Patent 
 Rolls, are endoried all Commiffions and Proclamations, that pafs the 
 Great Seal. 
 
 When thefe Patents are brought into the Chapel, there are ufually 
 brought with them the Original Privy Seals, and the Warrants, other- 
 wife called the Signed Bills, each of which are marked with a Recepi 
 dated, purporting the Time, when the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, 
 or Lords Commiffioners of the Great Seal received fuch Privy Seals or 
 Signed Bills, and which are their Warrants for putting the Patents un- 
 der the Great Seal. But I crave Leave in this Place to obferve, thac 
 this Method has, fince the Time of King Ja7nes the Firft, been bet- 
 ter obferved, than it had been before that Time-, for the Bundles of 
 Privy Seals, as alfo of figned Bills of divers Years in the Time of King 
 Henry the Seventh, and fo downwards to King Jafnes the Firft's Timej 
 are wanting. 
 
 5. The Confirmation Rolls begin with K.\n^ Richard the TWxtd, andt 
 end with the twelfth Year of King James the Firft, there having never 
 been any Roll of that kind fince that Time : And thefe contain Confir- 
 mations of Charters to Towns, or of other Grants to any Corporate 
 or Politick Bodies ; but all Charters or Patents of Confirmation fince 
 that Time, arc always inrolled promifcuoufiy with other Patents on 
 the Patent Rolls. 
 
 6. The Fine Rolls begin with King Richard the Third, and end with 
 the fifteenth Year of King Charles the Firft, and contain the Inrollments 
 of Patents to Efcheators, Cuftomers, Comptrollers, Searchers, (^c. 
 But fince the Reftoration they are inrolled promifcuoufly alfo with o- 
 ther Grants, and are feldom or never inquired after or fearched for. 
 
 7. The Clofe Rolls begin alfo with King Richard the Third, and 
 are continued down regularly to the End of the Reign of King James 
 the Second (the Clofe Rolls after that Time being lodged in the In- 
 rollment Office of the Chancery) and contain all Indentures and Re- 
 cognizances inrolled in Chancery^ as alfo all other Inrollments by Order 
 or Warrant from the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Mailer of the 
 Rolls. 
 
 8. The Decree Rolls contain the Decrees and DifmifTions of the 
 Court oi^ Chancery ; and thefe are brought in by every particular Clerk 
 of the Chancery Office, who makes up his own Decrees, fome fooner 
 than others; the firft of thefe Inrollments begins in the twenty-fixth of 
 King Henry the Eighth ; and the Decrees are continued to be inrolled 
 to the prefent Time in the fame Manner. 
 
 9. The Privy Seal Bundle contains fuCh Inftrumenfs, as have pafTed 
 that Seal, and are a Warrant to the Lord Chancellor to pafs the Patent 
 under the Great Seal; and when the Patent is fealed, the Privy Seal is 
 delivered over to fuch of the Six Clerks as are called the Riding Clerks, 
 in order to be inrolled. 
 
 10. The Signed Bill Bundle contains fuch Inftruments, as pafs the 
 Great Seal by immediate Warrant figned by the King j and when the 
 
 Patents 
 %
 
 { '71 ) 
 
 Patents are fealed, thefe Bills are likewife delivered over to the Riding 
 Six Clerks, to be inrolJed in like Manner as the Privy Seals are. 
 
 11. Ihe Efcheac Bundles contain the Returns of all Offices /)o/?Af(7r- 
 tem, from the firft Year of King Henry the Seventh to the Year 1644, 
 which was 20 Carcli primi. 
 
 12. The Parliament Return Bundles from the Thirty-third Year of 
 King Henry the Eighth, to the fixteenth Year of King Charles the 
 Firft, are kept at the Rolls-Chapel; but fince that Time the Returns to 
 Parliament are at the Petty-Bag-Office, and the Crown Office. 
 
 Before I finifh this Head, I beg Leave humbly to certify to the 
 Committee, that upon the pulling down of the Rolls Houfe in the 
 Month of Augujl 1717, there were found in a Room near the Chapel 
 great Numbers of Papers and Parchments ■, fome of them being Bills, 
 Anfwers, and other Proceedings in Chancery (but among them there 
 were no Decrees,) others of them being Licences to fell Wine, and 
 other Commodities, from thofe who had Patents from the Crown to 
 grant the fame; others of them being old Papers, Books of Accompt, 
 Bills, Bonds and Securities for the Payment of Monies, Performance 
 of Covenants; and divers other kinds of Papers. 
 
 Thefe Papers and Parchments appear to be of the Time of Queen 
 Elizabeth, and of the fublequent Times to the Rcftoration. They were 
 found loofe in Heaps, and in great Confufion ; but by the Dire- 
 d;ion of his Honour the prefent Mafter of the Rolls, they were all 
 put into Bundles for the Prefervation of them. 
 
 II. As to the Condition of the Rooms, in which the Records are de- 
 pofited, and in what Order they are digefted, 
 
 I humbly certify, that all the Parchment Rolls, the Coronation 
 Rols, the Patent Rolls, Part of the Clofe Rolls of Queen Elizabeth^ 
 the Clofe Rolls of the Reigns of Kingjames the Firft and K'wgCharks 
 the Firft, the Clofe Rolls from the twenty-fourth Year of King Charles 
 the Second's Reign, to the End of the Reign of King James the Se- 
 cond inclufive, as alfo all the Parliament Rolls, and the Decree-Rolls 
 of modern Times, are all kept in five PrefTes, which are conveniently 
 placed in the Body of the Chapel ; and the Records in thofe feveral 
 PrefTes are well fecured from any Dampnefs of the Walls, there being 
 thick Deal-Boads between the Walls of the Chapel, and the Shelves 
 in thofe PrcfTcs. 
 
 The faid Records in the faid feveral Preffes are difpofed Seriatim, ac- 
 cording as they are divided into Pai-ts each Year, the Patent Rolls of 
 one Year being laid on Shelves above thofe of the preceding Year; 
 and may be very readily confulted by the References in the Calendars 
 or Indices thereof; as may alfo the Clofe Rolls, and the Parliament 
 and Decree Roils, which are difpofed in the faid Preffes in the fame 
 Form and Order as the Patent Rolls are. 
 
 Ad:s of Parliament brought hither by Certiorari, the Coronation 
 Rolls, and the Parliament Returns, are alfo difpofed in feveral Benches 
 in the Body of the Chapel, and lye in good State and Order. 
 
 T beg Leave here to obferve, that moft of the Bundles of the Parlia- 
 ment-Returns are but in a bad Condition, a great many of thtm be- 
 ing obliterated and defaced, by having formerly laid unprotefted from 
 Duft ; but they are in the fame Plight and Condition, they were in, 
 when the prefent Mafter of the Rolls entered upon his Office. 
 
 As to the reft of the Records mentioned herein, they are all placed 
 
 in a large Room over the Chapel, which, though not wainfcotted, 
 
 2 yec
 
 ( 175 ) 
 yet fuch of the Records, as are placed therein, have received no Ba- 
 mage or Injury, the faid Room being weJl prote<5ted from Rain • an(^ 
 the leveral Records therein, which lye next to the Walls, do not appear 
 to be any ways damaged by DalDpnefs. 
 
 The feveral Rolls in the ia:d Room, lye in the lame Method and Or- 
 der, as is above defcnbed ; and the Privy Seals and Signed Bills Ive on 
 more open Shelves. ' 
 
 The Efcheat Bundles lye moftly upon the Floor of the faid Room ; 
 but are dilpofed in fuch Method and Order, that they are as cafily found 
 out from the Calendars thereof, as the other Records are 
 
 The loofe Papers and Parchments, which I mentioned under the firft 
 Head ol this Certificate to have been difcovered dn pulling down the 
 Rolls Houle, lye all bundled up promifcuouQy together in the faid 
 Room on the Pioor thereof. 
 
 III. As to the Calendars, which refer to the Records in the Chape), 
 I humbly certify, that the Calendars in the Office, which have frorti 
 
 Time to Time been compiled, as the Records were brought into tht 
 Office, are no more than Indices Nomimon, that refer to the Names of 
 Perlons only ; but exadl LuHces or Calendars of the Names of Places to 
 moft of the Records have been compiled by Ur.Sanderjhn fmv Prcde- 
 ceHor in this Office) and my felf ' 
 
 Several Calendars or Indices relating to the Records in the Rolls 
 Cliapel, were earned from the fud Chapel by Mv. milium Grynes de- 
 ceaf^^d formerly a Clerk thereof, under Pretence that they had been 
 made by him and were therefore his Property ; though I believe it will 
 appear upon Inlpedion, that a great many of them had been made bv 
 Mr Ironmonger arid Mr. Haljlecl, or fome others his PredecelTors in the 
 laid Office. 
 
 Thele leveral Calendars or Indices, by an Order of Court in a Caufe 
 rr<rw-agamft Grynes, dated the fifth Day of February ,7x2, were 
 brought before S\v nomas Gery Knight, then one of the Malters of the 
 Court of Lbaneery and are now in the Hands of the Marter, that fuc- 
 ceeded in the laid Office ; but fuch of tliefe Indices, as refer to the Re- 
 cords which are the mol^ frequently fe.irched for, have been fupplied by 
 the laid Mr Sanderjon and my (df; and I am now proceedinc. with 
 what Expedition I can to iupply che rell. ° 
 
 IV. As to what is necelTiry tn be done to make the Records in the 
 Chapel more uletul to the Publick, 
 
 I humbly certify that I do not conceive any thing can be done to 
 make thefe Records more uftful to the Publick, their Repofitory beine 
 ,n the Center of Bufiners-, and I believe, it will not be denied by anf 
 who have had occafion to fearch at the Rolls, but that they hav. had 
 
 wlutfoever" ^' '" '" '° '^''' ^^''°^^^' ''' ''' ^"^ "^'^^^ ^'■'^^^^^ 
 All which is humbly fubmitted by 
 
 ^"'^^^^» '731. "^.ROOKE, Clerk oflbe 
 
 • Chaj^el of the Rolls. 
 
 D. KV.
 
 ( 174) 
 
 D. XV. 
 
 Report of the Six Clerks. 
 
 To the Honourable the Committee of the Houfe of 
 Commons y appointed to view the Cottonian Li- 
 brary, and fuch of the Puhlick Records of this 
 Kingdom, as they think proper, &c. 
 
 IN obedience to their Order of the Twenty-ninth of February Jaft, 
 that the Six Clerks of the Court of Chancery fhould lay before 
 them an Account in Writing of the Nature of the Records in their 
 Cuftody, and of the Condition of the Rooms, in which they are de- 
 pofited, in what Order they are digefted, whether there be any and 
 what Calendars thereof, and what is neceilary to be done to make 
 them more ufeful to the Publick ; 
 
 The Six Clerks of his Majefty's Court of Chancery humbly lay be- 
 fore this Honourable Committee the following Account: 
 
 That the Records in their Cuftody confiil of Bills, Anfwers, Re- 
 plications , Depofitions of "Witnefles, taken by Commifllon in the 
 Country, and other Pleadings and Proceedings in the faid Court, be- 
 tween Party and Party, by Englifh Bill in Courfe of Equity: 
 
 That thofe Records, while the Caufes are in Agitation , remain in 
 their refpeftive Studies in their Office, or in the Seats of their fworn 
 under Clerks, that a ready Recourfe may be had to them, as Occafion 
 requires; but when the Caufes are determined, the Records are from 
 Time to Time carried up into the Record Rooms over the Office, 
 where they are made up into Bundles digefted Alphabetically and ac- 
 cording to the feveral Years of the Commencement of the Suits, and 
 there depofited in proper Stands to receive them ; for which Purpofe 
 each of the Six Clerks hath a particular Record-Keeper, who makes 
 alphabetical Lifts and Calendars from Time to Time of all fuch Re- 
 cords, as are brought up, and which are entered into certain Books kept 
 in the faid Record Rooms for that Purpofe for the more eafy Search 
 and finding of any Record, that may be wanted : 
 
 That when the Quantity of Records hath become very great, the 
 more ancient of them have been ufually tranfmitted to the Tower of 
 London, by Virtue of Warrants from the Mafter of the Rolls for the 
 Time being, directed to the Six Clerks for that Purpofe, and received 
 by the Clerk of his Majefty's Records of the Court of Chancery within 
 the Tower of London, and depofited in the Record-Office there: 
 
 That the laft Tranfmiffion of Records from the Six Clerks Office to 
 the Tower oi London, was in OoJober i6yi, and confifted of all fuch as 
 were then in their Cuftody to the Year 1649, i Car. II. 
 
