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CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF ALL SOULS COLLEGE.

Manuscripts numbered 1 to 296 were catalogued in the Library's original "Coxe Catalogue": Coxe, H.O., Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of All Souls College (Oxford, 1842). This includes all manuscripts acquired prior to 1874 when the catalogue was published. This printed version can be searched via the digitized copy on the Internet Archive.
Manuscripts numbered 297 to 332 were added by hand on the blank leaves that followed the catalogue in the Library’s own interleaved, and annotated, copy of the Coxe catalogue.
Manuscripts numbered 333 onwards were listed on a typed handlist maintained in the Library office.

PREFACE.

THE Manuscripts described in the following Catalogue have been added to the Codrington Library, in All Souls College, at various periods. At the time when Dr. Bernard compiled his laborious Catalogue^a of MSS., as they then existed in the different libraries in England and Ireland, in All Souls College there were found only fifty volumes; since that period, however, their number has increased to a very considerable extent; and the reader will find in the following pages a description of nearly three hundred books, embracing more than three hundred and twenty volumes, in which is contained much of interest and of importance.

Amongst those that deserve more particular notice may be mentioned, as connected with Biblical criticism, the several books^b of the New Testament, with continual glosses, of the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, a curious volume containing a French translation of the New Testament, illustrated with short glosses interspersed, of the beginning of the fifteenth century^c; commentaries on the Scriptures, by Hugo de S. Victore^d, Rabanus Maurus, Thomas Aquinas, and Hugo Viennensis^e, or de S. Caro; to which we may also add, the Registrum Epistolarum of Gregory the Great, the Liber Syrabolorum of John Capgrave, and a copy of the Scintillarium, by Defensor^f.

Of Historical works the collection possesses the Ecclesiastical Histories of Eusebius^g, translated by Rufinus, of the twelfth century, and of Beda. The works of Isidore, Rupert and Amalarius^h, abridged by Malmsbury, de Ecclesiasticis Officiis, deserve also to be noticed.

It is however in the materials for the history of our own country, as well early as of a more recent period, that this library is more particularly remarkable. To this class belongs a very fine copy of the works of William of Malmsbury, De gestis regum et Pontificum Angliae^j, written probably before the year 1200; a second copy of the De gestis regum; as also a MS. of the Historia Novella^k , of the fourteenth century, by the same author; the histories of Hoveden^l, of the twelfth, of Geoffrey of Monmouth, and of Matthew of Westminster^m, of the fourteenth centuries are also to be mentioned; to which we may add, a French translation of that part of Langtoft's Chronicleⁿ relating to the border wars of the first Edward; the life of Henry the Fifth, by Elmham; and a valuable collection of Ecclesiastical Constitutions, by Cardinal Otto, Peckham and other archbishops of Canterbury^o.

To the above-mentioned materials, very important additions were made at the close of the last century by the bequest of Luttrell Wynne, D.C.L., formerly fellow of All Souls, of more than one hundred volumes of Parliamentary Journals, State and other papers, the collections of Narcissus Luttrell, Esq. and Owen Wynne, D.C.L., secretary to Sir Leoline Jenkins, whilst Ambassador at the Hague and Cologne, and Secretary of State, in the reign of Charles the Second.

Of these the reader may be disappointed that he does not find a more precise and detailed account in the present Catalogue, but the Editor hopes that enough has been said for all general purposes, (especially since it is to be remembered that many of them are only drafts, the originals of which are now deposited in the State Paper Office,) whilst to describe each particular article would have far exceeded the limits allowed to the present compilation.

The Collection is also rich in works on Canon and Civil Law^p; containing copies of the Decretals of Boniface, the Digest of Justinian, with the Commentaries of Azzo, Accursius, Zabarella, and others.

Of Medical works, we have translations from Galen, Hippocrates, Isaacus Judæus, Avicenna and Serapion; as also a MS. of the Laurea Medicina of Gilbertus Anglicus^q.

There are some other MSS. not belonging to either of the preceding classes, which still it would be an injustice to the Collection to pass over; the Works of Virgil^r of the thirteenth, and the Tragedies of Seneca of the fifteenth centuries; a valuable volume of the poetical works of John Gower^s; two histories of Venetian affairs^t, in Italian; a very interesting collection of relations by Venetian ambassadors; and the life of Dante by Boccaccio. To which may be added a curious volume by Humphrey Dyson, containing a list of books published in the time of Henry VIII^u. and succeeding reigns, with their prices attached; as also two other MSS. in which are the kalendar and rules of two London Companies, the Scholars namely of Cheapside, and the White Bakers^x.

It remains but to say a few words on the present Catalogue. In its compilation, care has been taken to give, as nearly as may be, the date of the MS., to preserve the names of former possessors of particular volumes, and to supply to anonymous or pseudonymous treatises the name of the original writer. If the Editor has not always been successful in this part of his labour, the difficulty of which will be readily appreciated, he feels that the want of success cannot be attributed to any want of attention on his own part.

He has only to add his best thanks to the Rev. Lewis Sneyd, Warden, and the Fellows of All Souls College, to whose liberality the public are indebted for the present Work, for the uniform kindness and assistance afforded him whilst passing it through the press.

H. O. COXE, M.A.

SUB-LIBRARIAN TO THE BODLEIAN

Oxford, June l4, 1842.

a. Catalogi librorum MSS. Angliæ et Hibernia in unum collecti, cum indice alphabetico. Oxon. 1697.
b. Codd. v. viii. ix.
c. Cod. x.
d. Cod. xiv. xvi. xxi.
e. Cod. xxix.
f. Cod. xvii, xviii, xix.
g. Cod. xlvi.
h. Cod. xxviii
i. Cod. xxxiii, xxxiv. The former of these has been collated by Mr. Hardy, for his edition of this work lately pubished.
k. Cod. xxxv.
l. Cod. xxxvii.
m. Cod. xxxvii.
n. Cod. xxxix. A similar translation has, since the description of this MS. went to press, been printed in one of the volumes published by the Camden Society, edited by T. Wright, Esp. M.A.
o. Cod. xxxviii. xlii. Wilkins has made much use of this volume in his Concilia.
p. Codd. ^xlii xlviii-lxii
q. Cod. lxxix.
r. Codd. lxxxii. lxxxiii.
s. Cod. xcviii.
t. Cod. cxciv. cxcvi. cxcvii.
u. Cod. cxvii.
x. Cod. cxix. cxx.

CODICES MSS,
COLLEGII
OMNIUM ANIMARUM.

I

Codex membranaceus, in 4to minori, constans foliis scriptis 372, seculo XIV, binis columnis exaratus ; olim peculium monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis; postea Jenchini Bowen.

Biblia Vulgata, si Psalterium excipias, universa, cum Hieronymi ad Paulinum epistola et ad Pentateuchum et Josuam præfationibus; necnon notis marginalibus instructa.

Ordo librorum Testamenti novi est iste,

a. Evangelia quatuor.
b. Epistolse Paulinæ quatuordecim.
c. Actus Apostolorum.
d. Epistolæ septem canonicæ.
e. Apocalypsis.

In fine sunt tabulæ quomodo legendæ sint epistolæ et evangelia per anni circulum.

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II

Membranaceus, in 4to, ff. 394, sec. XIV. ineuntis, binis columnis nitide exaratus, et quoad literas initiales pictus et auratus; huic bibliothecæ a domino D. Lyngton dono datus.

Biblia Sacra universa, ex editione vulgata, cum Hieronymi, necnon quoad Maccabæorun libros Rabani Mauri, prologis, penitus illustrata.

In fine Testamenti novi, Interpretatio nominum Hebraicorum [secundum Remigium, episcopum Autissiodorensem].

Præfixit manus longe recentior tabulam contextorum et 'versus secundum ordinem et numerum librorum Bibliæ,' auctore anonymo, qui incip. 'Pentatheu, Genesis Exitque Levi. Nume. Deutro.'

Cf. Wolfii Bibl. Hebr. part. ii. p. 248.

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III

Codex membranaceus, in 4to minori, ff. 337, sec. XIII., binis columnis exaratus; olim Radulphi Freman de Hamells, in comitatu Hertfordensi.

Biblia Sacra universa ex versione vulgata, cum Hieronymi, et quoad Maccabæorum libros Rabani Mauri, prologis baud insolitis, necnon notulis marginalibus, illustrata.

In fine, Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum secundum Remigium, quibus subjunguntur Concordantiæ Bibliorum, quæ etiam inveniendæ sint codici præmissæ.

Præmittuntur codici,

1. Definitiones variæ, contritionis, confessionis, etc. fol. 1.
2. Vocabularium, ordine alphabetico dispositum. fol. 1. b.
Init. "Angelus, purus natura, reconciliator est."
3. Anecdota de vitis patrum excerpta. fol. 4.
Init. "Quidam demoniacus revelabat omnia peccata."
4. Expositio vocum phrasiumque secundum significationem quam habent in Scripturis. fol. 5.
5. Sententiae proverbiales, ordine alphabetico. fol. 10. b.
Init. "Auxilia humilia firma facit consensus."

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IV

Codex membranaceus, in folio maximo, hodie in volumina quatuor distinctus, binis columnis optime exaratus, sed utrinque mutilus.

Volumen primum habet ff. 186, et continet
- Libros Testamenti veteris usque ad Regum librum quartum inclusive, cum Hieronymi prologis et capitulis præmissis instructos.
- Supplevit manus recentior, sec. XV. ineunte, Hieronymi ad Ambrosium epistolam et ad Pentateuchum praefationem.
- Liber Geneseos incipit in cap. iii. — 'moriemini; scit enim Deus.'
Volumen secundum habet ff. 120, et continent
- Prophetarum libros majorum minorumque, cum prologis.
- Supplevit manus eadem recentior Malachiæ libri partem posteriorem et totiun Baruch.
Volumen tertium habet ff. 180, et continet
Psalterium, Salomonis libros, Paralipomenon, Ezræ, Hester, Judith, et Maccabæorum, cum prologis, et quoad Salomonis libros capitum titulis, instructos.
Volumen quartum habet ff. 108, et continet
- Testamentum novum cum prologis et capitulis librorum illustratum.
- Deficit volumen ab epistolæ ad Philippenses primæ cap. iv., si excipias folium, partem capitis ultimi Apocalypseos continens, subjunctum.

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V

Codex membranaceus, in folio, ff. 198, sec. XIII., utrinque mutilus; in initio legitur "liber collegii Omnium Animarum ex done regis Henrici Sexti."

1. Liber Job, prævio Hieronymi prologo, cum glossis perpetuis illustratus; in fine mutilus. fol. 1.
Incip. "Job dolens, id est, Christus, qui dolores nostros."

Cf. glossam ordinariam ed. Lyra.
2. liber Actuum Apostolorum, cum glossa perpetua. fol. 95.
In fine est prologus, qui incipit "Fluvius egrediebatur de loco voluptatis."
3. Epistolæ septem canonicæ cum glossa perpetua. fol. 143.
4. Liber Apocalypseos, cum glossa perpetua. fol. 181.
Incip. text, in cap. viii. "—-tea in conspectu Dei, et date sunt vii. tube."

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VI

Membranaceus, in folio minori, ff. 188, sec. XIII., optime exaratus et servatus, et quoad literas initiales pictus et deauratus; olim Danielis Lysons, M.D. Bathoniensis.

1. Kalendarium, cum monostichis. fol. 7.
2. Davidis Psalterium cum notulis musicalibus hie illic instructiun. fol. 13.
3. Cantica sacra ex utroque Testamento desumpta, Litaniæ et orationes. fol. 161.
4. Officiiun defunctorum. fol. 180.
Præmittuntur optime pictæ et auratæ imagines quatuor, in quibus repræsentantur Annunciatio et Salvator infans crucifixus et in cælis inthronizatus.

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VII

Codex membranaceus, in folio, ff. 159, sec. XIV. ineuntis, olim peculium Joannis Young armigeri; optime exaratus et deauratus.

1. Kalendarium, cum monosticho unicuique mensi præmisso. fol. I.
Monostichon primum est, "Prima dies mensis, et septima truncat ut ensis."

Ad diem Julii tertittm notatus est obitus domincæ "Marie de Pakenham, anno Domini m.ccc.lxj."
2. Psalterium Dayidis, ex versione vulgata. fol. 7.
3. Cantica Sacra, Symbolum Athanasianum, Litaniae et orationes. fol. 132.
4. Officium mortuorum, cum notis musicalibus instructum. fol. 148. b.

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VIII

Membranaceus, in folio, ff. 247, sec. XIV.

1. Eyangelium secundum Matthæum, cum prologo et glossis perpetuis marginalibus et interlinearibus illustratum. fol. 2.
2. Evangelium secundum Joannem, cum prologo et glossis perpetuis. fol. 56.
3. Tractatus de natura spirituali et corporali. fol. 82. b.
Init. "Dictum est de bono nature, quod est angelica creatura."
4. Epistolæ Paulinæ quatuordecim, cum glossis perpetuis instructæ. fol. 88.
5. Anonymi cujusdam Manuale, sive de ecclesia mystica, ecclesiæ ministris et officio ecclesiastico, libellus, cum prologo. fol. 240.
Incip. prol. "Frumentum desiderat nubes."

Incip. lib. "Ecdesia ista fiiit figurata in templo."
6. S. Joannis Apocalypseos liber, cum glossis perpetuis instructus. fol. 244.
Desin. a verbis, "post hoc yidi quatuor angelos stantes super quatuor angulos."

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IX

Codex membranaceus, in folio minori, ff. 116, sec. XI.; optime exaratus.

S. Pauli Apostoli Epistolae quatuordecim cum glossis perpetuis marginalibus et interlinearibus instructae.

Evulsum fuit, ut videtur, folium primum, quod prologum continebat.

Praefixit manus recentior orationem Dominicam cum commentario.

In fine sunt orationes quatuor, scilicet, ad Patrem, Filium, Spiritum Sanctum et S. Trinitatem, cujus ultimæ abscissa est pars posterior.

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X

Membranaceus, in folio, ff. 202, sec. XV., binis columnis exaratus; olim Ed. Boutthell,deinde Tattersall cujusdam, et postea, anno 1614, Gulielmi Kyngesly, coll. Omn. Anim. socii et ecclesiæ Cantuariensis præbendarii.

Testamentum novum, cum prolegomenis, tabulis rubricarum, titulisque rubricatis unicuique capiti præmissis, necnon glossulis, more Wyclevitano, in textum hic illic insertis, illustratum: Gallice.

Ordo libronmi est iste, Evangelia SS. Marci, Matthæi, Lucæ et Joannis, Epistolæ Paulinæ, Apostolorum Actus, Epistolæ Canonicæ et Apocalypsis.

Incip. prologus in S. Marci Evangelium "Marc leuuangeliste elleu de Dieu" etc., ex Hieronymi versione traductus.

Excussum est folium unicum, quod continebat S. Joannis capitum rubricas et cap. 1. initium.

In fine codicis "Cy fine l'apocalipse Saint Jehan, qui est le darrenier liure de la Bible; Deo gracias. Doal."

Consentit cum MS. Bodl. 690, cui codici præmissa est notitia sequens, 'Haec illa videtur translatio, quæ jussu Caroli quinti, Galliarum regis, edita est contra illam Waldensium, et, ut Rhemensis, sequitur ad amussim vulgatam illam translationem Hieronymi.'

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XI

Membranaceus, in folio majori, ff. 236, sec. XIV., binis columnis exaratus; olim, ut videtur, pertinebat ad ecclesiam de Tregaer, co. Monemut.; in fine mutilus.

Missalae, secundum consuetudinem ecclesiæ Sarisburiensis; prævio kalendario cum monostichis instructo.

Monostichon primum, "Primus mandantem dirumpit, quarta bibentem."

In calce folii primi est notitia ista, "Be hit knowyn to all men be thys presentis that the parysheners byn agreyd bee theyr owne fre wyll to be paroctowrs on after another yn furme as hit folowys that ys to say that the (said') parysh-eners shall dylyntlye on after another with owte any contreytes erly when hit ys hys dywty or ellys to reward the chyrch with ij. lb of waxe for ye yere only insywyng."

Postea ad fol. 1. b. "Procuratoris Thomæ Martis debet visitare ecclesiam de Tregayr dominica proxima post festum ascencionis." Postea ad diem Septembr. xxviii. "Dedicatio Sancte Marie de Tregaer assignatur per Milonem Laud, episcopum, anno Domini millesimo d.ij.o"

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XII

Codex membranaceus, in folio, ff. 181, sec. XIII. exeuntis, olim "liber Sancte Marie de Stanleia;" binis columnis exaratus.

Anonymi cujusdam in libros quinque Moysis commentarius, prævio prologo, quem inscripsit manus longe recentior, 'Ysidorus super Pentatheucon.'

Incip. prol. "Operis subditi materia lex est quinque voluminibus comprehensa."

Incip. opus, "In principio; etc. Primus nobis occurrit liber Geneseos, qui Hebraice Bresith appellatur."

Desin. "in campestribus Moab, que sunt super lordanem e regione Iericho."

In calce, "Explicit expositio super Pentatheucum."

Sequitur, "Descriptio Sanctorum locorum."

Init "Si quis ab occidentalibus partibus Jerusalem adire voluerit."

Cf. Bedæ, opp. ed. Colon, tom. iii. col. 363.

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XIII

Codex membranaceus, in folio majori, ff. 199, sec. XIII., binis columnis exaratus; olim Ricardi Andrew, coll. Omn. Anim. custodis.

Radulphi Monachi Flaiacensis, [Flaviacensis,] in Leviticum commentarii, præviis prologis duobus.

Incipit prologus primus, "Cum inter Sotios aliquando sermo de Judæorum contentionibus."

Incipit prologus alter, "Tercius in Moysi libris Leuiticus appellatur."

Incipit opus, "Vocavit autem," etc. "Hujus libri initium precedentis respicit finem."

Defic. in cap. v. lib. xvii. a verbis, "Panem tamen quendam recentem —" in edit. 1536. p. 266. col. I.

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XIV

Membranaceus, in 4to., ff. 220, sec. XV.; olim "D. W. Folowys, præceptoris quondam, gramatice apud Euesham, qui obiit 4 die Augusti 1483."

1. [Hugonis de Sancto Victore] in Ecclesiastis librum commentarius, cum prologo. fol. Exstat in edit Venet. 1588, tom. i. fol. 39. b.
2. Rabani Mauri in Maccabæorum libros commentarii cum prologis et capitimi elenchis illustrati. fol. 88.
Consentiunt cum edit. Colon. 1626, tom. iv. p. 380.

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XV

Membranaceus, in 4to minori, ff. 214, anno 1463 manu Ap Howell cujusdam exaratus; olim Roberti Honiwood.

Johannis de Turrecremata, Cardinalis presbyteri S. Sixti, in Psalterium commentarius; prævia ad Pium Papam II. epistola dedicatoria.

Incipit epist. "Perscrutanti michi studiose psalmorum librum."

Incipit comment. "Psalmus primus, in quo describitur processus in beatitudinem. Beatus vir, qui non abiit a via recta recedendo."

In calce, "Finitur opus expositionis brevis super Psalterium compilatum per dominum Jo. de Turrecremata presbyterum Cardinalem Sancti Sixti vulgariter nuncupatum, pro quo in gratiarum actiones dicamus summæ Trinitati id quod post unumquemque psalmum in ecclesia decantatur, Gloria Patri," etc. "Finitum est in urbe die quarta Madii 1463, in qua die translatus sum de ecclesia Penestrina ad ecclesiam Sabiniensem. ApHowell scripsit."

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XVI

Codex membranaceus, in folio, ff. 284, sec. XIV.; duobus columnis bene exaratus.

Thomse Aquinatis in Lucæ et Joannis evangelia commentariorum e diyersis Patribus catena.

Consentit cum edit. Venet. tom. v. p. 1.

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XVII

Membranaceus, in 4to., ff. 113, sec. XV.; olim Narcissi Luttrell.

Joannis de Monumento-pileato, sive Capgrave, Anglici, Liber symbolorum, praevia epistola ad Gulielmum Gray, episcopum Eliensem, dedicatona.

In fine, "Feliciter per Capgrave."

Exstat operis descriptio in Tanner Bibl. Britanno-Hibern. ad pag. 152 inter notas, cui lector suppleat, quod in codice nostro inter articulos, ibi 18 et 19 numeratos, interpositi sunt S. Augustini de symbolis libri quatuor.

In initio et fine codicis insertae sunt a bibliopego membranae duae vitae Virgilii fabulosae fragmentum continentes; Anglice.

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XVIII

Membranaceus, in folio, ff. 167, sec. XII., binis columnis optime exaratus; olim Thomæ Gascoigne, sacr. pag. professoris, dioc. Ebor., qui anno 1439 huic bibliothecæ dono dedit, "volens, quod liber concathenetur in libraria communi."

S. Gregorii Papæ I., Magni, Epistolarum Registri libri quatuordecim; praevio ejusdem Gregorii symbolo.

Cf. opera edit. Benedict, tom. ii. col. 485.

In fine sunt, "Epistolæ (triginta duæ) quæ pretermissæ sunt de superioribus indictionibus," quarum prior inscribitur 'Sabiniano diacono Constantinopolitano' et est in edit. cit. lib. v. ep. xix.; et ultima 'Rescriptum ad Felicem episcopum,' in edit. lib. xiv. ep. xvii.

Sequitur "sententia beati Gregorii papæ de lapsu sacerdotum, excerpta de decretis canonum," et de imaginibus ad Secundinum. fol.

Est in edit. cit. lib. ix. ep. xvii.

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XIX

Codex membranaceus, in folio, ff. 159, secc. XII. et XIV., quoad partem posteriorem binis columnis exaratus; "datus per Henricum Penworthini."

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XX

Codex chartaceus, in folio, ff. 184, sec. XV.; olim J. R. Bird, postea Guliel. Warham, archiep. Cantuariensis, qui illium coll. Omn. Anim. dono dedit.

1. "Libellus, qui dicitur, Gesta passionis et resurrexcionis Domini nostri Ihesu Cristi." fol. 1.
Incip. "Factum est sub Poncio Pilato præside Iherosolimis."

Desin. cum Pontii epistola de Christo ad Claudium, (potius Tiberium,) quæ exstat impress, in Fabric, cod. apoc. Nov. Test. tom. i. p. 298.*
2. "Libellus, qui dicitur. Speculum humanæ Salvationis," in capita quadraginta quatuor distinctus, versibus rhythmicis expressus. fol. 12. b.
In Cod. MS. Cotton Vesp. E. 1. Amando fratri opus istud tributum est.

In fine est tabula capitulorum contenta exhibens rhythmice expressa, quæ incipit, "Incipit, prohemium cujusdam nove compilationis;"

Cujus nominis et titulus et (sic) speculum humane salvationis."

Impressum est opus sæpius, typis ligno incisis, in seculo quarto decimo.
3. Liber anecdotorum de vitis Imperatorum Romanorum ab "Ancelmo" ad "Plebeum" inclusive, fol. 94.
Incip. "Ancelmus in civitate Romana regnavit prudens valde, qui portabat scutum de argento cum quinque rosis rubicundis."

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XXI

Codex membranaceus, in folio, ff. 177, sec. XIV., binis columnis exaratus; olim liber monasterii beatæ Mariæ de Valle Dei.

Thomæ Aquinatis, sive de Aquino, Summæ Theologicæ pars Prima in quæstiones centum novendecim distincta, cum capitulorum tabula præmissa. fol. 5.

Exstat, impress, edit. Venet. tom. i. p. xx. Sequuntur,

a. Quæstiones de sacra scientia (ex eodem?) fol. 164.

Incip. "Quia in quolibet opere finis ultimus est primus in intentione."
b. Determinatio quorundam articulorum facta "per Stephanum Templarii, episcopum Parisiensem, et universitatem magistrorum." Dat. ann. Domini 1276 die dominica, qua cantatur 'Letare Iherusalem;' scil. dominica iv. quadragesimæ. fol. 170. b.

Incip. "Universis, etc. Magnarum et gravium personarum."

Cf. Bibl. Patr. Max. xxv. p. 329.
c. "Diversimode facta a fratre Thoma in diversis." fol. 172. b.

Incip. "In primis quedam circa divinam naturam; quedam circa angelicam naturam."

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XXII

Codex membranaceus, in folio minori, ff. 31, sec. XV.; olim pertinebat ad Narcissum Luttrell.

Liber de miracidis Sanctæ Mariæ Virginis, præviis prologis duobus et capitidorom novem et octoginta elencho.

Incip. prol. i. "Celorum regine et terrarum imperatrici."

Incip. prologus alter, "In dispersione filiorum Dei decor evanuit."

Tit miraculi primi, "De Guidone, Scarensi episcopo, quod honoranda et diligenda sit mater sancte Marie sancta Anna."

Incip. "Contigit quodam tempore, quod rex."

Consulat lector curiosus Discipuli,(scil. Joh. Herolt.,). Promptuarium de miraculis B. M. Virginis, edit. Argentorati 1492.

Desin. miraculum ultimum versibus expressum rhythmicis,

"Salue, celi domina,
Salue, plena gratia,
Tua sunt hec opera,
Tu pro nobis supplica,
Tibi lux et gloria
Per etema secula.
Amen dicant omnia."

Sequitur, "Devota oratio, quam sanctus Edmundus [Riche de Pounteney], quondam scolaris istius umversitatis et postea archiepiscopus Cantuariensis, frequenter solebat dicere ad beatissimam Mariam virginem et sanctum Jobannem Evangelistam."

Incip. "O intemerata et in eternum benedicta singularis."

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XXIII

Paper, in very small 4to., ff. 79, XVI. Cent.; formerly belonging to Narcissus Luttrell.

"An exposition after the manner of a contemplacyon upon the 51 psalme, called Miserere mei Deus."

Beg. "Alas wretche that I am, conforteles forsaken of all men, which have offended both heuen and earth; whitber shall I go or whither shall I turne me?"

At the end, by a later hand, is the Litany with a few prayers.

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XXIV

On vellum, in small 4to., ff. 126, XV. Cent.; formerly in tbe possession of N. Luttrell.

1. "A tretice tbat seint Austyn made to a widowe of Cristene religioun," in eight chapters with a prologue ; [translated by Richard Rolle of Hampole.] fol. 1.
Beg. "That y synner a nd tbe laste and more unwiser than othere."

At the end, "Here endith seynt Austen book of Cristen lijf."

Compare MS. Harl. 2330, in Mus. Brit.
2. "A sermoun of seint Austen howe mann is maad to the ymage and liknesse of God his maker of nouᵹt;" [by the same.] fol. 35.
Beg. "How grete is the dignete of mannes makynge."

At the end, "Here endith Austens sermoun howe man is maad to the ymage and liknesse of Almyᵹty God in Trinite. Amen."
3. "Here spekith seynt Austyn of the xij. abusiouns or mysuses;" [by the same.] fol. 38. b.
Beg. "The first abusioun is a wise man withoute good werkis."

The original has been attributed to Cyprian and others.

At the end, The preparation of the soul for heaven compared to the process thro' which wheat must pass before it be made bread, fol. 59. b.

Beg. "Ye wote wele that wheete beynge in the scheef is not able to be served."
4. "A tretice that seynt Austen maad to an Eerle," [ 'clepid Julian,' MS. Harl.] in seventeen chapters; [by the same.] fol. 61.
Beg. "A my brothere ᵹif thou coueytist to wite, thoug I wite not"

End, "into worldis of worldis. Amen."

At the end, "Here endith the tretice that seynt Austen made to an eerl."

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XXV

On vellum, in 4to., ff. 135, XV. Cent.; formerly belonging to Narcissus Luttrell.

A treatise in two books intitled "Scala perfectionis;" [generally attributed to Walter Hilton.]

Tit. "This tretys ys called "Scala perfeccionis;" the first chapitle speketh that the inner hauyng of man shuld be like to the utter."

Beg. "Gostly brotheren in Ihesu Crist, I preie the that in the callyng."

End, "that is cleped the conscience."

At the end, "Explicit Scala perfectionis."

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XXVI

Paper, in folio, ff. 5, XV. Cent.; formerly belonged to Narcissus Luttrell.

"Here begynneth the tretyse hough our glorious lady virgyn Mary passed out of this mortal lyfe, that is to say out of this wrecched world, and was assumpt unto the blysse of heuen; drawen out of Hebrew into Greke by the prior of S. John of the Rodys, and translatyd out of Greke into Laten by the sub-prior of S. John, and out Laten into Englysh by Ro. Sukar, the yere of grace 1485 in Westmystre."

Prol. beg. "Be it knowe to euery Cristen man or woman whatsoeuer he be, of what condicion, state or dignite, clerke or layman or woman, beynge in Cristen byleue, that hath this tretise upon hym or in his hous, the wycked feend shal neuer haue power to disese or to noye hym."

Beg. "In those dayes and tyme that our Lord Ihesu Crist."

End, "On the crosse deyed for us. Amen."

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XXVII

Codex membranaceus, in folio, ff. 177, sec. XIV.; binis columnis nitide exaratus.

Thomæ de Aquino, siye Aquinatis, prima pars secundæ partis summæ de theologia, cum tabula quæstionum posthabita.

Exstat impress, edit. Venet. tom. xxi. p. 1.

In fine, "Expliciunt capitula prime partis secundi libri editi a fratre Thoma de Aquino, ordinis prædicatorum: Deo gratias. Dionisius sit benedictus. Amen."

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XXVIII

Membranaceus, in folio majori, ff. 154, sec. XII.; binis columnis bene exaratus; in fronte legitur "liber collegii Animarum Omnium fidelium Oxonie, ex dono Regis Henrici Sexti."

1. Isidori, episcopi Hispalensis, de officiis ecclesiasticis, libri duo cum prologo et capitulis instructi. fol. 1.
Consentiunt cum edit, impress. 1617, p. 391.

Sequitur, "Ordo officiorum, qui agitur in ecclesia Romana." fol. 22.
2. [Ruperti, abbatis] de ecclesiasticis institutionibus libri duodecim cum prologo. fol. 25.
Incip. prol. "Ea que per anni circulum ordine constituto indivisus."

Incip. cap. 1 "De divinis officiis. Septem canonicas horas diei, non licet."

Desin. "pugna, tanto difficilior victoria est."

Cf. Scriptt. de Div. Off. 1624, col. 855.
3. Gulielmi Malmesbiriensis Amalarii de officiis ecclesiasticis abbreviatio, in libros tres distincta, cum prologo et epilogis ad Robertum [Glocestriæ ducem?], necnon capitulis instructa. fol. 123.
Incip. prol. "In historicis nos narrationibus occupatos."

Incip. lib. i. "Antiquus ecclesie mos fuit jam inde ab apostolorum."

Desin. lib. ult. "et etermam postremo coronam."

Prologum et epilogum primi ultimique librorum edidit Petrus Allixius, in calce præfationis ad determinat. Joan. Parisiensis, London. 1686.
4. Ivonis, episcopi Carnotensis, de officiis ecclesiasticis liber, prævia capitulorum tabula, fol. 137.

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XXIX

Codex membranaceus, in folio majori, ff. 4. et 286, secc. XVI. et XV., præcipue binis columnis haud eodem librario exaratus; olim Thomæ Wynterburne.

1. Hugonis Viennensis, sive de S. Caro, sive de S. Theoderico, in S. Lucæ evangelium commentarii, cum notulis marginalibus, et tabula materiarum alphabetica illustrati. fol. 1.
Exstant impress. Faris. 1545, part. V. p. ii6.
2. Ejusdem Hugonis in S. Joannis evangelium oommentarii, cum prologo. fol. 117.
Exstant ibid. tom. V. fol. 254.

In fine, "Explicit expositio Hugonis de Vienna super Johannem."
3. Rabani Mauri de laudibus sanctæ Crucis libri duo, intercessione Albini pro Mauro aliisque versibus haud insolitis, necnon prologo, præmissis. fol. 195.
Exstant in edit. Colon. 1626, tom. i. p. 275.

In calce, "Explicit Rabanus de laude crucis, qui quondam erat abbas Fuldensis, et postea archiepiscopus Maguncie ordinatus est."

Ad codicis initium et finem sunt membranæ octo capitula plura continentes ad jus canonicum spectantia, cum glossa marginali.

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XXX

Codex membranaceus, in folio majori, ff. 105, sec. XII.; binis columnis exaratus.

Bernardi, Abbatis Clarævallensis, in Cantioa Canticorum Sermones quinquaginta tres, scilicet a vigesimo quinto ad octogesimum septimum inclusive.

Exstant impress, in edit. Paris. 1690, tom. 1. col. 1349.

In fine, manu altera, sunt scriptæ "Ejusdem Bernardi Meditationes;" inter opera, tom. ii. col. 319.

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XXXI

Membranaceus, in 4to, ff. 263, sec. XV., binis columnis exaratus; in fine mutilus.

1. Venerabilis Bedæ Historiæ ecclesiasticæ libri quinque, prævia ad Ceolwulphum epistola. fol. 1.
Subjuncta est libri uniuscujusque capitulorum elenchus.
2. Daretis Phrygii de exitu Trojanorum historia, præmissa Cornelii Nepotis ad Sallustium epistola. fol. 105 b.
Exstant in edit. Dict. Cretensis et Dar. Phrygii, Amstelod. 1702, p. 145.

In fine, "Explicit vastacio Troie."
3. Henrici Huntindoniensis Historianim libri septem priores, omisso prologo. fol. 115 b.
Desin. lib. vii. cum verbis, "leviter annihilata est," inter Scriptt. post Bedam, p. 220. l. 42.

Sequuntur capitula duo, scilicet,
- 1. Auctoris historiæ supradictæ epilogus. fol. 199.
  Incip. "Hic est annus, qui comprehendit."
- 2. 'Nomina regum Christianorum in Anglia.' fol. 200.
  Incip. "Rex primus fuit Hine."
4. "Liber moralium de regimine Dominorum, qui alio nomine dicitur Secretum Secretorum ab Aristotele ad Alexandrum regem discipulum ejus missum, qui translatus est de Arabico in Latinum" [a Philippe Clerico], præviis translatoris epistola, capitulis et prologis hand insolitis. fol. 201.
Deficit, in capitis De qualitate et equalitate hominis initio, a verbis, "compositus in natura."
5. Ejusdem Aristotelis liber de vita et morte, prævio prologo; initio mancus. fol. 228.
Incip. prol. a verbis, "speculetur attencione continua."
6. Ricardi [Angervillæ, sive de Bury,] episcopi Dunelmensis, Philobiblon, præviis prologo et capitulis. fol. 236.
In fine notitia solita de tempore, quo liber scriptus est.

Exstat sæpius impressum.
7. Liber medicamentorum pro diversis; in fine mancus. fol. 255.
Tit. 1. "Rumwaldus, archiepiscopus [Salernitanus?] ut capilli nascantur."

Incip. "Panem ordeaceum et cartam."

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XXXII

Codex membranaceus, in folio, ff. 23, sec. XV.; olim peculium Danielis Prince.

Chartularium, sive Registrum monasterii de Croyland, in quo exhibentur

1. Aethelbaldi, Merciorum regis, Carta fundationis. fol. 1.
Exstat apud Ingulphi historiam, edit. Gale, p. 2.

In fine, 'Memorandum' de prædicto mode donandi et confirmandi per cirographa.
2. Uuithlafii, regis Merciorum, Carta, fol. 2.
Exstat impressa ibid. p. 8.
3. Eadredi regis Carta, fol. 4 b.
Exstat ibid. p. 32.
4. "Confirmacio regis Edgari extra le Domesday de omnibus possessionibus Croylandi" fol. 7.
Exstat ibid. p. 42.

In fine subjunguntur quædam de Turketillo abbate, quæ desinunt a verbis, "impetrabat in hiis verbis."

Exstat ibid. p. 44. 1. 26.
Sequuntur manu altera,
5. Placita et cartæ aliæ ad possessiones, privilegia, etc. ejusdem monasterii spectantes. fol. 9.
Confer Dugdale, Monast. tom. ii. p. 107, seqq.

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XXXIII

Codex membranaceus, in folio, ff. 136, sec. forsan XII. exeuntis, duabus columnis manu, ut ex ænigmate subjuncto conjectare licet, Ivonis cujusdam, optima exaratus et servatus; olim peculium cujusdam e familia de Cecil, cujus insignia gentilitia in integumento visuntur, postea N. Luttrell.

Gulielmi, monachi Malmesburiensis, de gestis regum Angliæ libri quinque, cum prologis notulisque maiginalibus instructi.

Desinunt a verbis, "querelam composuit," inter Scriptt. post Bedam, p. 98. l. 6.

Sequuntur versus isti de scriba,

"Scripserit hunc librum quis lector forte requiret,
Exacuat sensus et metra legat cito discet;
Illius nomen tria componunt elementa,
In numeris quorum primum satis indicat unum,
Ponunt et leges numeri pro quinque secundum,
Si Grecus scribat postremo collige finem."

Postea, manu recentiori, Quædam de Henrici I. regis sobole et obitu.

In dorso folii ult. inveniat lector carmen ex Hardyng chronico metrico, ut videtur, desumptum; Angl.

Beg. "Cadwalladre sall Owan call."

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XXXIV

Codex membranaceus, in folio, ff. 93, sec. forsan XII. exeuntis; duabus columnis bene exaratus et servatus.

Gulielmi, monachi Malmesburiensis, de gestis Pontificum Anglorum libri quatuor, cum prologo.

Desin. a verbis, "exercere ibi vitam," inter Scriptt. post Bedam, p. 168, l. 10.

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XXXV

Membranaceus, in 4to, ff. 180, sec. XIV. ineuntis, binis columnis exaratus; olim sancti Martini Lovaniensis, postea in bibliotheca Gudiana depositus.

1. Gulielmi Malmesburiensis de gestis regum Anglorum libri quinque, cum prologis notisque marginalibus instructi. fol. 1.
2. Ejusdem Gulielmi Historiæ Noveliæ libri duo ad Robertum, comitem Glocestriæ. fol. 136.
In codice nostro Historia supradicta in libros tres est distincta, scilicet ab anno 1126 ad an. 1138, 1139-1141, 1142 ad finem.
3. Galfiridi Monemutensis Historia Britonnm, cum prologo. fol. 153.
Inseruit manus recentior proœmium, in sularum Britanniæ descriptionem, et, ad fol. 167, Merlini prophetiam.

Deficit historia a verbis, "ab Albania usque ad Cornubiam inhabitavit," inter Angl. Vetust. Scriptt. p. 92. l. 2.

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XXXVI

Codex membranaceus, in 4to, ff. 111, sec. XII. exeuntis; binis colunmis exaratus.

1. Henrioi, archidiaconi Huntindoniensis, Historia usque ad Cundredi, Wessexiæ regis, annum undecimum abbreviata; prævio prologo ad Alexandrum, episcopum Lincolniensem. fol. 1.
2. Rogeri de Hoveden Annalium pars prior, fol. 29 b.
Tit. "Historia Saxonum vel Anglorum post obitum Bedæ."

Desin. cum verbis, "maxima venerat ex Anglia," in anno 13. Steph., inter Scriptt. post Bedam, fol. 280 b. l. 40.

Sequitur ejusdem regni continuatio [ex Henrico Huntindoniensi desumpta] manu altera et recentiori scripta, quæ incipit, "Anno xiiij. Henrico nepoti suo David, rex Scotorum virilia tradidit arma;" inter Scriptt. post Bedam, p. 226. 1. 42.

In fine, "Explicit cronica Mariani Scoti de gestis regum Anglorum usque ad obitum regis Stephani et inicium regni Henrici secundi, qui fuit filius imperatricis et Galfridi Plantegenet, comitis Andegaviæ."

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XXXVII

Membranaceus, in folio majori, ff. 214, secc. XIV. exeuntis et XV. ineuntis, binis columnis haud una manu exaratus; "datus per Henricum Penworthin."

1. [Matthæi Westmonasteriensis] Flores Historiarum, ab initio mundi usque ad annum 1307 deducti. fol. 2.
Abscissum est folium primum.

Sequitur ad fol. 157, "Tabula super Flores Storiarum facta per Johannem Rochefort, militem, distincta per folia."
2. Nigelli Wirekeri, Brunellus, sive Speculum Stultorum, cum prologo; prævia epistola ad Gulielmum, postea episcopum Eliensem. fol. 170.
Exstat sæpius impressus.

In fine est notitia sequens, "Pretium scripture v. s. et iiij.d."
3. Hugonis de Sancto Victore Hexaemeron, in libris duobus, cum prologo. fol. 196.
Incipit prologus, "Librum istum, urgentibus fratribus." Incipit liber i. "Quid fuit priusquam mundus fieret."
4. "Notabilia extracta per Johannen de Rochefort, militem, de viginti uno libris Flavii Josephi antiquitatis Judaice; anno regni regis Henrici quarti octavo," [1406]. fol. 206.
Incip. "In prologo sic continetur multos."

In fine est membrana unica, a bibliopego suppleta, continens libelli Ranfredi Beneventani de jure civili fragmentum.

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XXXVIII

Codex chartaceus, in folio, ff. 98, sec. XVI. ineuntis; olim Thomæ Goldwell, episcopi Norwicensis, et antea coll. Omn. Anim. socii.

[Thomae Elmham,] prioris de Lenton, de vita et gestis Henrici V. historia, prævia ad Walterum, dominum de Hungerford, præfatione.
Exstat impressa, edente Tho. Hearnio, Oxon. in 8vo. 1727.
Inseruit bibliopegus in initio et fine codicis membranas duodecim, binis colunmis sec. forsan xi. exaratas, quæ continent Grammaticæ fragmentum charactere Anglo-Saxonico descriptæ.
Incip. "Sunt igitur persone verborum tres; þryhadaſ ſind ƿorda se forma."

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XXXIX

Membranaceus, in 4to, ff. 122, sec. XIV. ineuntis; olim peculium "Georgii Bromleii, ex dono patris sui Georgii Bromlei militis, anno Domini 1586, regnante Elizabetha pacifica."

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XL

Codex membranaceus, in folio maximo, ff. 12, sec. XV., pictus et deauratus; olim Narcissi Luttrell.

Tabulæ genealogicæ regum Angliæ ab Adam usque ad Henricum sextum deductæ, cum præfatione brevi notitiisque historicis margini adjectis.

Incip. præfat. "Conedderaiifl oronicorum prolixitatem necnon et difficultatem"

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XLI

Codex chartaceus, in 4to ff. 212, sec. XVI.; olim Narcissi Luttrell.

1. "Leges antiquæ regum Britannorum Angliæ" scilicet,
- a. Inæ Regis. fol. i.
- b. Aluredi Regia, cum præfatione. fol. 12 b.
- c. Eadwardi Regis. fol. 27 b.
- d. Aethelstani Regis. fol. 33.
- e. Eadmundi Regis. fol. 42.
- f. Aethelredi Regis. fol. 47 b.
- g. Cnutonis Regis. fol. 53 b.
2. Decreta Willelmi Bastardi et emendationes, quas posuit in Anglia. fol. 73.
3. Leges S. Eadwardi, quas Willelmus Bastardus postea confirmavit. fol. 76.
Cf. Leges Anglo-Saxonicas, edente Wilkins, 1721, p. 14, seqq.
4. History of the laws of the Normans, divided into fourteen books, with a table of contents prefixed; in French. fol. 102.
The first book is entitled, "De la justice et du droict des Normans."

At the end of the table is written, "Finis, quod J. Abrahame."

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XLII

Membranaceus, in 4to, ff. 316, secc. XIV. et XV.; olim Thomæ Beshype, postea Ricardi Gawnt.

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XLIII

Codex chartaceus, in folio, ff. 165, sec. XVII.

Liber beneficiorum omnium ecclesiasticorum tam in Anglia quam in Wallia, cum uniuscujusque valoribus annexis.

Præfigitur notitia sequens, "Hic liber jussu præclarissimi ac reverendissimi in Christo patris Domini, Gilberti, providentia divina Cantuariensis archiepiscopi, totius Angliæ primatis ac metropolitani, cum Record. Primit. collatus fuit ac examinatus per Guilelmum Wheler, mili'em et Baronettum."

XLIV

Membranaceus, in 4to minimo, ff. 7 et 167, sec. XIV. ineuntis ; olim Joannis Corners, pharmacopolæ, postea Narcissi Luttrell.

Statuta in Anglia edita, dum regnum tenebant Edwardus I. et II. scilicet,

1. Magna Carta, fol. 1.
2. Carta de foresta. fol. 5 b.
3. Provisiones de Mertona. fol. 8 b.
4. Statutum de Marleberga. fol. 11 b.
5. Statutum Westmonasteriense primum; Gallice. fol. 19.
6. Statutum de Glocestria; Gall. fol. 34 b.
7. Statutum Westmonasterii secundum. fol 39 b.
8. Statutum de emptoribus terrarum. fol. 70.
9. Statutum de religiosis. fol. 70 b.
10. Statutum de mercatoribus. fol. 71 b.
11. Statutum de finibus. fol 74 b.
12. Statutum de conjuncto feoffatto. fol 77.
13. De defensione juris admissi. fol. 79.
14. Statutum de Quo warranto, fol. 8o.
15. Distinctiones scaccarii. fol. 80 b.
16. Statutum de finibus et attornatis. fol. 81 b.
17. Articuli contra regiam prohibitionem. fol. 82.
18. Statutum Wintoniæ. fol. 83 b.
19. Statutum de vasto. fol. 86 b.
20. De bigamis. fol. 87 b.
21. De vocatis ad warrantum. fol. 88 b.
22. De recognitoribus. fol. 89 b.
23. Statutum de Berewik. fol. 91.
24. Visus Franciplegii. fol. 91.
25. Dies communes in Banco, fol. 92.
26. Statutum Eboracense; an. 12. Edw. (II); man. sec. fol. 93 b.
27. "Comite de Dreit;" Gall. fol. 97.
Sequuntur manu recentiori ;
28. De prærogativis Regis, fol. 146.
29. Explicatio vocum quarundam juridicialium sive curialium. fol. 149 b.
Incip. "Sook; hoc est de secta homagii."
30. Statutum de pistoribus; etc. fol. 151 b.
31. De anno et die Bissexti. fol. 153 b.
32. Compositio de ponderibus. fol. 154.
33. Articuli super cartas anno regni Eidwardi, filii regis Henrioi, xxviii. editi; Gall. fol. 155 b.
34. De militibus faciendis ; 7. Edw. I. fol 159 b.
35. Compositio monetæ et mensurarum. fol. 161
36. Statutum Hibemiæ de cohæredibus ; etc. fol. 161.
37. Statutum panis et servisiæ. fol. 162 b.
38. Officium Coronatoris. fol. 163.
39. Compositio universalis et particularis. fol. 165b.
40. Statutum de inquisitionibus pro domino Rege captis. fol. 166.

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XLV

Codex chartaceus, in 4to., ff. 87, sec. XVII.

Leges Howelli Dhâ, regis Cambriæ, editæ anno Domini 940, alias anno 928.

De legibus istis lector consulat Spelman.

Concil. tom. i. pp. 408, 413.

XLVI

Membranaceus, in 4to, ff. 193, sec. XII., binis columnis exaratus. In fronte scriptum est, "Ex dono regis Henrici VI. Oretis pro inclito statu ejusdem."

Eusebii, Cæsariensis episcopi, Historia Ecclesiastica libris undecim digesta et a Rufino presbytero e Græco in Latinum traducta, cum ejusdem Rufini præfatione præmissa.

In fine, "Explicit liber undecimus ecclesiastice hystorie; habet annos cccc. in summa."

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XLVII

Chartaceus, in 4to, ff. 289, sec. XV.; olim, anno scilicet 1462, peculium Philippi Polton, archidiaconi Glocestrensis.

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XLVIII

Codex membranaceus, in folio, ff. 68, anno circa 1300 duabus columnis exaratus; olim Josephi Ingram, coll. Onm. Anim. socii.

Bonifaoii Papæ VIII. Sexti Decretalium libri quinque cum proœmio præmisso.

In fine tit. de regalis juris, "Explicit liber Sextus Decretalium. Data Rome apud sanctun Petrum quinto nonas Marcii, pontificatus Bonifacii octavi anno quarto."

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XLIX

Membranaceus, in folio majori, ff. 317, sec. XIV.; binis columnis exaratus.

Justiniani Imperatoris Digestum Vetus cum commentariis perpetuis præcipue Fr. Accursii, tabula titulorum præmissa.

Impress, exstat in Corpore Juris Civilis edit. Lugd. 1627, tom. i.

In fine Digest. "Explicit textus Digesti veteris; Deogracias."

In fine comment. "Explicit Apparatus Digesti veteris."

Subjecta sunt fragmenta quædam juridica de restitutionibus, usufructibus, etc.

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L

Membranaceus, In folio majori, ff. 284, sec. XIV., binis columnis exaratus; olim Joannis Southam, arcbidiaconi Oxoniensis et coll. Omn. Anim. Socii.

Justiniani Imperatoris Codicis libri novem prioresi cum commentariis præcipue Fr. Accursii perpetuis illustrati; in fine mutili.

Cf. Corpus Juris Civilis edit. Lugd. 1627, tom. v.

Defic. a verbis in rubrica "De calummatoribus: 'Quisquis crimen intendit non imp—'"

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LI

Membranaceus, in folio majori, ff. 279, sec. XIV.; manu Gulielmi Plenus-amoris binis columnis bene exaratus; mutilus, abscissis quidem litteris initialibus ornatis.

Justiniani Imperatoris Inforttatum, seu Pandectarum juris civilis tomus secundus, cum commentariis perpetuis præcipue Francisci Accursii notisque aliis recentioræ scripturæ instructum.

Impress. cum glossis iisdem aliisque in Corpore Juris Civilis ed. Lugd. 1627.

In fine, "Explicit Apparatus Inforciati, Deo gratias."

Sequuntur,

"Si sapiens fore vis sex serves, que tibi mando.
Quid dicas, et ubi, de quo, cui, quomodo, quando
Vinum scriptori. det Petrus de Meliori.
Nomen scriptoris. Guilelmus Plenus-amoris."

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LII

Codex membranaceus, in folio majori, ff. 300, sec. XIV., binis columnis manu Magistri Mutinensis bene exaratus; initio mutilus.

Justiniani Imperatoris Digestum Novum, sive Pandectarum tomi tertii pars secunda, scilicet a lib. xxxix. ad 1. cum Francisci Accursii aliorumque commentariis perpetuis.

Impress, exstat ed. Lugd. 1627.

In calce, "Dominus Bonifacius de Galluciis, doctor legum in jure canonico.
Explicit glosa digna nomine, Deo gratias, Amen, Amen, Amen."

"Ego magister Mutinensis scriptor, Diana, salutem, etc."

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LIII

Chartaceus, in folio, ff. 280, sec. XV.; olim peculium Simonis Northew, rectoris de Methyng, Cicestrensis dioceseos.

1. Thomæ Chyseldene, in decretis Doctoris, Reportata in Cnementls papæ V. Constitutiones. fol 1.
Incip. "Johannes Episcopus. Con. Pan. Papa multis modis."

In fine, "Explicit tractatus domini digni super titulo de regulis juris, etc.
Manus scriptoris. careat gravitate doloris."
2. Ejusdem "Reportorium quarti libri Decretalium" [Gregorii Papæ IX.] fol. 126.
Incip. "De Francia. Sic sumitur mulier."
3. Joannis Andreæ, Bononiensis, Summula quarti libri Decretalium de sponsalibus et matrimoniis. fol. 192.
Exstant inter Tractatus Universi Juris tom. ix. fol. 2.
4. Ejusdem Thomæ reportata in titulos in Clementinis, qui sequuntur, "de officio et potestate judicis, de censibus, de præscriptis, de regularibus transeuntibus, et de statu monachorum." fol. 196.
Incip. "Rubrica ista continuatur ad precedentes."

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LIV

Codex chartaceus, in folio majori, ff. 215, anno 1417 manu Jo. Elveden binis columnis exaratus; mutilus et madore corruptus.

Francisci Zabarellæ, seu de Zabarellis, super Constitutionum Clementinarum libris quinque commentarii, cum proœmio.

Exstant impress. Venetiis, 1487.

In fine, "Explicit lectura eximii doctoris domini Francisci de Zabarellis super Clementinis, scripta per manus Jo. Elveden finitaque anno Domini millesimo ccccmo. Xviio. die sexta mensis Maii; ergo Te Deum laudamus."

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LV

Membranaceus, in folio majori, ff. 351, sec. XIV. ineuntis, binis columnis exaratus; olim Joannis Lyndfeld, archid. Cicestrensis.

1. Azzonis Bononiensis summa super novem libris codicis Justiniani cum proœmio. fol. 4.
2. Ejusdem summa super quatuor libris Institutionum cum proœmio. fol. 140.
3. Ejusdem summa in quasdam rubricas Digestorum. fol. 156.
In fine, "Explicit summa Jo. B. super quibusdam titulis Digestorum."

Omnia Azzonis opera supradicta impressa sunt Papiæ anno 1494, et alibi.
4. Libellus de ordine Judiciorum compositus a Roffredo Beneventano, Juris Civilis professore, in quo opere continetur, qualiter concipiantur libelli et fiant confessiones, et de natura cujuslibet actionis poterunt studentes invenire; cum proœmio. fol. 168.
Prodiit Bononiffi, 1538.

Deficit a verbis, "si judex juste percipiat, aliquid –"

Præmittitur codici poema versibus leoninis expressum de abbate et priore Dor(k)ecestriæ ad epulas vocatis.

Incip.

"Quisquis vultis bene sare
Multum debet hie pensare,
Nequid stultum sic narrare
Si valde prudentia."

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LVI

Codex chartaceus, in 4to, ff. 290, sec. XC.

Joannis de Platea, in Imperatoris Flavii Justiniani Institutionum, sive elementorum Juris civilis, libros tres priores commentarii.

Incip. "Nota in principio rubrice."

In calce, "Et sic est finis tercii libri Institutionum. Deo gratias. Quo manus erravit scriptoris, corrige lector."

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LVII

Membranaceus, in folio majori, ff. 317, sec. XIV. exeuntis; binis columnis exaratus.

Cini Pistoriensis, juris utriusque doctoris, super Justiniani Oodice commentarii in libros octo distincti; prævia capitulorum tabula locuplete.

Tit. "Lectura famosissimi legum doctoris domini Ciny, de civitate Pistoriensi, super Codice feliciter compilata."

Incip. "Quia omnia nova placent potissime."

In fine, "Explicit liber octavus Cyri super Oodice."

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LVIII

Chartaceus, in 4to minori, ff. 43, sec. XVI.

Anonymi cujusdam in Flavii Justiniani Institutionum, sive elementorum Juris civilis, libros quatuor commentarius, cum præfatione.

Titulus est, "In quatuor libros Institutionum Justiniani brevis commentarius."

Incip. præf. "Priusquam horum librorum explicationem aggrediamur."

Incip. comment. "Ad titulum i. de justitia et jure. Quoniam a justitia tanquam a fonte jus omne manat."

LIX

Codex membranaceus, in folio majori, ff. 245, anno 1406 manu Joannis Legam binis columnis exaratus.

Joannis Fabri, Burdegalensis, in Justiniani Institutionum libros quatuor commentarii.

Exstant impress. Venetiis, 1488.

In calce,

"In fine præsentis voluminis,
Gratia sit Deo unigenito Patris,
Alme Virgini ejusque matri
Gratia oblata pro posse
Ab ejus sit scriptore,
Gloriam cui in mortis die
Tribuant hii pro mercede."

Sequitur notitia ista, "Ego Johannes Legam Remensis dioceseos studens Aurelianus hanc lecturam finivi xv. die mensis Decembris, cum magnis vigiliis et sumptibus propriis, cum Dei auxilio; Deo gracias, anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo sexto."

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LX

Chartaceus, in folio majori, ff. 221, sec. XV.; binis columnis descriptus, manu, ut videtur, Joannis Jouvenell.

Petri Jaoobi de Aureliano Instrumentorum liber, posthabita rubricarum tabula.

In calce, "Opus præsens Deo aotore vocatos cepi, sed postmodum in prosecucione senciens laborem et reoognoscens meum rude ingenium timensque aliquem inimicum loqui pluries ex quadam fragilitate humana me incepisse penituit; sed, Deo occurrente, sine quo factum est nihil, ut in evangelio Joannis, Qui et est adjutor in tribulacionibus, ut in psalmo Davidis, Deus noster refugium et res penitus desperatas, donare et consummare sue virtutis magnitudine potest; ut C. de le. Ju. c.l.i. opus inceptum continuans ipsum ad finem per me optatum deduxi: Jo. Jouuenell."

Sequuntur nonnulla de feodis, etc.

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LXI

Codex chartaceus, in folio majori, ff. 215, sec. XV., binis columnis exaratus; olim Jacobi Goldwell, coll. Omn. Anim. socii, et postea episcopi Norwicensis.

"Commentarius domini [Petri] Baldi [de Ubaldis] de Perusio, utriusque juris illustrissimi dootoris, super pace Constancie felicissimi ac gloriosissimi Imperatoris Frederici."

Exstat impressus Lugdun. 1550, fol 117 b.

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LXII

Chartaceus, in folio majori, ff. 247, sec. XV.; utrinque mutilus.

Joannis a Fautis(?) in Gratiani Decreti partem secundam commentarii.

Incip. a verbis, caus. ii. quæst i. c. 1, "ubi de hac materia."

Deficiunt a caus. xii. quæst, i. tit "Bone rei."

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LXIII

Chartaceus, in 4to minori, ff. 25S, sec. XV.; olim peculium Gualteri Stone.

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LXIV

Codex chartaceus, in 4to, fol. 246, sec. XV.; olim Jacobi Goldwell, coll. Omn. Anim. socii, postea episcopi Norwicensis.

Gulielmi Horboch, Alemanni, Decretorum doctoris, Conclusiones, sive decisionum auditorum Rotæ Romanæ collectio, cum præfatione.

Exstat præfatio impressa, in catalogo codd. MSS. Arundel, num. 468, fol. 1.

Incip. opus, "Quod innovata appellatione."

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LXV

Chartaceus, in folio, ff. 334, sec. XV.; olim Gulielmi Leysot, postea vir. cl. Gulielmi Blackstone.

Registrum Brevium, cum titulis margini adpositis.

In initio codicis est notitia sequens, manu forsan vir. cl. G. Blackstone scripta, "This book was written in the first year of one of the Henry's, as appears from the test to the writ of right patent, which in all the printed editions I have seen usually marks the date of the edition. Probably 1 H. 4. 1399 from his stile, and because the queen consort's name in the next writ is Anne, which was the name of Richard 2 queen; and Henry had then no wife. In the edition 1531 the queen's name is Katherine."

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LXVI

Chartaceus, in 4to, ff. 200, sec. XVII.; ex dono [Stephani?] Boughton.

Adversaria juridicialia ad jus et civile et canonicum spectantia, ex Institutionibus, Pandectis, etc. plerumque collecta, partimque in ordine alphabetico digesta.

Incip. "Contexuerat historiam eorum."

LXVII

Chartaceus, in folio, ff. 210, sec. XV.; binis columnis descriptus.

Vocabularium juridiciale, sive repertorium de verborum in jure utraque usitatorum significatione.

Incip. "A. preposicio est, et an sumatur."

Desinit a fine litteræ J. in voce "Juxta."

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LXVIII

Codex membranaceus, in folio, ff. 287, secc. XIV. ineuntis et XV.; binis coiumnis exaratus.

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LXIX

Codex membranaceus, in folio, ff. 164, sec. XIII. exeuntis; binis columnis exaratus.

1. Isaaci Judæi liber de febribus, cum prologo notulisque marginalibus instructus; interprete Constantino Africano. fol. 1.
2. Ejusdem liber de gradibus, eodem interprete. fol. 31 b.
3. Ejusdem liber diætarum universalium, eodem interprete. fol. 33.
In fine, "Elxpliciunt diete universales anno Domini mo. cco. octuagesimo in Septembri in vigilia sancti Mathei."
4. Ejusdem diætarum particularium liber, eodem interprete. fol. 56 b.
5. Ejusdem de urinis liber, eodem interprete. fol. 77.
6. Ejusdem de definitionibus liber, eodem interprets fol. 91.
7. Ejusdem de elementis liber, prævio prologo, eodem interprete? fol. 94 b.
8. "Aggregationes de crisi et creticis diebus et de pronosticatione, secundum magistrum B[ernardum de Gordonio.]" fol. 105.
Incip. "Circa artem pronosticationis quatuor sunt notanda."
9. Liber medicinarum fortiorum in usum pauperum descriptus, brevi prologo. fol. 113b.
Incip. prol. "Opusculum istud propter amorem Domini nostri Jhesu Christi factum ad utilitatem pauperum."

In calce, "Expliciunt forciores medicinarum Deo gracias ; anno Domini mo. cco. Ixx.x."
10. "Glossule super Antidotarium Nicholai [de Hostresham] a magistro Johanne de S. Amando composite." fol. 129.
Incip. "Operacio medicine consistit in tribus secundum Johannicium."

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LXX

Codex membranaceus, in folio, ff. 96, sec. XIV., binis columnis exaratus; olim Joannis Racour, postea M. Girardi, deinde Ricardi Trewythyan, et denique Nicolai Halswell, coll. Omn. Anim. socii.

"Liber Serapionis aggregatus in medicinis simplicibus, translatio Symonis Januensis, interprete Abraam Judeo Tortusuensi de Arabico in Latiniun," cum tabulis notulisque marginalibus instructus.

In calce, "Explicit liber agregationum Serapionis virtutis simplicium medicinarum."

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LXXI

Membranaceus, in folio, ff. 183, sec. XIV. ineuntis; binis columnis exaratus.

1. Johannitii Isagoge ad Galeni Tegni, sive artem parvam. fol. 1.
2. Philareti de pulsibus libellus. fol. 4 b.
In calce, "Explicit liber Philareti de negocio pulsuum."
3. Liber de judicationibus urinarum a voce Theophili [Protospatharii, interprete Pontico Virunio.] fol. 6.
Sequuntur notulæ ad medicinam spectantes manu recentiori.
4. Hippocratis Aphorismorum libri septem cum commentariis Galeni, interprete Constantino Africano, cum ejusdem Constantini prologo ad Glauconem. fol. 13.
5. Ejusdem Prognostica cum Galeni commentariis, eodem interprete. fol. 64 b.
Deficiunt a verbis, "quae ex eis sunt, mala significant."
6. Ejusdem liber de regimine acutorum, cum Galeni commentariis, eodem interprete. fol. 87.
Incip. abrupte a verbis, "et scias, quod virtus hore in omnibus egritudinibus."

In fine. "Explicit regimen acutarum egritudinum præter quartam particulam, quæ particula sequitur post."
7. Galeni Tegni, sive Ars parva, interprete [Gerardo Carmonensi.] fol. 113 b.
In fine,
"Explicit Tegnus G. cum commento Haly.
Hic liber est scriptus. qui scripsit sit benedictus,
Finite libro. reddatur laus et gloria Christo."

Sequuntur notulæ manu recentiori super libros supradictos, etc.

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LXXII

Codex membranaceus, in folio, ff. 6 et 294, sec. XIV. exeuntis; binis columnis sed haud una manu exaratus.

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LXXIII

Codex chartaceus, in folio majori, ff. 274, sec. XV.

Petri de Azzelata, Bononiensis, de Chirurgia libri sex "secundum modum" ut legitur in fine libri secundi, "Avicenne de capitulo in capitulum;" cum capitulis unicuique libro præmissis.