 That in ^ug. 1712. the' Records in the Six Clerks Cuftody having 
 become very numerous, and there being very little Space left in their 
 Record Rooms for the Reception of thofe, which daily came in, the Six 
 Clerks obtained a Warrant from the late Mafter of the Rolls for tranf- 
 
 mitting
 
 ( ^7S ) 
 
 rriitting to the Totu,.'r all the Records in their Ciiftody, to the firft Ycrit 
 of the Reign of the late King James; but upon their acquainting the 
 Record-Keeper of the Tower therewith, he informed them, there was 
 not Room fufficient to receive the faid Records in the Places already 
 allotted at the Tower for that Purpofe : 
 
 That thereupon the Six Clerks applied to the late Lord Chancellor 
 Harcotirt, who was pieafed to direft Sir Cbriflo[>herWren^ the then Sua*- 
 veyor of her late Majefty's Works, to view the Records fo ordered to 
 be tranfmitted, and alfo the Record Office in the Tower, and to make 
 his Report thereof to his Lordfliip, that thereupon proper Direftions 
 might be given: 
 
 That the faid Surveyor having made his Report, that he found the 
 Records to be tranfmitted amounted to 2200 Bundles, and that the 
 Record Room at the 'rott^r was already fo full, that it could receive 
 very few of them, but that there was a large Room in the White-Toiver 
 adjacent to the Record-Office, and belonging to the Board of Ord- 
 nance, not ufed, which might be appropriated for that Purpofe; His 
 Lordfhip thereupon reprefented the fame to the then Lord Treafurer, 
 who in Jiilj 1 71 4 caufed a Letter to be wrote to the Board of Ord- 
 nance, defiring to know, if they had any Objedion thereto, and if not, 
 that proper" Diredlions might be immediately given for fitting up the 
 faid Room for that End : 
 
 That no Anfwer being returned to this Letter, the Six Clerks ap- 
 plied to the Lords of the Treafury, who in March 17-f-s-. caufed an- 
 other Letter to be wrote to the Board of Ordnance on the fame Sub- 
 jedt, who thereupon by Memorial acquainted their Lordfliips, that they 
 had fitted up the faid Room, and lodged Stores in it, and hoped their 
 Lordfhips would find another Place for the Records, there being other 
 Towers, which might be applied to that Purpofe : 
 
 That upon the Six Clerks further Application to the Lords of the 
 Treafury, that the Board of Ordnance might be direfted to allot fome 
 one or more of thofe Towers, as they fhould think proper for the Re- 
 ception of the Records, their Lordfliips in Auguft iyi6. directed the 
 Officers of the Board of Works to view the faid Tower, and to report, 
 which of them might be proper to receive the faid Records, and an 
 Eftimate of the Charge of fitting up the fame : 
 
 That after a long Application of the Six Clerks to the Board of 
 Works, that Board in July 1718, after having viewed the faid Towers, 
 reported, that the Room formerly propofed by Sir Chriflopher Wren 
 was the moft proper for the Purpofe aforefaid, and might be fitted up 
 for about 400/. and that at that Time the faid White Tower was only 
 ufed for Courfe Stores and Utenfils, which might be placed at Wool- 
 wich, for which a plainer Building might be erefted at a moderate Ex- 
 pence : 
 
 That in December 171 8. the Lords of the Treafury referred the faid 
 Report to the Board of Ordnance for their Opinion thereon, who in 
 7fl«««r3i following, by Memorial, acquainted their Lordfhips, they had 
 been obliged to lay out 5000/. in repairing the faid White Tower v 
 and that if his Majefty fhould think fit to appropriate any Part of it 
 for the Records, they hoped, they fhould not be difpofl^efTed, till they 
 fhould be reimburfed to the Value of what fhould be taken from 
 them : 
 
 That the Six Clerks acquainting the late Lord Chancellor Maccles- 
 field with fuch their Proceedings, and the Delays occafioned by the 
 
 feveral
 
 ( 176 ) 
 
 (everal References abovementioned for upwards of four Years, there* 
 upon in February 171 8, upon Application made to tiie Houfe of 
 Lords in Parliament, their Lordfhips were pleafed to appoint a Com- 
 mittee to view the Records of the Court of Chancery, and in what 
 Manner and Place the fame were then kept, who thereupon ordered 
 the two Senior Six Clerks to attend them, and give an Account of 
 the Condition of the Records in their Cuftody, and whether there 
 was any Convenicncy for keeping them there for the future: 
 
 That upon Examination of the faid Six Clerks it appearing to their 
 Lordfhips, that Application had been made by them for feveral Years 
 for a Tranfmiffion of their Records to the T'oiver, which for want of 
 Room were crowded into improper Places, and lay very much expofed 
 to Danger, and which had been carefully bundled up and fcheduled 
 fome Years before, in order to be fent thither; but that no Place 
 could be obtained there for their Reception; the Lords Committees 
 in Jpnl 171^, having themfelves viewed the faid White Tower, made 
 their Report, that they were of Opinion a large Room in that Tower, 
 adjoyning to the prefent Record Rooms, being fixty-four Feet long 
 and thirty-one Feet broad, fliould be allotted for the Reception of the 
 faid Records: 
 
 That upon the Hiid Report the Houfe of Lords prefented an Ad- 
 drefs to his late Majefty, defiring his Majefty to give fuch Direflions 
 upon the feveral Matters aforefaid, as his Majefty fhould think proper: 
 To which his Majefty was pleafed to give his moft gracious Anfwer, 
 that he would take the faid Report into Confideration, and give pro- 
 per Diredions thereupon: 
 
 That no Diredlions having been given, the Six Clerks in February 
 
 172 1, prefented a Memorial to the Lords of the Treafury, fetting 
 forth the faid Order, Report, and Addrefs of the Houfe of Lords, 
 with his M;ijefty's moft gracious Anfwer, and praying the Lords of the 
 Treafury to lay this Adair before his Majefty, to obtain his Dire- 
 (ftions thereon ; and thereupon by their Lordfhip's Order in Jpril 
 
 1722, a Letter was wrote to the Board of Ordnance, defiring them to 
 quit the faid Room, and to give Notice thereof to their Lordfhips, or 
 to the Officers of his Majefty's Works, fo as the fame might be fitted 
 up for the Reception of the faid Records. 
 
 That inftead of complying with this Order, the Board of Ordnance 
 in July 1722, wrote a Letter to the late Earl Cadogau, then Mafter of 
 the Ordnance, acquainting him, that the laid Room could not be 
 fpared without great Inconveniency, before proper Places were built for 
 the Reception of the Stores of War then depofited therein ; but that 
 they had confidered of another Place, which they conceived would be 
 more proper for the Records, than the propofed Room in the White 
 Tower, which was a Houfe belonging to his Lordfhip's Secretary, 
 which he was ready to part with, provided the I^ords of the Treafury 
 would enable the Board of Ordnance to build him another in lieu 
 thereof; and therefore fubmitted to his Lordfliip, whether it might 
 not be proper to lay the faid Propofal before the Treafury : 
 
 That nocwithftanding many and repeated Applications of the 
 Six Clerks to the Earl Cadogan , and to the Treafury and Board 
 of Ordnance, they were never able to make any further Progrefs 
 in this Affair, and were forced after a long and expenfive Appli- 
 cation for near the Spice of ten Years, to give over the Purfuit : 
 
 That
 
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 That, pending thefe Applications, the Number and Weight of the 
 Records yearly increafing to the great Danger of the Six Clerks 
 Office, which is an ancient Brick Building of one hundred Years 
 Handing, feveral of the Pillars thereof beginning to give Way, and 
 fome of the Floors of the Record Rooms finking very much, and 
 the North Wall beginning to part from the Roof; the Six Clerks 
 in the Year 1717. were neceliitated to remove fo much of the 
 Weight, as was proper for preventing the Ruin of the Building, 
 and to bring down a confiderable Part of the Records, and place 
 them in the Vaults, and in the Paffage under their Office in Cafes and 
 Stands made for them ; where they ftill remain, but very inconve- 
 niently, for want of room , lying piled up in Heaps , and in great 
 Danger of being utterly fpoiled by the Damp; and by the continual 
 Increafe of the Records fince that Time, the Record Rooms over 
 their Office are as much crowded as before, to the great Hin- 
 drance of the regular Difpofition and eafy Accefs to them , and to 
 the manifeft Danger of the Building, although the Six Clerks have 
 been at great Expences in repairing and ftrcngthening it from Time 
 to Time. 
 
 The Six Clerks therefore humbly beg Leave to acquaint this 
 Honourable Committee, that to prevent the fpoiling of great Part 
 of the faid Records, and rendering them not legible and utterly 
 ufelefs to the Publick, and the many Families, whofe Eftates may 
 be concerned therein-, they conceive it abfolutely neceffiiry, that 
 fome convenient Place be fpeedily allotted at the Tozvcr, or elfe- 
 where, for the Reception and regular Difpofition of fuch Part of 
 their Records to be tranfmitted thither, for which at prcfent they 
 have not convenient Place in their Record Rooms-, and for fuch fu- 
 ture Tranfmiffions of their Records, as from their gradual Increafe 
 may from Time to Time become ncceffary, 
 
 WILL. SMITH. 
 SYD^'. MALTHUS. 
 THO. BRIDGES. 
 JOHN COLLINS. 
 JOHN HAMILTON. 
 W. EAST, 
 
 Y y D. XVI.
 
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 D. XVI. 
 
 An Account of the feveral Records now remaining in 
 the Office of the Petty Bagg in the Court of 
 
 Chancery. 
 
 To the Committee of the Honourable Houfe of Com- 
 mons^ appointed to view the Cottonian Library , 
 and fuch of the piMick Records of this Kingdom^ 
 as they think proper^ and to report to the Houfe 
 the Condition thereof together with what theyjhall 
 judge fit to be done for the better Reception, Pre- 
 fervatton, and more convenient Ufe of the fame. 
 
 IN obedience to your Order of the twenty-ninth of February Jaft, 
 whereby we were required to lay before you an Account in Writing 
 of the Nature of the Records in our Cuftody, and of the Condition of 
 the Rooms, in which they are depofited, in what Order they are di- 
 gefted, whether there be any and what Calendars thereof, and what is 
 necefliary to be done to make them more ufeful to the Pubh'ck ; we 
 the under-written. Clerks of the Petty-Bagg Office in the Court of 
 Chancery, do humbly certify. That the Records in the faid Office con- 
 fift of the following Particulars. 
 
 'O 
 
 I. Special Commiffions to inquire of Eftates forfeited to the Crown, 
 with the Inquifitions and Traverfes thereon, from the thirteenth Year 
 of King Charles the Firft to this Time, and fome few in the Reign of 
 King Jatnes the Firft. 
 
 II. Inquifitions and Decrees of Commiffioners of Charitable Ufes, 
 purfuant to the Statute of the forty-third Year of Q^Elizabeth, with the 
 Proceedings on fuch Decrees, from the Commencement of the Sta- 
 tute to this Time, together with the Inrollments of the Confirmation 
 or Difmiffion of fuch Decrees, made on Appeals from fuch faid Com- 
 miffioners Decrees. 
 
 III. Extents, and Re-Extents, and other Proceedings on the Statute 
 Staple, from the Beginning of the Reign of King Charles the Firft to 
 this Time, and fome few in the Reign of King Jatnes the Firft. 
 
 IV. Brevia Regia, viz. Writs of ad quod Dampmm, Dedimus's to fwear 
 Mafters Extraordinary in Chancery, Juftices of the Peace, and Sheriffs 
 Return of Writs for elefting Coroners and Verderors of the Forefts, 
 Writs of Enquiry of Damages , Writs of Certiorari to remove Re- 
 cords, Writs for calling Serjeants at Law, and fuch like, from the ninth 
 of King Charles the Firft to this Time, 
 
 I V. Laws
 
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 V. Laws and Adjudications of Sewers, viz. Some few in the Reigns 
 of King James the Firft, and King Charles the Firft, and feveral in 
 the Reign of King Charles the Second, concerning the great Level of 
 the Fenns called Bedford- Level, and fome few fince that Time. 
 
 VI. Judgments on Scire Facias's, and alfo on Declarations for and 
 againii Officers of the Court of Chancery, from the fird Year of the 
 Reign of King Charles the Firfl: to this Time, and fome few in the 
 Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James the Firft. 
 
 VII. Commifllons and Inquificlons of Lunacy and Ideocy, and Tra- 
 verfes thereon, from the lall Year of the Reign of King Charles the 
 Firft to this Time. 
 
 VIII. One Bundle of Perambulations of Forefts in the feventeenth 
 Year of King Charles the Firft. 
 
 IX. One Bundle of Certificates of Qualifications of Members of 
 Parliament, of Popifh Convids, and of Perfons concealed in the 
 Reigns of Queen June, King George the Firft, and his prefent Majefty. 
 
 X. Indentures on Returns of Members of Parliament, from the 
 twelfth Year of King Charles the Second, to the feventh Year of his 
 late Majefty, from which Time they are in the Hands of the Clerk of 
 the Crown. 
 
 XI. Inrollments of Patents and the Eftreats thereof, with the War- 
 rants or Privy Seal Bills for the fame, annually fent from the Riding 
 Six Clerk into the Petty Bagg Office ; and of thefe there are now re- 
 maining from the firft Year of Queen Jmte, to the fourth Year of his 
 prefent Majefty. 
 
 XII. Several Bundles of Inquifitions poji Mortem, being the Re- 
 mains of fuch Bufinefs, as formerly belonged to the Court of Wards 
 and Liveries taken away by the Ad: of the twelfth of King Charles the 
 Second. 
 
 And we do further humbly certify, that the faid Records are depo- 
 fited on Shelves, and in Prefles made for that Purpofe, in the Rooms 
 belonging to the faid Office, and are in good Order and Condition j 
 and that there is kept in the faid Office, Books, wherein are entered 
 every Term all the Records, which are filed that Term, under the fe- 
 veral Heads to which they properly belong, by which Means any Re- 
 cord may eafily be found on Search for that Purpofe. AH which we 
 humbly certify this fixteenth of March 173 1. 
 
 EDW. BULSTRODE. 
 RICH. ASSHETON. 
 C. FREWEN. 
 
 D. XVU.
 
 { i8o ) 
 
 D. XVII. 
 
 Report of the Clerks of the Inrollments. 
 
 To the Honourable Committee of the Houfe of Com- 
 mons appointed to view the Cottonian Library, 
 and fiich of the pnbltck Records of this Kingdom^ 
 as they think proper j &c. 
 