In fine subjecit manus recentior medica quædam, sub titulo "Distinccio tertia quarte partis præsentis Philomene," etc.

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LXXIV

Codex membranaceus, in 4to, ff. 266, sec. XIII. exeuntis; binis columnis haud una manu exaratus.

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LXXV

Codex chartaceus, in folio, ff. 11 et 281, sec. XV., binis exaratus colmmiis; utrinque mutilus.

Liber consiliorum mediooram, præcipue secundum Antonium Cermisonum et Bartholomæum de Montagnana, cum indice alphabetico præmisso.

Inserti sunt ad ff. 33, et 39 b.;

a. Tractatus de venenis secundum Petrum de Hebano (sive Apono); sæpius impressus.
b. Graleni de virtutibus Centaureæ libellus.

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LXXVI

Codex membranaceus, in 4to minori, ff. 229, sec. XV.; olim Joh. Rackar, seu Racour, coll. Omn. Anim. socii.

1. Liber chirurgiæ, "anno 1180, ut in initio scribitur, non a magistro R. tantum sed a tribus aliis cum eo," pæevio prologo. fol. 1.
Incip. prol. "Sicut dicit Constantinus in Pantengni humoris."

Incip. lib. "Liber iste dividitur in prohemium et tractatum."
2. Lber de virtutibus simplicium herbarum, auctore Joanne de S. Paulo, cum prologo. fol. 93 b.
3. Liber chirurgicus de craneo, tumoribus, hemeroidis, etc. fol. 109.
Incip. "De signis lune et de craneo. Nota quod in augmento lune."
4. Liber de modis medendi, et quot et quibus modis medetur, prævia capitulorum elencho. fol. 166.
Incip. "In medendis corporibus variis sepe molestamur inconunodis."
5. "Experimenta parata per magistrum P[etrum] Yspanum." fol. 197.
Incip. "Vidi hominem xlv. habentem os distortum."
6. Anonymi cujusdam liber, qui dicitur "Ars completa chirurgiæ," in tractatus quinque distributus, cum præfatione et titulis uniuscujusque tractatus præmissis; manu altera, fol. 213.
Incip. præf. "Protector in ipso sperantium Deus excelsus et gloriosus."

Incip. liber, "Tractatus primus, Doctrina prima, capitulum primum. Primus tractatus continet de cirurgia regulas et capitula. Omne quod volumus investigare."

Deficit in cap. iii. Doctr. iii. tract. 1., a verbis "ejus debilitatem omni le" ----

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LXXVII

Paper, in 4to, ff. 142, XVI. and XVII. Cent.

1. Book of alchymical receipts, from a collection by Dr. Schröder: in German.
2. Receipts of a similar character; in French. fol. 31.
3. Chymical receipts from Rajmond Lullius and others, by different hands; in French. fol. 54.
4. Sylva Sententiarum, or Chirurgical aphorisms, translated from the Latin of Matthæus Narbatius, by Robert Turner, fol. 64.
5. Approved cures, by the same. fol. 119.

LXXVIII

Codex membranaceus, in 4to minori, ff. 301, sec. XV.; olim Joannis Racour, collegii Omn. Anim, socii.

1. Ægidii monachi, ordinis S. Benedicti, carmen de urinis cum commentariis, forsan Joannis Racour. fol. 1.
Incip.

"Dicitur urina quoniam sit renibus una."

Incip. comment. "Istud opusculum prima sua divisione dividitur in duas partes."

In calce,

"Finite libro. reddatur gracia Christo; quod Racour."
2. Philareti medici libellus de pulsibus. fol. 37.
3. Anonymi cujusdam in Ægidium de urinis commentarius. fol. 39.
Incip. "Dicitur urina; Liber iste est liber nove institucionis."

Deficit a verbis, "Sanguis enim cum sit calidus et rubeus vergens in purpure..."
4. Abubecri Rasis liber, qui dicitur Almansor, nona pars de ægritudinibus in capita nonaginta distincta cum Gerardi de Solo expositione. fol. 56.
Tit. "Nona pars Almansoris Rasis cum expositione Gerardi de Solo."

Incip. "Rubrica generalis istius libri est talis, Incipit pars nona de egritudinibus, que accidunt a capite usque ad pedes."

In fine, "Explicit totalis expositio Gerardi de Solo super nonum Almansoris Rasis."

Exstat opus istud impress. Lugd. 1504.

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LXXIX

Codex membranaceus, in folio majori, ff. 166, sec. XIV.; binis columnis exaratus, initio mutilus; olim Eliæ Stoke.

Gilberti Anglici Laurea Medicina, sive compendium Medicinæ, de morbis universalibus et particularibus, libris septem.

Prodiit Grenevæ, in 4to, 1608.

In fine, "Explicit compendium; Deo gratias et beate Marie; Amen."

Sequitur tabula alphabetica, manu recentiori descripta.

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LXXX

Codex, partim membranaceus partim chartaceus, in 4to minori, ff. 184, sec. XV., haud una manu exaratus ; olim Will. Godwyn, postea Othonis Polwhele, et deinde Narcissi Luttrell.

1. Henrici de Amondavila, sive Amanda Villa, anno 1306 chirurgi Philippi IV. regis Francorum, Anathomia. fol. 3.
Incip. "Quoniam valde esset cuilibet cirurgico sumptuosum librum habere."
2. Notitia de loco quodam in Bemardi de Gordonio super urinas libro. fol. 22.
3. Joannis Damasoeni Aphorismorum liber ad filium. fol. 23.
4. [Gerardi Garmonensis?] opusculum de regimine Sanitatis, sive Introductorium juvenum. fol. 27.
Incip. præf. "Carissimis filiis amicis et dominis tot salutes."

Incip. opus, "Regimen corporis humani est quintiplex."
5. Receptæ magistri Jordani de Turre in monte Pessulano factæ per ipsum suo filio ad practicam eunti anno Domini 1318. fol. 47.
Incip. "Et prime quoad quassaturas et inflaturas."
6. "Introductorium juvenum in practicam provectis [?] in theorica proveotis supra primam Fen quarti canonis Avioennæ, compositum per magistrum Dyernum Alberti decanum venerabilis studii montis Pessulani magistrum excellentissimum in medicina." fol. 55.
Incip. "Multorum vocibus inclinatus, ut super quartum canonem receptas formarem."
7. Versus medicinales a magistris et doctoribus Salernitanis in Apulia scripti Karolo Magno
Regi Francorum, in quinque partes distincti cum prologo. fol. 76.

Cf. Scholam Salernitanam ab Alexandro Croke, equite aurato, anno 1828 editam.
8. Medicinalia quædam de digestione et evacuatione. fol. 110 b.
Incip. "Quæritur utrum electuarium debet dari ante cibum vel post."
9. Ricardi [Anglici] regulæ de urinis. fol. 127.
Incip. "Circa urinas hæc attenduntur generalia et principalia."

In fine, "Expliciunt urine Ricardi."
10. Herbarium, sive index herbarum, etc. ordine alphabetico. fol. 134.
Incip. "Aaron; a. 150."

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LXXXI

Codex chartaceus, in 4to minori, ff. 260, secc. XV. et XVI.; initio mancus.

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LXXXII

Codex membranaceus, in forma oblonga, ff. 149, sec. XIII.; olim Henrici Penworth.

P. Virgilii Maronis opera, scilicet,

1. Bucolicorum liber, fol. 1.
2. Georgicorum libri quatuor cum argumentis tetrastichis, Ovidio fere adscriptis, instructi. fol. 10 b.
3. Æneidum libri duodecim, cum Scholastici cujusdam argumentis hendecastichis, Ovidio tributis, necnon notulis maiginalibus illustrati. fol. 36.
Præmittitur margini adfixum, tetrastichon istud, "Ille ego qui quondam;" etc.

Fini subjiciuntur,
- a. Carmen Octaviani Cæsaris de Virgilio.
- b. Virgilii versus ad Imperatorem.
- c. Ovidius in Virgilium.
- d. Virgilius de semetipso.
- e. Exprobatio in vetulam, versibus leoninis,
  Incip.
  
  "Quatuor ut memini fuerant tibi, Delia, dentes."
- f. Argumenta in Æneidem menosticha, Basilio fere tributa.

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LXXXIII

Codex membranaceus, in 4to, ff. 173, sec. XV., nitide exaratus; mutilus.

Lucii Annæi Senecæ, Cordubensis, Tragœdiæ decem.

In fine, "Expliciunt decem Tragedie Senece."

Evulsit nebulo quidam, literæ gratia illuminatæ, unumquodque folium, quod tragœdiæ cujusque initium continebat.

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LXXXIV

Membranaceus, in folio majori, ff. 240, sec. XIV. exeuntis, binis columnis exaratus; olim Joannis Stokes, coll. Onin. Anim. custodis quinti.

Aristotelis Ethicorum libri decem, Latine versi, cum Joannis Dedecii commentariis perpetuis, proœmio et capitulorum contentis uniuscujusque libri præmissis.

Incip. proœm. "Philosophia in duas partes divisa, dice autem in theoricam et practicam."

Incip. comment. "Consuete Aristotiles universale preordinat in presenti doctrina."

Desin. "animabus bonum amantibus et Dei formissimis."

In calce, "Benedictus sit Jhesus Christus filius Dei vivi. Amen. Amen."

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LXXXV

Membranaceus, in 4to majori, ff. 293, anno 1428 manu Alberti Geldrop, Brabantini duabus columnis exaratus.

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LXXXVI

Codex membranaceus, in folio majori, ff. 256, sec. XIV., binis columnis exaratus; olim Joannis Stokes, coll. Omn. Anim. custodis quinti.

Gualteri Burlæi in Aristotelis opera varia Expositiones, scilicet,

a. In Physicorum libros octo. fol. 1.

Præmittitur epistola, "amicis suis et dominis magistris et scolaribus Parisius in philosophia studentibus" dicata.

b. In libros duos de generatione et corruptione. fol. 199.

c. In libros duos de somno et vigilia. fol. 212.

d. In libros quatuor de cælo et mundo. fol. 222 b.

In calce, "Explicit expositio W. Burley super …. libros phisicorum cujus anime propicietur Deus."

Sequitur tabula super libros omnes supradictos ordine alphabetico disposita.

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LXXXVII

Codex chartaceus, in 4to minori, ff. 286, sec. XV. exeuntis; per manum J. de D. anno 1473 plerumque descriptus.

1. Joannis Canonici, Angli, Joannis Scoti discipuli, Ord. Minorum, quæstiones in Aristotelis Physicorum libros octo, cum tabula posthabita. fol. 1.
Incip. "Queritur hie primo, utrum substantia facta in suo conceptu."

In fine, "Expliciunt questiones Johannis canonici super 8 libros phisicorum, per manum J. de D., et finiuntur in die sancti Hillarii, anno Domini 1473, Deo gratias."
2. Anonymi cujusdam quæstiones in Aristotelis de anima libros tres, cum tabula, fol. 185
Incip. "Utrum sensus tactus sit unus vel plures."

In calce, "Et sic finiuntur quæstiones doctoris subtilis super libros de anima cujus anime propicietur Deus; Amen."

In fine est catalogus nominum custodis et aliquorum e sociis (coll. Omn. Anim. in anno circiter 1500.)
3. Anonjrmi cujusdam de potentiis animæ secundum Aristotelem. fol. 222.
Incip. "Ut dicit Aristoteles secundo de anima."

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LXXXVIII

Membranaceus, in 4to minori, ff. 112, sec. XV.; olim Walteri Hopton, coll. Omn. Anim. socii.

Quæstiones quinque morales cum expositionibus locupletissimis.

Incip. prima, "Utrum ad felicitatem sub ratione finis ultimi appetitus rationalis debeat habitualiter dirigi."

Desin. ult. "ex virtute operantibus, quod præmium nobis concedat, qui sine fine;" etc.

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LXXXIX

Codex membranaceus, in folio majori, ff. 293, sec. XV. ; binis columnis exaratus utrimque mutilus.

Roberti de Eudemodio, monachi Clarævallensis, Cato moralizatus, sive in Catonis moralia commentarii, Petro de Saluciis, ut patet ex prologo primæ parti prosaicæ præmisso, generosse indolis adolescentulo, dicati.

Distinctum est opus in partes novem, quarum ordo est,

1. Pars prima proœmialis; mutil. fol. 1.
Desin. "proximi summus efficimur."
2. Pars secunda proœmialis. fol. 2.
Incip. "... sic generaliter ac."
3. Pars tertia proœmialis. fol. 27.
Incip. "Postquam in secunda."
4. Pars quarta proœmialis. fol. 28.
Incip. "Sequitur quarta pars prohemialis."
5. Pars prosaica. fol. 28 b.
Incip. "Itaque Deo supplica. Expeditis quatuor partibus."
6. Partes metricæ quatuor. fol. 101 b.
Incip. i. a verbis, "Secundi vocabantur Dii philosophorum."

Sequitur tabula alphabetica, initio mutila, cui succedunt "Addiciones ad tabulam, ordine alphabetico" cum præfatione.

Incip. præf. "Quoniam onmium habere."

In fine, "Explicit tabula et eciam totum opus Catonis moralizati; Deo gratias."

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XC

Chartaceus, in 4to, ff, 100, sec. XV.; olim, anno 1457, Joh. Dryelle, coll. Omn. Anim. socii.

Anonymi cujusdam in Boethii libros quinque de Musica commentarii, cum introductione, hic illic mutili.

Incip. introd. "In nomine sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis, etc. Quanquam ad aliquam disciplinam fit præfacione accedere."

Incip. comment, in proœm, "In isto prologo tria Boecius specialiter manifestat"

Incip. Comment. in lib. i. "Expeditie prohemiis primi libri musice Boecii."

Desin. a verbis, "sed longe secus angusto timpanizante in cena a quodam milite probrose dictum est."

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XCI

Codex membranaceus, in folio, ff. 229, sec. XV. manu J. R. Marchall, ut videtur, binis columnis exaratus; olim Jacobi Goldwell, episcopi Norwicensis et quondam coll. Omn. Anim. socii.

Francisci Petrarchæ, Poetæ Laureati, de remediis utriusque fortunæ libri duo per modum dialogi, prævio prologo et capitulis posthabitis.

Exstant impress, inter opera, Basil. 1554, tom. i. p. 1.

In fine, "Explicit liber Francisci Petrarche, poete laureati, de remediis utriusque fortuna. J. B. Marchall."

In calce codicis, Fragmentum, ex libro quodam juridiciali desumptum, de stipulationibus et obligationibus, de homicidio, etc.

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XCII

Membranaceus, in folio, ff. 164, sec. XIV. exeuntis, duabus columnis exaratus; olim Thomæ Lay.

Ægidii de Colunma, episcopi Bituricensis, de regimine Principum libri tres, prævia ad Philippum primogenitum et hæredem domini Philippi (IV.), regis Francorum, præfatione.

In fine, "Explicit liber de regimine Principum editus a fratre Egidio, ordinis fratrum heremitarum Augustinorum."

Sequitur Tabula librorum supradictorum alphabetica, auctore Thoma Abyndon.

In fine, "Explicit tabula de regimine Principum secundum Egidium edita a fratre Thoma Abyndon."

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XCIII

Codex chartaceus, in 4to, ff, 283, anno 1465, manu Mariani Georgii Benedicti de Magistris scriptus; olim Jacobi Goldwell, episcopi Norwicensis, et antea coll. Omn. Anim. socii : initio mancus.

1. Laurentii Vallæ de elegantia Latinæ linguæ libri sex. fol. 1.
Incipit abrupte in verbis prologi, "cujus rei quantum conjecturæ."

In fine,

"Detur pro penna scriptori pulchra puella."

Deinde, "Scripsit Marianus Georgii Benedicti de Magistris, Romanus civis, et finivit anno millesimo, quadringentesimo sexagesimo quinto, mensis Maii die xxiij. indictione xiij. Pontif. S. D. N. domini Pauli, divina providentia Papesecundi, pontificatus sui anno primo."
2. Ejusdem "Liber Septimus de notulis Raudensis ad Jo. Tortellium, papæ Nicolai quinti cubicularium," cum prologo; ordine alphabetico. fol. 229.
Præmittuntur codici, "Emptus Rome anno Domini m.cccclxvij. per Jacobum Goldwell, Legum Doctorem, pro viij. ducat, papal."

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XCIV

Membranaceus, in 4to, ff. 57, sec. XV. ineuntis.

Lini Coluccii Pierii Salutati contra maledioum et objurgatorem [Anton. Luscum Vicentinum], "qui multa pungenter adversus inclitam civitatem Florentie scripsit," Invectiva, cum prologo.

Incip. prol. "Fuit nuper per quosdam insignes et venerabiles."

Incip. invectiv. "Principio quidem sicut dictis verbis exprimitur."

Desin. "quicquid habet, expenderit et dixerit quicquid novit."

In textum inserta est Lusci in Florentines invectiva rubris Uteris descripta.

In fine, "Colucii ad [Petrum Turcum] epistola; dat Florent. iii. idus Septembris.

Incip. "Jussisti vir insignis, filique kariasime, quod objurgatori illo petulantissimo."

Cf. Laurent. Mehus in prolegom. ad Coluccii epiatolas, p. lxxxv.

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XCV

Codex membranaceus, in folio, ff. 120, sec. XIV.; binis columnis exaratus.

Ptolemæi Peluaiensis liber Almagesti, in distinctiones tredecim divisus, ex Arabico in Latinum versus a magistro [Gerardo Carmonensi], cum prologo et tabulis instructus.

In calce, "Expleta est dictio tricesima (sic) libri Almagesti, et cum ea completur liber Ptholomei de disciplinalibua. Laus Deo. Amen."

Cf. cod. Burn. 275, in catal. codd. Mus. Brit. nov. serie, part. ii. p. 776.

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XCVI

Membranaceus, in 4to minori, ff. 41, sec. XIV.; olim Roberti Henley, coll. Omn. Anim. socii.

1. Anonymi cujusdam de significatione uniucujusque figurse in Planetarum domibua. fol. 1.
Incip. "Cap. primum. Quod in judicio 9 sunt consideranda. Desiderantibua verum et certum judicium dare secundum gloriosam."

Desin. "in quinto decimo bonum finem."

Sequuntur quædam de figurarum temperie, quæ incip. "Nunc diximua quid significet unumquodque signum."
2. Liber alius de significatione figurarum in Planetarum domibus in capita centum quinquaginta divisus, cum præfatione, auctore, ut videtur, Catone quodam. fol. 16.
Incip. præf. "Nonnulli sapientes astronomiæ eruditi de quarundam celestium figurarum significatione."

Incip. liber, "In prima operia parte intencio nostra est docere 16 esse figuras."

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XCVII

Codex membranaceus, in 4to minori, ff. 172, sec. XIV. ineuntis; olim magistri Willelmi Griffyth.

1. Julii Solini de situ orbis Terrarum et de singulia mirabilibua, quæ in eo habentur, prævio proœmio. fol. 1.
In fine, "Julius Solinus explicit; studio et diligentia dompni Theodosii, invictissimi principis."
2. Henrici [Huntindoniensis, sive Bedæ, sive cujuscumque sit,] Imago Mundi in libros tres distincta, prævia Henrici [regis?] epistola ad Henricum, auctorem, cum rescripto. fol. 112.
Exatat impress. inter Anselmi opera, 1630, tom. ii. p. 416.

In fine aubjuncta est oratio ad Deum.

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XCVIII

Membranaceus, in folio, ff. 137, sec. XV.; nitide exaratus.

Johannis Gower, Eboracensis, Poemata, scilicet,

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XCIX

Codex chartaceus, in folio, if. 261, sec. XVII., e codice ad Robertum Harley pertinente transcriptus; olim Narcissi Luttrell.

Itinerarium Johannis Lelandi, inceptum anno Domini 1538, in partes septem distinctum, cum indice per virum clarissimum Gulielmum Dugdale posthabito.

Præmisit Narcissus Luttrell notitias quasdam de materiis in opere contentis.

C

Membranaceus, in 4to, ff. 51, sec. XV. ; olim Ricardi Smith, postea Narcissi Luttrell.

Statuta Collegii canonicorum, presbyterorum, militum, etc. in capella sancto Georgio dicata, in castro de Wyndesore.

In fine subjecit manus recentior, "Expositio dubiorum verborum juris Anglici."

Incip. cum Edwardi III. Carta; dat. anno regni sui 22.

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CI

Codex chartaceus, in 4to minori, ff. 117, sec. XVI.

Statuta oollegii Magdalenensis in universitate Oxoniensi, cum tabula capitulorum posthabita.

CII

On vellum, in small 4to, ff. 28 , XVIth Cent; formerly belonging to Narcissus Luttrell.

"The statutis and ordynauncis of ye moaste noble ordre of saynct George, named the Gartier, refourmed, explaned, declared and renewed by ye most high, moast excellent and moast puissante Prince Henry the eight, by the grace of God kyng of Englande, Fraunce and Irelande, defender of the faith, and of ye churche of Englande and also of Irelande in earthe the supreame head."

Compare Beltz History of the Order of the Garter; edit. 1841, p. lxxxiv.

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CIII

On vellum, in small 4to, ff. 12, XV. Cent.

A poem intitled, "The libelle of Englische polycie, exortyng alle Englande to kepe the see environ, and namely the narowe see, shewynge whatte profette comythe there off, and alle soo whate worshupe and saluacioun to Englonde, etc. etc." Illustrated with marginal notes.

It is imperfect from the line,

"Farewell Wales than Inglond cometh to drede."

Printed in Hakluyt's Voyages, edit. 1599, vol. i. p. 187.

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CIV

Paper, in 4to, ff. 150, XVIII. Cent.

The Magazine of Honour, or a treatise of the several degrees of the nobility of this kingdom with their rights and privileges, also of knights, esquires, gentlemen and yeomen, and matters incident to them according to the laws and customs of England, collected by Mr. Bird, but perused and enlarged by sir John Doderidge, knight, one of his majestie's judges of the court of King's Bench.

Printed in 8vo., Loudon, 1642,

Prefixed is written, "Vincent Cranfield, 1638," and in the same hand, "Copied from a MS. bought at the auction of Lord Somers's collection of manuscripts, 1738, and examined by me, R. Salkeld."

At the end is a table of contents.

CV

Paper, in folio, ff. 60, XVII. Cent.; formerly in the possession of N. Luttrell.

'Chronometria sphærica et arithmetica,' or the art of Dialling, in two parts, with an introduction and plates, by Edward Batson.

Prefixed to the work is a copy of verses in its praise by Richard Turvey 'Philomath.'

CVI

Codex chartaceus, in 4to minimo, ff. 43, sec. XVII.

Propositionum Geometricarum liber, cum figuris illustratus.

Incip. "Punctum dicitur, quod est indivisibile."

Desin. "Tetraedri I, 632993."

CVII

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 79, XVIII. Cent.; "ex legatis Radulphi Freman, de Hamels, in com. Hert. et coll. Omn. Anim. quondam socii."

Book of geometrical problems, which are the most necessary for the regular and irregular fortification; illustrated with figures.

Probl. i. To make a circle on a point given, with the distance of a line given.

CVIII

Paper, in 4to, ff, 77, XVII. Cent.

A treatise concerning prayer for the dead, by William Page, D. D., divided into eighteen chapters, with introduction and conclusion.

Prefixed is the following note, "This manuscript is bequeathed to All Soules colledge in Oxford, by William Page, Doctor in Divinitye, and sometime fellowe of that honorable societye."

CIX

Ten volumes, on paper, in 4to.

Containing a course of lectures on jurisprudence and civil law, with introduction and two appendices, by Thomas Bever, LL.D., fellow of All Souls college, and an advocate of the Court of Arches; read in the Vinerian Law school, commenced on May 10, 1762, and continued annually.

The Introduction was printed at the Clarendon press in 1766. The work is comprised in thirty-two lectures.

The tenth volume is the commencement of a second transcript of the whole work, begun Feb. 1, 1769, in consequence, as it is stated in a note by the author, of "the whole having been frequently improved and enlarged, particularly the historical parts."

Prefixed to the first volume, are extracts from the wills of,

a. Thomas Bever bequeathing these volumes to Dr. John Loveday, with the condition that they never should be printed.
b. John Loveday, directing his executors to present them to the library of All Souls, on the same conditions.

CX

Two volumes, in 4to, ff. 45 and 287, XVIII. Cent.

The history of the feudal and the canon Law, in two books; by Thomas Bever, LL.D.

The first book appears to have been left unfinished; it ends with an account of the Court of Admiralty.

At the beginning of the first volume is a table of the contents of his work upon the legal polity of the Roman state, which was printed in 1781.

CXI

Two volumes, on paper, in small 4to, ff. 138, XVIII. Cent.; in two columns.

Questions extracted out of Puffendorf's smaller treatise De officio hominis et civis, with the answers set down upon the opposite column, by Thomas Bever, LL.D.

CXII

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 193, written about the year 1700; formerly belonging to Narcissus Luttrell.

1. A repertory to the records in the Tower of London, in alphabetical order, fol. 1.
2. Records and other authorities upon the nature and duty of the offices of Earl Marshal and Constable of England, fol. 44.
3. Account of several acts and other papers relating to ecclesiastical affairs, deposited in the Tower of London, fol. 64.
4. Calendar of the records in the Tower, "delivered the three and twentieth day of March, in the first year of the reign of their late majesties, king William and queen Mary, unto William Petyt, of ye Inner Temple, London, Esq. by Mr. Laurence Halsted, deputy to Dr. Robert Brady, late keeper of ye said records, in obedience to their said late Majesties order." fol. 124.
5. Table of such Parliament rolls as are yet remaining in the office of the keeper of the records in the Tower, from 5 Edw. II. to 22 Edw. IV. fol. 188.
Prefixed is the note following, "I had this account from Mr. George Holme, who belongs to Mr. Petyt, keeper of the records of the Tower. N. Luttrell. 1703/4."
6. Memorial of what statute rolls are now extant in the Record Office, fol. 191.
7. Note of the Parliament rolls and Lords Journals "as in Lord Clarendon's library." fol. 192.

CXIII

Paper, in folio, ff. 17, XVII. Cent.; formerly the property of N. Luttrell.

Instructions given by the king (James I.) to the Lord Edward Zouch, Lord president of his Council in Wales, for the government of the king's dominions and marches there. Dat. Salisbury, 26. Aug. 1603.

Instructions to the same from Elizabeth, dated Greenwich 2 July, 1602, are in the British Museum, Harl. MS. 7020, art. 26.

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CXIV

Codex chartaceus, in folio, ff. 6, anno 1531 manu Joannis Exceter monachi descriptus; olim peculium N. Luttrell.

Liber historialis et antiquitatum domus sancti Swithuni, Wintonia, "Johannis Exceter ejusdem loci commonachi propriis manibus descriptus, anno dominice incrnationis, millesimo quingentesimo tricesimo primo."

Incip. "Tempore quo humane salutis benignissimus operator Jesus, vera pax nostra atque perfecta."

In fine, "Hec Exceter propria scripsit manu, Finis."

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CXV

Paper, in large folio, ff. 35, XVII. Cent.

Account of the commission under the great seal of England, bearing date 27 Sept. 1669, as it was from time to time executed in France by the rt. hon. Ralph Montagu, Henry earl of St. Alban, Henry lord Arundel of Wardour, rt. hon. Walter Montague, and sir Leoline Jenkjms, D.C.L., according to the powers in the said commission and in his Majesty's instructions therewith given, relating to the funeral, the family, and the estate of the Queen Mother [Henrietta Maria.]

On the cover is written, "Inventory of the houshold stuff and goods and furniture of the ueen Mother, that died in France taken at Colombe, Oct. 1669, by sir L. Jenkins; etc."

CXVI

Paper, in 4to, ff. 120, written at the end of the XVIIth Cent.

Collection of political songs and satires upon affairs of state, in the reign of Charles the Second, apparently by the Earl of Rochester and others.

They are of the same character with those printed at London in 1702 and afterwards, in four volumes 8vo., under the title of "Poems on afiairs of state."

CXVII

On paper, in small 4to, ff. 172, XVII. Cent.; formerly in the possession of Narcissus Luttrell.

"Catalogue of all such books touching as well the state ecclesiastical as temporal of the realm of England," which were published upon several occasions during the reigns of Henry VII., Henry VIII., Philip and Mary, Elizabeth, James I. and Charles I. to the year 1631, with the price of each written on the margin, by Humphrey Dyson.

This curious volume was formerly in the possession of Richard Smith, and is noticed in his catalogue, ed. 1682, p. 37, art. 115.

See also Dr. Dibdin's Bibliomania, p. 398.

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CXVIII

Paper, in folio, ff. 89, XVII. Cent.; formerly belonging to Narcissus Luttrell.

Copies of charters of privileges, and other, granted to the city of London by James the First and the preceding sovereigns of England.

Reversing the volume, is,

An order of Council for the prohibiting new buildings in the suburbs of London, dat. 23, Oct. 1633.

CXIX

Vellum, in small 4to, ff. 29, XVII. Cent. ; formerly the property of N. Luttrell.

"Orders conceyued and agreed uppon by the company exercizing the arte of ringing knowne and called by the name of the Schollers of Cheapesyde in London, begon and so continewed from the second day of February, anno 1603," with a list of names of the Generals and Wardens to the year 1634 inclusive annexed.

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CXX

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 27, XVII. Cent.; formerly belonging to Narc. Luttrell.

1. A calendar of the affairs of the company of White Bakers collected from the time of their first incorporation, 1. Henr. VII., at whioh time the white bakers and the browne bakers were both all one company, etc., together with a remembrance of orders made by the mayor and aldermen touching the governments and usages of both companies, collected "by mee Owen Bett, clerke unto the company of white bakers, anno Domini 1630."

Reversing the volume,

a. Extracts relating to the assize of bread.
b. Journal of payments and expenses in the courts of Chancery and the Star chamber paid by Owen Brett, defendant, in a commission of bankruptcy against Henry Clerke.

The volume is enclosed in a membrane which contains a fragment of a Latin poem of the fourteenth century upon the life and passion of our Saviour, in elegiac verse.

CXXI

Vellum, in small 4to., ff. 45, XV. Cent.; formerly belonging to Narcissus Luttrell.

1. A book of medical receipts for different diseases, fol. 1.
The first is, "For heued ache," and begins, "Take and sethe veruen"

Prefixed is a preface, in verse.

Beg.

"That man that wele of lechecraft lere.
Red on this book and he may here."

Printed for the Percy Society, edited by J. O. Halliwell.
2. A kalendar with many astronomical tables, fol. 30.

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CXXII

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 58, XVI. Cent.; formerly belonging to Nar. Luttrell.

Directions, principally in French, for holding of a court leet, court baron, sheriffs turn and county court and hundred court.

At the end is "An exhortation before the charge as well before the lete as the courte baron."

Beg. " Masters; The charge that by your othes."

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CXXIII

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 28, XVII. Cent.; formerly belonging to Nar. Luttrell.

1. A narrative of [George Monck] duke of Albemarle, touching the miscarriages of the late Dutch War, sent to the House of Commons, upon their request, in the month of November, 1667. p. 1.
Printed in Echard's Hist, of England, vol. iii. p. 183.
2. Narrative of his Highness Prince Rupert upon the same to the House of Commons, 31 Octob. 1667. p. 12.
3. Articles of impeachment drawn up by the House of Commons against [Edw. Hyde], earl of Clarendon, with the protest of twenty-six lords against the vote of the Upper House, 21 Nov. 1667. p. 17.
4. Leges convivales, Quod felix faustumque convivis in Apolline sit. p. 23.
5. Copy of a letter from mons. Colbert to a Minister of State in France, upon the government of that country, p. 24.
6. "Advice to a painter to draw the lineaments of a statesman and his understanding." p. 44.
Beg.

"First draw an errant fopp from top to toe,
Whose verry looks at first doth shew him soe."

CXXIV

Paper, in folio, ff. 51, XVII. Cent.; formerly belonging to Narcissus Luttrell.

Treatise "concerninge the high and honorable court of Chancerie, written by Sir Robert Cotten, knight."

CXXV

Paper, in 4to, ff. 92, XVII. Cent., written by various hands; formerly belonging to Narcissus Luttrell.

1. The true report of the estate of Spain, translated out of Spanish by Patrick Mason, with an introduction by the translator dedicating his work to Mr. William Absalom, DD., clerk of the Closet and master of the Savoy, fol. 2.
Introd. beg. "Havinge my mynde free from all worldlie cares, and desirous."
2. Ordinationes et statuta edita per dominos Cancellarios Universitatis Oxoniensis ad utilitatem et profectum Scholarium Aularum studentiom in eisdem; dat. Jul. 27. 1629. fol. 18.
3. The danger wherein the kingdom now standeth with the remedy, "written by Sir Robert Cotton, knight and barronett in January, 1627." fol. 31.
At the end, "Esther Flesher, her booke. Le livre de Mademoiyele Esther Flesher. E. F. P. Killi."
4. A treatise of the seyerall judiciall courts in England, their jurisdiction, officers, and manner of proceeding therein, fol. 48.
At the end, "Finis Febru. 14, 1593, R. Robinson."
5. "Presidents and forms of pleading in seyerall cases." fol. 59.
6. "A note of the principall Acts of the Parliament held in Scotland June 11, 1640." fol. 87.
7. Petition of lords and others to the King upon the expedition into Scotland, and the general state of the country, with the king's answer, fol. 89.
Printed by Rushworth, vol. ii. p. 1260.
8. Proverbial sentences, fol. 91.
Beg. "Fearfull jealousyes a disease incident to kings."

CXXVI

Paper, in folio, ff. 41, XVII. Cent.; formerly the property of N. Luttrell.

Copies of "the severall charters granted by our kings to ye citty of London from H. I. to Charles I."

They are ten in number, of the reigns of Henry I. II., Richard I., John, Henry III., Edward III., Richard II., Henry VI., Edward IV., and James I.

At the end is a list of "Bodies buried in the coligiat church of St. Peters at Westminster."

Reversing the volume is a report of the case of John Pulford, gent. against Thomas Gill; dated Hilary Term. 1652.

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CXXVII

Paper, in folio, ff. 77, XVII. Cent.; in 1687 the property of Narcissus Luttrell.

"Glover's book of visitations of ye arms of ye gentry in Oxfordshire, Barkshire, Wiltshire, Buckinghamshire, [Bedfordshire], Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire and Devonshire."

Prefixed is the note following, "Robert Glover's own writing."

The volume is in an unfinished state, and contains but scanty notices of the families then residing in the above-named counties.

CXXVIII

Paper, in folio, ff. 121, XVII. Cent.; formerly the property of N. Luttrell.

Observations upon the rise and progress of the late rebellion against king Charles the first, in so far as it was carried on by a malcontented faction in Scotland under pretext of reformation, by Henry Guthry, bishop of Dunkel.

Printed in 8vo. London, 1702.

Prefixed, "Memorandum, that this was copied from a manuscript belonging to ye earl of Melfort, and examined with ye same by myself; and seems to me to be bishop Guthrie's history of ye civil wars in Scotland ; N. Luttrell."

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CXXIX

Paper, in large folio, ff. 36, XVII. Cent.; formerly belonging to N. Luttrell.

History of the expedition in Holland under the duke of Alva, in 1572 — 73, in eighteen chapters, with a letter dedicatory to William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, by Walter Morgan.

To each chapter is affixed a very spirited drawing, representing the sieges of the different towns, Amsterdam, Brill, etc., with the movements of the army.

From the arms of Cecil on the cover, it appears to have been the presentation copy.

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CXXX

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 28, XVII. Cent.; formerly belonging to N. Luttrell.

A book of Latin and English proverbs, arranged alphabetically.

Beg. "Acesei et Heliconis; A proverbe spoken of such... as be cunningly wrought."

At the end, "Unto these fewe you may annexe more if you will, as your occasion serveth, and reduce them into an Abecedarye order."

CXXXI

Paper, in 4to, ff. 79, XVII. Cent.; formerly belonging to N. Luttrell.

The first part of the life and reign of Henry IV. king of England, extending to the end of the first year of his reign, with a Latin dedication to Robert Bourchier, earl of Essex, and preface to the reader ; by sir John Hayward.

Printed in 4to, London, 1599.

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CXXXII

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 64, sec. XVII.

Short notes upon several books of the Old and New Testament; h. e. the Canticles and Psalter, Genesis to Numbers inclusive, SS. Luke and John, and the Acts of the Apostles.

Reversing the volume,

Theological notes, in Latin, entitled, "Theologiæ doctrina, ex Wolebio."

CXXXIII

Codex chartaceus, in 4to minori, ff. 190, sec. XVII.

Annotationes in Evangelia quatuor, Symbolum Apostolicum, et Judæ epistolam; sub titulo "Liber sacris dicatus anno Domini 1622; Deus in principio, medio, fine. Indignissimus servus servorum Jesu Christi Thomas Hassall."

CXXXIV

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 142, XVIII. Cent.

The doctrine of passive obedience debated; whether a nation having an established religion, laws and privileges, which are subverted by the prince and another religion endeavoured to be introduced, whether the people of that nation can stand up in the defence thereof, and oppose their prince in such illegal attempts and depose him, collected from various printed tracts, sermons, etc. bearing upon the subject, apparently by Narcissus Luttrell.

CXXXV

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 96, XVIII. Cent.

1. Continuation of the subject contained in the preceding volume, fol. 1.
2. Extracts from Mauger's French grammar. fol. 73.

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CXXXVI

Paper, in folio, ff. 73 and 122, XVIII. Cent.; divided into two volumes.

Treatise concerning the secondary origination of mankind by propagation, in two parts; by Sir Matthew Hale.

See Burnet's life of Sir M. Hale, p. 190.

At the end of the work is "A Prayer" by the same.

CXXXVII

On vellum, in folio, ff. 40, written at the end of the sixteenth century; bequeathed to All Souls college library by Ralph Freman, of Hammels, Esq.

The survey taken the — daye of April in the xxiij. yere of ye raigne of our Sovereigne Ladye, quene Elizabeth, by Thomas Stutevyle Esq., of the scyte and demeasnes of ye manner of Westmyll, [co. Herts], and other lands in Westmyll, beynge in ye possessyon of George Hammonde or his assignees, by force of severall indentures of demyse, and of one William Churche, by veiwe and not by measure; when ye same was in her Majesties possession by reason of ye mynorytie of Thomas Howard, commonly called lord Thomas Howard, second sonne of ye late duke of Norfolk and ye lady Margaret, his wife, daughter and sole heyre to ye lord Audley, late lorde Chauncellor of England,

On the first leaf are the arms of Thomas, lord Audley of Walden, with those of his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas, second marquis of Dorset, empaled.

CXXXVIII

Paper, in folio, ff. 64, XVIII. Cent.

Account of the proceedings at the courts baron of the several Rectors of Wellwys, alias Wellwyn, co. Herts., held between the years 1633 and 1701 inclusive.

Prefixed to the volume, "Georgius Draper, armiger, de interiori templo hoc Ms. custodi et coll. Omn. Anim. Oxon., rectoriæ de Wellwyn patronis, curiæ seneschallus beneficus olim, semper benevolus, dono dedit, MDCCXIII."

CXXXIX

Paper, in folio, ff. 211, made up of tracts and papers written at different periods, but chiefly in the seventeenth century; formerly belonging to N. Luttrell.

1. Abstract of the life and reign of the French kings from the foundation of that monarchy by Pharamond to Louis XlVth. ' now living.' fol. 1.
2. Treatise apologetical for hunting, "shewing by whom it is properly to be used, and the profytt and pleasure that therof redowndethe." fol. 80.
3. The offices of the Pope's houshold and of Rome, with the revenues and expences of the Apostolical see. fol. 93.
At the end, "In Bologna, Printed by Sebastien Benomi 1621, with licence of the Superior, at the instaunce of Jerome Mascheroni," the work from which the above translation has been probably compiled.
4. Book of the oaths to be taken by the several officers of the city of London; with an index appended, fol. 107.
At the end, "Thus farre extends the booke of oathes remayning of record in the court of Aldermen."
5. "Doctors Conunons treasurers book," containing the names of the members, with the dates of their admission, 1560 — 1696. fol. 129.
At the end, "Admissions of the advocates, with fac-similes of severall of their names," 1511 — 1660.
6. List of cases, alphabetically arranged in the Arches, Admiralty and Prerogative courts, intitled "Repertorium Delegatorum ab anno 1660 and 1669," and 1670 — 1682. fol. 137.
7. Cases for counsel's opinion, in French, with the summing up or decisions upon them in English. fol. 167.
8. "Of the true interests of the princes and states of Chrystendome, wherein bee two powers, viz. Spayne and France, which are as ye two Poles, from whence descend ye influences of peace or warre uppon the other states." fol. 182.
9. Register of ecclesiastical livings in the dioceses of York and Canterbury, with names of the patrons, commonly reputed value, and value in the king's books, in alphabetical order, fol. 200.

CXL

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 31 and 8, XVII. Cent.; formerly belonged to Nar. Luttrell.

1. Instructions by James, duke of York and Albany.
- a. For the better ordering his Majesty's fleet in sailing, p. 1.
- b. For the better ordering his Majesty's fleet in fighting ; datt. 1664, 1665. p. 17.
2. A list of the monthly wages of all officers, seamen, and others serving in his Majesty's ships at sea. p. 35.
3. List of ships in the royal Navy, their names, size, date and place of building, with the builders' names ; dat. 1664. p. 38.
4. Other vessels, not men of war, belonging to the navy. p. 58.
5. List of the king's yachts, their size, date and place of building, etc. p. 59.
Reversing the volume,
6. "A list of the ships, commaunders, etc. under the command of Richard Deane and George Monck, Generalls, against the Hollanders in the fight on the second and third of June, 1653."
7. Letters of safe conduct to Jo. and Christ. Harmersten ; Testimonial in favour of Sampson Bourne; with a few official forms.
8. "Receipt for Staukers."

CXLI

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 24, written in the beginning of the eighteenth century by F. L[uttrell?]

1. A list of his Majesty's navy royal, with the dimensions of the ships, number of men and guns, dates and times of building, with the names of the builders, fol. 1 b.
2. The wages of the officers and seamen in war and peace; the weight of cordage and ordnance on board, etc. fol. 10 b.
3. Estimate of the ordinary charge of the navy for a year, from June 1660 to June 1661, of the charge in building several ships, etc. fol. 17.

At the end, "This proceeding manuscript of ye state of ye navy was copied by my son F. L. from ye manuscript in ye custody of John Anstis, Esq., and examined therewith by him and me, but I doubt 'tis not correct, having found several mistakes yerein: N[arcissus] L[uttrell]. 22 April 1710,"

CXLII

Paper, in large folio, ff. 20, XVIII. Cent.

"Remembrances for order and decency to be kept in the upper House of Parliament by the lords when his Majesty is not there, leaving the solemnity of his Majesty's coming to be marshalled by those lords to whom it more properly appertains," with an index prefixed.

CXLIII

Paper, in large folio, ff. 114, XVIII. Cent.

1. Estimate of the charge of the Navy for the year 1685, with the usual rates and allowances granted to the principal officers, commissioners, clerks, etc. presented to the House of Commons by Sir Robert Rich on 3 Jan. 1698. fol. 1.
2. Accompt of his Majesty's proper rents arising from the Few and Blench duties in Scotland, with the deductions, alterations, and differences between the present rental and the former, preceding king James his going into England in 1603; extracted out of the rolls and registers by Sir William Parves, his Majesty's solicitor, 1681. fol. 50.
3. His Majesty's revenue in Scotland since H. M. happy restoration, as at present payable; also the establishment of the pay of the army in Scotland, in 1684. fol. 94.

Prefixed, "For John Drummond, of Lundin," secretary of state for Scotland.

CXLIV

Paper, in folio, ff. 146, XVII. Cent.; formerly belonging to N. Luttrell.

"The severall arguments and opinions of all the reverend and learned judges of England concerning the great case of Shipp-moneyes xiij. Carol. Regis, xxvij Januarii 1638."

Compare Rushworth, vol. ii. p. 481, seqq.

CXLV

Paper, in large folio, ff. 883, XVII. Cent.; formerly belonging to N. Luttrell.

Reports and entries of cases in the King's Bench, and other courts in the reigns of Charles II, James II, and William III; with notes by N. Luttrell.

CXLVI

Paper, in folio, ff. 115, written about the year 1700.

A volume of papers containing the statements respecting the Navy, the lists and stations of the different ships, the victualling accounts of Admiral Russel, etc., as laid before the Parliament in 1698; with an index annexed.

CXLVII

Four volumes, in large folio, containing "A state of the incomes and issues of the public revenue from the fifth of November 1688 to April 1699 by the Commissioners of Accompts; with other papers and matters relating thereunto."

CXLVIII

Paper, in 4to, ff. 362, written at the end of the seventeenth century.

1. Reports of cases respecting wills heard in the Arches, Consistory, and other courts, in the years 1693 — 1695.

Reversing the volume,

2. Reports of cases of maritime law before commissioners at the Marshalsea, court of Admiralty, etc., in the years 1693 — 1695.

CXLIX

Paper, in 4to, ff. 65, XVII. Cent.

"A briefe discourse of the navy by Mr. Holland;"

Beg. "Among the many and manifold bookes extant upon all subjects."

CL

Paper, in 4to, ff. 46, XVIII. Cent.

The nature of the court of the Commons House of Parliament, with what matters they may meddle, et e contra, oppositions and proceedings therein and other observations thereupon, by Lord Chief Justice Hales.

CLI

Paper, in 4to, ff. 154, XVII. Cent.

1. Discourse of the navy, by Sir Robert Slingsby, comptroller of the navy. fol. 2.

Subjoined are,
- a. The economy of the navy, containing the instructions of the duke of York and Albany to the several officers, with his reflections on the members of the navy Board's duty, and answer to their several excuses, fol. 51.
- b. Mr. Pepy's letter and new year's gift to sir W. Coventry about pursers; dated Greenwich, 1 Jan. 1665. fol. 70.
2. State of the controversy between the officers of the navy and sir Philip Howard and Company touching the practice of sheathing ships with lead; 1682. fol. 80.
3. Victualling contract, with instructions for the commissionors annexed; 168f. fol. 109.

CLII

Six volumes, in 4to, containing copies of papers, reports upon the state of the revenue, army and navy lists, copies of treaties, addresses, with lists of peers present, etc., and other parliamentary papers connected with both Houses, for the years 1689—1701 inclusive.

CLIII

Paper, in 4to, ff. 210, written about 1700.

"A narrative of the whole summers proceedings of the fleet, and concerning the descent upon France in the year 1692, delivered into the house of Lords by the earl of Nottingham;" containing instructions to admiral Russell, abstracts from his correspondence with the earl of Nottingham; etc.

At the end are tables of "The present disposal of all their Majesties ships and vessels in sea pay;" from April 1692 to October 1693.

CLIV

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 138, XVIII. Cent.; formerly belonged to N. Luttrell.

1. Account of their Majesties, (William and Mary) guard, garrisons, and land forces, commencing April 1. 1692. fol. 1. b.
2. An abstract of the foregoing establishment. fol. 27. b.
3. Regulations with respect to rewards, augmentation of pay, provisions, etc. for troops on foreign service, Dutch and Danish forces, pensions for the "reformed officers" and others ; etc. fol. 28. b.
4. Establishment of his Majesty's guards, garrisons, and other charges relating therounto, commencing 26 March 1699. fol. 76.
5. List and establishment of half pay for the officers of the several regiments, etc. disbanded since the 10th of September 1697; with the names of officers and regiments. fol. 120.

CLV

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 412, XVIIth Cent.; formerly belonging to Narcissus Luttrell.

"A collection of speeches, letters, verses, and other remarkable things, both public and private," with a full alphabetical index subjoined.

The following appear the most remarkable,

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CLVI

Paper, in folio, ff. 107, sec. XVII.; olim Ricardi Baker de Bergevenny, co. Monm. Int. Templi socii, postea Narcissi Luttrell.

Collection of "Reports in Queen Elizabeth's time, made by Bichard Baker and others."

CLVII

Three volumes, in small 4to, formerly belonging to Nar. Luttrell, being the common-place books, or, as they are entitled, "The common-place of law," of Mr. Sargeant T. Flint, of Grays Inn, in the year 1639.

CLVIII

Two volumes, in small thick 4to, containing "An abstract of the debates, orders, and resolutions in the house of Commons, which are not printed in their votes, collected by N(arcissus) L(uttrell) during his attendance therein as a member, beginning Friday, 6th of November, 1691, and ending the 7th of November, 1693;" with an index annexed to each volume.

CLIX

Paper, in 4to, ff. 156.

"Parliament collections of a mix't nature, annis 1698 and 1699, by me N(arcissus) L(uttrell)"; with an alphabetical index subjoined.

CLX

Paper, in 4to, ff. 49, XVII. Cent.

Journal of parliamentary and other events in London and Paris, from 28 Nov. 1667 to 15 Febr. 1668.

At fol. 26 is a notice of an expedition projected by three Frenchmen for the discovery of a north-west passage.

CLXI

Paper, in 4to, ff. 104, XVII. Cent.

"A perfect account of all the proceedings in both houses of Parliament in the business concerning priviledge betweene sir Jno. Tagg and Docter Sherley in two severall sessions of Parliament, the one beginning the 31 of Aprill, 1675, and ending the ninth day of June following; and the other beginning the 13th of October, 1675, and ending the 22 of November then next following,"

CLXII

Paper, in 4to, ff. 185.

Extracts from the journals of both houses of Parliament of their proceedings in the years 1676 — 1678 inclusive.

CLXIII

Paper, in 4to, ff. 158, XVII. Cent.; written by different hands; the latter part of the volume formerly belonged to N. Luttrell.

1. "Choyce cases in the Starr chamber," with an index prefixed. fol. 1.
2. Collection of speeches of Charles I. and others ; with other matters relating to the duke of Buckingham, fol. 98.
At the end,
- a. The king's speech in Parliament, 19. Feb. 1623.
- b. The archbishop's speech to the king at Theobald's, 1624.
- c. Letter to the king, charging him with the attempt to set up the doctrine of the church of Rome.

CLXIV

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 48, XVII. Cent.; formerly belonging to N. Luttrell.

Remembrances for order and decency to be kept in the house of Lords, when the king is not present, "leaveing the solempnities belonging to his Majesties comeing to be marshalled by those Lords to whom it more properly appertaines;" with a table prefixed.

At the end is a table of fees payable to the clerk of the Parliament at their Lordships first coming to Parliament, etc., copied by N. Luttrell, from a Ms. "of Mr. Brown, who was clerk of the Parliament, and which I had from sir Thomas Cave, whose mother was daughter and heir of the said Mr. Brown."

CLXV

Seventeen volumes, in small thick 4to, containing a very interesting journal of state affairs, intitled, "Brief historical relation of publick matters from that memorable time of the first discovery of the Popish plot, September 1678" to the first of April 1714 inclusive, apparently by Narcissus Luttrell.

CLXVI

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 92, written at the close of the seventeenth century.

The examinations of several persons relating to the Popish Plot, as follow,

1. Mr. Tytus Oates before the Privy Gounoil. fol. 2.
2. Mr. Richard Gastrill, of the Grange, Glocestershire, before the bishop of London, fol. 63 b.
3. Mr. William Beddlow, before the Lords, 8 Nov. 1678. fol. 65 b.
4. "The information of Tytus Oates, D.D. before his Majesty in Councell," 25 Nov. 1678. fol. 71.
5. Heads of Stephen Dugdale's information before Thomas Lane and Henry Vernon, Esqrs., justices of the peace for the county of Stafford, Nov. 28. 1768. [sic., presumably 1678] fol. 77.
6. Account of the apprehending William Prance, silversmith, "who, as Mr. Beddlow positively sweares, was immediately concerned in the murder of sir Edmondbury Godfrey; and also the said Prance his information and confession." fol. 78.
7. Confession and discovery of Elizabeth Oxley and Nicholas Stubbs, reported from the committee, the 26 April 1679. fol. 83.
8. "Mr. Oates his impeachment of the queen given upon oath to me Henry Coventry" 24 Nov. 1678. fol. 90.
On the margin, "A shamm story."
9. Confession of W. Bedlowe before the King of the murder of sir Edmondbury Godfrey, fol. 90 b.
At the end, "This relacion is in several parts contrary to ye evidence at Greenbury and Hills tryalls for ye same murther."
10. Account given by Elizabeth Oxley before the Lords, 15 Apr. 1679, charged with setting her masters house on fire. fol. 91b.

CLXVII

Paper, in 4to, ff. 200, written about 1700.

Copies of miscellaneous parliamentary and other papers.

CLXVIII

Two volumes, on paper, in 4to, ff. 81, XVIII. Cent.; formerly belonging to R. Freman, of Hammels, S. T. P.

A particular state of the receipts and issues of the public revenue, taxes, and loans, from the 5th of November 1688 to Michaelmas 1710.

CLXIX

Paper, in 4to, ff 172, XVII. Cent.; formerly belonging to N. Luttrell.

"A collection of several affairs of state, both publick and private," in the time of James I., Charles I., and Charles II.

It consists chiefly of parliamentary speeches and addresses; but there may also be found the following,

1. Ann Wentworth's prophecy, 1677. p. 233.
2. Two letters from the earl of Danby to Mr. Montague, ambassador in France; 1678. p. 295.
3. The Pope's bull for the murder of Charles II., found amongst the papers of Father Ireland, a Jesuit; entitled, A warrant to kill a buck. fol. 302.
4. Copy of a letter found 23 Nov. 1678 by a bookseller on his stall at the Green Dragon at Paul's churchyard, fol. 306.
5. Copy of a letter from Mr. Scudamore of Kent Church to Mr. Arnold about Comb in Hereford; 24 Dec. 1678. p. 307.
6. Copy of a written paper (very scandalous) taken up on the Royal Exchange, Wednesday 15 Jan. 1679. fol. 311.

CLXX

Paper, in 4to, ff 207, XVII. Cent.; formerly belonging to Narcissus Luttrell.

Book of arguments on the case of Quo Warranto brought by the king against the city of London.

CLXXI

Paper, in folio, ff. 126, XVII. Cent.; formerly belonging to N. Luttrell.

An interesting journal of state and miscellaneous affairs from January 1679 to Feb. 1681 ; "being a collection of news letters, many of which contain diverse false stories and scandalls which were then goeing on in those times."

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CLXXII

Paper, in 8vo, ff. 42, XVII. Cent.; imperfect.

Rent-book, or book of receipts for rent, by William Tumor, 1660—1700.

CLXXIII

Paper, in 4to, ff. 9, XVII. Cent.; formerly belonging to N. Luttrell.

Discourse of new invented malt kilns for the dryeing of malt, by Nicholas Halse, with preface.

CLXXIV

Paper, in 4to, ff. 89, XVII. Cent.

Answer to "Cookes Case or the report of his appeal from the High Court of Justice to all rational men concerning the King's trial."

Annexed are several poems;

a. Second advice to a painter for drawing the history of our naval fight; in imitation of Mr. Waller; June 1665. fol. 21,
b. To the king. fol. 27.
Beg,

"Imperiall prince, king of the seas and isles."
c. The third advice to the painter, fol. 27 b.
d. Epitaph upon a child, fol. 34 b.
e. To the king; 1 Octob. 1666. fol. 35.
f. To Mr. Edw. Howard, upon his poem of the 'British Princes,' by Mar. Clifford, fol. 35 b.
g. Upon the late storm and the death of Cromwell, by Waller, with "the answere or construction" by W. Godolphin. fol. 36 b.
h. The lady Isabella Thynne on her exquisite cutting trees in paper, by Waller, fol. 39.

CLXXV

Paper, in folio, ff. 52, XVII. Cent.; formerly belonging to W. Blackstone.

A treatise upon the jurisdiction of archbishops and bishops, and other matters upon the ecclesiastical law in England, upon presentations to benefices, the power of parsons, etc. divided into twenty-seven chapters.

CLXXVI

Paper, in folio, ff. 198, XVII. Cent.; written at different times and by different hands.

Collections from the journals of the houses of Parliament, during the reigns of Charles I., Charles II., and James II.

Many of the above appear to be in the handwriting of Narcissus Luttrell.

CLXXVII

Paper, in folio, ff. 107, XVII. Cent.; formerly belonging to sir W. Blackstone.

Reports of cases, in the court of Star Chamber, during the three first years of the reign of Charles the First.

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CLXXVIII

Paper, in folio, ff. 212 and 855, XVII. Cent., written at different times, by different scribes; formerly belonging to N. Luttrell.

Two volumes, containing treatises and observations upon, and the proceedings of the court of Star Chamber, in the reign of Henry VII., Charles I., etc., with other papers relating to the same court, with a table of contents prefixed to each volume.

CLXXIX

Four volumes, in large folio, on paper, formerly belonging to Narcissus Luttrell.

Containing "Presidents for all sorts of deeds and other instruments," with a table of contents prefixed to each of the three last volumes.

CLXXX

Paper, in folio, ff. 266, XVII. Cent.; formerly belonging to Narcissus Luttrell.

CLXXXI

Paper, in folio, ff. 368, XVII. Cent.

CLXXXII

Codex membranaceus, in 4to, ff. 373, sec. XV., binis columnis exaratus; olim Joannis Stevens, canon Exon. et rectoris ecclesise de Blackanton, quo mortuo emptus fiiit codex iste per Willelm Elyott, LL.B., coll. Omn. Anim. socium, et rectorem de Blackanton.

A. G. Watson catalogue entry

CLXXXIII

On paper, in small 4to, ff. 123, XVII. Cent. A book of forms of address to be used by the king, (Charles II.) in his letters, as well to foreign princes and others, as also to different peers of the realm of England.

An index of names of the persons addressed is prefixed to the volume.

CLXXXIV

On paper, in 4to, ff. 296, written probably in the beginning of the seventeenth century.

1. A work intitled, "Explication de l'Eneide de Virgile," being an Essay upon Epic Poetry, divided into four parts; the whole containing fifty-three chapters, in the first of which the author declares the design of his work, to compare, namely, Homer, Aristotle and Horace together, and Virgil with the three, p. 3.
The parts are intitled,
- a. "De la nature du poeme epique." p. 13.
- b. "De la matiere du poeme epique." p. 87.
- c. "De la forme du poeme epique." p. 259.
- d. "Des moeurs dans le poeme epique." p. 381.
After which,
- a. "Le temps et la durée de l'action de l'Eneide." p. 518.
  Beg. "La ville de Troie fut prise."
- b. "La descente d'Enée aux enfers." p. 540.
2. B? Sylvæ poema heroicum de Diluvio, cum versione et notis Gallice. scriptis. fol. 560 b.
Incip.

"Quam bene compositi quondam sacra fœdera mundi."
3. Anonymi cujusdam Elcloga, in qua pastore

Incip. "Palæmon:
"Indusus Lycidas, quidnam meditaris in antro."
4. Psalmus 'Deus Judicium tuum' paraphrastico carmine redditus, auctore anonymo. p. 587.
Incip.

"Juditium, Deus alme, tuum concedito regi."

CLXXXV

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 71, XVII. Cent.

Treatise upon the nature and essence of the Deity, divided into four chapters, on his unity, goodness, omnipotence, and truth; French.

CLXXXVI

Paper, in 4to, ff. 221, XVII. Cent.

The life of the Marshal de Gassion, in three parts, with a letter dedicatory to the King, (Louis XIV.,) preface, and table of contents prefixed; by --- du Prat.

It is in the original binding, and appears to have been the presentation copy.

CLXXXVII

Paper, in 4to, ff. 75, XVII. Cent.

1. Regulations to be observed by Goldsmiths, etc. in their trade, respecting the weight and refining of gold, also upon the value of precious stones, etc., divided into three books; in French.
The titles of the books are,
- a. D'orfeurerie. fol. 1.
- b. Livre de l'affineur. fol. 25.
- c. Livre du lapidaire. fol. 37.
2. "A particular account of all such seales, coynes and medalls, and other services and disbursements made by Thomas Simon, one of his majesties chief gravers, for the use of his majesties kingdome of England, Scotland, Ireland, and forrein plantations, belonging to his majestie, since his majesties happy returne, beginning 12th June, 1660." fol. 68.

CLXXXVIII

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 40, XVII. Cent.

Treatise upon the office, privileges, etc. of ambassadors in foreign courts; in Spanish.

Beg. "Las occupaciones politicas hablo de las que se emplean en las cortes estrangeras de Europa."

CLXXXIX

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 379, XVI. Cent.

Book of poems, in Spanish, containing eclogues, sonnets, 'coplas Castellanas,' and songs.

At the beginning is an alphabetical table of the first line of each poem.

CXC

Paper, in folio, ff. 56, XVI. Cent.; formerly belonging to John White, S.T.P., fellow of All Souls.

"A coppie of the last enstructions, which the Emperor Charles the fiueth gaue to his sone Philippe before his death, translated out of Spanish," with a dedication to queen Elizabeth by the translator.

Dedic. beg. "If the faithful Chananite of whome we reade in holie writte."

Book beg. "I haue resolved most deare Sonne, to come nowe."

XCI

Paper, in 4to, ff. 83, XVII. Cent.

1. "Il Genesi et l'Esodo del Symeone ridotti in ottava rima secondo il vero et puro antico teste della biblia;" illustrated with engravings let in upon every page. fol. 6.
2. Explanation of the nativities of Henry II., Catherine de Medicis, and five others of the royal family of France, intitled, "VII giuditii reali, et sommarii secondo gl' aspetti de i pianeti." fol. 72.

CXCII

On vellum, in small 4to, ff. 104, written in the year 1481 by Mark de Cribellariis.

Chronicle of events, comprising the history of Venice, her wars, political relations with the different Italian states, etc.; with preface dedicatory; in Italian.

Pref. beg. "Millesimo quadringesimo septime die, xviii. Maii; Principe illustre el debel mio concepto."

Chron. beg. "Venegia contra la romana corte e suo cita. 696. Sendo Ravena terra di Sancta."

At the end, "Marcus de Cribellariis quondam Petri Antonii civis Vincentiæ scripsit die prime Septembris M.cccc lxxxj."

A. G. Watson catalogue entry

CXCIII

Paper, in 4to, ff. 47, XVI. Cent.

Letter from Galileo Galilei to the archduchess of Austria, thus described by a somewhat later hand, "De S. Scripturæ testimoniis in conclusionibus mere naturalibus temere non usurpandis;" in Italian.

Tit. "Alla serenissima madama la Grand-duchessa Madre Galileo Galilei."

CXCIV

Paper, in folio, ff. 84, XVII. Cent.

"Relatione della citta e republica di Venetia nella quale sono descritti li principii di sua edificatione, avanzamenti, acquisti e perdite, fatte, govemo, riti, costumi, dominio, forze, erario, aderenze, con prencipi, e differenze con gl' elettori dell' Imperio, per causa di precedenza."

CXCV

Paper, in 4to, ff. 450, XVII. Cent.

Collection of relations made [to the Venetian State?] by ambassadors upon their return from the different places of their legation; in Italian.