 IN obedience to the Order of the faid Committee, dated the twenty- 
 ninth of February 1731, the Clerks of the Inrollments of the Court 
 of Chancery, humbly lay before this honourable Committee the follow- 
 ing Account : 
 
 That by Letters Patents, bearing Date the fixteenth of Queen Eli- 
 zabeth, the Six Clerks and the three Clerks of the Petty-Bagg were in- 
 corporated Clerks of the Inrollments of the High Court of Chancery^ 
 to inroll all Recognizances, Deeds, and other Matters, which fhould 
 be inrolled in the faid Court; which Office is executed by two 
 Deputy Clerks, approved of and fv/orn before the Lord Chancel- 
 lor, or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal for the Time being, who 
 has Power to examine and amend the Abufes of the faid Office, 
 and if any Failure fhould happen therein, the Corporation is to be 
 refponfible: 
 
 " That there has been ever fince an Office in or near and is now un- 
 der the Six Clerks Office in Chancery-Lane, where the Records and 
 Inrollments are fafcly preferved, and from Time to Time tranf- 
 mitted from thence to the Chapel of the Rolls, and there remain 
 under the Care and in the Cuftody of the Right Honourable the 
 Mafter of the Rolls, where they are depofited in Places eredled for 
 that Purpofe: 
 
 That the Records in their Office are Inrollments of Recognizances, 
 Indentures of Bargain and Sale, and other Deeds, Papifts Wills, Con- 
 veyances of Forfeited Eftates, Sales of Bankrupts Real Eftates, and 
 other Deeds ufually inrolled in Chancery : 
 
 That in order to the inrolling a Deed of Bargain and Sale, &c. of 
 Lands, Tenements, ^c. it muft firft be acknowledged before the Lord 
 Chancellor, Mafter of the Rolls, a Mafter in Cbmcery, or Mafter- 
 Extraordinary in the Country, that the Deed cr Writing was duly 
 executed, which being certified on the Original Deed by the Officer, 
 before whom fuch Acknowledgment was taken, it is thereupon inrol- 
 led: And by the tenth of Queen /^nne, if a Bargain or Sale be plead- 
 ed, a Copy from the Inrollment thereof, figned by the proper Offi- 
 cer, and proved on Oath, ihall be of the fame Effcft, as if the origi- 
 nal Indenture had been produced: 
 
 That the Office is in good Repair, being about feven Years ago 
 fitted up with ftrong Wainfcot Prefles, &c. at a great Expence, and 
 is, as we humbly apprehend, made very proper for the preferving the 
 Records, till removed to the Rolls Chapel. 
 
 That
 
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 That the Inrollments of Deeds, ^c. are entered In a flrofig Hand, 
 on Prefles of Parchment of equal Breadth fewed together, until they 
 come to be of moderate Sizes, when rolled up, that they may be the 
 lefs liable to Damage in the opening for Copies to be taken, and for 
 InfpccStion of any Perfon, who defires the fame. The Rolls are, as near 
 as may be, of equal Size ; and the Deeds thereon written are numbered 
 ptogreffively as they are entered on each Roll-, to which is affixed a 
 Label, fhewing the Number of the Roll, and the Year, to which ic 
 belongs : 
 
 • That there are Books kept in the faid Office of all Inrollments, 
 from the fi;ft Inftitution thereof in 1573 ; by Inlpection of which, and 
 by the Method obferved in placing and labelling the Rolls, all Perfons 
 may have immediate Recourfe to any Record in the faid Office: And 
 the Clerks of the Inrollmen'^, together with their Deputies, do once in 
 every Year ftridtly examine the Records on each Roll for that Year, 
 and compare the fame with the Book, and after fuch Examination one 
 or more of them do fign the fame. 
 
 The Clerks of the Inrollment do therefore humbly apprehend, that 
 the Records in their Office cannot be made more ufeful to the Pub- 
 lick, than by the Method, in which they are already kept. 
 
 W. SMITH. 
 EDW. BULSTRODE. SYD'^'. MALTHUS, 
 
 RICH. ASSHETON. THO. BRIDGES. 
 
 C. FREWEN. JOHN COLLINS. 
 
 JOHN HAMILTON, 
 W. EAST. 
 
 z z D. xvm.
 
 ( i82 ) 
 
 D. XVIII. 
 
 To the Honourable the Committee for mfpeB'tng of 
 Records^ &c. 
 
 The humble Report of John Selman, Clerk of the 
 Clerk of the Council of his Majefty's Dutchy of. 
 Lancajier^ and Keeper of the Records, ^c. 
 
 IN obedience to the Commands of this Honourable Committee, 
 fignified to me by Precept of the twenty-ninth Day of February 
 laft, I do humbly certify, that the Records in the Office of the Clerk 
 of the Council of the Duchy of Lancafter^ now kept in Graf s-Inn^ 
 confift chiefly of Minifterial Accounts, Rentalls, Court Rolls, Books 
 of Surveys of Honours, Lands, Tenements, ^c. within the faid 
 Dutchy and County Palatine of L^wffl/?^', Receiver's Accounts, Grants 
 of Lands in Fee-Farme, Dutchy Charters, Patents, and Leafes, Maps 
 of Caftles, Parks, and of divers Manors within the faid Dutchy, Spe- 
 cial Commiffions, Privy Seals, Royal Signs Manual in the Reign of 
 feveral Kings and Queens, Bills, Anfwers, Depofitions and other 
 Pleadings in the Dutchy Court of Lancajler, Books of Orders and De- 
 crees, Regifters of Grants, Leafes, Prefentations and Commiffions. 
 
 Thefe Records are for the mod Part in good Order, and in as good 
 Condition as the Nature of the Chambers will admit of, and are mark- 
 ed with the Year or the King's Reign, of which there ar? feveral Books 
 of Calenders and Indexes, for the moft ufeful Part of them ; and are 
 lodged in Trunks, Preffiss, Boxes, and in Clofets upon Shelves (ex- 
 cept fome of the Pleadings in the Duchy Court, which art bundled up 
 and laid in an upper Chamber.) The Records in the Office are very nu- 
 merous, and for the mofl: Part valuable and ufeful to the Subjeft; the 
 Chambers where they are now kept, and have been kept for more 
 than an Hundred Years, are in a convenient Scituation for Bufinefs 
 and are dry, but the Infide and Flooring fomewhat decayed, which 
 may be repaired and put in good Order at a reafonable Expence, and 
 make the Office more ufeful to the Subjed. 
 
 All which is humbly fubmitted to this Flonourable Committee. 
 
 JOHN SELMAN. 
 
 E. To 
 
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 E. 
 
 The Report of John Lawton, Efq; Keeper of the 
 Records in the Exchequer. 
 
 To the Honourable Committee of the Houfe of Com- 
 mons^ appointed to view the Cottonian Libra- 
 ry ^ and fuch of the Publtck Records of this 
 Kingdom^ as they think proper, &c. 
 
 I Humbly prefume to lay before the Committee a general Table, 
 hereunto annexed, of the Records of this Kingdom, diftinguifhed 
 under four different Heads: viz. The Records of the Court of Chan- 
 cery, of the Common Law, of the Exchequer, and of the Dutchy 
 Court of Lancafier. This Table has been compiled from the feveral 
 Reports laid before the Committee by the Officers, who have the Cu- 
 ftody of Records, and from fuch Informations, as I have received from 
 feveral Officers, whom I attended in purfuance of the Committee's 
 Order of the twenty-feventh of March: That I might be the more 
 exaft, I have had the Affiftance of Mr. George Holmes of the Tower^ 
 and of Mr. William Whijlon, junior, to examine and compare the faid 
 Tables.. 
 
 I humbly fubmit to the Confideration of the Committee, whether 
 it would not be proper, upon the Removal of any publick Records for 
 the future from one Office to another, that the Officers, who fhall re- 
 ceive the faid Records, fhall from Time to Time give publick No- 
 tice in the Gazette of fuch Alteration of Cuftody ; and whether it 
 would not be more convenient, that all the Records, which are now 
 improperly placed in Offices, fhould be tranfmitted to their proper 
 Repofuories : This Work, I humbly conceive (however difficult it 
 may at firft appear) would not prove difficult in the Execution, or re- 
 quire a very great Expence of Time. 
 
 A^ril^, 1732. JOHN LAWTON. 
 
 Records
 
 ( i84 ) 
 
 Records of the High Court of CHANCERY. 
 
 Parlmmerit Rolls. 
 
 Statute Rolls. 
 
 IN the Reign of Ediuardl. be- 
 ginning the eighteench Year 
 of his Reign ^. D. 1289, are ac 
 the Receipt of the Exchequer at 
 IFrf.miiijkr. 
 
 From the fifth Year of Ed- 
 zvardW, yl.D. 131 1, to the End 
 of the Reign of Ed-ward IV, J. J). 
 1483,-are in the Tower. 
 
 From that Time down to the 
 fecond Year of his prefcnt Maje- 
 fty, J.J). 1728, they are at the 
 Rolls. 
 
 N. B. One Parliament Roll in 
 the fcventh Year of Henry V. 
 J.D. 141 9, is at the Receipt 
 of the Exchequer. 
 And alfo an Aft of Refump- 
 tion made in the twenty- 
 ninth Year of Hcftry VI, 
 J. D. 1450. 
 
 From the fixrh Year of Ed- 
 ward I, J.D.iiyy, to the eighth 
 Year of Edward IV, J. D. 1468, 
 are in the Tower. 
 
 One Roll, containing the Sta- 
 tutes made at IVmchelier in the 
 thirteenth Year of Edward I, is 
 ac the Receipt of the Excbeqiier. 
 
 Patent Rolls. 
 
 From the third Year of King 
 John, A. D. I 20 1, to the End of 
 the Reign of Edward IV, J. D, 
 14^^, are in the Tower. 
 
 From that Time to the End of 
 the Reign of milia?n HI, J. D. 
 1702, they are at the Rolls. 
 
 From J.D. 1702, tothefoiirth 
 
 of his prefentMajefty, J.D. 1730, 
 
 they are in the Petty-Bagg Office. 
 
 ■ N. B. Three Patent Rolls, one 
 
 of the feventh Year of King 
 
 John, J. D. 1 205 ; another 
 
 from the firft Year of Ed- 
 
 wardll, J.D. 1307, to the 
 
 fourteenth J.D. 1320 inclu- 
 
 five •, and the third of the 
 
 twenty-fecond, twenty-third 
 
 and twenty- fourth Years of 
 
 King Henry VI, are at the 
 
 Receipt of the Exchequer at 
 
 IVeJlminJler. 
 
 2 
 
 Clofe Rolls.. 
 
 From the fixth Year of King 
 John, J.D. 1204, to the End of 
 the Reign of Edward IV, J. D. 
 1483, are in the Tower. 
 
 From J. D. 14S3, to the End 
 of the Reign of James II, J. D. 
 1688, they are at the Rolls-, and 
 from that Time down to the pre- 
 fent, they are in the Inrollment- 
 Office of the Chancery. 
 
 Decree
 
 ( 1^5 ) 
 
 Decree Rolls. 
 
 From the twenty- fixch Year of 
 King /7d;:r)i VIII, A. D. 1534, to 
 the prefenc Time, are at the Rolls. 
 
 Ckarter Rolls. 
 
 From the firft Year of King 
 John, A. D. 1 199, to the End of 
 the Reign of Edward IV, J. D. 
 1483, are in rhe "Tozi'er. 
 
 From thence to the End of the 
 twelfth Year of Ja^nes I, J. D. 
 1614, they are at the Rolls. 
 
 N. B. There are no Rolls of 
 this Kind later than the faid 
 twelfth Year of James I, be- 
 caufe the Charters fince that 
 Time are inrolled promifcu- 
 oufly with other Patents on 
 the Patent Rolls. 
 
 Coronation Rolls. 
 
 The Coronation Roll of King 
 Edward II, and the Claims of 
 Services to be done at the Coro- 
 nations of Richard 11, and Hen- 
 T'j V, are in the Tower. 
 
 Thofe of James I, Charles II, 
 James II , William and Mar"^ , 
 Queen Anne., George I, and his 
 prefent Majefty, are at the Rolls. 
 
 Treaty Rolls 
 
 From the firft Year of Ri- 
 chard III, A. D. 1483, to the fe- 
 venteenth of Jamesl, A. D. 1619, 
 are at the Rolls. 
 
 From that Time down to the 
 prefent, they are in the Cufbody 
 of the Prochonotary of the Court 
 of Chancery. 
 
 Liberate Rolls. 
 
 From the fecond Year of King 
 John, A.D. 1200, to the End of 
 the Reign of Edward IV, A. D. 
 1483, are in the Toiver.. 
 
 Fine Rolls. 
 
 From the fixth Year of King 
 John-, A.D. 1204, to the End of 
 the Reign of Edward IV, A. D. 
 1483, are in the Tower. 
 
 From that Time to the fifteenth 
 Year of King Charles I, A. D. 
 1639, they are at the i?o//j. 
 
 Scotch Rolls. 
 
 French Rolls. 
 
 From the nineteenth of Ed- 
 ivardl, A.D. i2go, to the End 
 of the Reign of Edward IV, 
 A. D. [483, are in the Tower 
 
 One Roll of Treaties in the 
 
 Reigns of Richard t, and King 
 
 John ; and the Treaties with 
 
 . „. France from the thirty-eighth of 
 
 The Treaties and TranfaftiOns Henry III, A. D. 1254, to 'the 
 
 with A a a tenth 
 
 2
 
 ( iB(5 ) 
 
 with that Kingdom, from the firfl: 
 of Richard], y^.D.ii^^, toJ.D. 
 1586. J. 29 Reg. Eliz. amongft 
 winch are the Rolls of the Petiti- 
 ons, Pleadings, and Procefs in the 
 Caufc of Rot'c-ri de Brus , and the 
 other Competitors for the King- 
 dom of Scotland, in the nineteenth 
 and twentieth Years of King Ed- 
 ward \, A. D. 1290, are ac the 
 Chapter-Houfe, IFeJlminJler. 
 
 tenth of James I, A.D. 1612, are 
 at the Chapter- Hotife, lFeJt7ninjler, 
 From the firft Year of Ed- 
 ward U, J.D. 1307, to the End 
 of the Reign of Edward IV, 
 A.D. 1483, are in the Tower. 
 