They are as follow,

1. Relatione della corte di Roma. fol. 2.
2. Relatione delle qualita de i Principi della Germania. fol. 136.
3. Relatione di Fiandra cio e di quelle provincie che restano sotto 1'obedienza de ser. arciduchi Alberto e donna Isabella Infanta di Spagna, fatta dal sign. Cardinale Bentivoglio in tempo della sua legatione appresse i medmi Arciduchi. fol. 154.
4. Relatione fatta dal clarissimo sig. Thomaæ Contarini caure et procure ritornate dalla sua ambassria di Spagna. fol. 214.
5. Relatione del clarissimo M. Bernardo Navagiero, stato bailo a Constantinopoli fatta nell' eccelmo consiglio l'anno 1552. fol. 277.
6. Relatione di Savoia del clarmo. M. Gio. Correro stato ambassre. per la serma. republica di Venetia appresso quell' altezza sermo. principe et sapientissimo senate, fol. 371 .

CXCVI

Paper, in folio, ff. 106, XVII. Cent.

Relatione del politico govemo di Venetia, similmente di tutte le vendite, spese, et forze della republica, one di citta in citta, si da conto particolare delle rendite, dipoi di officio in officio si da conto particolare anco delle spese di essa republica; con una descrittione nel fine di tutte le anime, canandone, li buoni atti da spada, di tutti li presidii di fantaria, et cavallaria d' ogni fortezza, le forze ordinarie della republica di gente d' arme, delle ordinanze e delli Bombardien; finalmente le inventioni antiche e modeme per ritrovardanari; fatta l'anno 1620.

CXCVII

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 107, XV. Cent.

The life of Dante Allighieri, [by Griovanni Boccaccio.]

Printed in the "Prose di Dante Alighieri e di Messer Gio. Boccacci." p. 219.

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CXCVIII

Paper, in 4to, ff. 384, written in the beginning of the XVIIIth Cent.; "donum reverendi viri magistri Sparrow, rectoris de Monkton Farley, in agro Wiltoniensi, et coll. Omn. Anim. quondam clerici, 1767."

"Vita di Papa Innocenzo XII., già detto Antonio Pignatelli, e di tutti i cardinali viventi nel fine del di lui pontificato, l'anno 1700;" illustrated with engraved portraits by different artists; published at Rome by Jac. de Rubeis.

CXCIX

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 154, XVI. Cent.

"La geomantia dell' eccllente filosofo Giovanni Geber, cor un trattato di fisonomia et chiromatia nuovamente, dal nobilissimo huomo M. Giorgio Piceno, Ascolano. tradotto."

Printed in 8vo. Vineg. 1552.

At the foot of the page, "Alia Prudenta, con Privilegio, M.D.L."

CC

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 77, XVI. Cent.

A book of proverbs, in Italian verse, divided into thirty-nine chapters.

The first begins,

"Come il lupo e animal simile al cana
Cosi l'adulator, et il parassito
E simile all'amico et sempre nuoce,
Ira, superbia, crudelta et rabbia."

The fourth and fifth chapters are found at the end of the poem; after which is a dediatory epistle to Henry Kingsmill, [formerly fellow of All Souls?]; in Italian prose.

Tit. "A molto magnifico et valoroso Signore Henrico Kyngesmyllo, gentilluomo Ingilese."

Collection of copies and drafts of state and other papers, connected with the offices of the Admiralty and Prerogative courts, the Foreign office, especially England's relations with the United States, made principally, as it appears, by Owen Wynne, D.C.L., whilst secretary to sirLeoline Jenkins, principal Secretary of state, judge of the Admiralty and Prerogative courts, etc.; comprised in seventy-eight volumes.

Compare the life of sir L. Jenkins, by W. Wynne, p. lviii., and preface, pp. ix. x.

The following description is intended to convey to the reader a notion of the general character, rather than a particular and detailed account of the contents of the volumes.

CCI

Paper, in folio, ff. 84.

An alphabetical index, as it appears, to the papers of sir Leoline Jenkins deposited in the State Paper office, arranged as to subjects.

CCII

Paper, in folio, ff. 125.

1. Decree of the Admiralty court of Scotland, in the case of Andrew Smeaton, master of the Eupheme frigate, and others, against Derrick Jacobson, skipper of the ship Oalnear, and others; by sir Charles Bickerstaffe, 4 Oct. 1672. fol. 7.
2. Collections from various sources, respecting rules and observances in both houses of Parliament at different periods, fol. 11.
3. Journals of the lords touching appeals from the courts of Equity, etc., 1675. fol. 22 b.
4. Judicature of the commons upon the same, 1675, fol. 27.
5. Precedents to shew that from the Conquest until Henry III. the barons only made the parliament or common council of the kingdom; with various papers upon the privileges of parliament, respecting liberty and property, etc. fol. 30 b.
6. The manner of holding parliaments in France, Scotland and Ireland, fol. 46 b.
7. Papers upon parliamentary privileges, temp. Car. i. from Coke, Brocton, Camden and others, fol. 47 b.
8. Queen Elizabeth's reasons against the designation of a successor, fol. 74.
9. Collections touching the children, legitimate or otherwise, of the kings of England, from William I. to Henry III. inclusive; from Daniel and Baker, fol. 47 b.
10. Letter upon the immutability of the law of nature respecting regal power and subjection, fol. 82.
11. Papers relating to the dignity of the sovereign, the law of succession, etc. fol. 89 b.
12. Prerogatives of the queen, fol. 110.
13. Note of the persons of the blood royal attainted, fol. 111b.
14. The whole story concerning the duke of Clarence, collected out of Trussel's history, in the reigns of Henry VI. and Edward IV. fol. 117 b.
15. Testimonies to prove that the queen's majesty of Scotland is unjustly removed from her crown, by the bishop of Rosse, 1570. fol. 123.

CCIII

Paper, in folio, ff. 148.

CCIV

Paper, in folio, ff. 95.

CCV

Paper, in folio, ff. 88.

1. Collection of papers respecting the Treaty Marine, 1669. fol. 1.
2. Schedule of books bequeathed by sir M. Hales to Lincoln's Inn. fol. 39.
3. De mode convocandi clerum ad parliamentum Edwardi, filii Ethelredi, regis, etc. fol. 41.
4. Return of papists and dissenters in the province of Canterbury, fol. 42.
5. Return of the number of conformists, non-conformists and papists in England and Wales, fol. 42 b.
6. Rejection of mons. de Bordeaux, ambassador from the French king, by his majesty, 1660. fol. 45.
7. Admiralty papers, fol. 45 b.
8. Case of merchants trading to ports in the Levant, 1661. fol. 51.
9. Morocco papers, fol. 55 b.
10. Sir Walter Cope's apology for the late lord treasurer, sir R. Cecil, earl of Salisbury, fol. 58.
11. Observations upon different means for increasing the revenue, by sir James Shaen and others, 1680. fol. 64 b.
12. Opinions respecting the city charter, 1683. fol. 80.

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CCVI

Paper, in folio, ff. 95.

A volume of Admiralty papers, consisting chiefly of abstracts and copies of decisions by sir Leoline Jenkins, in the cases of ships taken in the war, etc., 1672 — 1680.

The following exceptions may however be found,

α. The case of Brome Whorewood demanding the return of his wife, once divorced, ad obsequia jugalia, fol. 10. β. The "Regulation of a tumult that happened at Dover in the election of a burgess to serve in parliament." fol. 11b.

Prefixed to the volume is the note following, "The original of this delivered to Mr. Bedford by direction of sir L(eoline's) will."

CCVII

Paper, in folio, ff. 95.

1. Compendium recordorum in archivis domini regis Jacobi, etc. repositorum in ordinem digest, per Arthurum Agard, deputatum Walteri Cope militis unius Cameriorum (sic) scaccarii dicti domini regis in recepta dicti scaccarii ultimo Decembris, anno 1610. Variis suis lucubrationibus. fol. 1.
2. The thirtieth article of peace between Oliver Cromwell and the States Greneral of the United Provinces; in a treaty at Westminster, 1 April, 1654. fol. 61.
3. Extracts from the journal of the house of Lords, of the proceedings in the case of trial and condemnation of Mary, queen of Scots, 28, 29 Eliz. fol. 83.
4. Reports of sir Richard Lloyd touching the ballastage in Ireland, 1683. fol. 90.
5. Address of the lord mayor and aldermen to the king about the city orphans and the present state of the chamber of London; dat. 22 Feb. 1683/4. fol. 93 b.
6. Agreement between the duke of Savoy and the Elector Palatine, about the title 'Altezza reale' and precedence; dat. 1666. fol. 94 b.

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CCVIII

Paper, in folio, ff. 100.

Copies of Admiralty papers, and others connected with the court of Arches, amongst which are,

CCIX

Paper, in folio, ff. 103.

A volume of miscellaneous papers.

CCX

Paper, in folio, ff. 173.

Pleadings and arguments in the King's Bench, 35, 36 Car. XL, in the case of the East India Company of Merchants against Sands; with many other papers having reference to the same company.

CCXI

Paper, in folio, ff. 89.

A volume of miscellaneous papers.

CCXII

Paper, in folio, ff. 191.

1. Papers relating to the Treaty Marine, as in a former volume, no. ccv. fol. 1.
2. Abstract of (sir L. Jenkinses) conferences at the Stadt house, Nimeguen, in December, 1678; Fr. fol. 100.
3. Instructions to Dodmore Cotton, esq. ambassador to the king of Persia, fol. 144 b.
4. A 'good letter' of Thomas lord Cromwell to the earl of Devonshire, fol. 145 b.
5. Mr. secretary Conway's letter to the earls of Carlisle and Holland; 24 Feb. 1624. fol. 147.
6. Instructions for the ambassador to the court of France; 24 July, 1626. fol. 149 b.
7. Various papers having reference to questions of precedence between ambassadors of different courts, etc. fol. 151 b.
8. About marriages between protestants and papists; 10 Feb. 1681. fol. 176 b.
9. Two letters plenipotentiary from the elector of Brandenburg; 16 Jun. 1676; Lat. fol. 177 b.
10. Similar letter from the emperor Leopold; 20 Nov. 1676; Lat. fol. 179.

At the end are draughts of letters from sir L. Jenkins to — Bosius and M. Courtin, datt. 1674, and of two to the elector from Nimeguen, 1678.

CXIII

Paper, in folio, ff. 194 and 80; in two volumes.

CCXIV

Paper, in folio, ff. 156.

1. Observations concerning the dominion of the sea. fol. 1.
2. Report upon the different customs and usages of the isle of Guernsey and of Normandy, drawn up by sir Thomas Leyghton and others, acceding to an order of the privy council, dat. Greenwich, 30 July, 1580. Fr. fol. 55.
3. A few notes relating to the isle of Jersey, fol. 80.
4. Admiralty papers of various years, consisting chiefly of reports concerning prizes, wrecks, etc., with sir L. Jenkins's opinion upon similar cases. ff. 81. 140.
5. Papers and reports upon the island of St. Christopher, fol. 118.
6. Notes from (sir L. Jenkins?) diary on the care of the "night walk" in the University of Oxford, etc. fol. 126 b.
7. Papers upon the practice of the king's ships searching foreigners for the king's subjects. fol. 130 b.
8. Communications to and from the States respecting their arming by sea and land, 1688 ; Fr. fol. 135.
9. Copies of letters,
- a. Frederic, elector of Brandenburg to the regency at Cleves; 14 Sept. 1685 ; Fr. fol. 144 b.
- b. The emperor Leopold to the States General concerning East Friesland, etc.; 9 Dec. 1682; Fr. fol. 145.
- c. Letters upon the case of the count de Bentheim and his children, 1685; Fr. fol. 148.
- d. Frederic, landgrave of Hesse Homburg, to his Majesty upon the late king's (Charles II.) death ; Fr. fol. 151b.
10. Case of the inhabitants of Guernsey concerning a register of certificates, fol. 152 b.

CCXV

Paper, in folio, ff. 194.

A volume of papers, being opinions, reports of oases, etc., bearing upon the jurisdiction of the court of Admiralty: of various dates, but chiefly between 1662 — 1688.

At fol. 159 b. is a report of sir L. Jenkins upon the case of the sig. Marevil, secretary to Don Franc, de Mella, ambassador of Portugal, and the sig. Vignon, upon money lent to the latter by the ambassador in 1672 ; dat. 2 Apr. 1680.

A second hand has added to the volume,

a. Reasons to preserve the ancient rank and estimation of knights ambassadors.
b. Sir Kenelm Digby to Charles II. about the penal laws against papists.
c. Certain articles of abuses which are desired to be reformed in granting of prohibitions.

CCXVI

Paper, in folio, ff. 103.

1. A few papers on ecclesiastical affairs from the Prerogative Court and Doctors' Commons; amongst which are,
- a. Marriage licence granted to queen Anne and George, prince of Denmark. fol. 3.
- b. Case of the matrimonial contract made between Thomas Thynne and the countess of Ogle, in 1681. fol. 5 b.
2. Sir Leoline Jenkins' will, with codicils, etc.; dat. 12 June, 1685. ff. 20, 71.
3. Statutes of Jesus College, Cambridge. fol. 56.
4. Covenant between John Thomas, of Wenvoe, co. Glamorg. and Elizabeth his wife, on the one part, and Jo. Tilly, Nat. Wade, Tho. Lloyd and Owen Wynne, on the other part, for the settling, assizing, etc. the castle, manors and lordship of Wenvoe; 1694. fol. 65.
5. Decree of Charles I. in the dispute before him in council between archbishop Laud and the Universities, affirming the said archbishop's right of visitation over both Universities, fol. 79.
6. Copies of charters of Elizabeth, James I. and George II. to Jesus College, Oxford, fol. 81.seqq.
7. Matters in controversy between the University and city of Oxford discussed at Lambeth, 28 Apr. 1636. fol. 96.
8. Report of a few cases in the court of Doctors' Commons, fol. 98.

CCXVII

Paper, in folio, ff. 177.

A volume of collections of a similar character, and containing many duplicates of papers found in the volume above described, numbered CCVIII.

CCXVIII

Paper, in folio, ff. 115.

CCXIX

Paper, in folio, ff. 148.

Compendium recordorum in archivis domini regis Jacobi, etc. repositorum in ordinem digest, per Arthurum Agard, deputatum Walteri Cope militis, unius Cameriorum Scaccarii dicti domini regis in recepta dicti Scaccarii ultimo Decembris anno 1610."

CCXX

Paper, in folio, ff. 139.

CCXXI

Paper, in folio, ff. 84 and 75.

A repertory to official papers, in the handwriting of Dr. Owen Wynne, with an alphabetical table prefixed.

Reversing the volume, are two consolatory addresses upon the death of friends, the latter in French.

Miscellaneous papers, many of them in Dr. Wynne's handwriting, of which are,

1. Letter from sir Jo. Williamson upon the style to be used in addressing the king of Hungary, Dec. 1687. fol. 2.
2. Letter from the grand duke of Tuscany to William III., 5th Oct. 1694. fol. 3.
3. Extract of the 37 articles exhibited against the bishop of St. Asaph at Lambeth, 9 June, 1698. fol. 5.
4. Notes on various subjects by Dr. O. Wynne, fol. 22.
5. Articles of abuses desired to be reformed in granting prohibitions, fol. 39.
6. The right of primogeniture in succession to the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, as declared by the statutes of 23 Edw. III. etc. fol. 49.
7. Sentiments de sa Majesty Portugaise sur son mariage; Fr, fol. 61.
8. Indenture made between Hugh de Fitzwilliam de Massey and Qilbert de Haydok; dat. Thursday before the feast of St. Barnabas, 28 Edw. III. ; Fr. fol. 73.

CCXXII

Paper, in folio, ff. 188.

CCXXIII

Paper, in folio, ff. 110.

1. A list of the deputy lieutenants and commission officers of the several counties of England and Wales, as they were brought into the house of Peers in November, 1680. fol. 1.
2. Justices of the peace in commission. In the several counties of England and Wales. fol. 46.

CCXXIV

Paper, in folio, ff. 821.

Collection of draughts and copies of treaties of commerce and others, between England and Sweden, Holland and Denmark, the Moors and Portugal, etc., concluded in various years, from 1651 to 1682 inclusive; with table of contents subjoined.

Reversing the volume, are,

Letters of safe conduct for James O^ryan going abroad ; dat. Whitehall, 24 April, 79/80.

CCXXV

Paper, in folio, ff. 170.

CCXXVI

Paper, in folio, ff. 217.

1. Liber de causis, quae in curiis ecclesiasticis tractari solent, auctore Francisco Clarke, curiae de arcubus procuratore, cum tabula præmissa. fol. 20.
Tit. "Procuratorium ac modus postulandi in curiis ac causis ecclesiasticis, auctoritate reverendissimi in Christo patris ac domini 6. permissione divina Cantuariensis archiepiscopi etc. celebratis; quæ communiter curiæ de archubus, curiæ prærogativæ et curiæ audientiæ appellantur, per Franciscum Clarke aliud curiæ de archubus procuratorem collecta et edita."
2. Libellus de modo inchoandi sive instituendi actionem in superiore curia admirallitatis Angliæ, cum indice posthabito. fol. 191.
3. Tractatulus de archiepiscopi Cantuariensis jurisdictione. fol. 210.

CCXXVII

Paper, in folio, ff. 208.

Collection of charters copied from the parliament, patent, close, and other rolls, with an alphabetical index subjoined ; temp. Edw. I. — H. VI.

CCXXVIII

Paper, in folio, ff. 156.

Admiralty papers, being principally letters and papers of the proceedings of the commissioners for the adjudication of prizes, in the years 1664, 1665.

In the volume are also found,

1. Ordinance of Philip IV., king of Spain, concerning the affairs of the Admiralty established at Bergen S. Winoe, from the copy printed at Brussells, 1624. fol. 61.
2. Articles of peace concluded between Charles II. and Charles II., king of Spain, fol. 119.
3. Will of Mary, countess of Buccleuch, with an account of the case arising therefrom between the executors, the earls of Bothes and Wemyss, and the earl and countess of Monmouth, fol. 134 b.
4. Table of the fees received by the registrar of the court of Admiralty and his clerks, fol. 149.

CCXXIX

Paper, in folio, ff. 165.

1. Various papers of the proceedings of the commission upon the union of the kingdom of Scotland with England, pp. 1 — 130, fol. 143.
2. Protest of John Bannister against the governor of Surinam not sufferiag the English to leave the island, p. 131.
3. Letter from the earl of St. Albans and Nic. Oudart, executors of the will of the princess dowager of Orange, to Creancier, demanding the restoration of a diamond ; dat. Feb. 1670; Fr. fol. 210.
4. Opinion of sir L. Jenkins on the 26th article of the treaty of Breda ; dat. 23 Feb. 1670. fol. 212.
6. Report of sir Ed w. Turner and sir Edw. Thurland upon the claim of a wreck made by lord Howard, as lord of the manor of Aidborough; dat. 25 Mar. 1670. fol. 220.
6. Beports made to the committee for grievances upon cases of different prizes, etc. fol. 224.
7. Congratulatory letters from foreign princes to James II. upon the birth of the prince of Wales; 1688. fol. 247.
8. Goniirmation of the East India Company's charter; dat. July, 1683. fol. 254.
9. Paperit upon improving the revenues of the kingdom, fol. 258.
10. Opening speech of sir Leoline Jenkins against the Exclusion bill. fol. 270.

CCXXX

Paper, in folio, ff. 94.

1. Precedents and reports of various cases in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty courts, fol. 1.
2. Charge at an Admiralty Sessions of the Cinque Ports by sir Leoline Jenkins, fol. 48.
3. Lists of rolls and other Admiralty papers, having reference to the Cinque Ports, fol. 61.
4. Three charges addressed to the jury at as many Admiralty Sessions, 1667. fol. 77.

CCXXXI

Paper, in folio, ff. 67.

Collection of letters of the different ambassadors engaged in concluding the triple alliance 1668; Fr.

CCXXXII

Paper, in folio, ff. 71.

1. Papers and manuscripts of sir Leoline Jenkins, knight, "digested under diverse heads and into several bundles," by Owen Wynne, D. C. L., with an index subjoined, fol. 2.
2. "Index of the right honourable the earl of Middleton's papers, who was secretary of state in the northern province from 20 Aug. 1684 to 20th Oct. 1688, and in the southern province from the 20th Oct. to the 22d Dec. 1688." fol. 69 b.

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CCXXXIII

Paper, in folio, ff. 291 ; in two volumes.

'Office book' of the Secretary of state, containing an inventory of papers, letters, warrants, etc. in that office, arranged under different heads according to subjects, with the date affixed to each paper.

CCXXXIV

Paper, in folio, ff. 155.

Papers of the proceedings of the English and Dutch commissioners appointed in behalf of England and the States to decide upon the differences existing between the English and Dutch East India Companies, in reference to the kingdom of Bantam, or Bentam.

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CCXXXV

Paper, in folio, ff. 180.

Miscellaneous notices of the proceedings of parliament from the journals of the two houses, for the year 1570, arranged according to subjects, with an alphabetical index prefixed.

Many of the entries are in the hand-writing of Dr. Wynne.

CCXXXVI

Paper, in folio, ff. 54.

Observations, rules and orders collected out of different journals of the house of Gonmions entered in the several reigns of Edw. VI., Mary, Elizabeth, and James I., with a declaration of the House concerning their privileges, drawn up by a select committee.

CCXXXVII

Paper, in folio, ff. 28 and 270.

Register of appointments, warrants, and miscellaneous papers in the office of the Secretary of state, between the years 1664 — 1688 inclusive, with an alphabetical index prefixed.

CCXXXVIII

Paper, in large folio, ff. 246.

A large collection of original and other papers ; amongst which are,

CCXXXIX

Paper, in large folio, ff. 671.

Collection of miscellaneous state and other papers, of which the principal appear to be,

CCXL

Paper, in large folio, ff. 715.

Miscellaneous papers of sir L. Jenkins, principally during the time that he filled the office of Secretary of state.

CCXLI

Paper, in folio, ff. 450.

Collection of commissions of appointment, warrants, and other letters patent, issued during the years 1680—1683, but principally in the last, amongst which may be found,

CCXLII

Paper, in folio, ff. 623.

Collection of parliamentary papers, containing the proceedings from the journals of both houses, notices of different bills, addresses to members, petitions, etc. ; amongst which are found,

1. Articles of impeachment against Thomas, earl of Danby. fol. 19.
2. Petition from the Commons for the removal of chief justice Jefferies from his situations, fol. 30.
3. Account of the king's (Charles II) entry into Oxford, accompanied by lord Norreys and the gentlemen of the county, on the 16 March, 1680. ff. 37, 258.
4. The case and proceedings against Francis Jenks, of Cornhill ; 1676. ff. 41, 165.
5. Questions propounded to the lord Brooke and the lord Saie ; with the oath of the covenanters, and "a prophecie found in the abbey of St. Benedict, in Norfolk," in verse, fol. 87.
6. Proceedings against Edward Fitzharris at the King's Bench bar; 1681. fol. 299.
7. Journal of proceedings at the court at Whitehall, in a series of letters from Mr. Benson to sir (L. Jenkins !) Jan. — Oct. 1676. fol. 458.
8. A similar journal in a series of letters from H. Thynne to the same; July, 1678 — July, 1679. fol. 542.

CCXLIII

Paper, in large folio, ff. 418.

1. Collections of projects for and drafts of treaties between England, Holland, and other foreign powers, containing much relating to the affairs of the East India Company; 1666 — 1684; communications of foreign ambassadors, etc. fol. 1, et passim.
2. Report of the state of Newfoundland by captain Charles Talbot, fol. 115.
3. Passports granted to sir L. Jenkins, with the autograph signatures of William Henry, prince of Orange and Louis XIV. of France, fol. 253.
4. Case of Mr. Monro and other merchants taken at Cherbourg, etc. in 1676. fol. 275.
5. Statement of the case of the marriage of lady Ogle with Thomas Thymie, esq, of Longleat. fol. 288.
6. Copy of a letter from the Diet at Batisbon to he king of France ; Lat. 7 Feb. 1 681. fol. 300.
7. Paper on the pretensions of the house of Bnmswick; Fr. fol. 319.
8. A memorial concerning the passage at Deal ; 1683. fol. 355.
9. Letters to the dean and chapter of Westminster, ordering the augmentation of their small vicarages and cures; 9 Aug. 1660. fol. 359.
10. Copy of sir L. Jenkins' letter to the earl of Sunderland about an affront put upon him by the searchers at Lille ; Brussells, 15 Aug. 1679. fol. 417.
Printed in the life, vol. ii. p. 641.

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CCXLIV

Paper, in large folio, ff. 552.

Regulations to be observed in the Ecclesiastical courts, with a collection of reports of cases heard in them, copies of wills, (amongst which is that of archbishop Sheldon, fol. 229,) and other papers connected with the same ; amongst which the following have been inserted,

a. "The union between the grandees and the noblesse of Spayn with D. Juan, to separate that kingdom from the queen, his mother, executed in January, 1676/7; in Spanish, fol. 290.
b. "Letters between the court of Spain and don Juan of Austria; Dec. Jan. 1676/7" in Spanish. fol. 292.
c. "Journal of the navigation of the Spanish galleons from Cadiz to the W. Indies and back;" 1681, 1682; in Spanish, fol. 294.
d. "News from Madrid," containing a list of the ships of war belonging to Algiers and Tripoli, fol. 301.
e. Relation from Toulon of the sea fight near Augusta, (in Sicily), 22 Apr. ; 19 May, 1676. Fr. fol. 303.
f. Letter from the marquess of Buckingham to the lord chancellor, lord Verulam, concerning wills; dat. Newmarket, 28 Nov. 1620; Orig. fol. 356.
g. List of the clergy in the archdeaconry of Canterbury; Apr. 14, 1668. fol. 509.
h. List of the exempt livings in the diocese of Canterbury, with their incumbents, fol. 517

CCXLV

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 208.

Miscellaneous papers, domestic and foreign, comprising notices upon ecclesiastical affairs, correspondence respecting the conclusion of alliances between foreign powers, etc. ; amongst which are,

1. Some considerations upon a paper against the act for suppressing conventicles ; 1677. fol. 1.
2. Letter from — Jenkins upon the system pursued at Bordeaux with regard to their wines; dat. Bordeaux, 9 Aug. 1657. fol. 33.
3. Reasons for the continuing dignitaries in new cathedrals, and for the bishops retaining their seats in parliament, fol. 43.
4. Form used in consecrating the chapel in the bishop of London's residence ; Lat. fol. 79.
5. Conditions for a treaty between the empire and the king of France ; the king of Denmark and Hamburgh, etc. fol. 97.
6. "Relation du combat naval du port de Palermo," 2 June, 1676. fol. 114.
7. "Account of the ceremonies at his royal highnesses [James, duke of York, after- wards James II.] marriage by proxy, 30 Sept. at Modena, 1673." Ital. fol. 177.
8. Letter of Innocent XL to Henry, bishop of Anjou, 7 Apr. 1677; Lat. fol. 189.
9. "Fœdus Sueco-Gallicum Parisiense;" 1672. fol. 190 b.
10. Act of the States General that no privateers come within their forts upon pain of death, 22 Dec. 1677 ; in Dutch, fol. 197 b.

CCXLVI

Paper, in folio, ff. 26 and 337.

Copies of appointments and commissions, instructions, letters credential and recredential to ambassadors, letters of condolence, congratulation, thanks, and. on other matters of state, from about the year 1662 to 1685; with indices prefixed.

The letters are principally dated in the two last years mentioned, and those to James II. are upon the subject of the late king's death.

CCXLVII

Paper, in folio, ff. 138.

1. Letters of state from James II. to foreign sovereigns and states, from his accession to June 11, 1687. fol. 6.
Prefixed are a few official letters of Charles II. relating chiefly to Mr. B. Skelton's embassy to the princes of Brunswick.
2. Report of the controversy with the French commissioners respecting the right of England to Hudson's Bay and the neighbouring territory; Fr. fol. 102.
3. Letters patent granting to Christopher, duke of Albemarle, all goods lost by shipwreck on the north side of Hispaniola, the Bahama islands, or in or near the Gulf of Florida, from Feb. 1686 to July 18, 1689. fol. 117.
4. Letters of credentials, revocation and safe conduct to different ambassadors; datt. 1678. fol. 119 b.

CCXLVIII

Paper, in folio, ff. 168.

1. Copies of instructions, letters of credentials, and other letters of state, in the years 1680, 1681 ; with a table of contents prefixed, fol. 1.
2. A similar collection ; dated 1679, 1680. fol. 124.
3. A similar collection; dated in 1675 — 1678. fol. 154 b.
4. The marriage contract of prince George of Denmark with the princess Anne, (afterwards Queen.) fol. 214 b.

CCXLIX

Paper, in folio, ff. 123.

"Foreign entries from April, 1684 to October, 1688, consisting of a similar collection of papers to those contained in the preceding volume.

From fol. 263, however, the principal contents of the volume are commissions, warrants, etc. issued within the kingdom in the years 1679 — 1685.

Reversing the book are found,

a. A list of office books.
b. Instructions to Henry, earl of St. Albans, ambassador to the king of France in 1660.
c. Report of the commissioners from foreign plantations on the business of St. Christopher's, at a court held at Whitehall, 8 Jan. 1675.

CCL

Paper, in folio, ff. 20 and 110.

1. Extracts of acts and oases before the lords of the Privy council, in the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth, fol. 1.
2. Notices of the proceedings of the two houses of parliament, in the year 1689. fol. 58.
Prefixed is an alphabetical index of the contents of the volume.

CCLI

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 170.

1. Copies from "original papers about the treaty of Nimeguen, 1673." fol. 1.
2. Orders concerning the apparitors of the prerogative court of Canterbury, fol. 118.
3. Two letters from — Carlingford, ambassador at Vienna; datt. Vienna, June, August, 1688. fol. 123.
4. Oratio Jo. Dolben, decan. Westmonast. ad prsesidem convocationis cleri Anglicani, 25 Nov. 1664. fol. 131 b.
5. Letter to the duke of York in Scotland; 8 Dec. 1680. fol. 133.
6. Extracts from the register of the resolutions of the lords of the States General ; Jan. 1685. fol. 138.
7. Opinions of sir L. Jenkins against resuming the bill touching the succession, the marriage of minors, etc. fol. 149.

CCLII

Paper, in small 4to, ff. 257.

A volume of copies of miscellaneous papers ; of which the most worthy notice appear to be the following :

CCLIII

Paper, in large folio, ff. 778.

A large collection of copies of documents, comprising ministerial appointments, commissions, drafts of proclamations, orders of council, and other papers of a similar interest, passing through the office of the principal Secretary of state, in the years 1675 — 1684.

There are few that appear to require a particular notice if we except the "lord ambassador Mountague's expences, in 1677, 1678," (fol. 185,) and the king's letter to the vice-chancellor, Dr. Halton, upon the approaching parliament to be held at Oxford ; dat. 25 Jan. 1681. (fol. 300.)

CCLIV

Paper, in large folio, ff. 880.

1. Instructions and papers of Mr. C. Bertie, ambassador to the court of Denmark ; 1671. fol. 1.
2. Examination of the bishop of London for refusing to suspend Dr. Sharp for preaching against the government; Aug. 1686. fol. 10.
3. Miscellaneous papers, being appointments, etc. issued from the Secretary of state his office principally in the reign of James II. ff. 21 passim.
4. Orders for entering a 'nolle prosequi' in the case of Tho. Culpepper, convicted for an assault upon William, earl of Devonshire, 19 Dec. 1685. fol. 52.
5. Paper respecting the claim of the French to the Hudson's bay and river, and to Port Nelson, ff. 113, 147.
6. Orders to expedite the administration of justice in the court of Admiralty, fol. 124.
7. Acts passed by the general assembly, James city, Virginia; 1684. fol. 153.
8. Papers of a similar character and formerly bound with those in the preceding volume ; amongst which are,
- a. Letters patent recommending Andrew Sale, D. D., to the first good deanery in Ireland, fol. 165.
- b. Instructions for William Soame, envoy extraordinary to the duke of Savoy, fol. 346.
- c. Additional instructions for William, earl of Inchiquin, commander-in-chief of the city of Tangiers. fol. 360.
- d. Virginia papers, fol. 361.
- e. List of different regiments, with the names of officers attached to each, fol. 367.