 Roman Rolls. 
 
 Popes Btdlsy 
 
 From the thirty-fourth Year of Are fome in the Tower, and 
 
 Edward I, J. D. 1305, to the great Numbers in the Cbapter- 
 
 F.nd of the Reign of Edward IV, Hoiife, tVepninJler. 
 A. D. 1483, are in the Tower. 
 
 Vafcon Rolls. 
 
 From the twenty-fixth Year of 
 Hem-j Hi, A. D. 1^41, to the 
 End of the Reign of Richard III, 
 yL D. I4'i5, are in the Tower. 
 
 Norman Rolls, 
 
 In the Reigns of King Johjt, 
 and of King Henr'^ IV, and King 
 Henry V, are in the Tower. 
 
 I Frits of Summons., and j -r- a \/r «. 
 
 " '^ V "^ , l}jquijttions poit Mortem. 
 
 Returns to Parliament. 
 
 From the forty-ninth Year of 
 Henr^Wl, A.D. 1264, to the fe- 
 venteenth of Edward W, A. D. 
 1477, are in xhcTower. 
 
 From the thirty-third Year of 
 Henry VIII, A. D. 15415 to the 
 fi xtee nth of C/:;^r/« I, A.D. 16^0, 
 are at the Rolls. 
 
 From the Reftoration to the fe- 
 venth of George I, A. D. 1721, 
 they are in the PettyBaggCfice. 
 
 From thence to the prefent 
 Time they are in the Cuftody of 
 ihe Clerk of the Crown. 
 
 From the firft of Henrj III, 
 A.D. 1216, to the End of the 
 Reign of Richard III, A. D. 1485, 
 are in the Tower. From that Time 
 to the twentieth Year of Charles I, 
 A. D. 164.4., they are at the RollSj 
 except fome Bundles from the 
 thirty-firfl: of Qi^ieen Elizabeth^ 
 A.D. 1589, to the faid twentieth 
 Year of Charles I, which are in the 
 Petty Bagg Office. 
 
 Several Bundles from A.D.i6a-4- 
 to A. D. 1652, are in the Petiy- 
 Bagg Office. 
 
 Authentic Tranfcripts or Dupli- 
 cates of Inquifitions poft Mortem, 
 fince the Eredion of the Court of 
 JVards, A.^2 Hen.Nlil, ^.D.1540, 
 are amongfl: the Records of that 
 Court in a Room adjoining to the 
 Floufe of Lords. 
 
 biaui-
 
 ( i87 ) 
 
 A/^/^i////!?;?^ ad quod Damp- Bills ^ Atifwers^ Depofitt- 
 num. ons.^ 8cc. tn Chancery. 
 
 From the firfl: X^iso^ Edward II, 
 A. D. 1307, to the End of the 
 Reign of Henr^ V, A. D. 1422, 
 are in the 'Tower. 
 
 In the Reigns of Henry VI and 
 Edward IV, are in the Tower, 
 
 From the firft of Richard III, 
 A.D. 1483, to the End of the 
 Reign of IVilUam III, A.D. 1702. 
 they are at the Rolls. 
 
 In the Reigns of Queen Eliza- 
 beth., James I, and Charles I, ai^ 
 moft of them in the Tower., but 
 feme of thofe Reigns, and fome 
 from thence down to the Reftora- 
 tion, are at the Rolls. 
 
 From the Year 1649 to the pre- 
 fent Time , they are at the Six 
 Clerks Office. 
 
 Pettitom in Parliament. 
 
 Taxation Roll. 
 
 In the Reigns o^ Richard l\. Of the Valueof all the Churches 
 Henry IV, V, and VI, and Ed- in the twentieth of Edward I, 
 ward IV, are in the Tower. A. D. 1291, is in the Tower, 
 
 Privy Seals. 
 
 In the Reign of Edward I, and 
 from the Beginning of Edward 11, 
 A. D. 1307, to the End of the 
 Reign of Edward IV, A.D. 1483, 
 and fome in the Reign of Ri- 
 chard III, are in the Tower, 
 
 Some in the Reign of Ri- 
 chard III, and from the firfl: of 
 Henry VII, A. D. 1485, to the 
 End of the Reign of PFilliarn III, 
 A. D. 1702, they are at the Rolls. 
 
 From that Time to the fourth 
 Year of his prefent Majeflry, 
 A. D. 1730, they are in the Pelly- 
 Bagg Office. 
 
 Signet Bills, 
 
 In the Reign of RichardU, and 
 from thence to the End of the 
 Reign of Edward IV, A. D. 1483, 
 are in the Tower. 
 
 Signs
 
 ( i88 ) 
 
 S/gf^is Manual. 
 
 In the Reigns of Henrj VI, and 
 Edward IV, are in the Tow^r; and 
 from Richard III to the End of 
 the Reign of IVilliam III, J. D. 
 1702, they are mod of them at the 
 Rolls. Some Sig'is Manual in the 
 Reign of He/jry VIII, are at the 
 Chapler-Hoiife, (Vejiminjler ; and 
 feme in the Reigns of Ja?nes I, and 
 Charles I, are in the Tower. 
 
 Special Comm'ijfiom ^ In- 
 qmfitions and Traverfesy 
 relating to forfeited E- 
 Jlates. 
 
 A few in the Reign of James l^ 
 and from the thirteenth of C/?;^;r/; J I, 
 J. D. 1637, to the prefent Time, 
 they are in the Petty- Bagg Office. 
 
 Inquifit'tons and Decrees of Laws and Adjudications of 
 CommiJJloners of Chart- Sewers. 
 
 table Ufes, and Inroll- t ,, „ p . . w r 
 
 rt 1 In the Reigns of James I, 
 
 mentS OJ Proceedings on Charles I, and Charles II, and 
 
 Appeals from fuch Com-- fon^e few fmce that Time, are in 
 
 Af„ •> j^ the Petty-Bagv Office. 
 
 mijfioners Decrees. •' ^ 
 
 From the Commencement of 
 the Statute in the forty-third of 
 Queen Elizahetb, A. D. 1600, 
 to the prefent Time, are in the 
 Petty- Bagg Office. 
 
 Proceedings on the Statute 
 Staple. 
 
 A few in the Reign of James I, 
 and from the Beginning of the 
 Reign of Charles I, A. D. 1625, 
 to this prefent Time, they are in 
 the Petty-Bagg Office. 
 
 Judgments on Scire Fa- 
 cias's, and on Declara- 
 tions for and agamfi 
 Officers of the Court of 
 Chancery. 
 
 A few in the Reigns of Queen 
 Elizabeth and James I, and from 
 the firft Year of Charles I, A. D. 
 1625, to this prefent Time, they 
 are in the Petty-Bagg Office. 
 
 Commif-
 
 (1&9 ) 
 
 Commtjfiom and hiqmfi- Certtjicatesy of ^lal'ificd^ 
 tions of Lunacy and Uons of Members oj Par- 
 
 Ideocy. 
 
 From the laft Year of Charles I, 
 A. D. 164S, to this prelenc Time, 
 are in the Petty-Bagg Office. 
 
 hamentf of Popiflo Con- 
 v'l&s and Perfom con- 
 cealed. 
 
 In the Reigns of Queen yJmie, 
 George I, and his prefent Majeftyj 
 are in the PetlyBagg OJfice. 
 
 Treaties and TranfaBiom Treaties and Tranfacltons 
 with Germany. with Italy. 
 
 From the fixth of Edward I, 
 A.T). 1278, to the twenty-fifth of 
 Queen Elizabeth^ A.D. 1582, are 
 at the Chapter-Hmfey Wejlminfter. 
 
 From the Twenty-fixth of Ed~ 
 '■joardlW, A.D.\o,^i, tothenine- 
 teenth of //d'/zr): VIII, A.D.i^ijj 
 are at the Chapter- Houfet (Vejimin- 
 pr. 
 
 Treaties and Tranfactions Treaties and TranfaBions 
 with Spain. 
 
 From the eighth of Henry VII, 
 A. D. 1492, to tiie third of Jam^s I, 
 A. D. 1 605 , are at the Chapter- 
 Houfe, JVeJlmi/^Jler. 
 
 With Portugal. 
 
 From the forty-feventh of Ed- 
 wardlU, A.D. 1372, to the fifth 
 Year of //f«r;y VII, A.D. 1489, 
 are at the Chapter- Houfey Wcjlmui- 
 fter. 
 
 Treaties and TranfaBions Treaties and TranfaBions 
 
 with Caftile. 
 
 / 
 
 From the thirty- eighth of Hen- 
 ?■}• Ill, A,D. 1254, to the tweaty- 
 firft of Edward IV, A. D. 1481, 
 are at the Chapter-Houfe ^ Wefi- 
 Viinjier. . 
 
 with Arragon. 
 
 From the eighteenth of Ed- 
 ward I, A. D. 1289, to the fe- 
 venth of Henry VIII, A.D. 1515, 
 are at the Chapter- Hsufe., Weji- 
 mvijier. 
 
 Bbb 
 
 Treaties
 
 ( ipo ) 
 
 Treaties and TranfaB'tom 
 %v'tth Flanders. 
 
 From the eighth of Henr'^ II, 
 A. I). 1161, to the tenth of Ben- 
 r)! IV, A. D. 1408, are at the 
 Chapter-Houfi\ iVeJtminJler, 
 
 Treaties and TranfaBiom 
 with Holland, and with 
 the United Provinces. 
 
 From the nineteenth of Hen- 
 ry Y\, ^. D. 1440, tothetwenty- 
 fecond oi James I, A. D. 1624, 
 are at the Chapter-Houfe ^ JVefi- 
 minjler. 
 
 Treaties and Tranfa&ions Treaties and TranfaBions 
 with Burgundy. with Navarre. 
 
 From the eighth of Uenr-^ V, 
 A. D. 1 41 9, to the firfl: of Ri- 
 chard Illy A.D. 1484, are at the 
 Cbapter-Houfe, PVeJlminJler. 
 
 From the firft of Richard II, 
 A. D. 1378, to the fourth of //f«- 
 rjiVIII, A.D. 1 512, are at the 
 
 Cbapter-Houfej Wejlminjter. 
 
 Treaties and TranfaBiom 
 with Bretagne. 
 
 From the fifteenth of King 
 John, A.D. 121^, to the feventh 
 Year of Henry VII, A. D. 1491, 
 are at the Chapter-Houfey Wefi- 
 minficr. 
 
 Welch Rolls. 
 
 From the fifth of Edward I, 
 A. D. i2y6, to the twenty-fourth 
 of the fame King , A. D. 1 295, 
 are in the Tower. 
 
 A Roll containing Extrafts out 
 of the Patent and Clofe Rolls of 
 Matters relating to fValeSy from 
 the firft of Henry 111, A.D. 1216, 
 to the thirty-feventh of the fame 
 King, A. D. 1252, and two Rolls 
 containing the Statuta JVallia , 
 made in the twelfth Year of Ed' 
 ward I, ^. D. 1 284, are ac the Re- 
 ceipt of the Exchequer, 
 
 Records
 
 ( '9' ) 
 
 Records of the Courts of King's -Bench and 
 Common-Pleas; Assise -Rolls ; Placita 
 DE Quo Warranto & Coron^e ; Placita 
 Forest^; Proceedings in the Star-Chamber, 
 Court of Wards and Liveries, ^c. 
 
 Rolls of the Court of 
 King's- Bench. 
 
 FROM the fixth Year of Ri- 
 chard I, J. D. 1 194, to the 
 End of the Reign of Henry V, 
 yi. D. 1422, are at the Chapter- 
 Houfcy Weftminfter. 
 
 From that Time to the prefent, 
 they arc in the Kin^s-Bencb Trea- 
 furies. 
 
 Attainders. 
 
 iaga de Secretis^ containing the 
 Records of Attainders, is in the 
 King's-Bencb Treafury. 
 
 Other Proceedings in this 
 Court, fuch as Rolls of Special 
 Writs, Original and Judicial, In- 
 diftments. Appeals, Informations, 
 "Writs of Error, Mandamus's, 
 Habeas Corpus's, Scire Facias's, 
 Recognizances, and Articles of the 
 Peace, isfc. arc fome in the King's- 
 Bench 'treafury^ and fome in the 
 Crown-Office. 
 
 JV, B. What Docquets or Re- 
 pertories to thefe Proceedings 
 are remaining, are in the 
 Crown-Office. 
 
 Rolls of the Court 
 Common-Pleas. 
 
 of Placita de Quo Warranto, 
 
 From K.\n^Jobn, A. 13. 1199, 
 to the End of the Reign of Hen-' 
 ry VII, A. D. 1509, are at the 
 Chapter- Houfe, Wejlminjler. 
 
 From that Time to the prefent, 
 they are in the Treafury of the 
 Court of Common- Pleas. 
 
 Iri the Reigns of Edward I, 
 II, and III, are at the Receipt 
 of the Exchequer at Wejlminjler. 
 N. B. Since the tenth Year of 
 the Reign of Edward III, 
 A. D. 1335, my Lord Hale 
 obferves, that Pleadings and 
 Judgments upon Franchifes 
 and Liberties, have not been 
 before the Juftices Itinerant, 
 but in the Courts of Kin^s- 
 Bench or Exchequer ^ and fo 
 are refpeflively entered either 
 upon the King's-Bencb Rolls, 
 or Memoranda of the Court of 
 Exchequer in the Treajurer's 
 Remembrancer's Office, 
 
 Placita
 
 ( i5>i ) 
 
 Placita Corona. 
 
 From the fifteenth Year of the 
 Reign of Henrj III, A, D. 1230, 
 to Edward III inclufive, are at the 
 Receipt of the Exchequer ^ and 
 Chapcr-Houfey Wejljninjier, 
 
 AJfife Rolls. 
 
 From the fixth Year of RU 
 chard I, A.I). 1194, to the End 
 of the Reign of Henr^ VI, A. B. 
 1460, and fome few in the Reign 
 of Edward IV, are it the Chapter- 
 Houfe, IVeJlminJler ; except feveral 
 Rolls in the Reigns of Henry III, 
 Edward I, and Edward II, which 
 are in the Tower. 
 
 Bills ^ Anfwers^ Depoft^ 
 t'lons^ and other Proceed- 
 ings m the Court of 
 Star Chamber. 
 
 From the third Year of Uen- 
 ry VII, A. D. 1487, to the Reign 
 of Charles I. inclufive, are at the 
 ChaPter-HouJc, JVejhninJler. 
 
 N. B. The Decrees of this 
 Court are not at prefent any 
 where to be found. 
 
 Placita Foreftae, Perambu- 
 latiom^and otherProceed- 
 mgs relating to Forefts. 
 
 From the tenth Year of King 
 John., A. D. 1208, to the End of 
 the Reign of Edward III, A. D. 
 i'^y~, are at the Receipt of the 
 Exchequer, except fome Perambu- 
 lations of Forefts in the fevench, 
 and twenty ninth Years of Ed- 
 ivardl, which are in the Tower. 
 
 Since the Time of Edward III, 
 the Proceedings before the Juftices 
 in Eyre feem not to have been re- 
 gularly tranfmitted into the Trea- 
 luries of the Exchequer, as they 
 iifed to be before that Time, which 
 is the Reafon probably why we 
 have no more Remains of Forefl: 
 Proceedings fince that Time than 
 thefe following, viz. 
 
 Fines.. 
 
 From the latter End of the 
 Reign of Henry II, A. D.ii 80, to 
 the Revolution, A. D. 1688, are 
 at the Receipt of the Exchequery 
 and Chapter-FIoufe, Wejiminjler. ;. 
 
 From that Time to the prefent, 
 they are in the Cujios Brevium 
 Office. 
 
 A Book of Proceedings before 
 the Lieutenants of the Chief Ju- 
 flice in Eyre of the Forefts on the 
 North of Trent, in the thirtieth 
 and thirty-firft Yearsof Henry VIII, 
 at the Receipt of the Exchequer. 
 
 Foreft Claims and Proceedings 
 in the Swanimote Court, Annis 10 
 ^ 1 1 of Charles I, in the Tower. 
 
 A Bundle of Perambulations in 
 the fevcnteenth of Charles I, A. D. 
 1 641, and Writs for elefting Ver- 
 derors from the ninth of Charles I, 
 A. D. 1633, to the prefent Time, 
 in the Petty- Bagg Office; and the 
 Claims, Perambulations, and o- 
 ther Proceedings before Aubrey de 
 Fere, Chief Jultice in Eyre of the 
 Forefts on this Side of the Trent, 
 in the New Foreft in Hampfiire., 
 and Waltham Foreft in Ejfcx, in 
 the Reign of Charles II, which are 
 at tke Receipt of the Exchequer. 
 
 Mint.
 
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 Mint. 
 
 An JJfay-Roll in the Reign of 
 Edward I, and Indentures between 
 the Kings of England and the Ma- 
 ilers and Workers of the Mini: in 
 the Reigns oi Edwardlll, HenryYl, 
 EdwardlV, RichdrdlU, Henry VII, 
 and Henry VIII, Edward VI, 
 Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and 
 Charles I, w.ich other Papers rela- 
 ting to the Mint, are at the Chapter- 
 Hoiife, Wejlminjler. 
 
 Goal Deliveries. 
 
 From the Beginning of the 
 Reign o( Edward I, A. D. 1272, 
 to the End of the Reign of Hen- 
 ry VI, A.D. 1460, and fome few 
 in the Reign of Edward IV, are at 
 the Cha^ter-Hotife, Wejlminjler. 
 
 Writs of moji Kinds. 
 
 A Roll or Regifter of Writs a- 
 bout A. D. 1240, or the Middle 
 of the Reign of Henry III, and 
 "Writs from the Beginning of the 
 Reign of Edward I, A. D. i2jz, 
 to the Revolution, A.D. 1 688, are 
 at the Chapter- Honfe, Weftminjier. 
 
 From that Time to the prefent, 
 they, are in the Ciijios Brevium 
 Office. 
 
 C(9«;'/ o/Wards and Liveries. Court of Requefts. 
 
 The Proceedings in this Court, 
 from the thirty-fecond of Hen- 
 ry VIW, A. D. 1540, when the 
 faid Court was erefted, with feve- 
 ral Books of the Decrees (?iine in 
 Number as is fuppofed) are in a 
 Room adjoining to the Houfe of 
 Lords. 
 
 Eleven Bags of Certificates of 
 Feodaries, belonging to this Court, 
 are in the Hands of Mr. Charles 
 Grymes in Gray's-Lin. 
 
 The Proceedings in this nomi- 
 nal Court, are in the fame Room 
 with thofe of the Court of IVards 
 and Liveries, near the Houfe ol 
 Lords. 
 
 C c c 
 
 Records
 
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 Records of the Court of Excheqjjer. 
 
 Pipe Rolls. 
 
 ONE Roll of the fifth Year 
 oiK\ngStephen, A. D. ii^g- 
 (as fuppofed) and from the firfl 
 Year of Henry II, A. D. 1 154, to 
 the Revolution, A. D. 1688, are 
 at the Court of Exchequer at fVeJi- 
 minjler. 
 
 From that Time to the prefent, 
 they are at the Pipe-Office in Gra-fs- 
 Inn. 
 
 One Pipe Roll in the third Year 
 of King John^ A. D. 1201, is at 
 the Receipt of the Exchequer. 
 
 Plea Rolls. 
 
 Thefe begin in Edward the 
 Firft's Time (of which Reign 
 there is one Roll) from which 
 Time down to King James I, in- 
 clufive, they are in the Office of 
 the Clerk of the Pleas at fVeJtmin- 
 fler. 
 
 From Charles I, inclufive, to 
 this prefent Time , they are in 
 the Office at Lincoln's- Inn. 
 
 Rolls of Foreign Ac- 
 counts-^ containing Sub- 
 fidtes^ Aids-i &c. 
 
 Thofe few that are before the 
 Revolution, A. D. 1688, are ac 
 the Court of Exchequer at Weji- 
 minjler. 
 
 From that Time to the prefent, 
 they are at the Pipe-Office in Gray's- 
 Inn. 
 
 Bills, Anfwers, Depofitions, 
 Decrees, and other Pro- 
 ceedings in the Court of 
 Augmentations. 
 
 In the Reigns of Henry VIII, 
 and Edward VI, are fome in the 
 Augmentation-Office at Wejtminfter^ 
 and fome in the Chapter -Houfe., 
 Weftminjter, 
 
 From the Beginning of Queen 
 Mary to Charles I inclufive, thejr 
 are in the Augmentation-Office . 
 
 Fifteen Books of the Decrees 
 of this Court, from the twenty- 
 eighth Year of Henry VIII, A. D. 
 1536. (which was the Year imme- 
 diately following the Eredion of 
 the faid Court) to the End of the 
 Reign of Edward VI, A. D. i ^^^^ 
 are in a Cheft in the Kin^s Remem- 
 brancer's Office at the Court of 
 Exchequer^ H'''ejiminjler, 
 
 Leafei 
 2
 
 ( ip; ) 
 
 Leafes from the Crown. Rolls of Mm'ijiers Accounts. 
 
 In the Reigns of Henr-^ VIII, 
 Edward VI, Fhilip and Mary, 
 Queen Elizabeth^ and a few in the 
 Reign of Jamei I, are in the Aug- 
 mentation-OJJic/;, JVeJlminJier. 
 
 From the Beginning of the 
 Reign of 7«?»^i I, A.D. 1603, co 
 the prefent Time, are ac the Leafe- 
 Office in Grafi-Inn. 
 
 Before the Reign of Benr'<j VIII, 
 are in the Augment ationOffi.ce at 
 Weftminfter. 
 
 From the Reign of Henry VIII 
 to Charles 1 inclufive, they are, 
 fome in the Augmentatio)i-OffiLe y 
 and fome in Rooms over, or ad- 
 joy ning to the Exchequer, Wejlm'in- 
 Jler, in the Cuftody of the Audi- 
 tors of the Land Reven-ue, ■'"' -■'• 
 
 Conventual Leafes before 
 their Dtjfolutton. Sur- 
 renders of AbbteSj Mo- 
 nafiertes^ &c. 
 
 In the Reign of Henr'y VIII , 
 are in the Augmentation-Office. 
 
 Surrenders of feveral Monafte- 
 ries to Cardinal Wolfey, are at the 
 Chapter-Houfe, Weftminjler. 
 
 Court Rolls of Manors that 
 were formerly po[feJfed 
 by the Crown. 
 
 Are fome at the Receipt of the 
 Exchequer, and Chapter- Houfe, Wejl- 
 minfter, fome in the Augmentation- 
 Office, and fome in the Cuftody of 
 the Auditors of the Land Re- 
 venue. 
 
 The above Rolls are chiefly 
 from the Time of King Henry VII 
 to Charles I inclufive. 
 
 Books of Inrollment of 
 Grants in Fee, or for 
 Terms of Tears ^ from 
 the Crown. 
 
 From the latter End of the 
 Reign of Henry VIII, to this pre- 
 fent Time, are in the Cuftody of 
 the Auditors of the Land Reve- 
 nue at IVeJlminJler. 
 
 Surveys of Lands , Ma- 
 norSj &c. 
 
 Two of the moft ancient Books 
 of Record in the Realm, called 
 Domes-day, made in the twen- 
 tieth Year of IVilliajn I, furnamed 
 the Conqueror, A. D. 1085, one 
 containing the Counties of Effiex^ 
 Norfolk, and Suffolk, and the o- 
 ther containing the remaining 
 Counties of England, except Dur- 
 ham, Cumberland, Wejimerland, and 
 Northumberland, are at the Receipt 
 of the Exchequer, Wejlminfter. 
 
 Surveys of Lands, Manors, G?c, 
 formerly poflelTed by the Crown, 
 are fome in the Cuftody of the 
 Auditors of the Land Revenue, 
 
 fome
 
 ( ^9^) 
 
 fome in the jiugmentatlon-Officey 
 and fome at the Receipt of the 
 Exchequer, and Chapter- Houfe , 
 Wejltninjler. 
 
 Surveys of Ecclefiaftkal Certificates, of Colleges y 
 
 Benefices. Chantries^ &c. 
 
 In the Time of //£«r3i VIII, are In the Reign of Edward VI, 
 
 at the Firjl-Fruits Office. are in the Augmentation-Office. 
 
 Certificates of Ecclefiafii- Accounts of Revenues he- 
 
 cal Benefices dtfcharged longmg to the Colleges in 
 
 from Ftrfi Fruits and the two Univerfiitiest An- 
 
 Tenths. no 37 Hen. VIII. 
 
 Are at the Firft Fruits Office. 
 
 Are in two Books in the Aug- 
 mentation-Office. 
 
 Bills, Anfwers, Decrees, 
 and other Equity Pro- 
 ceedings in the Court of 
 Exchequer. 
 
 From the firft Year of Queen 
 Elizabeth, A. D. 1558, to the 
 prefcnt Time, are in the Kin£s 
 Remembrancer's Office, 
 
 Rolls of the Court of Exche- 
 quer, called Memoran- 
 da -J containing Proceed- 
 ings upon Scire Facial's 
 for recovering Debts due 
 to the Crown J &c. 
 
 From the Beginning of the 
 Reign of //f^r^) III, A.B. 121 6, 
 to the prefent Time, are in the 
 Kin^s Remsvihrancer'' s Office. 
 
 Rolls
 
 { ^97 ) 
 
 Rolls of the Court of Ex- 
 chequer, called Memo- 
 randa; contain wg^ Plea- 
 dings and Proceedings re^ 
 lattno to Tenures^ Fran- 
 chtfes^ Privileges, &c. 
 
 From the Beginning of the 
 Reign o'i Henr'^lW, J. D. 1216, 
 to the prefent Time, are in the 
 
 Treafurer^'s Remembrancer's Office. 
 
 Rolls of the Court of Ex- 
 chequer, called Origi- 
 naHa \ containing Ex^ 
 traBs of Patents and 
 Grants from the Crown. 
 
 From about the Beginning of 
 Henr'j III, A. D. 1216, to the 
 prefent Time, are in the 2>-ffl/a- 
 refi Remembrancer'' i Office. 
 
 Rolls of Pleas and Pro- Bijhofs Certificates of In" 
 ceedings m the Court of ft'ttutions and Patronages. 
 Exchequer: containing 
 
 nyf ^ ^ 1 ■ i< From the thirty-feventh of 
 
 . Matters relating to be- c^een ElizahetK A.B. 1594, to 
 
 clefiaflical Perfons and the prefent Time, are at the 
 
 Benefices, &C. Brji Fruits Office. 
 
 From the firfl: of Queen Ma- 
 ry, A. D. 1553, to the third of 
 George I, A. D. 1717, are in the 
 Firjl Fruits Office. 
 
 Records of the Dutchy Court of Lancaster. 
 