CCLV

Paper, in folio, ff. 391.

Copies and drafts of state papers, principally having reference to foreign affairs. Admiralty cases, etc., in the year 1689 ; amongst which are to be noticed,

1. A translate of the general conclusion agreed upon the 14 Feb. 1689, with his imperial majesty's decree and approbation thereof, fol. 11.
2. Letters of William the Third to the Sultan, etc. upon his accession to the throne, fol. 63.
3. 'Mr. Ricault's dispatch for Algiers,' (Charles II.) fol. 98.
4. Memorial to his royal highness from the Scotch boroughs concerning their privileges in France, 1684. fol. 10a.
5. Complaint of lady Harvey against a priest in Paris; 4 Apr. 1683. fol. 120.
6. Instructions to lord Preston, ambassador to the French king. fol. 129.
7. Regulations for the extraordinary allowances of ministers employed abroad; Feb. 1687. fol. 150.
8. Letter of compliment to the king from cardinal Mazarin, 18 Oct. 1660. Orig. fol. 167.
9. Order of council in favor of French protestants; 1681. fol. 209.
10. Papers having reference to the treaty of Elizabeth with the Low Countries, in 1585. fol. 241.
11. Appointments of commissioners to act in the Prerogative court of Canterbury, from the year 1384 to 1625. fol. 258.
12. Names of persons whose wills had been proved in the Prerogative court, 1394 — 1505 ; with other papers connected with the same court, fol. 275.
13. Letters of state having reference to affairs at home and abroad; 1660—1666. fol. 291.
14. Letters recommending Dr. Rich. Drake, chancellor of Salisbury, to the appointment of canon residentiary, for his exemplary conduct during the plague ; 10 Sept. 1666. fol. 322.
15. Letter to the justices of the peace, in the county of Middlesex, to provide house room for the sufferers by the fire, 5 Sept. 1666. fol. 326.
16. Letter from Wal. Innes to Mr. Wynne, giving an account of the Doge's audience at Versailles ; May 15, 1685. fol. 339.
17. Transactions with the court of Sweden, 1680—1686. ff. 343, 385.
18. Letters and papers having reference to the connexion of England with Denmark, 1679 — 1686. fol. 354.

CCLVI

Paper, in folio, ff. 606.

1. A brief discourse of his majesty's council in the marches of Wales, and of the court there placed, etc. fol. 3.
2. Address to Henry VIII. in behalf of the Welch, by Edward lord Herbert of Cherbury ; written in 1536. fol. 24.
3. Indenture and conveyance of the island of east New Jersey to the earl of Perth ; 14 March, 1682. fol. 27.
4. The treaty of the Dutch and English East India Companies in 161 9. fol. 53.
5. Proclamations of Elizabeth, James, and Charles I. fol. 72.
6. Observations concerning the dominion of the sea, chiefly relating to the flag. fol. 102.
7. De superioritate maris Angliæ et fine officii admirallatus tempore Edwardi primi ; Gall. et Lat. fol. 110.
8. Account of the battle between the English and Dutch fleets on the 1st, 2d, and 4th days of June, 1666. fol. 136.
9. "My reading cases and poyntes which were by me argued, super statutum de pluralitate beneficiorum, dispensationibus et non residentibus super beneficiis;" 10 Mar. 1632. fol. 149.
10. Extracts from the close, patent, and parliament rolls, upon the Isle of Guernsey, safe conduct, etc. fol. 168.
11. "Sir George Radcliffe on superiors and subjection ;" from a MS. of archbishop Ussher. fol. 203.
12. The opinion of Padre Paolo of the order of the Servites consultor of state given to the lords the inquisitors of state, fol. 209.
Printed at Covent Garden in 1689.
13. "A brief collection gathered of the antiquities of the castle of Dover and places thereabout, etc., with a discourse of the old castles and seats in Kent, by Edw. Michell, written in January, 1603. fol. 242.
14. A friendly conference between a papist and a protestant about the church, fol. 308.
15. Extracts of the Quo Warranto of London from rolls and records in the time of Edward I. and II. fol. 324.
16. The course and proceeding of all causes in the high court of Star Chamber, fol. 413.
17. A treatise of the high court of Star Chamber, in three parts, fol. 435.

CCLVII

Paper, in 4to, ff. 308.

A volume of miscellaneous papers, comprising copies and drafts of state tracts, petitions, cases of complaint, appointments ecclesiastical and civil, official letters, etc., chiefly from the years 1680—1688.

The most worthy of notice appear to be,

CCLVIII

Paper, in folio, ff. 84.

1. Nine proclamations issued in the years 1630 — 1643; as follow,
- a. Concerning the new buildings in the city of London; 16 July, 1630. fol. 1.
- b. For preventing the dearth of corn ; 28 Sept. 1630. fol. 17.
- c. For the better ordering of fishing; 24 May, 1631. fol. 19 b.
- d. Concerning flags for the navy, etc. ; 5 May, 1634, fol. 22 b.
- e. For the prevention of abuses in the case of informers, etc. ; 6 Sept. 1635; fol. 23 b.
- f. For the restraint of fishing without licence; 10 May, 1636. fol. 34.
- g. For the due execution of the office of clerk of the market; 9 Jul. 1636. fol. 33 b.
- h. Concerning malsters and brewers; 9 Jul. 1637. fol. 48.
- i. To restrain all trade with the city of London and other towns now in rebellion; 7 Oct. 1643. fol. 52 b.
2. Of the jurisdiction of the Star Chamber, etc. fol. 57.
3. Proclamation for the regulation of weights and measures in the market ; 2 Feb. 1640. fol. 68.
4. Report of the privy council upon the revenue act relating to Jamaica; 26 Jul. 1723. fol. 71 b.
5. Grant of Pennsylvania to Mr. Penn; 4 Mar. 1680. fol. 77 b.

CCLIX

Paper, in folio, ff. 96.

1. Proclamations by queen Elizabeth, respecting the Low Countries ; excess of apparel ; for the restraint of eating flesh in Lent ; staying unlawful assemblies in and about the city of London ; upon the people's loyalty in the earls of Essex, Rutland, and Southampton's rebellion, etc., issued in the years 1568 — 1600. fol. 1.
At fol. 23, are "Articles concerning the Admiralty of England and the jurisdiction thereof; 21 Jul. 1591."
2. Proclamation for the suppression of two books, written by John Milton, and one by John Goodwin ; 13 Aug. 1660. fol. 57 b.
3. Proclamation to restrain the spreading false news, etc. ; 2 June, 1672. fol. 59 b.
4. Order of council against the popish recusants, 3 Feb. 1675. fol. 61.
5. Proclamation forbidding assistance to be given to the subjects of the king of Spain now in rebellion against him; 17 June, 1675. fol. 63.
6. Promise of protection to any person giving evidence respecting the murder of sir Edmundbury Godfrey; 24 Oct. 1678. fol. 65 b.
7. Observations for the justices of the peace to be used in execution of the commission for taking the oaths of allegiance and supremacy; 1679. fol. 66.
8. Copy of a letter of sir L. Jenkins to the bishop of Oxford, concerning a speech made by him in the debate upon the popish recusants, fol. 73.
9. Charter of foundation of Chelsea Hospital ; 34 Car. II. fol. 75.
10. The establishment of the officers of the Tower and their salaries, fol. 84.

CCLX

Paper, in folio, ff. 139.

Proclamations concerning weights and measures, and coin and bullion issued in the reigns of Elizabeth, James I., and Charles I.

At the end are,

a. Proclamation for the ease of the subjects in making their compositions for not receiving the order of knighthood; 6 Jul. 1630. fol. 120 b.
b. Proclamations concerning new buildings in and about the city of London. fol. 121 b.
c. Proclamations respecting the current money, in 1661. fol. 123.
d. Declaration to preserve inviolable the securities given by the king for monies, etc.; 18 June, 1667. fol. 137.
e. Proclamation for the prosecution of all issuing brass money with private stamps; 5 Deo. 1674. fol. 138.

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CCLXI

Paper, in folio, ff. 88, 261, 70.

Three volumes containing warrants, orders of the court of Exchequer, appointments, expenses, lists of moneyers, and other papers concerning the mint, with a table of contents affixed to each volume.

In the last volume, at fol. 1 16, is the appointment of Owen Wynne, esq. to the office of warden of the Mint.

CCLXII

Paper, in folio, ff. 65.

"Black book," containing an account of all persons apprehended on the charge of clipping and coining, etc. in the years 1686—1689, with their sentences attached ; and an alphabetical list of names prefixed.

Reversing the volume, is, Mr. Wynne's account of expences (travelling and others) in apprehending and convicting the above.

CCLXIII

Paper, in folio, ff. 858.

"Mint papers," a collection of papers, letters, etc. connected with the Mint, principally for the years 1686 — 1689, with a table of contents prefixed.

CCLXIV

Paper, in folio, ff. 408.

Copies of state papers, foreign and domestic, comprising dispatches, letters of foreign powers, reports of Admiralty and other cases, projects of treaties, etc., principally in the years 1680—1688 ; amongst which are,

CCLXV

Paper, in folio, ff. 270.

A journal or narrative of the proceedings between the commissioners of England and the States, pursuant to the treaty of peace made at Westminster, 9/19 Feb. 1673/4, concerning a Treaty Marine to be observed throughout all the world, and also an article particularly relating to the English and'Dutch East India Companies, concluded in the year 1674.

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CCLXVI

Paper, in folio, ff. 38 and 118.

An abstract of our laws of Oléron, and of the laws in the Black book of the Admiralty, and of our maritime laws amongst the acts of parliament, etc. ; comprised in an alphabetical table, with translations of the said laws of Oléron, and those in the Black book most humbly dedicated to the Rt. Hon. Sir Leoline Jenkins, Bt., etc., by Tho. Bedford.

Prefixed is an alphabetical index to Admiralty papers.

CCLXVII

Paper, in folio, ff. 96.

Reports of cases and other papers in the high court of Admiralty, and in the court of Appeals, concerning prize business, with tables of contents prefixed and subjoined.

CCLXVIII

Paper, in folio, ff. 104.

1. Notes (by sir L. Jenkins!) upon a work on civil and canon law, in three volumes, p. 1*.
2. Lectiones (ejusdem!) dejudiciiset processu judiciario. p. 5.
3. Rules to be observed by the proctor of the Arches' court of Canterbury, signed by the judge advocate and the proctors; Term. Michael.; 1684. p. 99.
4. Extracts out of the Arches' book of muniments, beginning in February, 1662, and ending in February, 1688/9. p. 115.
5. Proceedings of the commissioners appointed to inspect all ecclesiastical afiairs, persons. etc. against the lord bishop of London; 1686. p. 149.
Reversing the volume are a few notes upon different Will cases.

CCLXIX

Paper, in folio, ff. 116.

Copies of letters of form and compliments, recommendatory of ambassadors, etc. from Charles the Second to foreign princes, from May, 1680, to April, 1684.

Reversing the volume are,

Copies of letters congratulatory, and others of foreign princes to Charles II., from July, 1680, to March, 1684.

CCLXX

Paper, in folio, ff. 24 and 821.

CCLXXI

Paper, in folio, ff. 128.

Register of bills, etc. passed in the houses of parliament in the years 1571, 1572, 1575, 1580, 1603 — 1606, arranged under subjects with an alphabetical table prefixed.

CCLXXII

Paper, in 4to, ff. 27.

Collection of passes or passports granted to and by English ambassadors at Cologne in 1673, and Nimeguen, 1676 — 1678.

CCLXXIII

Paper, in folio, ff. 152.

1. Various papers respecting the dispute between the English and Dutch East India Companies concerning Bantam, 168s — 1686. fol. 1.
2. Notes of different cases carried on in the court of Doctors' Commons, especially referring to that of the bishop of St. Davids; 1699. fol. 37.

Reversing the Volume,

3. An account of the proceedings of the commissioners, lords Halifax, Nottingham, and Oodolphin, appointed to treat with the prince of Orange, containing the instructions from the king, and the passes granted by either party, 1-10 December, 1688.

CCLXXIV

Paper, in large folio, ff. 106.

Index to the contents of ten 'council books,' beginning with Henry the Eighth's Will, and ending June 26, 1582.

CCLXXV

Paper, in large folio, ff. 98.

Catalogue of books, tracts, parliamentary papers, speeches, etc., (deposited in the State Paper office!) arranged according to their subject matter with the press, shelf or book mark to each volume annexed, chiefly in the handwriting of Dr. O. Wynne.

CCLXXVI

Paper, in folio, ff. 132 ; written by different hands.

1. "A book of the oaths of the several officers public and private," with an index, fol. 1.
2. Charter of the Grammar School of Abergavenny, Co. Monmouth ; dat. 34 H. VIII Lat. fol. 42.
3. "The begynninge and oyer in Leet and in Court Baron." fol. 49.
4. A list of the patent officers of the customs in the port of London, and the several out ports in England and Wales, with their yearly salaries, fol. 56.
5. A schedule of the names of such persons as voluntarily took the oaths of fidelity and allegiance in pursuance of an act of Parlia- ment made in 3 Will, and Mary, "entituled an act for raiseing money by a poll, payable quarterly for one yeare, for carrying on a vigorous warr against France." fol. 58.
6. Reports of various cases in the Star Chamber, temp. Eliz. and James I. fol. 75.
7. The most humble declaration of Nicholas Murford, gent, concerning the making Salt here in England, fol. 101.
8. "The port of London ; Quarter Sallaries at Christmas, 1688." fol. 108.

CCLXXVII

Paper, in 4to, ff. 110; containing several tracts written by different hands.

1. "Placita coronæ, or Crimina læsæ majestatis." fol. 1.
2. " Præfectus serarii ; a collection out of the office of his Majesties papers for busines of state of diverse especiall matters conceminge the office of the Lord Threasurer and all offices in the Exchequer under him." fol, 24.
3. A list of persons filling "diverse offices in the citty of London." fol. 53.
4. Articles preferred and charged by [George Digby], earl of Bristol against the duke of Buckingham. fol. 65.
5. "The earl of Shaftsbury's case on Habeas Corpus; 1677." fol. 69.
6. "Charge against Lionell, lord Cranfeild. lord Middlesex and lord high Treasurer, about 18 yer of king James, anno Domini 1620, and his answears in the upper house of Parliament." fol. 80.

CCLXXVIII

Deputation from [Camden] Clarencieux king of arms to John Newman, to visit the churches in the counties of Northampton, Huntingdon, Cambridge, Suffolk and Norfolk, and see the arms of the queen duly painted. Dat. 1 Feb. 40 Eliz.

CCLXXIX

Deputation from William Camden, Clarencieux king of arms, to Samuel Tompson, Windsor herald, and Augustine Vincent, Rouge-croix, to visit in his stead the counties of Surrey and Sussex, the city of Chichester, and the borough of Southwark. Dat. 15 Feb. 1622.

With seal.

CCLXXX

Deputation from sir John Borough, garter, and sir Richard St. George, clarencieux, kings of arms, to George Owen Yorke, herald of arms, and Henry Lyly, Rouge rose, poursuivant of arms, to visit in the counties of Worcester and Hereford. Dat. 1 Feb. 1634.

With seal.

CCLXXXI

Commission of Charles the Second to Christopher, duke of Albemarle, and John, duke of Lauderdale, knights of the order of the garter, to instal Henry, duke of Newcastle, and Thomas, earl of Danby, knights companions of the said order. Dated 9 April, 1677.

With seal of the order.

CCLXXXII

Letters patent of Charles II. empowering sir Henry Dethick, Clarencieux king of arms, to visit in the south, east and west parts of the realm, from the river Trent southwards. Dat. 24 June, 1680.

With seal.

CCLXXXIII

An inspeximus of the enrolment of the patent of the commission of visitation granted to Henry St. George, knight, Clarencieux king of arms exemplified at the request of the said Henry St. George, knight. Dated 28 June, 1681.

With seal.

CCLXXXIV

Commission to sir Henry St. Greorge, knight, Clarencieux king of arms, to visit the south and west of England ; dated 13 May 1686 ; the writing nearly obliterated.

With great seal of James II.

CCLXXXV

Deputation from sir Henry St. George, Clarencieux king of arms, of the south, east, and west parts of the realm of England, south of the river Trent, to Henry Dethick, Rich- mond herald, and Gregory King, Rouge-dragon, appointing them to visit in his name the counties of Leicester, Warwick, Glocester, Worcester, Hereford and Monmouth. Dat. 16 April, 1683.

With seal.

CCLXXXVI

A parchment roll containing, "The genealogie, descent and armes" of the family of Freeman, of Ebrighton, co. Gloucest., etc., from the time of Henry the Sixth to Charles the Second, "trulie transcribed out of the Visitation bookes of London and Worcestershire, made in the yeares 1633 and 1634, and examyned and compared with diuers originall deedes belonginge to this familie, nowe in the custodie of York herald." Signed by Hen. St. George, Norroy kinge of armes; Geo. Owen, Yorke herald ; Hen. Lilly, Rouge-rose.

CCLXXXVII

An Arabic manuscript in folio, containing 106 leaves, in the handwriting of William Guise, A. M., formerly fellow of All Souls.

The volume is thus described, "Canon seu rectificatio Terrarum regis fortis principis γῆς Hamath; est scilicet geographia, auctore Abul Pheda Ismaele filii γοῦ Almelec Al Naser."

After which occurs the note following, "Geographia Abulfedæ, principis Hanæ in Syria, celebratissimæ apud Orientales famæ, propria D. Gulielmi Guisii, A. M. et splendidissimi collegii Omnium Animarum, Oxon., non ita pridem Socii, manu ex manuscriptis codicibus simul collatis accurate descripta: quam Latina versione doctisque commentariis elucidandam, ni mors acerba intervenisset, prelo destinavit. Ut memoria mariti sui in omne ævum derivaretur, egregium hoc illius ingenii, eruditionis et industriæ monimentum, cum id reverendo D. custodi clarissimisque sociis non ingratum fore intellexerit, in ejusdem collegii archivis reponi, proprio erga defunctum affectu, summa cum animi promptitudine impense voluit Francisca Guisia."

CCLXXXVIII

A Persian manuscript, on glazed paper, in folio, ff. 487, illustrated with many rich illuminations; formerly belonging to W. Lushington.

Shah Naméh, or an abridged history of the kings of Persia, in verse, by Ferdoussi.

Prefixed to the volume is the note following,

"This curious MS. is entitled Shah Naméh, or the book of kings, by Ferdoussi, usually called the Persian Homer. It was purchased for one hundred guineas at Muxadabad, by William Lushington, esq. of the East India Company, and given by him to his brother, Stephen Lushington, esq., one of the proctors of the Court of Arches; who thinking it well deserving of a place in some public and learned collection, presented it to All Souls' College to be deposited in the Codrington Library, April ii, 1776.

Tho. Bever.

For a further account of this work v. Bibliot. Oriental. de Herbelot, under the words Ferdoussi and Shah Naméh."

There is a date on the last page of the 988th year of the Hegira, [1588].

CCLXXXIX

A Persian manuscript, in large folio, ff. 206, illustrated with many highly colored illuminations; formerly belonging to Reginald Heber, bishop of Calcutta.

The Shah Naméh by Ferdoussi.

Prefixed is the note following, "This copy of the Shah Naméh of Firdusi was given by his highness the Maha-rajah, Sya-Jee, Gui-cowan, rajah of Bacoda and Cattywâr, etc. etc., to Reginald Calcutta, March 24, 1825."

CCXC

A Persian manuscript, on glazed paper, divided into two volumes, ff. 277 and 262.

"The life of Timour, (improperly called Tamerlane,) from the seventh to the seventy-fourth year of his age, written by himself. A Persian MS. translated from the Mogul."

Prefixed, "Of this work only one more copy is known to exist in Europe, which is in the possession of the Rev. J. White, professor of Arabic. See a full account of the life of Timour, written by himself, in Mr. Davy's letter prefixed to the institutes, political and military, of Timour, etc., printed in 4to at the Clarendon in 1783; p. xxii."

CCXCI

A Persian manuscript, in small 4to, ff. 87.

1. Rubáy át. Miscellaneous stanzas, by Amr Khayám and other poets.
2. Reply to critical objections to the first volume of Shah Kama, (printed in Calcutta,) in a dialogue between Maulavi Rashid and Maulavi Allah-dad.

CCXCII

A Persian manuscript, on paper, in 4to, ff. 150; formerly belonging to F. R. Davidson.

Kissa-i-Chuhar Durvesh: Tales of the four Dervises.

CCXCIII

A Persian manuscript, on differently colored paper, in small folio, ff. 157.

A collection of tales; intitled, Tooti Namah; Tales of a Parrot.

CCXCIV

A manuscript in the Tenugu or Telugu character, written upon one hundred and forty, three palm leaves.

CCXCV

A Roll of vellum, containing, The Alcoran; in Arabic.

CCXCVI

A Roll made, as it appears, from the bark of a tree; containing, The Markañdéya Purana, a system of Hindu mythology; in Sanscrit.

Additional MSS

297

Anstis MSS. Relating to All Souls College. 8 vols; contains (in v.7) William Holman’s MS Catalogue of the Jekyll MSS. Compiled in 1715.

298

Paper Sm. 4to ff. 81. 17th Century (late)

The Life of Henry Chicheley Archbp. of Canterbury under K[ing]s Henry the 5 & 6th written by Arthur Duck Drof Law. Translated into English. [purchased at the Phillipps sale in 1895 the ???? Wm Quaritch]

299

Paper. folio. 18ff.

A List of the Members of and Matriculations at All Souls College, and of the College Servants &tc between February 1564 and December 1714.

[Being Wm. Joseph Foster’s MS copy of the Register in the University Archives in the Bodleian Library]

300

(i) A dissertation on the accounts of All Souls College, written for the use of Dr Buckler by Sir William Blackstone.

(ii – xxxvi) Thirty four volumes of notes of lectures on the Commentaries of William Blackstone. [Bought of Mr Morrell in the City of Oxford, Solicitor, in the year 1876]

* These notes are not in the hand writing of Sir William Blackstone but would seem to be either drawn up by an amanuensis for his use in delivering the lectures, or taken down by a student attending them. [in the hand of A. Etheridge, a pencil note:] [Prof. Holdsworth favours the latter.] The Lectures are dated 1761.

301

An Historical and Biographical account of Kings Queens and Illustrious Persons, with their heads neatly engraved from paintings of the best masters: also some Historical and Satyrical Prints: with a few select monuments. Written and collected by Stephen Wren, grandson of Christopher Wren.

[Bequeathed to the Library, by Miss O’Brien of Worthing. 1868.] vide Library Minute Book 19 Dec 1868

302

A Missal, formerly the property of the College, which was found in the Chapel at Tusmore in 1841 and given by ???? Ramsey to Sir Henry Dryden, by whom it was repaired, and by whose executors it was sold to All Souls Library in 1899

At 22 Oct. is noted the death of Warden William Kele

This missal would seem to have been written aftter 1383 and before 1442, because St Anne is included (26 July) and St Osmund is not (16 July)

A. G. Watson catalogue entry

303

Extracts from the Vatican Register of Petitions relating to All Souls College – extracted by W. H. Bliss B.C.L.

304

Book purchased from from ???? Neale (1902) (who bought it from the executors of the late Charles Stewart Packall) Containing – inter alia – a copy of Warden Hovenden’s Life of Chichele; the Letters Patent from Henry VI; the College Statutes; List of Members of the College

305

Life of Sir John King, Kt [1639 – 1677] written by his father. This was (in part) printed in the "Gentleman’s Magazine" for March 1782, an d reprinted with additions in 1855.

306

Autograph letter from Sir William Blackstone to the Rev. George Bingham, dated 15 April 1747 accompanying three copies of a poem.

307

Bundle of MS. notes, letters, memorandae, made by the late Prof. Montagu Burrows for a revised edition of his book "The Worthies of All Souls", including an interleaved copy of the book, with marginal and other notes.

[Given by G. M. Burrows Esq. son of the late Professor, on 21 June 1906]

308

Calendar of the Vaughan Papers, prepared by John Andrew Doyle. (Bound in 2 vols)

309

Letters from Sir George Downing and Sir William Temple, His Majesty’s Ministers in Holland & Flanders from 25 July, 1664 to 31 May, 1667.

[given by the Librarian, 26 Ap., 1910]

310

MS Catalogue of Bibles in the Royal Library at Stuttgart "of which there is yet no printed Catalogue". Presented to All Souls Library in 1817 by the Rev. Wyndham Knatchbull, Fellow.

311

All Souls College Betting Book

1815-1873, 1873-1919.

312

Spanish illuminated MS. on Vellum, containing Patent of Nobility granted to Juan de Prado Linares, Valladolid, 30 Oct. 1592.

[Presented by D. O. Malcolm, Fellow. 4 May, 1914]

313

Miscellaneous collections relating to the life and works in Mathematicks and Architecture of Sir Christopher Wren, Kt. In two parts. With a previous account of some eminent persons of his family; more fully and particularly of Dr Matthew Wren, Ld. Bishop of Ely. To which are added some tracts (imperfect) of Architecture, and Antique Structures. From authentic memoirs as well manuscript as printed ; collated in the year 1728.

[Bought from Miss Scrivener, Ap. 1915]

314

A volume of coloured drawings of costumes worn in Turkey, Persia, & Greece.

[The dscriptions are written in a late 16th century hand. Bequeathed to the Library by R. Freman, 1772. Binding stamped with the badge of the Prince of Wales]

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315

Justinian’s Institutes – 14th century folio, parchment

[Given to the Library by Prof. Goudy, 7 July. 1919]

A. G. Watson catalogue entry

316

Digestum Novum Justiniani – 13th century folio, parchment.

"Ex libris Monasterii Wiblingensis"

[Bequeathed by Prof. Goudy. 1921]

A. G. Watson catalogue entry

317

Autobiography (23 May, 1687) and verses of Sir William Trumbull Ambassador to Louis XIV, and Sec. of State to William III. Fellow of All Souls 1657-1670. Died in 1716.

[Bought from H. F. Wyatt, Feb. 1922]

318

A collection of Lettres of Alexis de Tocqueville and Henry Reeve, 1835-59.

319

Report on the Political and Diplomatic History of Great Britain in its connexions with Foreign Powers on the authority of the Royal Archives preseved in H.M’s State Paper Office: from the reign of Henry VII to the Accession of George II. [by John Bruce] fol. 1801.

320

Memoires historiques et politiques sur Valencay, offerts aux Souverains de l’Europe et écrits par le Colonel Baron de Kolli. 2 vols. 1820.

321

Letters from Colonel Lawrence to L.G. Curtis Esq.

322

Alexander of Hales. Expositio super libros de anima Aristotelis. Written by J. Alexander, Fellow of All Souls, in 1477. [On vellum, I contemporary Oxford Binding]. Bought from Maggs in 1929.

A. G. Watson catalogue entry

323

MS of Lectures on Comparative Constitutions by Prof. Dicey. [see the published edition edited by J.W.F. Allison, (1) and (2) and online edition]

324

An account of the Revenue & Expenditure of England for the year 1691-2. With an account of the management of the Exchequer, and lists of all pensions due, and all debts ???? by the State.

325

A summary Account of the Society of Doctors Commons; by And. Coltee Ducarel. 1753

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326

Commission for A. Rogers and others, Merchants at Gambia, dated 24 July 1729.

327

Army Establishments, 1731-1736.

328

Signatures of distinguished persons persons who were present at the collation given by the University of Oxford at All Souls College, June 17, 1863.

329

Icelandic Hymn Book of the 17th century.

Bequeathed by Prof. Ker.

330

Manuscript Fragments from Bindings in All Souls Library.

A. G. Watson catalogue entry

331

The Glosule super librum Aphorismorum Hippocratis by Magister Cardinalis (a regent master at Montpellier in 1240). A 15th cent. MS. presented to All Souls by Wm. Goldwyn who was elected a fellow in 1455. The Commentary is incomplete extending only to book IV aph. 43 (There are seven books of the Aphroisms). Four other MSS. Of Cardinalis’ Commentary are known, viz. Paris, Bibl. Nat. lat. 6847; Metz, 1205; Basel D.1.16; Erfurt Q 178. F. 57-84. Unpublished, except for the preface which has been printed from the Basel MS. (13th – 14th cent) by Valentin Rose. Aegidius Corboliensis, Viaticus de Pignis (Leipzig 1907) p.108

A. G. Watson catalogue entry

332

Fragments of early 13th cent MS of Liber novem judicum, recovered from Queens Coll. And Magdalen Coll bindings.

A. G. Watson catalogue entry

333

Elements of Architecture, compiled by Sir W. Blackstone in the summer of 1743, revised and transcribed with additions and improvements in 1746-7.

333A

Blackstone's MSS on the ASC Accounts.

Found in the Bursary by the Accountant, Derrick Arkley, 2001

334

Diploma of Honorary Degree of Doctorate of Law, Cologne University, presented to Lionel Curtis, Fellow in the Codrington Library, 21 April 1951, by Dr. H. Peters.

335

Psalterium Carolinum, the meditations of his Sacred Majestie (Charles I) done into verse.

336

A Discourse upon the Excellencies and advantages of prayer, by Bryan Duppa, Lord Bishop of Salisbury. Sermons by Bishop Duppa (1648), Richard Gardiner D.D. Canon of Christ Church (1678) and Mr. Gunning.

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337

Catalogue of the writings belonging to John Brograve's estates, 1678.

338

Letter from Thomas Hearne, 28 Oct. 1715.

339

S.A. Dubois Additions and corrections made to my former 'Description of the People of India' (in French). 1817.

340

Catalogue of the Library of the father of Warden Isham. 1719.

341

Johannis Anstis ad librum Angliae scriptum cui titulus.

The case of Founders kinsmen, latine responsio. Author's interleaved and annotated copy of the printed text, pp. 1-64.

342

Another copy with the text completed by the author in MS.

343

Sir Leoline Jenkins' Papers, 'No. 37'.

Some memorials touching the nullity between the Earl of Essex and 'his Lady' 1613.
Suit of nullity of marriage between King Alfonso VI and his queen, Maria Francisca Isabella of Savoy.
A Short account of Sweden by Bishop John Robinson.
Some Founders and Benefactors to Jesus College, Oxford.

344

List of Sees and Courts of Law, Arms in trick, c.1590.

(In binding 2 leaves of a late 14th cent. Psalter)

345

Muster Roll for Hertfordshire, late 16th cent. Flyleaves 2 leaves of a 15th cent. noted Breviary.

346

Arms and Pedigrees of Kentish families, c. 1607.

347

Pedigrees and Arms of Kentish families, 1623.

348

Genealogical Collections on Howorth and other Lancashire families, by Dr. Theophilis Howorth, 2nd half of the 17th century at beginning is an autograph letter from Sir Wm. Dugdale.

349

Extracts from Wood MSS in the Ashmolean Library.

Miscellaneous pedigrees collected from Benjamin Buckler.

350

Collections by Benjamin Buckler for Stemmata Chicheleiana.

351

A Collection of MSS. papers relating to All Souls College, extracted from the originals given by Bishop Tanner to the Bodleian Library by John Bilstone, Chaplain of All Souls, 1753.

352

Dr. Thomas Ashurst, Customs of All Souls College, remarks on the Founders Statutes, &c. 1837.

353

Charter of Incorporation of Doctors Commons. 1768.

354

Documents relating to Doctors Commons.

355

Minute Book of the Board of Legal Studies, 1871-1883.

356

Inventory of books of M. Wilks of Kirby, 1810 and miscellaneous papers.

357

Koran. Presented by the Hon. Charles Augustus Murray.

CCCLVIII

Historical tracts relating to the Madras Presidency.

1. Translations of two Canarese MSS. regarding the genealogy of the Rajahs of Mysore.
2. Letter from Mr. Thackeray to Lord William Bentinck on the permanent settlement.
3. Lieut. Col. Macaulay's observations on the creation of Zemindaries in the Carnatic.
4. List of Canara and Mahratta Sunnuds in the district of Bangalore and translations of specimens.
5. Grants by Gana Putty Dava Rajah, king of Worungab, and by Rimmana Dan-Naik founder of Seringapatam.
6. Cheritra, a poetical account of the Balal Raya or Hoisale dynasty, translated from the Sanskrit.
7. Historical memoirs of Trepptty, transl. from Telagu.
8. Legendary and historical Bettadopoor, compiled 1805.
9. Translation of the Cadultum or Register of Turkanamby.
10. Chronological list of the Kings of Beejanugur.
11. Chronological list of the Kings of Nuggur to 1799.
12. Translation of a Canarese MS. on Cadjans preserved at Keekairee, 1806.
13. History of Mysore, translated from the Canarese.
14. Observations on the sect of Djunas, communicated to Mr. Dubois.
15. Account of the Rajahs of Mysore, translated from a Persian MS. in the library of Tippoo Sahib.
16. Historical account of the Dalways of Mysore.
17. Account of Seringapatam.
18. Statement of Revenues of the Carnatic, 1805-6.
19. Mr. Hodgson's paper on proposed changes in the permanent settlement.

359

Hindu Tracts of the History of the Southern divisions of India, collected 1802. These include three sketches of the History of Seringapatam, (p.159) a narrative of the War in Mysore, (p.255) and a historical account of the succession and acquisition of the Mysore family to 1712, (p.309).

360

Indian Chronological tables, AD. 907-1806.

361

Transcripts from Madras correspondence relating to the wars with Haidar Ali, 1767-84.

362

Transcripts from general correspondence of the Madras Presidency, 1771-98.

363

Questions put to the Judges on the judicial system of India, 1801, with their replies.

364

Extracts from reports and minutes regarding Indian land-law, 1789-1807.

365

Lord Clive's report to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, 21 Feb, 1803.

PERSIAN MSS

366

Gulistan.

367

Hafiz.

368

Hafiz (incomplete).

369

Hafiz, Dewan, with prose translation. (incomplete).

370

Sadi's works.

371

Sadi's Bostan.

372

Mufrah ul Coloub, a Persian version of the Hilopadesa, with some slight additions and variations.

373

Anwar e Soheili. 2 vols.

374

Zinut ul Mujahs. (a collection of stories incomplete at each end).

375

Extracts from the Sero e Azad, written by Meer Gholam Ali Azad.

376

Akhlak e Naseri. (On Morals and Politics).

377

Commentary on the Akhlak e Naseri.

378

Commentary on the Law of Marriage.

379

Mifta u Linnan. (a religious tract).

380

Mirza Mehdi Khan, historical abstract.

381

Secunder Name. (Exploits of Alexander the Great).

382

Akabr Nama. (Book of Exploits).

383

Zolour's Sakee Nama.

384

Mohammed Bekir, Hyder Nama.

385

Narrative of Budra Zeman Khan, (a history of Hyder Ali).

386

Narrative of Jahan Kahan, (on Hyder Ali).

387

Meer Hussain Ali Kermauni, Nishaun e Hyderi. (a history of Hyder Ali and Tippoo Sultaun).

388

Sutaun u Touarukh, (history of Tippoo Sultaun).

389

Poornia, History of Mysore.

390

Seringapatam Papers.

391

History of Veer Rajander Wadeer, Rajah of Coorug.

392

Shegerf Nama (a voyage to England).

393

Letters from Lord Cranley (afterwards 5th earl of Onslow) on foreign and domestics politics, addressed to Sir Dougal Malcolm, 1903-1913. 2 vols. Miscellaneous Letters of Malcolm.

394

Photostats of MS. in the Museum Plantin Antwerp, with autograph notes by Archbp. Henry Chichele.

395

Charles Dilke, Junius Collections. 3 vols. and analysis.

396

Charles Dilke, Junius Papers.

397

Memoranda on the National Government's Work for Peace; written by G.M. Young. 1930 (Typewritten) (Formerly in the possession of Lord Simon). Given to the Library by the Warden (March 1960).

398

Sketches & notes by E.H. New in connection with his "New Loggan" Drawing of the College.

399

A Vellum book containing inventories of the books in the Library and the furniture of the Chapel, from the foundation of the College to the Wardenship of Hovenden.

A. G. Watson catalogue entry

400

Acta in Capitulis, 1602-1946.

a) 1602-1707
b) 1707-1753
c) 1753-1801
d) 1801-1857
e) 1858-1875
f) 1875-1888
g) 1888-1905
h) 1905-1914
j) 1915-1925
k) 1926-1946 (2 vols) v.1
m)
n) 1953-58

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401

Account Book of the Building of All Souls College.

A. G. Watson catalogue entry

402

All Souls College Admission Register, 1571-1900.

403

All Souls College Register, 1766-1785.

404

Extracts taken from the Lambeth Register relative to All Souls College, 18 Oct. 1446 to Jan. 1745-7. Original MS. by Andrew Coltee Ducarel. 11 folios.

(presented 2 April 1970).

405

Autobiographical Notes (to 1903) by Sir Thomas Raleigh (Fellow, 1876). Xeroxes of typescript. ff. [ii], 61. Presented in April 1974 by Raleigh Parkin (son of Sir George and godson of Raleigh), of Montreal, Canada.

406

'Return of His Majesty's Land Forces, 1st August 1801'. ff. 36 (35-6 blank).

Statistical tables of establishments and states of British cavalry and infantry and militia regiments in the United Kingdom and overseas. Engraved double-page plates completed with figures in ink. Presented by Sherfield, May 1975.

407

ANSON (Sir W.R.), Ballads en termes de la ley (Oxford, pr. printed ( 1914)). With on pp. [58-61, 63, 65] the texts of six poems by Anson added in the hand of C.R.L. Fletcher (Fellow, 1881).

Presented by the Warden, December 1975.

408

OMAN (C.C.) & JONES (E.A.), Catalogue of the plate of All Souls College, Oxford. Typescript. Ff. xxx, 1-4, 4a, 5-113; front. [two drawings], 25 plates.

Pres. The Warden, Jan. 1978.

409 410

SWINTON (Sir Ernest), Fellow 1925-51), Two volumes of press-cuttings and other material relating to the career of E.S. dating from September 1932 to November 1937 and November 1939 to August 1941 respectively but including numerous pieces which both ante-date and post-date the main series.

Presented by General Swinton's secretary, Miss Betty Vaucour in June 1973.

Placed on indefinite revocable loan in the Liddell Hart Military Archives Centre, King's College, London in March 1980 on the authority of the Library Committee.

411

CREECH, Thomas, A contemporary copy of the will (and probate grant) of Thomas Creech, Fellow, dated June 18th, 1700.

Pres. J.H. Sparrow, Esq. Jan. 1983.

412

SNOXALL (Ronald Albert), The Snoxalls. Xerox from typescript. Ff. [5] 2-35, two genealogical tables. [c. 1979]. Pres. R.A. Snoxall (Bible Clerk, 1920-4), July 1980.

413

Thirty-three annual volumes of The Daily Journal, or, The Gentleman's and Tradesman's Complete Annual Account - Book [1765-67], later [1768-] Kearsly's Gentleman and Tradesman's Pocket Ledger for the years 1765-97, with extras by the Reverend John Gutch. Presented by Sir John Gutch, KCMG, 10 October 1983.

414

Aeneas Gazeas, Theophrastus. C15.

A. G. Watson catalogue entry

415

All Souls Statutes. C15.

A. G. Watson catalogue entry

416

Library Catalogue. 1756.

417

Library Catalogue c. 1635.

418

Library Catalogue c. 1664.

419

Handlist of MSS. originally in vv Gallery Great Library.

420

Handlist of MSS. originally in ww Gallery Great Library.

421(a-e)

Crasters Notebooks. 5 vols.

422

Upchurch Charters.

423

Notes of [Sir] Hugh Cairns concerning T.E. Lawrence ( 1935).

424

Benefactor's Register.

425

Freman Catalogue ( before 1724).

426

Freman Catalogue ( 1713).

427

Mallard Verses.

428

2 Letters of Edith Sitwell to G.M. Young 1935, 1937.

429

Codrington Letter, 1704.

430

Private Manual for All Souls College 1882 (originally belonging to CURZON);

inserts:

1) 2nd Class Certificate in Lit Hum. 1882
2) Theology 1881
3) 1st Class Greats 1880
4) Matriculation Certificate 1878

(pres by Professor Peter Stansky, V/F 1978/79).

431

Manuscript notes on Cardinal MAZARIN by Prof D.P. O'Connell given by Prof Ivan SHEARER (V/F 1978), 17/8/89.

432

Sir H. E. Richards, Fellow, & Chichele Professor of International Law. Notes for Lectures.

433

Notebook belonging to John Sparrow - notes on Warden & Fellows Library - Winchester Oct 5th, 1932 [and] 2pp of Mark Pattison references.

434

"The truth of the Partition of the Punjab in August 1947"; Christopher Beaumont. [Restricted access - see letter with typescript]. Placed with Lawrence letters.

435

Rodney Needham Letters

Presented by Robin Fox, 2009

436

Letters relating to appointment of Prof. Rodney Needham.

437

College statutes (1853 annotated by F. R. Leighton

Presented by Sir Keith Thomas, 2010

438

MS relating to Ant à Wood's History of the University of Oxford

439/1

MS of Latin poetry.

From the Bequest of John Sparrow

Inscribed "John Henniker 1769"

439/2

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Author's copy of final proof. A. S. L. Farquharson.

John Sparrow's collection.

440

Readers Admissions Book. 8 Nov. 1867 -

441

Parfit, Derek [Typescript] Climbing the Mountain

442

Fellows Weighing Books

a. 1780-85
b. 1785-86

443

Betting Books

Wardens' Manuscripts

WMS Statutes 1

The Warden's Text of the Foundation Statutes.

8 3/4 x 12 1/2

Vellum with seal attached

WMS Statutes 2

Jacob’s description of above (reprint from Antiquaries Journal, 1935)

WMS Statutes 3

Copy of the statutes in Latin, with some of the Visitors’ Injunctions, and a short note on Archbishop Chichele + the history of the College

(purple linen covers)

WMS Statutes 4

Copies of following editions of Statutes: 1857, 1860, 1867, 1871, 1876, 1882, 1894, (1904), 1913, 1926, 1945

WMS Statutes 5

Oxford University Ordinances 1857

WMS Statutes 6

Universities and Colleges [Estates] Acts, 1858-1880 + 1898

WMS 1

All Souls Coll. Leiger ab anno 1443 22 [sic] H[enry]6 ab annum 1443 35 H[enry]8

Entries covering 1443-1543, Latin and English. Register of presentations to benefices, leases, quittances and other business touching the College property.

12 x 8 ½ ins.

Boards, covered sheepskin, two clasps (broken), many wormholes, fols. 210. Vellum. Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries.

WMS 2

The order is chronological. The indentures are in English, the records of the granting of the lease in Latin.

15 ¼ x 10 ½ ins.

Boards, leather binding stamped with diagonal patterns; ribbed back, two clasps (broken). Vellum. Sixteenth century, 1548-1572.

WMS 3

List of the Wardens of the College, as far as Robert Hoveden, in sixteenth century hands.

A miscellaneous volume containing charters, indentures and extents of College property.

Originally a medieval MS which appears to be a cartulary recording charters and deeds going back to the foundation of the College, and in particular concerning the grant of lands to the College. It bears additions made in later years, at least to the 17th century. On fols. 42v-43r a fine map of Newingon, Oxon has been bound in.

From fols. 80ff there is a kind of “annals” of building activity here in the College. The first entry is made for 1593. On fol. 83v Bernard Gardiner starts to record building activity and benefactions to the same during his Wardenship. On fol. 85r Stephen Niblett takes over recording benefactions, but records very few.

Fols. 98r ff comprises copies of documents relating to the knotty question of whether Fellows of All Souls may study medicine, several of the originals of which are elsewhere in the archives (e.g. on fol. 106r is a copy of a letter from Thomas Tenison , dated 23 July 1709, of which the original is at T-M 333, no. 97).

Well over half the book is unused.

16 x 12 ins.

Full calf binding of 17th century. Fols 1-80, 1-30 (unfoliated), 1-79 v (blank), 1-29 (foliated), described here as sections A, B, C and D. Vellum. Sixteenth to Eighteenth centuries.

WMS 4

The Statutes and Injuctions of All Souls College, indexed and annotated throughout by Warden Hoveden.

A C16 copy of the College Statutes, which has “Warden of All Souls Coll. Oxford” written on the inside front cover. From p. 104 it has additions starting in 1609 which extent to the 18th century.

Fos. 1-70: The Founder’s Statutes, in a late 15th or early 16th cent. hand.

12 x 8 ins.

Old leather binding, tooled with fleur-de-lys pattern, not gilded. No clasps. Vellum, late fifteenth or early sixteenth to early eighteenth centuries. Fly leaves of late thirteenth century MS treatise on the Saints.

WMS 5

Statuta collegii, vulgariter dicti Omnium Animarum Fidelium Defunctorum de Oxonia. Vice custodiis.

The Sub-Warden’s copy of the Statutes, with index and the oath to be administered to fellows and probationers at their admission.

Another 16th century copy of the College Statutes done in the 16th century, with some early 17th century additions. It might have been created at the same time as WMS 4.

12 x 8 ins.

Old leather binding, tooled with fleur-de-lys pattern, not gilded. no clasps. Vellum, late fifteenth or early sixteenth to early eighteenth centuries. Fly leaves of late thirteenth century MS treatise on the Saints.

WMS 6

Short biographies of each Warden of the College, mainly in the hand of Dr Thomas Wenman (1793-1817)

Volume containing biographies of the wardens of the College, and also Bishops who had been Fellows of All Souls, mainly in the hand of Thomas Wenman. This book is unpaginated, but the wardens are arranged in chronological order. Wenman writes, as usual, on the right-hand page of an opening, but uses the left-hand page to add comments or extra details.

Later hands, including Warden Leighton, have added material on later Wardens as far as Warden Adams.

Additions by Wardens Sneyd, Leighton, Anson and Pember.

8 x 6 ½ ins.

Vellum boards.

WMS 7

A record of disciplinary action taken by the College against fellows offending against the Statutes and by-laws.

The measures are taken by the Warden and Deans (or Dean of the Faculty to which the fellow belonged). each entry being signed by the Warden, Deans or Dean.

12 x 8 ins.

Limp vellum. 66pp. written in, remainder blank. Paper, early seventeenth to nineteenth centuries (1603-1851).

WMS 8

Orders and regulations for the government of the College, signed by the Warden, the two Bursars and the two Deans, and instructions and rulings from the Visitor, together with permissions to be absent, and disciplinary action taken in the case of individual fellows.

12 x 8 ins.

Limp vellum. pp. 62 written in, remainder blank. Paper, latter sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries (1572-1628, the majority in Hovenden’s Wardenship). On side, 'Alsoln Colledge Boke, 1572.'

WMS 9

Absence Book, 10 Dec 1702 – 4 Feb 1715

Absence Books of the College. These contain permissions given by the Warden and officials of the College to Fellows to be absent 'praeter et ultra dies sibi per statuta concessos.' The Warden signs each entry sede vacante, the Sub-Warden signs. All are in Latin.

7 ½ ins x 5 ins..

Full calf, tooled.

WMS 10

Absence Book, 18 Feb 1715 - 10 Oct 1724.

7 ½ x 5 ins.

Full calf, tooled.

WMS 11

Absence Book, 6 Nov 1752 – 3 Nov 1771.

7 ½ x 5 ins.

Full calf, tooled.

WMS 12

Absence Book, 3 Nov 1772 – 7 Feb 1792.

10 x 7

Full sheep

WMS 13

Absence Book, 3 Nov 1772 – 7 Feb 1792.

10 x 7

Full sheep

WMS 14

Absence Book, 17 Dec 1792 –17 Dec 1812

10 x 7 ½ ins.

Mottled boards, leather back.

WMS 15

Absence Book, 17 Dec 1813 –Dec 1836

10 x 7 ½ ins.

Mottled boards, leather back.

WMS 16

Certificates of the Wardens of All Souls College that individual fellows of the College, named in each entry, had taken out at Quarter-sessions the Oathes prescribed by the Act of 1 Geo I, entitled An Act for the further security of his majesty’s [???] and government. A small bbundle of certificates 1761-5 is enclosed with this MS.

A book of certificates of the Warden of All Souls that Fellows have taken the oaths at quarter sessions of loyalty, running from 1 Nov 1715 to 2 Dec 1765. These are “oaths of Allegiance, Supremacy and Objuration, taken under the Act for the farther Security of his Majesty’s Person and Government”. They were usually taken at Quarter Sessions, and certificates were presented to Gardiner. They were taken in several places, not just Oxford.

12 x 8 ½ ins.

Limp vellum. pp. 42, remainder blank. Paper, eighteenth century (1 Nov 1715 – 2 Dec 1765).

WMS 17

Letters and papers relating to All Souls College

A Guardbook, which has this inscription on the inside front cover, dated 10 June 1830:

“This Collection of manuscript papers relating to All Souls College was purchased of the Revd Philip Bliss for 5£ and is now the property of the Warden and Fellows.”

On the other side is written (by Bliss?):

“Purchased from Mr. White of Newington Oxfordshire, Septr 1829 for 2.12.6”

Then is added in a different hand:

“Mr. White married a relation of Dr. Niblett Warden”

What follows is a collection of letters and documents made by Niblett and at some stage put into this guardbook.

is a collection of transcripts of documents written between 1648 and 1657, to do with the Visitations of Oxford during the Commonwealth.
is a note listing whose pedigrees are held in the College
(pp.45-8) relates to an appeal from Edward Darell (matr. Univ. 1722) to be elected a Fellow on the grounds of Founder’s Kin. He was a candidate in the 1727 election, but was not elected.
(pages 49-59) is an undated note by Warden Gardiner on the study of medicine at ASC. It is evidently written, as shown on p. 51, in connection with the appeal of Dod and Stephens, and so probably dates from 1709 (see T-M 333 nos. 93-99). It appears to be a draft written for Archbishop Tenison.
(pp. 61-71) is a memorandum which appears to relate to one of the visitations of the College –probably that of 1710/11. It gives various headings, and discusses their interpretation.
(pp. 73-6). A copy of a notarial document dated 20 Nov 1713. It records a protest by two Fellows, John Willes and Miles West. This is in relation to how much money a Fellow of All Souls can inherit or come into before he has to resign his post. Now in March 1712/13 James Bouchier had been appointed Professor of Civil Law, with a salary to match, and Willes and West think that he ought to have resigned his Fellowship after six months, because of his extra income. But the Warden and officers disagreed. Now Willes and West protest to the Visitor.
(pp. 78-9) is a letter from James Bouchier to Warden Gardiner, dated 14 June 1716, and written from All Souls. Bouchier protests at receiving a surprisingly angry letter from Gardiner because a decision about employing a workman was taken in his absence.
(p. 81) is a letter from Edward Kinaston (address, Doctor’s Commons) to the Warden, dated 21 Oct 1727, on the validity of a pedigree from the College of Arms in a dispute over Founder's Kin.
(p. 85) is a declaration to the Visitor from John Anstis, dated 28 Mar 1729. Anstis’s son has applied for a Fellowship, declaring himself Founder’s Kin. He gives his authorisation for certain pedigrees to be exhibited before the Visitor.
(pp. 89-92) is what looks like a (very) rough draft of a letter from Niblett to Archbishop Wake about the Anstis affair. Niblett explains that the College rejects Anstis’s claims for his son.
(pp. 93-5) is a letter to Warden Niblett from John Barton (address, Buckland) dated 2 Nov 1729. Barton passes on some arguments madeby John Anstis for making his son a Fellow of All Souls. Barton calls Anstis junior his “pupil”.
(pp. 97-107) has on the first page the title “The Case of All Souls Coll: 1736”. It comprises two copies of an appeal to the Visitor in relation to the appeal of Richard Jacob to be elected a Fellow on the basis of Founder’s Kin.
(pp. 109-10) is titled “Minutes for Mr. Henley”. To judge from what follows, this relates to the Fellowship election of 1739, and is sent to Robert Henley (F. 1727-40). At this election Ashburnham Legh appealed against not being elected a Fellow, and the matter went to a devolution – and Legh got his post. These minutes say that the unnamed candidate (Legh) was rejected as not being bright enough.
(pp. 111-13) is a letter from Robert Henley to Niblett, dated 6 Dec 1739. Henley reports that he submitted written exercises to the Archbishop, to show that Jacob was not competent to be elected Fellow, but having examined them, Potter declared that Jacob should be elected.
(pp. 115-16) is a letter from Thomas Wilbraham (address, London), 20 Dec 1739, presumably to Niblett, also on Jacob's appeal.
(pp. 117-19) is a brief for Counsel on the election of Fellows, and the rights of the College in elections. An unnamed counsel has filled in some responses. It looks like it’s dated 23 October 1750 or 1751.
(pp. 121-32) comprises papers from 1760 relating to Alexander Popham, appealing against having to take holy orders.
(pp. 133-5) is the College’s reply, dated 25 Feb 1760, to the Archbishop about Popham, and whether he is allowed to keep his Fellowship with his work in the Common Law?
(pp.138-9) is a letter from John Webb (address, Breedon) to Warden Gardiner, 30 Nov 1709. John Webb had been a Fellow of ASC from 1677-88, and his son, John Jr, was elected a Fellow in 1709.
(pp. 141-3) is a letter from the younger John Webb to Warden Gardiner, dated Tuesday 21 August [probably 1711], apparently apologising for an unspecified misdemeanour.
(p. 147) is a letter from Thomas West (address, Red Lion Square), 22 Sep 1715, addressed to Gardiner as Vice-Chancellor. There seems to be a dispute between the medical faculties of Oxford and Cambridge and the College of Physicians, and West reports that Cambridge has agreed to join with Oxford in the dispute.
(p. 149) is a letter from Thomas Norwood (address Leckhampton) to Gardiner, 24 Dec 1715. He is a friend of Mr. Webb, who has suffered disappointment (perhaps in a Fellowship election?), and is glad to hear of Gardiner’s sympathy towards him.
(p. 151) is a letter from Charles Wallis (address, London) to Gardiner, 17 Jun 1721. Wallis has been investigating the College’s quit claim on property leased to his sister, but reports that it’s never been demanded. There are some notes by Gardiner explaining why he wrote to Wallis.
(pp. 155-8) is a letter from Samuel Coopey (father of John, F. 1741-59), address, Wraxhall, to Warden Niblett, 16 Nov 1740. Coopey regrets that this son has failed to be elected a Fellow at this election.
(pp. 159-61) is a letter from Thomas Winchester (address, Magdalen College) to Niblett, 17 Mar 1757. Winchester encloses a document about the holding of more than one benefice.
(pp. 163-5) is a letter addressed from Peckham to “Dear Dick”, and is dated 6 July, but the year is not given. This is a strange letter full of “cant” and mysterious references. Addressee and writer are unknown.
(pp.167-9) Letter from J. Chester (address, Cheltenham), to an unnamed addressee, 3 Oct 1772. It appears to have nothing to do with ASC business, but is more a discussion of arrangements to meet the addressee.
(pp. 171-4); This is a list of benefactors who were solicited by Warden Gardiner towards the repairs of his buildings. It is undated, but perhaps was written in about 1720, soon after the building process.
(pp. 175-8): An account of what was due to ASC in relation to Codrington’s legacy. This includes both the original legacy, and a note of interest charges, and covers sums due and payments from April 1711 to 1720.
(p. 179): A list of gifts made to the College between 1704 and 1722 (written in Latin).
(pp. 180-1). A letter from George Clarke, address London, dated 1 March 1733/4. In it, he discusses the titulature of a Governor and a Captain General, with regard to what inscription should be put on Cheere’s statue of Christopher Codrington.
(pp. 182-3). A note that on 4 July 1720 Gardiner nominated Bainton Parsons, BA of University College, as Chaplain of All Souls.
(pp. 184-7): a draft indenture of 1734, relating to the benefaction of Dodington Grevile to the College towards completing work on the College's north quadrangle.
(p. 188). A note dated 5 November 1763, in which the Fellows agree to annex the living of Lockinge to the Wardenship.

All the remaining items were found loose at the back of this guardbook.

A letter dated 1 Mar 1739/40 from Robert Henley. Henley formally resigns his Fellowship.
A letter dated 4 Feb 1740/1 from Robert Henley, on trying to get money from the Duke of Wharton's creditors promised by the Duke towards the building project.
A folder of papers inscribed on the outside “Papers relating to the Visitation of the College 1719”. They include:
- A list of questions to be administered to the Warden and Fellows.
- Warden Gardiner’s replies to the same, made 30 June 1719.
- A document in which Gardiner gives his own detailed account of the Visitation.
- A single sheet with drafts of two letters, both dated 4 Jun 1719, from Gardiner to John Bettesworth, confirming arrangements for the latter’s coming to All Souls, and offering him accommodation.
- Another draft letter from Gardiner to Bettesworth, dated 16 Jun 1719.
- A letter dated 30 May 1719 from Lambeth from R. Chicheley, giving notice that Bettesworth will visit All Souls on 30 June for a Visitation.
- A letter dated 9 June 1719 from Bettesworth to Gardiner. He makes polite noises about hoping to settle any troubles in the College, and thanks him for offering him accommodation.
- A letter of 20 Jun 1719 from Bettesworth in reply to Gardiner’s of the 16th.
- A formal account (in Latin) of the Visitation of 1710/11.
A letter from Philip Bliss to the then Warden, dated 18 Dec 1830. He encloses some notes about George Clarke.
A copy of George Clarke’s will dated 12 Nov 1734, with three codicils dated 12 Nov 1734, 12 Nov 1734, and 8 Jan 1735/6. Every page is signed and dated by Clarke.

13 ½ x 10.

Mottled boards, leather back. MSS, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

WMS 18

Collections relating to All Souls College, its founder, Benefactors, Writers, etc. etc.

Notes, mainly on the Founder and his contemporaries.... the writer B. Buckler, Fellow and Keeper of the Archives.

Volume titled on its first page “Collections relating to All Souls College, its Founder, Benefactors; Writes &c &c”. Undated, but the hand looked 18th century. It’s mainly about the early history of the College.

13 ½ x 8 ½ ins.

Uncovered boards, no back. Paper, eighteenth century.

WMS 19

The Statutes of the Founder, the Act of 4 Henry VII confirming the patents issued to All Souls.

19 - 21. Manuscript volumes of Warden Bernard Gardiner.

A copy of the College statutes prepared for Warden Gardiner. They are mostly written in another hand. At the back of the book are some loose documents, which are draft letters. These include a draft letter from Gardner to Tenison (written in the same hand ne that wrote the opening pages of WMS 21), dated 4 Jan 1706/7. It’s again about whether Fellows are allowed to practice Common Law, especially if they are Artists.

12 ½ x 8.

Mottled paper cover. Paper.

WMS 20

The Statutes of the Founder (1-55) and (55f) the Foundation Charter of the College.

19 - 21. Manuscript volumes of Warden Bernard Gardiner.

A second copy of the College statutes prepared for Warden Gardiner. They are mostly written in another hand (not the same as that in WMS 19), but some texts are in Gardiner’s hand.

13 x 8.

Mottled boards.

WMS 21

Letter and Memoranda book of Warden Gardiner.

19 - 21. Manuscript volumes of Warden Bernard Gardiner.

Has written on its cover “These Letters to Archbp Tenison and also to Archbp Wake and to Dr. Bettesworth were transcribed from and by […] my own hand [….]1717”. The “my” is Bernard Gardiner [this volume was foliated by RHDS 27/9/18] There are 106 ff in all.

This is a collection of copies of letters relating to matters to be brought to the Visitors' attention during Bernard Gardiner's Wardenship. Several documents here are copies of items in Trice Martin's catalogue in the “Appeals and Injunctions” section, but there several documents which only exist in this volume, and it should therefore be consulted alongside those documents. Among these notes is Gardiner's attempt to set down verbatim a conversation between himself and Archbishop Tenison.

13 x 8.

Vellum boards, much torn.

WMS 22

The History of All Souls College, by Dr Thomas Wenman.

Seven volumes of notes on All Souls by Thomas Wenman.

WMS 22 (1): This is the start of a study of All Souls by Thomas Wenman, which is part history, part “anatomy” of the College. The MS is written out mostly in the same hand as WMS 23 below, and does not appear to be Wenman's hand, which appears in WMS 24. This hand is probably that of an amanuensis, working at Wenman's direction, and is used only on the recto pages, the verso ones being left blank for footnotes and extra comments (some of them, evidently, in Wenman's hand). There have also been a few additional comments made by Warden Lewis Sneyd. This volume includes the following chapters:
- Chapter 1 covers the foundation of the College.
- Chapter 2 covers “the laws by which the College is governed.”
- Chapter 3 “Having treated of the laws by which the College is regulated, it will now be necessary to give some account of those magistrates in whom the supervision and execution of them are intrusted.”
WMS 22 (2): Volume II of Thomas Wenman’s work. Vol. I ends in mid-sentence, and vol. II takes it up at once, and the foliation foliation continues: Vol. I ended on fol. 105r and vol. II starts on fol. 106r.

Vol. II therefore continues with Chapter 3.
- Chapter 4 (untitled) discusses the role of the Warden.
- Chapter V (untitled) is on the prerogatives of the Warden and other College officers.
- Chapter VI (untitled) is on the Warden’s Revenues.
- Chapter VII: “The different modes by which that office [of Warden] may be dissolved.”
- Chapter VII [sic; recte VIII?] (untitled) discussed the duties of other College Officers, including the Subwarden, the Bursars, the Deans, and the Jewellers. Wenman doesn’t count the Rector of Divinity as an officer.
WMS 22 (3) Volume III of Thomas Wenman's work. Once again, the foliation (and chapter) continues from the previous volume.

In this part of Chapter VII/VIII Wenman discusses the Rector of Divinity, the Lecturers of Law and Natural Philosophy, the Riding Bursar, the Steward of the College, the Chaplains, the Clerks and Choristers, and the servants as well as College horses.
- Chapter IX discusses the Fellows and Scholars, including who is eligible to stand for these posts.
- Chapter X discusses those who have the right to make elections, and how elections are conducted.
- Chapter XI is on the admission of fellows.
WMS 22 (4): a continuation of the previous chapter from Thomas Wenman's study of All Souls. The handwriting has changed in this volume. But this is still an amanuensis, rather than Wenman himself, because it does bear some corrections.
- Chapter XI discusses Fellows' incomes.
- Chapter XI [sic] is about taking degrees and holy orders.
- Chapter XII [sic] in on how a Fellowship can be “dissolv’d”.
- Chapter XIII [sic] is a history of the site and buildings of the College.
WMS 22 (5): is a continuation of the previous chapter from Thomas Wenman's work. However, while the first folio is numbered “419”, in continuation of the previous four volumes, the numbering stops there. Then someone else has foliated the volume in pencil, counting “fol. 419” as “fol. 1”. However the subject matter remains a history of the buildings of the College.

On fol. 6r Wenman starts to discuss the College estates, although he appears not to have begun a new chapter.
WMS 22 (6): A continuation of Thomas Wenman's discussion of the College estates. On fol. 32v, he started to discuss the Colleges manors, beginning with Foxcote, but the text breaks off here, and the whole of the rest of the book is unused. Thus Wenman's great “Anatomy of All Souls” was never finished.
WMS 22 (7): Another volume of Thomas Wenman's notes on All Souls. This is a much more rough and ready text. It seems to be in Wenman’s own hand, and consists of rough notes. The book is also unpaginated. Wenman starts off by discussing aspects of the governance of the University as a whole. But he stops after a few pages, and the book is largely blank. Then the book is turned over, and a section of text written in the hand of the copyist used by Wenman for WMS 22/1-3, beginning at “fol. 318”, with a discussion of other College properties, until “Fol. 238”, when the text breaks off at the end of a page.