 Billsy Anfwers., Books of Min'iflers Accounts, Surveys 
 
 Orders and Decrees, and of Honors withm the faid 
 
 other Proceedings in the Dutchy, Leafes, Char- 
 
 Dutchy Court of Lanca- ters. Patents, &c. of 
 
 fter at Weftminfter. the faid Court. 
 
 In the Reign of Edward IV, 
 and from that Time down to the 
 prefent, are in the Office of the 
 Cieri< of the Council of the faid 
 Dutchy in Graf s- Inn. 
 
 From the twenty-fifth of Ed- 
 ward III, A. D. 1350, at which 
 Time the Dutchy and County Pala- 
 tine of Lancajler were erefted, and 
 Regifters of Grants, from the fifti- 
 eth of Henry III, A. D. 1265, when 
 that King granted the Earldom of 
 Lancajierto his fecond Son Edmundy 
 down to the prefent Time, are in 
 the Office of the Clerk of the 
 Council of the faid Dutchy in 
 Graf s- Inn, 
 D d d F. I.
 
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 F. I. 
 
 Rot. Claiif. 14 Edw. II. m. 22. 
 
 Tro Rege de fupervidendo Rotulos ^ al' &c. in Turri London' G? 
 Clericis necejjdriis minijlrand' . 
 
 REX Thefaurario & Baronibus fuis de Scaccario, ac Camerariis 
 fuis ibidem, Salutem. Quia, ut intelleximus, Res noftrse tam in 
 Thefauraria noftra quam in Turri noftra London' exillentes, ac etiam 
 Rotuli, Libri, & Memoranda alia didlum Scaccarium, de tcmporibus 
 Progenitorum noftrorum quondam Regum AngI' concingentia, non 
 ica bene difponuntur, ut pro Nobis & Republica expediret : Nos vo- 
 lentes in hac parte remedium adhiberi, Vobis mandamus quod ad 
 pragmifla omnia & fingula citra inftans feftum Sanfti Michaelis fuper- 
 vidend', difponend', & in Statum Competentem dirigend', aliquos de 
 Clericis noftris, tot videlicet & tales qui ad hoc fufEciunt, affignetis. 
 
 Tefte meipfo apud Weftm' vii die Augufti. 
 
 Per Breve de Privato Sigillo. 
 
 REX Thefaurario & Camerariis fuis, Salutem. Cum pro eo quod 
 intelleximus quod Res noftrje &c. ut fupra: Mandaverimus vo- 
 bis & Baronibus noftris de Scaccario noftro quod ad prasmiffa omnia &c 
 fingula citra inftans feftum Sanfl-i Michaelis fupervidend', difponend* 
 & in Statum Competentem dirigenda, aliquos de Clericis noftris, toc 
 videlicet & tales qui ad hoc fufficiant, aflignari faciant, [facials,] Vobis 
 mandamus quod prsedidlis Clericis, pro tempore quo circa praemifTa & 
 aliaqusein hac parte fuerint neceflaria contigerit immorari, Expenfas 
 rationabiles habere faciatis. 
 
 Tefte ut fupra. 
 
 Per Breve de Privato Sigillot 
 
 Rot. Clauf. 16 Edw. II. m. 19. dorfo. 
 De Bullis, Scrtptis, Carfis, C^c. in Kalendari certo ponendis. 
 
 REX Thefaurario & Camerariis fuis, Salutem. Quia volumus 
 quod omnesBuilas Papales, & omnia alia. Carts, Scripta & Memo- 
 randa, Nos & Statum noftrum ac Libertates noftras[f«] Angl', Hibern*, 
 Waliia, Scotia & Pontivo, contingentia, & tam in Thefauraria noftra 
 fubcuftodia veftra, quam in Garderoba noftra & alibi in diverfis Locis 
 exiftentia, in certo Kalendari ponantur&arraientur per aliquos fufficientes 
 pervos ad hoc fumptibus noftris deputand',proutvos[w^»Jpr2efateThes', 
 
 1 per
 
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 per Nos plenius eft injundum, Vobis mandamus quod priemifTa, quam 
 citius commodius fieri poteric, fieri faciatis, & illis, quos ad hoc depu- 
 taveritis, fumpcus fuos neceflarios de Thefauro noftro liberecis. 
 
 Tefte Regc apud Ebor' tertio die Decembr*. 
 
 Per ipftim Regem. 
 
 Rot. Pat. i6 Edw. II. p. i. m. 28. 
 
 De Scrutinio Cartarum &c. faciend*. 
 
 REX omnibus ad quos &c. Salutem. Sciatis quod Afllgnavimus 
 dileflos Clericos noftros Robertum de Hoton & Thomam de 
 SibthorpadScrutand', Arraiand', &Re6loOrdine ponend', Cartas no- 
 ftras, fcripca, & omnia alia Munimenta noftra in Caftris noftris de 
 Ponte Fradto, Tuttebury, & Tonebrigge exiftentia, necnon ilia quae 
 de novo venerunt & funt in cuftodia Cuftodis Turris noftrse London', 
 & etiam omnia ilia quas funt in Domo Fratrum Prasdicatorum infra 
 Civitatem noftram London'. In cujus &c. 
 
 Tefte Rege apud Aldewerk xxiiii die Julii. 
 
 Per Breve de Privato Sigillo. 
 
 Et mandatum eft fingulis Cuftodibus, & Conftabulariis Caftrorum 
 praediftorum, ac Priori Ordinis Fratrum Prsedicatorum London' quod 
 ipfos Robertum & Thomam, Caftra, & Turrim, & Domum didlorum 
 Fratrum ex caufa pra^difta ingredi permittant, &: eis Cartas, Scripta, 
 & alia munimenta Regis in eifdem exiftentia liberari fac' ad eadem fcru- 
 tanda & refto ordine ponend', juxta tenorem Literarum prjedidarum, 
 eifque in prasmiffis fint confulentes & auxiliantes, prout pro Expedi- 
 tione negotii illius melius fuerit faciend'. 
 
 Tefte ut fupra. 
 
 Rot. Clauf. 14 Edw. III. p. 2. m. 10. dorfo; 
 Memorandum de Liberatione Rotulorum Cancellario; Regis. 
 
 MEmorandum quod die Sabbati fecundo die Decembris omnia, 
 Rotuli, Bundell', & Memorand' de Cancellar', quas in Hofpitio 
 Domini Johannis de Sandto Paulo tunc Cuftodis Rotulorum ejufdem 
 Cancellaria: extiterunt, de prascepto Domini Regis ufque Turrim Lon- 
 don' mifta, & ibidem Domino Willielmode Kyldeftjy Cuftodi Privati 
 Sigilli ejufdem Domini Regis, per Willielmum de Emeldon Clericum 
 praedi£t;i Domini Johannis, liberata fuerunt, & fie in eadem Turri in 
 Cuftodia ejufdem Willielmi de Kyldefby ufque ad diem Mercurii prox* 
 poft feftum Circumcifionis Domini prox' fequen' detinebantur, quo die 
 omnes Rotuli, Bundel', & Memoranda, qui fuerunt in quatuor Bagis, 
 videlicet de ifto anno, de prjecepto ejufdem Willielmi Domino Thomse 
 de Eveftiam, qui coram Domino Roberto de Burghchier Cancellar', & 
 praefato Willielmo de Kyldeft)y, ac aliis de Concilio didi Domini Regis 
 
 apud
 
 ( 2C0 ) 
 
 apud Weftm' Sacramentum prseftitic de Officio Cuftodis Rotulorum 
 CancellarijB pr^diftse fideliter taciend', liberari extiterunt, & omnes alii 
 Roculi prsdifli adhuc in Cuftodia ejufdem WiiJielmi de Ki^defby in 
 Turri prsedidta morantur, & poftmodum die Martis prox' feqaen' om- 
 nia difta, Roculi, Bundell' & Memoranda qu£ fie in Cuftodia prjedidli 
 Willielmi in didta Turri remanferunt, videlicet in decern & odo Bagis de 
 Canevace, &unofaculo deCorio, unacum quodam MagnoHanaperiode 
 diverfis Indencuris, ac Clavibus Ciftarum in eadem Turri refidtntium, 
 in quibus quidem Ciftis diverfa alia, Roculi, Bundell', & Memoranda in- 
 cluduntur, prsfato Thomse liberac' excicerunt". 
 
 Roc. Clauf. II Edw.III. p. 2. m. i^. confimile Memorandum uc 
 fupra. 
 
 Rot. Clauf. 34 Edw. III. p. i. m. 15. 
 lie DefeSlibus Domus, pro Rotulis Cancellar' ordinatie, reparand'. 
 
 REX dilefto Clerico fuo Willielmo de Lambhich Superviforl Ope- 
 racionum noftrarum in Turri noftra London' Salucem. Quia 
 quamplures Defeftus cam in Coopertura quam in Oltiis & Feneftris cu- 
 juidam Domus infra Turrirti pffedidam, in qua Roculos & alia Memo- 
 randa Cancellar', cam de cempore Progenicorum noftrorum quondam 
 Reoum Angl', quam noftro, pro Salva & Secura Cuftodia Rotulorum 
 &Memorandorum prsdiftorum, reponifecimus, exiftunc, uCaccepimus, 
 per quod dampnum maximum & periculum eifdem Rotulis & Memo- 
 randis, nifi defeftus illi cicius reparencur, de facili poflent evenire, Nos 
 volenccs pro Salvatione Rotulorum & Memorandorum prsdidorum 
 prout convenic providere, Vobis mandamus quod omnes Defedus 
 Domus prjedids fupervideacis, & defedus illos fine dilacione reparari 
 & emendari, necnon tres Almorias infra Domum prsedicftam, pro fe- 
 curiori Cuftodia Roculorum & Memorandorum eorundem, de novo fie- 
 ri fi\ciatis, &: de Cuftubus quos in hac parte apponeritis, vobis in 
 Compoto veftro debitam allocacionem habere faciemus. 
 
 Tefte Rege apud Weftm' xx die Augufti. 
 
 Per tpfum Regetn. 
 
 Rot, Clauf. 36 Edw. III. m. 25. De defedlibus Turris pro Rotu- 
 lis Cancellarije infra Turrim London' tam in Coopertura quam ia 
 Oftiis, Feneftris, Seruris & Clavibus reparand'. 
 
 F. 11.
 
 ( Jo> ) 
 
 F. II. 
 
 Placita coram Domino Rege apud Wcjlm' de Termino 
 PafchcE Anno R. R. E. tertii a Conquejlu Anglic vice- 
 Jimo quinto. 
 
 Ad hue de Tcrmino Tafchce. W. de Sharejhull. 
 
 Rot- 7'- T^Oti'^ii^s ^^'^ mandavit diledlo & fideli fuo Willielmo de Sharefhull 
 X^ capitalijuftic' fuo Breve fuum claufum in hsc Verba, "Edwardus 
 Dei Gratia Rex Angl' & Franc' & Dominus Hibern' diledo & fideli 
 fuo Willielmo de SharefliuU capicali Juftic' fuo faiucem. Mandamus 
 vobis, quod omnia Roculos, Recorda, & alia Memoranda Placita co- 
 ram nobis tangentia, ab Anno Regni Angl' primo ufquead finem ejuf- 
 dem Regni noflri tertium decimum, fine dilatione mittatis ad Scacca- 
 rium noltrum Tiies' &Camerariis noftris ibidem liberanda ; & hoc nul- 
 latenus omittatis. T. meipfo apud Weftm' xxii die Januarii Anno 
 R. noflri Angl' vicefimo quarto, R. vero noftri Francis undecimo". 
 Prjetextu cujus Brevis idem Willielmus liberavit Venerabili Patri W. 
 Epifcopo Wynton' Thefaurario fuo apud Weftm' Rotulos, Recorda & 
 Memoranda, prout continetur in quadam Indentura inde fada, qus qui- 
 dem Indentura fequitur in hsc verba; Memorandum, quod Termino 
 Pafchse Anno Regni Regis E. tertii poft conqueftum vicefimo quinto, 
 Willielmus de Sharefhull capitalis Juftitiarius Domini Regis ad Placita 
 coram Rege tenenda afiignatus Praetextu cujufdam Brevis Domini Re- 
 gis fibi direfti, quod quidem Breve Rotulo Ixxi inter communia Placita 
 irrotulatur, liberavit venerabili inChrifto Patri W. Wynton' Epifcopo 
 & Thefaurario Domini Regis & Camerariis ipfius Regis Rotulos, Bre- 
 via, & Memoranda de Placea Domini Regis, ab Anno Regni ejufdem 
 Regis Angl' primo ufque annum tertium decimum ejufdem Domini 
 Reg. videlicet, De Anno primo quatuor groflx)s Rotulos Placito- 
 rum, Tres Ligulas Brevium, Rotulos Eflbn', Recorda cum prseceptis 
 eifdem annexis & Panellis, de toto Anno primo prsdido ; de Anno 
 fccundo quatuor grolTos Rotulos Placitorum, quatuor Ligulas Brevium, 
 Rotulos Eflbniorum, Recorda cum prasceptis eifdem annexis, & pa- 
 nellis de toto anno fecundo predifto ; & fie de Anno in Annum ufque 
 ad Annum tertium decimum Tot Rotulos Placitorum, Ligulas Bre- 
 vium, Rotulos Eflbniorum, Ligulas de Recordis cum Prsceptis & Pa- 
 nellis ficut in Anno fecundo fuperius continetur. In cujus rei teftimo- 
 nium prasdiftus Willielmus de Sharefhull parti hujus Indenture penes 
 pr^efatos Camerarios remanentiSigillum fuum appofuit, alteri vero parti 
 penes diftum Willielmum remanenti prasfati Thefaurarius & Camerarii 
 Sigillum Officii fui appofuerunt. 
 
 Data apud Weftm' die Veneris in craftino Afcenfionis Domini, Anno 
 Regni Regis Edwardi tertii poft Conqueftum Angl' vicefimo 
 quinto. 
 
 E e e Placita
 
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 Placita coram Domitio Rege apud Weft?n' de 'Termhio 
 PafchcE, Anno R. R. E. tertii poji Con^uejium tricefimo 
 quinto. H. Grene. 
 
 Rot. 70. Jclhuc de Tennino P.7fch(e. H. Grene. 
 
 InDorfo. fT. TkyTEMORANDUM quod die Mercuril proxima pofl tres 
 
 XVa feptimanas Pafchs hoc Anno qusdam Indentura fa6ta fu- 
 
 it apud Wellm' inter Dominum Willielmum de Sharefhull Militem 
 
 ex una parte, & Dominum Hcnricum Grene Militem ex altera parte in 
 
 hrec verba. Hasc Indentura f.ida inter Dominum Willielmum de 
 
 Sharefhull Militem ex una parte, & Dominum Henricum Grene Militem 
 ex altera, teftatur, quod idem Dominus Willielmus die Mercurii proxi- 
 ma poft tres feptimanas Pafchse Anno Regni Regis Edwardi tertii pod 
 Conqueftum tricefimo quinto liberavit didlo Domino Henrico per Breve 
 Domini Regis Rotulos, Record.i, ProceflTus, Indidlamenta, & omnia alia 
 Memoranda, Bancum Domini Regis tangentia, Subfcripta, videlicet, 
 Rotulos Placitorum, Reccrda, Brevia, Eflbnia, Panella, cum Brevibus 
 AfTifarum retorn' & coram Dom.ino Rtge capt', & Billas Originales 
 terminat' cum prasceptis earundem de Terminis Hillarii, Palchse, 
 Trinitatis & Michaelis, de Annis Regni Regis Edwardi tertii poft 
 Conqueftum, tertiodecimo, quartodecimo, quintodecimo, fextodeci- 
 mo, decimo feptimo, decimo oduvo, decimo nono, vicefimo, vice- 
 fimo primo, vicefimo fecundo, vicefimo tertio, vicefimo quarto, vice- 
 fimo quinto, vicefimo fexto, vicefimo feptimo, vicefimo odavo. vi- 
 cefimo nono, tricefimo, trirfimo primo, tricefimo fecundo, trie; fin.o 
 tertio, tricefimo quarto, &c de toto Termino Sanfti Hillarii Anno 
 Regni Regis fupradicti tricefimo quinto, pra^ter Rotulum Placitorum, 
 Recorda, Bievia, Effonia, Panella, & Billas de Termino SanftjE Tri- 
 nitatis Anno Regni fupradidi Regis vicefimo tertio, quo Termino 
 *Sic. null'i fu't^ * Ce.ffio Juftic' de Banco Domini Regis propter tern- 
 pus Peftilentise ; Item feptuaginta & quinque Bagas cum diverfis Prs- 
 fentationibus Feloniarum & Tranfgreffionum, Billis tranfgrefiionum, 
 Prseceptis, & aliis Memorandis coram Domino Rege in diverfis Comi- 
 tatibus, & etiam coram diverfis Julticiariis in diverfis Comitatibus cap- 
 tis & poftmodum coram Rege milfis j Item Centum quater viginti & 
 novem Pyxides; Item quandam parvam Forceram cum Cuneis Ferr* 
 & aliis Inftrumentis ad falfam monetam fabricandam ; Item Librum, 
 fuper quo Juratur. 
 
 In cujus Rei Teftimonium huic Indenture prsdidli Domini Williel- 
 mus & Henricus Sigilla fua alternatim appofuerunt. 
 
 Dat' Die & Anno fupradiftis. 
 
 F. III.
 
 { 103 ) 
 
 F. III. 
 
 Anno tertio Regis Edwardi Tertii. 
 
 EDWARD US Dei Gratia Rex Angliae, Dominus Hibernise, & 
 Dux Aquicanis, Thelaurario & Camerariis fuis falucem. Cum 
 conftituerimus dileftum & fidelem noftrum Johannem de Stonore ca- 
 pitalem Jull'iciarium nollrum de Banco ad Placica in eodeni Banco 
 una cum aliis fidLJibus noftris fecundijm Legem & Conruetudinem 
 Regni Noftri tenenda, quamdiu nobis placuerit, & mandaverlmus di- 
 ledto & fideli noftro Willielmo de Herle, quod Rotulos, & omnia 
 alia officium illud tangentia, qus in cuftodia lua exiftunt, ad Scaccan- 
 um noftrum fine dilatione venire faceret, vobis per Indenturam inde 
 conficiendam liberanda ; Vobis mandamus, quod Rotulos, & omnia 
 aliadiftum officium tangencia, quas prsfatus Wiilielmus vobis, ur prse- 
 mitfitur, liberabit, prEefato Jolianni per Indenturam modo debito in- 
 de conficiendam liberetis, ad facienda ea, quse ad officium fuum perti- 
 nent in hac parte. 
 
 Tefte meipfo apud Glouceftriani tertio Die Septembris, Anno 
 Resni nollri tertio. 
 
 ^O' 
 
 Per qfutn Regem i^ ConfiUum. 
 
 AnM OSiavo ejiifdem Regis. 
 
 EDWARDUS Dei Gratia Rex Anglia;, Dominus Hibernise, & 
 Dux Aquitanije, diledto Clerico fuo Ad^e de Stayngreve falutem. 
 Mandamus vobis, quod omnia Brevia, Recorda, & Memoranda, quse in 
 Cuftodia veftra de ultimo itinere Kane' adhuc exirtunt, ut dicitur, fine 
 dilatione habeatis ad Scaccarium noftrum, Thefaurario & Camerariis 
 noilris ibidem liberanda, una cum hoc Brevi. Mandavimus enim 
 eifdem Thefaurario & Camerariis, quod Brevia, Recorda, & Memo- 
 randa hujufinodi a vobis recipiant cuftodienda, prouc decet. 
 
 Tefte meipfo apud Ebor' vigefimo tertio Die Februarii, Anno 
 Regni noftri odavo. 
 
 Placita apud Wejlrn coram Roberto Bealknapp" G? Sociis 
 fuis Jujiic' Domini Regis de Banco de Termino SanSfce 
 T^rinitatis Anno Regni Regis Ricardi fecundi prima. 
 
 Rot. i.-pv OMINUS Rex mandavit Juftic' fuis hie Breve fuum 
 
 !_>/ claulum in haec verba. Ricardus Dei Gratia, Rex An- 
 
 gl', & Jtranc', & Dominus Hibern' diledo, & fideli fuo Roberto 
 
 5 Bealknapp*
 
 ( i04 ) 
 
 Bealknapp' falutem. Cum conftituerimus vos Capitalem Juftic' no- 
 ftrum de communi Banco, quamdiu nobis placuent, prouc in Liceris 
 noftris Patentibus inde confeftis plenius continetur ; Volumus, quod 
 omnes Rotuli de tempore Celebris Memorije Domini E. nuper Recris 
 Angl', Avi noftri in cuftodia veftra ex commifllone ejufdem Avi no- 
 ftri exiftentes in Cuftodia veftra remaneant; Ira quod Roculos illos 
 coram vobis & Sociis veftris Juftic' noftris in eodem Banco habearis 
 adjuftitiam omnibus, quorum intereft, quotiens opus fuerit, fecundum 
 Legem & Confuecudinem Regni noftri Angl' inde faciendam, quoufqje 
 aliud inde duxerimus ordinandum : Et hoc vobis innotefcimus per prse- 
 fentes. 
 
 Tefte meipfo apud Weftm' vicefimo odavo Diejunii, Anno 
 Regni noftri primo. 
 
 ^nno decimo qiiinto Regis Henrici Sexti. 
 
 HENRICUS Dei Gratia Rex Anglias, & Francias, & Dominus 
 Hibernije, diledlo &: fideli fuo Joiianni Juyn capitali Jufticiario 
 luo de Banco Salutem, Mandamus vobis, quod omnia Recorda, & 
 Proceftus, ac Eflbnia, ab Anno vicefimo nono Domini E. nuper Re- 
 gis Angliae tertii poft conqueftum, ufque Annum primum carifTimi 
 Domini & Avi noftri Henrici nuper Regis Anglise defundi, in Banco 
 pr^edifto cum Rotulis & Memorandis, & omnibus aliis ea cangenti- 
 bus, habeatis ad Scaccarium noftrum indilate Thefaurario & Camera- 
 riis noftris ibidem liberanda, in Thefauraria noftra, prout moris eft, 
 cuftodienda : Et habeatis ibi hoc Breve. 
 
 Tefte meipfo apud Weftm' decimo quinto Die Oftobris Anno 
 Regni noftri quinto decimo. 
 
 His Majejlfs Warrant for a Precept to remove Records outqftk 
 Common-Pleas into the Exchequer. ^ 
 
 Charles R. 
 
 w 
 
 "HERE AS We have received credible Information, that the 
 T y Plea Rolls of our Court of Common-Pkas, being grown very 
 numerous, do not only begin to perifh for want of convenient Room 
 in the Treafury where they now lye, but for want of Calenders unco 
 them are utterly ufelefs to our good Subjedts : Thefc are therefore to 
 authorize you to feal a Precept direfted to the Lord Chief Juftice of 
 that our Court of Common Pleas, for the fpeedy Delivery of all fuch 
 Plea Rolls, from the End of the Reign of King Richard the Second, 
 until the Beginning of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth, as are 
 now in your Cuftody in the faid Treafury, unto the Treafurer and 
 Chamberlains of our Exchequer, to be by them kept and fitted with 
 proper Calenders, as the reft of that kind until the End of the faid 
 
 Reign
 
 ( "5 ) 
 
 Reign of King Edward the Second are. And for fo doing this fhall 
 be your Warrant. 
 
 Given at our Court at Whitehall^ the fifth Day of December 1667. 
 
 To our right Trujly mdlFell-belovedCounfellor 
 Sir Orlando Bridgcman, Knt. and Bart. 
 Keeper of our Great Seal of England. 
 
 CAROLUS Secundus, &c. DileftoSj Fidel' fuo Orlando Bridge- 
 man Mil' & Bar' Capital' Jufticiar' fuo de Banco, Salucem. Man- 
 damus vobis, quod omnia Record* & ProcelTusac ElTonia veftraab An. 
 uk' Regni Ricardi Secundi R. Angl' predeceflbr' noftri ufque Annum 
 primum Regni Edwardi Sexti, itidem R. Angl' ac predecefTor' noftri 
 in Banco prsediClo terminac', quse in Cuftodiaveftra exiftunc, ut dicicur, 
 cum Rotulis & Memorand' & omnibus al' ea tangen' habeatis ad Scac- 
 carium noftrum indilate Thefaurar' & Camerar' noftris ibidem liberand' 
 in TheAiurar' noftro, prout moris, eft Cuftodiend'. Et habeatis ibi hoc 
 Bieve. Tell' 16° Dec. An. Regni noftri 19. 
 
 DileHo y Fidel* fuo Orlando Bridgeman 
 MW y Bar* Capital* Jufticiar* fuo 
 dg Banco. De Record* is? Procei'y 
 i£c. deliberand*. 
 
 H 
 
 ■^C Indentura teftatur, quod per Breve Domini Regis noftri 
 
 Caroli Secundi, fub magno Sigillo Anglise, direftum dilefto, & 
 
 fideli fuo Johanni Vaughan Militi Capitali Jufticiario fuo de Banco, 
 de Recordis deliberandis, & per Warantum ejufdem Johannis direftum 
 Georgio Ingram Armigero, Cuftodi Recordorum in Curia communi- 
 um Placitorum, Robcrius Long Baronettus, Clericus, five Deputatus 
 Dominorum Commiffionariorum pro execucione Officii Domini The- 
 fauraiii, & Edwardus Fauconberge, & Johannes Lowe Generofi, Cle- 
 rici, five D'-putati Camerariorum Scaccarii Domini Regis, receperunt 
 de eodem Georgio Ingram omnia ilia Recorda, Rotulos & Memora- 
 bilia ejufdem Curie, a Fine Regni Domini Ricardi Secundi quondam 
 Regis Anglie, ufque ad primum Annum Regni Domini Henrici Oc- 
 tavi quondam Regis Anglie, in Thefauro Recepte Scaccarii Domini 
 Regis Caroli Secundi per diftos CommifTionarios pro Thefaurario, & 
 Camerarios ibidem cuftodienda, que continentur in quadam Scedula 
 huic Indenture annexa. In cujus Rei Teftimonium Sigilla Scaccarii 
 Recepte, & prasdidi Georgii, funt appenfa. 
 
 Data apud Weftm' primoDie Augufti, Anno R. R. Caroli Secun- 
 di vicefimo fecundo, Annoque Domini 1670. 
 
 Fff F. IV.
 
 { loii) 
 
 F. IV. 
 
 WHEREAS there are remaining in the Cuftody of the Six 
 Clerks of the Court of Chancery divers Bundles of BilU, An- 
 fwers, Depofitions of Witnefles, and other Pleadings in form r King's 
 Reigns until the firll Year of the Reign of his Majefty, that now i.i, 
 which are in Danger to receive Prejudice for want of convenient Room 
 in their Office to keep the fame in, for which there is no Place in tr.e 
 Chapel of the Rolls to lay the fame in -, In which Cafe it is mofl: conve- 
 nient to remove the fame to the Tower of London, where rhfy are 
 likely .o be in moft Safety for the Service of his Majefty and People (if 
 any Contingency by Fire or the like Hiould come:) Thele arc there- 
 fore to require and authorife you to receive irom the Six Clerks afore- 
 faid, all the faid Bundles of Bills, Anfwers, Depofitions of WitnellfS, 
 and other Pleadings, with the Filing Books belonging thereunto, in 
 their Cuftody, until the firft Year of his now Majefty's Reign, to be 
 kept by you in your Office in the Tower of London. And for fo do- 
 ing this Ihall be your Warrant. 
 