8 ½ x 7.

Mottled paper cover, leather back, limp. 7 volumes. pp 105-6. Late eighteenth – early nineteenth century.

WMS 23

All Souls Coll: MSS.

Drawn from the Archives.

(Formerly WMS 29)

Volume titled “All Souls Coll: Mss” on the cover, unpaginated. The hand is unidentified, but the book was probably written not long after 1793. It is a volume of transcripts of documents about the College, starting with the Foundation Charter. The contents then become more miscellaneous with a section titled “Some account of the antient Altars in the Chapel”, a note of letters of indulgence from an Archbishop of Canterbury, an ancient inventory of books and plate given to the College by the Founder for the use of the Chapel, documents relating to the Reformation, and an attempt to calculate the costs of the Codrington Library up to 1756. After several blank pages are copies of documents about the installation of Edmund Isham as Warden in 1793.

9x8 ins.

Mottled Boards, leather back.

WMS 24

A collection made by Dr. Thomas Wenman for the history of the College.

(formerly WMS 28): Volume containing a miscellaneous collection of notes and transcripts from the archives made by Thomas Wenman on College history. The book is paginated, and has an index.

7 ¾ x 6 ½.

Vellum boards, paper 272 pages. Much textual revision including by Chesterman, college solicitor.

WMS 25

Extracts from the Ledger Books of the College

(Formerly WMS 31)

Volume containing notes by Thomas Wenman on the early history of All Souls (up to about 1724). These are taken from various documents in the archives, including the Acta. He has also has taken some notes from Dugdale’s Monasticon, in relation to College properties which appear there.

7 ¾ x 6 ½.

Vellum boards. Uniform with 28

WMS 26

Wenman’s notes on the estates and property of the College, described

(formerly MS 32): Volume containing Thomas Wenman’s notes on the estates and property of the College. These notes include summaries of title deeds relating to each estate owned by the College. He starts with properties in Oxford, before he moves on to properties outside Oxford.

These have the air of preliminary notes made by Wenman, from which his later notes in volumes like WMS 30 were written up. He also transcribes or summarises documents from elsewhere (e.g. on p. 190 he copies out a document on Alberbury taken from the Registry of the Consistory Court of the Diocese of Hereford). On p. 212 is a list of expenses relating to the library between 1715 and 1756.

7 ¾ x 6 ½.

Vellum boards. Uniform with 28/31

WMS 27

Wenman’s, Extracts notes on College property.

(formerly MS 33): Volume containing more notes by Thomas Wenman notes on the estates and property of the College. Once again, these are much rougher notes than those in WMS 30. Wenman has calendared several title deeds for each property, numbering them up too. He sometimes gives their acreage and rental, and the latest fine. Sometimes he gives the genealogies of families, as in WMS 30 below. Not all properties are discussed here (e.g. the Welsh properties do not show up).

7 ¾ x 6 ½.

Vellum boards. Uniform with 28/31

WMS 28

A continuation of Wenman’s, extracts on the Estates/p>

(Formerly WMS 34)

Volume (unaginated) containing more rough notes by Thomas Wenman on the College estates, like WMS 30 below, even down to the formal referencing system. Later on the volume includes Wenman's notes on the Pouncet, Petre, and Napier Exhibitions, the funds set up by Twining, Buckler, Digby, for the benefit of the Clerks and choristers, and then other benefactions set up by Wynne, Powney, and Eyre. There then follow Next there follow notes on schools with links to the College schools.

7 ¾ x 6 ½.

Vellum boards. Uniform with 28/31

WMS 29

Extracts from Letters of Gardiner chiefly relative to the Visitations of Wake and Tennison’

(formerly MS 35): Volume containing extracts made by Thomas Wenman from the letters of Warden Gardiner on the visitations of Wake and Tenison. Some of them are listed in Trice Martin's catalogue, but several documents do not appear to exist any more outside this transcript. There then follow some rough notes by Wenman on some more College properties, including various schools where the College had interests.

8-7 ins.

Mottled boards, much faded, leather back. Uniform with 23/33

WMS 30

Historical notes on the College Estates by Wenman

(formerly MS 36): Volume containing notes on the College estates by Thomas Wenman. This is a neat version of the rough notes made in earlier MSS. In this copy, he writes his text, as usual, on the right hand page, and then on the left writes references, with the numbers for his “footnotes” given in red ink. His notes usually begin, where possible, with the description of the property given in the Domesday Book. Sometimes he gives pedigrees of the families which owned a property over several generations.

7 ¾ x 6 ½.

Vellum boards. Uniform with 28/34

WMS 31

A series of notes on kings and queens of England and members of the royal family.

(Formerly WMS 37)

Notes by Thomas Wenman on English history, and also on material held in the University Archives (he was keeper of those from 1781-96).

7 ¾ x 6 ½.

Vellum boards. Uniform with 28/36

WMS 32

A collection of biographical notes, mainly from the College Archives, upon the successive Wardens of All Souls College.

(formerly MS 23): biographical notes on the wardens of All Souls, mainly by Warden Edmund Isham. The notes about Isham himself on pp 118-19, are in another hand, and were written after his death.

8-7 ins.

Mottled boards, much faded, leather back. P.P. 156. Late eighteenth early nineteenth century.

WMS 33

Borrowing book, 1702.

(formerly MS 24): “Borrowing Book, 1702”. This is indeed just as it says it is. It does indeed record the sums borrowed by individual Fellows from the College. In later years this material will end up at the back of the New Titling Books.

8 1/2 x 6 1/2 "

Vellum boards, 64 pages

WMS 34

Terms kept by the Fellows of the College, 1825-1841.

(Formerly WMS 25)

6 x 4 "

Limp leather, 34 pages, Mostly in hands of Wardens Sneyd and Legge

WMS 35

Seventeeth to nineteeth century (1667-1857).

(formerly MS 26): Orders made by the Warden and officers for expenditure of College moneys, 1667-1857.

A rather strange book – it is not quite clear what it is about, or why things were recorded here. Decisions are signed by College officers in their own hands. It looks as if it records decisions taken only by the Warden and the College Officers. There are occasional references to agreements that certain things be passed over to the full College to decide.

There are no entries made between 1798 and 1848.

7 x 6

Vellum boards, 51 pages written remainder blank.

WMS 36

Commonplace book of Wardnen Niblett, 1755-1765

(formerly MS 27): Commonplace book of Warden Niblett. The book is unpaginated, and its contents very miscellaneous. They include:

Notes by Niblett on recommendations from Fellows and others of candidates for Choristers' positions, 1757-65.
Memoranda made by Niblett on various of his activities, including dealing with the Visitor, the admission of servants and Chaplains, visits to College estates, including Padbury, Edgeware, William Blackstone's researches into Chichele's kin, the resignation of Fellows, 1755-62.
Lists of Clerks and Choristers, 1759 and 1762.

6 1/2 x 4 1/2

Mottled cover. Limp exercise or notebook, no pagination

WMS 37

All Souls Coll: MSS.

(Formerly WMS 30)

Dates from 1860s

9x8 ins.

Mottled Boards, leather back.

WMS 38

A statement of the whereabouts and extent of each of the College estates, mainly between 1680 and 1725.

Notes on College estates, mainly made in the 1680s. In each case, the property is described in some detail. In the case of Oxford, the size of the property is often given.

11 x 8

Vellum, limp. pp. 166. Seventeenth and eighteenth century.

WMS 39

Terrier of the College estates

More notes on College estates – with lists of the incumbents of College livings. Much of this appears to be a copy of the contents of WMS 38 – or else they were both taken from a third source?

11 x 8

Vellum, limp. 75 pp.

WMS 40

An account of the Revenue and Emoluments of All-souls College. Collected out of the Records, Liegerbook Register and Rentalls. Anno 1682 by Dr Irish.

See 38, 39 for a better report.

WMS 40: A volume of miscellaneous notes. It was first used by Dr. Irish in 1682, as a record of the College's estates. His notes were prefaced by an index which he compiled. Half way through the index is a bifolium in which there is a note by William Wynne that Irish on his death in 1728 gave the book to him, and that he has added his own annotations, and presented it to the College hoping that it will be stored in the Bursary. The book also contains the following:

A list of the incumbents of College livings made by Irish, but kept up to the 1740s
Notes about the schools in which the College had an interest, and about College exhibitions.
List of Subwardens 1660-1767.
Copies of injunctions and letters from successive Visitors, from 1699-1711.

12 x 7 ins.

Stiff vellum boards. Paper. pp. 330

WMS 41

Account books of receipts and expenditure on the Lewknor estate.

Account book for the Lewknor estate, 1744-67.

8 x 6 1/2 ins.

Vellum boards, stiff. Unpaginated.

WMS 42

For the Use of the Bursars, 1730 (the first date).

Reverse: Notes and memoranda on library keys, and some memoranda in the hand of Blackstone.

memorandum book for the Bursars, first compiled in 1730. On the first page is this note:

“In this Book the Bursars may write down wt Fees they receive and likewise any other remarks wch they think will be of Use to their Successors.”

The contents of the book match this inscription. It bears notes at least as far as the 1760s.

7 1/2 x 6 1/2 ins.

Vellum boards, stiff. Unpaginated and written in reverse

WMS 43

Bursar’s book, giving accounts (battels totals) of individual Fellows in 1701.

Described in the old catalogue as Batells accounts for Fellows, 1701, but it more closely resembles a Song Book, both in format and in content.

6 ¼ x 8.

Boards, edged with vellum.

WMS 44

Bursars’ Accounts, 1808-1821 (All Saints – All Saints) inclusive

Bursars’ accounts, 1808-21. The book opens with a detailed list of glass and dessert service bought for the Common Room in 1807. The rest of it appears to be drafts for the Bursar’s Rolls for 1808/9 to 1821/2.

13 x 8 1/2.

Mottled boards, leather back. Unpaginated

WMS 45

Bursars’ Accounts, 1758.

This appears to be a Bursar’s Day Book for the financial year starting in December 1757, and ending in January 1759, when Tracy and Lysons were Bursars. It was kept in conjunction other accounts, because in the expenses section, there is a note by each entry (e.g. Bursars Act., B.B. [Borrowing Book], Roll, Benefactors, Clerks Roll, etc.) to say where the payment is to be entered.

8 x 6 1/2.

Mottled boards, leather back. Unpaginated.

WMS 46

A book of Latin elegiac compositions. ‘Lusus Westmonasteriensis, no. 2.’

Within cover : ‘John King Barlee Lucas, Aprill 9th, 1736.’

A volume of Latin poetry written out by John King Barley Lucas (F. 1742-59). It is a transcription of what appears to be the whole of the second part of Lusus Westmonasterienses, sive epigrammatum et poëmatum minorum delectus (London, 1730). Later editions were published in 1734 and 1740.

Pages 1-71 are transcriptions of epigrams, all in elegiac couples, but pages 75-105 are transcriptions of newly composed prologues and epilogues to plays by Plautus and Terence. pp. 109-117 are transcriptions of prologues to “The Cheats of Scapin” and “Henry the Fourth”, which are, unlike everything else, written in English.

3 1/2 x 6

Half vellum boards. Pp. 117.

WMS 47

The main academic events year by year from 25 March 1648-1684

12 x 9 1/2.

Vellum, limp, the binding being a seventeenth century indenture (of 1684.)

WMS 48

Latin excerpts from rulings and Injunctions of the Visitor: epitaphs (Latin) in Psalms[???] of the College.

10 1/4 x 7 1/2.

Paper. Grey cover. Unpaginated. In the hand of Dr Wenman.

WMS 49

All Souls Coll. Oxon. An extract out of the Register Booke, of the Fines at the severall Renewings of the most Considerable Leases belonging to the College from the Yeare 1601 (when the booke began) to 1665

A note of entry fines levied on College properties from 1601 onwards. This seems to have been compiled retrospectively in 1665, and then added to up to the 1760s. The last entries date from 1764. They are set out thus for each estate:
Tenant - date of renewal – years used up – size of fine – comments.

9 1/4 x 7.

Parchment cover, limp. 51 + 30 pp (30 unpaginated).

WMS 50

Statutes and Injunctions of All Souls College.

This important manuscript contains, besides the Statutes and Injunctions, lists of College officers from 1683, and lists of candidates for the College from 1698 down, to the present time.

Described in the handwritten catalogue as Gardiner’s copy of the statutes, containing lists of College officers and candidates for Fellowships.

The cover reads “Statutes and Injunctions of All Souls College.” The binding has a very 19th-century appearance – it is certainly not contemporary with Gardiner.

The book opens with a one-page printed sheet giving the Fellows’ Oath There then follows a title page, which records that the book is a legacy of Bernard Gardiner.

On the reverse of the title page are some notes in Gardiner’s hand, which lists the other posts held by a Warden of All Souls, including being one of the Visitors of Archbishop Laud’s Charity at Reading, the Visitor of Ampthil Hospital, and sole Visitor of Berkhamstead School, Hertfortshire. He is also an elector of the Arabic Reader and the Natural Philosophy Lecturer.

The next few pages are all unnumbered. They comprise short account of the origins of All Souls, probably in Gardiner’s writing. Next comes a list of the Wardens of ASC up to Sumner. The entries as far as Niblett are all the same unknown hand. After Niblett, the names of Wardens have been added in at different times.

Next comes Gardiner’s own index of the Statutes and a list of contents of later injunctions from Visitors. There follow a few blank pages, but then there start the statutes – and this is where the page numbers begin.

pp. 1-90: Copy of the statutes, written un an unknown hand, heavily annotated and corrected by Gardiner. His annotations are usually in Latin.
pp. 90-101: All blank.
pp. 102-80: Copies of additional Visitors’ injunctions and related documents, including regulations copied out from what Gardiner calls “The Book of the Subwarden” (“Liber Vice-Custodis”). They are not in chronological order. These are written in the same hand which wrote the statutes, and are again heavily annotated by Gardiner.
pp. 181-209: More copies of injunctions and related documents, added in various hands.
pp. 210-243: all blank.
pp. 244-282: A section headed by Gardiner “Certain Letters of Visitours wch are in the Possession of the Warden and other Papers of use.” Some of these entries appear to have been copied out by Gardiner himself. Some of the material has been copied from WMS 35 (the minute book of the Warden and Officers).
p. 283 are some notes dating from 1737 and 1738 on John Frederick refusing to take orders.
pp. 294-5: all blank.
pp. 296-311: Copies of injunctions and related documents from Thomas Tenison, mostly written out for Gardiner, but annotated by him.
pp. 312-22: Copies of documents from the 1680s, in an unknown hand.
pp. 323-330: all blank.
pp. 331-2: extracts from the Warden’s Punishment Book, although they bear the signatures of the Warden and the Dean of Arts. At the bottom of p. 332 are lists, in Gardiner’s hand, of the names of Subwardens, Deans and Bursars from 1683-1700.
pp. 333-338 (pages unnumbered): lists of officers, 1703-23; lists of candidates for Fellowships, 1703-16. The candidates are listed by surname and College, with “elect” written alongside the lucky ones; and lists of clerks and choristers, 1702-26, all in Gardiners hand.
pp. 339-45: Lists of Fellowship candidates for 1717-1780, the earliest ones in Gardiner’s hand.
pp. 346-67: Lists of College Officers, from 1724-1954.
pp. 368-85: all blank.
pp. 386-93: Printed lists of candidates for Fellowships, 1920-1933 (pasted into the book in reverse chronological order).
pp. 394-443: Lists of candidates, 1781-1919. Most of them are handwritten, but those from 1874-8, 1884-6, 1891-5, 1897, 1902, 1914 and 1919 are printed lists, pasted into the book. There is no list of candidates for 1879, nor for 1915-18.
pp. 444-446: All blank.

16 x 12.

Full calf, tooled. 434 pp.

WMS 51

List of Fellows of the College (eighteenth century hand begins) down to the present day.

List of fellows of the College, first compiled in 1728, and with additions to the 1950s. The book opens with lists of the proctors who were Fellows of All Souls and of the Fellows who were founder's kin.

The hand which compiled the list in 1728 seems to have kept it updated until about 1771, after which the list was compiled in a succession of different hands.

As originally compiled the Fellows are given their name, degree, county of origin and notes about them. Especially for the early 18th century, these are often lively, and sometimes extremely candid to the point of malevolence.

The writer the notebook does not name himself, but in in WMS 6, Thomas Wenman identifies him as William Wynne (F. 1723-40). This would fit: the detailed comments on Fellows cease after 1740, when he left the College. According to the Clergy of the Church of England Database, Wynne died in his Welsh parish in 1776, and this would also fit with his keeping up the list of names until 1771. The book therefore returned to the College after Wynne’s death in 1776, when it was brought up to date, and perhaps some fresh comments added.

16 x 11.

Mottled Boards, eighteenth century label as in 23 and 37, leather back.

WMS 52

Letter of Eugenius IV to Founder 1431

(A folded sheet of parchment now placed in a large brown enveloped marked “52”)

WMS 53

Warden Hovenden’s copy of the Statutes with Hovenden’s short life of Chichele written in 1574.

12 x 9.

Stiff vellum binding with College Arms embossed in gold.

WMS 54

Liber College Omnium Animarum Fidelium Defunctorum de Oxon sive Registorum in quo continentum.

Interpretatio Statuti de Bursariorii Elect: Gul. Wake, Arch. Eiusdem reverendissimi Vistitatoris Literae:- [title +] ordinationes [title +] Decretum speciale. Dr Kinaston’s case. Archbishop Herring’s cases.

An eighteenth-century copy of material on the statutes of All Souls, as follows:

pp. 1-2: The first item is a transcription of TM-321 no. 225, in which William Wake upholds the election of John Stead as Bursar in Arts.
pp. 3-5: a letter from Wake enclosing the ordinances below – a copy of T-M 321 no. 230.
pp. 6-29 are Constitutions by Wake composed after the visitation of 1719 (a transcription of T-M 321 no. 229).
pp. 29-33: A transcription of T-M 321 no. 228.
pp. 33-38: A petition to the Visitor, dated before 25 May 1721, from Edward Kinaston.
pp. 39-40: a letter from Thomas Herring, 27 Jan 1757, once again on Fellows practising in the Court of Arches.

8 x 12 1/2.

Stiff leather; front cover missing.

WMS 55

Historical essays by Warden Isham.

Jacob called this book “Historical essays by Warden Isham.” Presumably Jacob knew Isham's hand, because there is no hint of authorship in it.

The first pages have been torn out. There then follow Isham’s notes on William Robertson’s History of Scotland, on pp.1-27.

pp. 29-112: Isham calls this “A dissertation upon the origin of the Government of England & upon the rise, progress, views, strength, interest & character of the two Parties of the Whigs and Tory’s”.

This is from a work by Paul Rapin, called An impartial history of Whig and Tory, translated by Mr. Ozell (2nd ed., London, 1718, but reprinted several times). Isham has taken very detailed notes on about half of the treatise (pp. 1-65 in the 1723 edition).

Isham has then turned the book upside down, and then makes notes on Gilbert Burnet, An exposition of the Thirty-nine articles of the Church of England (we had the 1699 edition at ASC). Isham stops at Article 28.

6 1/2 x 8 1/2.

Stiff vellum-covered boards.

WMS 56

A letter and note (1780) concerning Padbury.

6 1/2 x 8 1/2.

Stiff vellum-covered boards.

WMS 57

An account of orders in Council, Statutes of the University, etc. by Warden Wenman.

6 1/2 x 8 1/2.

Stiff vellum-covered boards.

WMS 58

Bursar’s (Thomas Garnier) list of properties, with names of lessees, date of lease on copy, fines & tax. 1804

List of the properties of All Souls, 1804, their tenants, all written out on printed forms, and compiled by Thomas Garnier, the Law Bursar for that year.

16 x 22

Folded sheets

WMS 59

Cases concerning the University of Oxford and particular Colleges in the University. (Thomas Wood 1697)

Book titled “Cases concerning the University of Oxford and particular Colleges in the University.” Undated – early 18th century?

On the inside title page is the note: “Tho: Wood of New College Oxon D of Grays Inn London 1697” [This would appear to be Thomas Wood, s. Robert of Oxford, gent., matr. St.Alban Hall 7 Jun 1678 aged 16; Fellow of New College 1679; BCL 1786; DCL 1703; bar.-at-law, Gray’s Inn 1694; rector of Hardwick, Bucks., until his death in 1722.]

The first case discussed is Proast v Finch “Whether the Chaplains of All Souls College are Soe absolutely Subject to the Warden of it as to be liable to displac’d by him at pleasure, without remedy.”

There next follows a records of a dispute relating respectively to Exeter College, New College, and CCC.

5 1/2 x 7 1/2.

Limp vellum.

WMS 60

The Case of Commutation of Faculties in All Souls College. (Aug.14.1715)

15 x 24.

Folded printed sheet.

WMS 61

Computus Edmundi Isham. 1797-8

11 1/2 x 9 1/2.

Paper only.

WMS 62

Abstract of special charters concerning College estates. (18th c.)

12 x 7.

Stitched between brown paper covers.

WMS 63

WMS 64

WMS 65

WMS 66

WMS 67

A Report on some of the Statutes of All Souls College (1837)

7 1/2 x 9.

Mottled board, red back.

WMS 68

Annual income of All Souls ^ date? On Wheat, Malt and Honey. [etc]

Henry VI. Letters patent; Statutes in 36 chapters, unindexed. Injunctions of Cranmer, Whitgift, Sancroft (concerning the number of Medical Students in AS. Prayers [???], etc)

MS copy of the statutes of All Souls College (including the injunctions of Archbishops Cranmer, Whitgift and Sancroft). The handwriting looks late 17th or early 18th century. It also includes some extra details, such as:

How much wheat and malt, in quarters, bushels and pecks, All Souls claims from its estates.
A list of Vice-Wardens from 1600 to 1710.
A decree from Thomas Tenison, dated 12 Mar 1710/11, on the number of Fellows who can study Medicine at All Souls.
A list of regulations on morning and evening prayers; the taking of holy orders; the taking of degrees; the election of College officers; the arrangement of College meetings; College exhibitions; College cellars; servants' expenses; College horses

7 x 9 1/2.

Stiff boards linen covered with calf backs.

WMS 69

Fifteen lectures.

4 ¾ x 7 ¼

Plate book.

WMS 70

Accounts: Morris Benefaction ; Buckler; Twining; Cumnor 1768-1914 [or 1917]

Miscellaneous accounts, 1768-1814.

The title page reads: “An Account of money Received & Paid for All Souls College and the Parish of Cumnor”.

The book contains the following:

(unpaginated) A list of the Clerks and Choristers as of 27 June 1766.
pp. 1-8: Accounts for Morris’s Benefaction (for purchasing oriental books for the library), 1766-1799
pp. 9-20: Accounts for “Chapel Money”. Income for this comes from bequests from Stephen Niblett and a Mrs. Haskins (2-10-0). The money is spent on extra payments to Thomas White for showing the Chapel to tourists and on one-off payments to Clerks and Choristers at the end of their tenures, and covers the years 1766-1802.
pp. 21-40: The accounts for Twinings benefaction, whereby an annual allowance of 6 guineas is made for the Clerks and Choristers to enable them to attend public lectures (the allowance was enlarged in 1784 thanks to a second benefaction from Benjamin Buckler). These accounts therefore record which Clerk or Chorister attended which lecture. These accounts run from 1767-1817.
pp. 41-46: A second run of Chapel accounts, as above, now for the years 1802-after 1822.

[No pages are numbered 47-49, but the next openings are:]

pp. 50-57: Accounts for Benjamin Buckler’s benefaction to Cumnor, 1781-1837. Buckler left £100 to this fund on his death, and the sums were invested, mainly to buy books for Cumnor.
pp. 58-61: More on Morris's Benefaction, 1803-1820s. From 1814, though, the money from the Morris Fund seems to go straight to the Codrington Account.
pp. 62-9: [After 1817; not noted]
pp. 70-83: More accounts for the Buckler and Twining benefactions, 1817-59. By the late 1810s, the benefaction is being used to buy books for Clerks and Choristers, rather than pay for the to attend lectures.

The rest of the book goes up to the early 20th century.

7 ¾ x 4 ¾

Mottled Boards, parchment back (torn).

WMS 71

A notebook of Warden Sneyd’s containing memoranda on a variety of College Matters. 1827

5 ¼ x 7 ¾.

Mottled Boards, green leather back.

WMS 72

Examination of Bsp. of London’s Discourses on The use and Intent of Prophesy. C. Middleton. 1750

5 x 8.

Calf bound printed volume published 1750.

WMS 73

Admissions book s1853-1868, 1831-1852.

4 ¼ x 6 ¾

Green leather; brown calf & mottled boards.

WMS 74

“Some Animadversions” etc (1819);

A pair of pamphlets about All Souls, published in 1819.

6 x 9

Paper. 1 bad copy mottled boards & blue calf back.

WMS 74 B

A few Observations on A. S. College, 1819

6 x 9

Paper. 1 bad copy mottled boards & blue calf back.

WMS 75

Wood’s translation of the Statutes. (1841)

WMS 76

Copies of answers to certain queries sent in a circular letter to the Incumbents of Livings in the gift of the College. Warden Sneyd, 1830.

7 ¼ x 9 ¼.

Mottled Boards, pamphlets, gold tooled, calf back.

WMS 77

Copy of Masters’ Appeal (Admission of Founders’ Kin) 1794

A printed book: The Appeal of John Whalley Master, B.A. of Brazen-nose College, to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Visitor and Interpreter of the Statutes of All-Souls College Oxford, against the Warden and Fellows thereof, Relative to his Rights of Admission to A Fellowship in All-Souls College, as Founder’s Kin, Heard in Doctor’s Commons, July 1792. (London, 1794). The author is unnamed.

[John Master, it seems, never became a Fellow of ASC].

5 x 8 ½.

WMS 78

Spencer's Life of Chichele

Copy of O.L. Spencer, The Life of Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, Founder of All Souls College, in the University of Oxford(London, 1783).

WMS 79

Jacob’s Two Lives of Archbishop Chichele

WMS 80

An account of the Revenues of All Souls College from 1682

Inscribed “Ben Buckler, 1741, the gift of Peregrine Palmer Esq.

Titled: “An Account of the Revenues of All Souls College collected out of the Records, Ledgerbooks, Registers & Rentalls, Anno 1682.” There is a note to say that it was given to Benjamin Buckler in 1741 by Peregrine Palmer. This is an interesting “snapshot” of the College’s properties in 1682, with details of all the houses there, and the lands.

5 x 7 ¾

Red leather

WMS 81

Dr. Isham’s accounts

A series of 10 small note books in mottled covers

A series of 10 small notebooks, 18th century.

Notebook titled “A Rent Roll for the manor of Edgware and Kinsbury in the County of Middlesex with the names of the Tenants alphabetically arranged and the tenements in their several holdings with the rent payable for each. Collected from & carefully compared with the Roll of the Manor in 1788 by Thomas Milles, Steward.”

Milles first lists all the tenements in Edgware, notes their rents, the year when the tenancy started , and the name of the tenant. Then he gives an index of tenants. Then he moves on to Kingsbury, and does the same thing there.
Notebook which appears to be a book of memoranda kept by Warden Tracy, kept during the autumn and winter of 1767. It contains his miscellaneous notes on many aspects of College business – and also the running of his living at Lockinge. The book is unpaginated.
Another notebook very like WMS 81 (2), and in the same hand (i.e. almost certainly Warden Tracy), which has notes entered between 1766 and 1770. It contains some notes similar to those in WMS 81 (2), but most if it appears to consist of notes about the manor of Horsham, Kent.
This again appears to be in the same hand as WMS 81 (2) and (3) (i.e. almost certainly Warden Tracy). It mainly comprises passages written in Latin, including notes taken about speechs given in honour of an Earl of Orrery, an Earl of Litchfield, and a Duke of Hamilton by one “G.K.”, after which there are notes of a Radcliffe Oration by same “G.K.”

[John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Orrery, got made an MA on 25 August 1743; George Lee, Earl of Lichfield (Chancellor of Oxford 1762-72) got made a DCL on 25 August 1743. James Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton, was made a DCL on 14 April 1743. Tracy had come up to Univ. in 1741, and became a Fellow of ASC in 1746, so perhaps these are his notes taken on that occasion.]
A notebook in a completely different hand which lists some shelfmarks of books in the library with notes on their contents. Is this Benjamin Buckler’s hand? The book is quite undated, and there is nothing to explain the circumstances of its creation.
A printed tonnage table.
Another notebook kept by, it seems, by Warden Tracy as an aide-memoire. Entries are dated to the 1780s.
A notebook of verses, some in English and some in Latin. Names of authors have no ASC links.
Volume called “Dr. Isham’s Book” on inside front cover. These contains what appear to be Isham’s own notes on his income as Warden from 1794 until 1816.
A lengthy Latin poem in hexameters, called Hortus Anglicus, by Edward Cooper of Queen’s College, which is dated 8 Jul 1791. This is Edward Cooper, who was elected a Fellow in 1791 and resigned the following year. It seems to be a history of English gardening.

WMS 82

Warden Leighton’s minutes of committee appointed in 1864 to consider the decision of the Visitor and the Report of his Assessors.

6 ½ x 7 ¾.

Black linen boards.

WMS 83

History of All Souls’ College (Victoria County History)

In an envelope.

WMS 84

Riding Bursar: Account Book 1753-57.

Accounts of the Riding Bursar, 1753-7. This records his visits to Edgware (usually in April or May), Crendon (usually in June) and Lewknor (usually in January).

6 x 7 ¾

Paper – unbound.

WMS 85

Bound copy of George Clarke’s will

(In an envelope with a note by Sir Charles Oman and a note by Warden Adams).

WMS 86

Letter concerning Rev. Peter Vaughan, Warden of Merton.

In foolscap envelope.

WMS 87

Mandates for Warden Pember and Warden Adams; Warden Sumner.

In envelope.

WMS 88

Offprints of Peninsular Court Martial, and of the Organisation of Wellington’s Army. (from Oman).

In sealed envelope.

WMS 89

Note on some portraits in the Warden’s lodgings.

In envelope.

WMS 90

2 letters of J. B. Smith 1739.

In envelope.

WMS 91

Henry VI & the Library of All Souls College. (1542 reprint) R. Weiss.

WMS 92

Biographical Particulars of Robert Recorde, c.1510-?1558, Fellow 1531.

WMS 92A

Humprey Chetham’s Will (Contemporary Copy)

Now on permanent load to Humphrey Chetham Hospital Library .

WMS 93

Genealogical Tree of John GUTCH – Clerk & Chaplain All Souls College.

WMS 94

Notes on Medical Fellows of the College

WMS 95.1

An Essay on Collateral Consanguinity

Copy of William Blackstone, An Essay on Collateral Consanguinity, It’s Limits, Extent and Duration; Most particularly As it is regarded by the Statutes of All Souls College in the University of Oxford (London, 1750).

WMS 95.2

Second copy with the signature “Mr Panting – Matthew Panting Fellow 1749-1776 All Souls.

Bound in marbled cover.

WMS 95.3

A complete Vindication of the Mallard of All-Souls College Against the injurious Suggestions of the Rev. Mr. Pointer, Rector of Slapton. Second Edition (London, 1751).

WMS 95.4

A letter from W. Vyse (address, Lambeth; presumably William Vyse, Fellow 1762-74) to Benjamin Buckler, 24 Aug 1772.

Vyse has been looking for traces of Chichele in the library of Lambeth Palace.

CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF ALL SOULS COLLEGE.

PREFACE.

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