 Dated the twenty-fourth Day of Jul-j 1671. 
 
 HAR. GRIMSTON. 
 
 To Sir Algernoone May Knight, Clerk of 
 his Majejlfs Records of the Court of Chan- 
 cery within the Tower of London, or his 
 Deputy there. 
 
 REceived this eighteenth Day oi O^foher 1671, oi Matthew Pindar, 
 Efq; one of the Six Clerks of the Court of Chancery, into the 
 Tower of London, by Virtue of the Order above mentioned, ninety 
 one Bundles of Bills and Anfwers, and thirty large Bundles of Com- 
 miffions, and one Bundle of fingle Bills ; all of them being before 
 and unto che Year- 1649. 
 
 SAMUEL WISEMAN, Clerk to Sir 
 ALGERNOONE MAY, Kmght , 
 Keeper of his Majejlfs Records in the 
 Tower of London. 
 
 F. V.
 
 107 ) 
 
 F. V. 
 
 WHEREAS there are remaining in the Ciiftody of the Six 
 Clerks of the Court of Chancery, divers Bundles of Bills, An- 
 fwers, Depofitions of Witneffes, and other Pleadings, from the Be- 
 ginning of the Reign of King Charles the Second, of Glorious Memo- 
 ry, to this Time, which are become fo numerous, that they art- ia 
 Danger to receive Prejudice for want of conveni<-nt Room in their Of- 
 fice to keep the fame in , for which there is no Place in the Ch.ipel of 
 the Rolls to lay the fame in; In which Cafe it is moft convenient and 
 neceffary, according to former Ufage, to remove the fame to the 
 Tower of London, where they are likely to be in moft Safety for the 
 Service of her Majefty and People, from the Contingency of Fire and 
 other Accidents : Thefe are therefore to require and authorife you 
 forthwith to remove and tranfmit fafely ('by Land and not by Water) 
 to her Majefty's Tower of London, all the faid Bundles of Bills, An- 
 fwers, Depofitions of Witnefles, and other Pleadings covered m good 
 and proper Forrells, with the Filing Books or Calendars belonging 
 thereunto in your Divifion and Cuftody, from the Beginning of the 
 Reign of King Charles the Second, of glorious Memory, to the firft 
 Year of the Reign of King James the Second, of glorious Memory, 
 to be fafely kept amongft her Majefty's Records in the faid Tower of 
 Tendon, by the proper Officer there : And for fo doing this Iliali be 
 your Warrant. 
 
 Dated this fixth Day of Augiijl lyiz. 
 
 J. TREVOR. 
 
 To Bafil Heme Efq; fenior Six Clerk 
 of the Court of Chancery ; Or in 
 his Abfsnce, to Mr. Benjamine 
 Renolins his Deputy. 
 
 F. VI. 
 
 WHEREAS there are remaining in the Cuftody of the Six 
 Clerks of the Court of Chancery, divers Bundles of Bills, An- 
 fwers, Depofitions ofWitneffes, and other Pleadings, from the Be- 
 ginning of the Reign of King Charles the Second, of glorious Memo- 
 ry, to this Time, which are become fo numerous, that they are in 
 Danger to receive Prejudice for want of convenient Room in their 
 Office to keep the fame in, for which there is no Place in the Chapel 
 of the Rolls to lay the fame in ; in which Cafe it is moft convenient 
 and neceffary, according to former Ufage, to remove the fame ro the 
 
 Tower
 
 ( xo8 ) 
 
 Tower of Loitdofi, where they are likely to be in moft Safety, for the 
 Service of her Majefty and People, from the Contingency of Fire, 
 and ocher Accidents: Thefe are therefore to require and authorize 
 you to receive from the feveral and refpedive Six Clerks aforefaid, 
 all the faid Bundles of Bills, Anfwers, Depofuions of WitnefTes, and 
 other Pleadings, with the Filing Books or Calendars belonging there- 
 unto, in their Cuftody, from the Beginning of the Reign of King 
 Charles the Second, of glorious Memory , to the firfl Year of the 
 Reign of King James the Second, of glorious Memory, to be fafely 
 kept by you in your Office in the Tower oi London, amongft her Ma- 
 jefty's Records there-, upon Delivery whereof you are to give your 
 Receipt; and for fo doing this Ihall be your Warrant. 
 
 Dated the fixth Day of Attguft 171 2. 
 
 To Richard Topham Efq; Clerk of her Ma- 
 jfy^'s Records of the Court of Chancery 
 within the Tower e/" London, or his De- 
 
 futy there. 
 
 J. TREVOR. 
 
 E VII. 
 
 GULIELMUS Tertius Dei Gratia Angl', Scot', Franc', & 
 Hibern' Rex, Fidei Defenfor &c. Diledlo & fideli noftro Willi- 
 elmo Petyt Armigero Cuftodi Recordorum & Archivorum nodroruni 
 in Turri noflra London' remanentium, Salutem. Qiioddam Breve no- 
 ftrum c Curia Cancellar' noftra nuper emanatum chariflimo Confangui- 
 neo & Confiliario noftro Carolo Duci Shrewfbury principali Secreta- 
 rio noftro directum ad certiorandam quandam Aflbciationem in fcriptis 
 fadtam, & nobis prefentatam per Milites, Cives & Burgenfes in Parlia- 
 ment' in Menfe Aprilis Anno Domini 1696, afTemblat' ac omnes alias 
 Aft'oriaiiones per Communes Angl* fadas & fubfcriptas, necnon Retorn' 
 ipfius Caroli Ducis Shrewfbury in dorfo ejufdem Brevis fcript' una cum 
 fcparal' Aflbciacion', & fcripc' inde prsdift', & particulariter in qul- 
 bufdam Schedulis eidem Brevi annex' mencionat' & nobis in Cancel- 
 lar' noftram retornat', tibi mittimus prefentibus intercluf, mandanies 
 quod feperal' Afibciation' & fcript' Alfociation' pr.T£didl' cum omnibus 
 ea tange.n' accipis, & eas inter Recorda noftra infra Turrim noftram 
 London' deponis, & affilas ad prefervandum & falvo cuftodienduni 
 eadem imperpetuum fecundum veram Intentionem, & tenorena Brevis 
 noftri de certiorand' & harum prefentium. 
 
 Teftibus Thoma Archiepifcopo Cantuar', & ceteris Cuftodibus 
 & Jufticiar' Regni apud Weftm' decimo die Augufti, Anno 
 Regni noftri nono. 
 
 TREVOR DAULING. 
 
 c Refolved,
 
 ( iop ) 
 
 Refolved Nemiiie Cofitradicentey 
 
 TH A T an humble Addrefs be prefented to His Majefty, that he 
 will be gracioufly pleafed to give fuch Direftions, as he in his 
 great Wifdom fhall think proper, for the better Reception and more 
 convenient Ufe of the Publick Records of this Kingdom, and parti- 
 cularly of the Cottoiiian Library, and to aflure His Majefty, that what- 
 ever extraordinary Expence fhall be incurred for thefe Purpofes, this 
 Houfe will make good the fame. 
 
 Ordered, 
 
 That a Committee be appointed to draw up an Addrefs, to be pre- 
 fented to His Majefty, upon the faid Refolution. 
 And a Committee was appointed accordingly. 
 
 Ordered, 
 That the faid Report and Appendix be referred to the faid Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 Mercuru lo Dte Mali 17^1. 
 
 Mr. Winnhigton reported from the Committee appointed Yefterday 
 to draw up an Addrefs to be prefented to His Majefty, that the 
 Committee had drawn up an Addrefs accordingly, which they had di- 
 refted him to report to the Houfe ; and he read the fame in his 
 Place, and afterwards delivered it in at the Table, where the fi;me 
 was read, a-nd agreed unto by the Houfe Nemine Contradicente, and is 
 as followeth, viz. 
 
 Most Gracious Sovereign, 
 
 WE Tour MajeJIy's mojl Dutiful and Loyal SubjeHs the Commons of 
 Great Britain in Parliament ajfembled, having taken into our Con- 
 ftderation the great Colle^ion of valuable Records belonging to this Na- 
 tion, and the Necejfity of tranfmitting them down fafe and entire for 
 the Ufe of our Pojlerity, humbly beg heave to reprefent to Your Majefly^ 
 the State, in which we found them, together with the Inconveniencies, that 
 may ar'ife from their remaining in their frefent Situation. 
 
 A great Tart of the Cottonian Library, with the Variety of curious 
 and ufeful Matters therein contained, has (nolwithflanding the late Fire 
 at Afhburnham Houfe) by the great Diligence and Attention of the 
 I'ruflees been -preferved : And that the Publick may not for Want of 
 due Care be gradually deprived of fo noble and generous a Benefaction, 
 We beg Leave to recommend it in the mofi particidar Manner to Tour 
 Majeflfs Confiderationy Favour, and Prote£lion. 
 
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 ^he feveral Places ajftgned for the Prefervatlon of all thefe inejiimahle 
 Monuments of Antiquity are too narrow and confined for their Reception^ 
 and fome of them in a very ruinous and dangerous Condition. 
 
 We find alfo fome Records not depofited in their proper Offices., hut 
 either remaining in private Hands, or in Places not affiled for pullick 
 Records, nor under the Care of any fated Officer. 
 
 Nor has the antient Method of removing Records from the Offices, 
 wherein they are originally formed, to fuch Places, as are appointed ta 
 preferve them, been duly obfervsd, chiefly for Want of Room in the pre- 
 fent Offces allot led for their Reception. 
 
 Great Inconveniencies have arifen to the Inquirers after this iifeful 
 Knowledge, not only from thefe Difficulties, but alfo from the undiftin- 
 guifhed and confufed Manner, in which fome of the Records of this King- 
 dom have been kept, there being no general Calendars or Indexes to the 
 whole, which with proper Encouragement may he co?fiplcated hy Perfons 
 of Skill and Ability , and would probably bring to Light many material 
 Remains of Antiquity, which from the Difficulty of Accefs have long lain 
 unknown and negle£ied, 
 
 'the prefent fhort Enquiry, imperfeB as it is, has produced an In- 
 flame of this, hy difcovering amongfl the ancient Records, That Directions 
 for Works of this Kind have been formerly given hy Tour Majefly's 
 Royal Predeceffors. 
 
 Tour faithful Commons beg Leave further humbly to reprefent to Tour 
 Majefly, That as the puhlick Inter efl is concerned in providing more fe- 
 cure and decent Repofitorics for the Records of this Kingdom, fo the pub- 
 lick Faith is engaged for the better Reception and Prefervation of the Cot- 
 t-onian Library^ fo generoufiy given for the puhlick Service. 
 
 And as there is at prefent little or 710 Allowance to the Keeper of the 
 faid Library, We humbly fubmit it to Tour Majeflfs Confideration, whe- 
 ther if a proper and reafonable Stipend were granted to him, it would not 
 engage him to perform his Duty with greater Care and Ddigence. 
 
 Having thus with the greateft Humility laid the State of the Records 
 of this Kingdom, and of the Cottonian Library before Tour Majefly, We 
 afflire Ourfelves, that it will he intirely agreeable to Tour Majefly's graci- 
 ous Difpofition to tranfmit to future Ages thefe Monuments and Remains of 
 Antiquity, fo neceffary and ufefid to the Knowledge and Prefervation of 
 Our excellent Ccnflitution, which we hope will go down to Poflerity toge- 
 ther with the Family, under which it now flourijhes, as infeparable and per- 
 petual Bleffings to this Nation. 
 
 Tour Faithful Commons do therefore mofl humbly befeech Tour Majefly^ 
 that Tou will he gracioufly pleafed to give fuch DireElions (as Tour Majefly 
 in Tour great Wifdom fhall think fit) for the better Reception, and more 
 convenient Ufe of the publick Records of this Kingdom, and of the Cotto- 
 nian Library. 
 
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 And we beg Leave further to ajfiire Your Majejl'^, that whatever ex- 
 traordlnary Expences are incurred by the Dire£lions, Tour Majejly in Tour 
 great IViJdom Jljall think fit to give on this Occafion, fhall with great 
 Cheat fulnefs and Unanimity be provided for and made good by Tour Faith- 
 ful Commons. 
 
 Ordered, 
 That the faid Addrefs be prefented to His Majefty by fuch Mem- 
 bers of this Houle, as are of His Majefty's molt Honourable Privy 
 Council. 
 
 Jov'is II Dte Mail 1732. 
 
 Mr. Comptroller reported to the Houfe, that their Addrefs of ye- 
 fterday had been prefenced to His Majefty ; and that His Majefty had 
 commanded him to acquaint this Houfe, that he will give Directions 
 according to the faid Addrefs. 
 
 Ordered, 
 That Sir Thomas Robinfon have Leave to make a Motion, it being af- 
 ter Three of the Clock; 
 
 And he moved the Houfe accordingly. 
 
 Ordered, 
 That the Report from the Committee appointed to view the CottO' 
 man Library, and fuch of the publick Records of this Kingdom, as 
 they think proper, and to report to the Houfe the Condition thereof, 
 together with what they fhall judge fit to be dene for the better Re- 
 ception, Prefervation , and more convenient Ufe of the fame, with 
 the Appendix to the faid Report, and the Proceedings of the Houfe 
 thereupon, be printed-, and that Mr. Speaker do appoint the Printing 
 thereof; and that no Perfon, but fuch as he fhall appoint, do prefume 
 to print the fame. 
 
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