517 518 A small folio, on paper, 43 leaves, only partially filled. Handwriting of the time of James I. Articles of CANON LAW, touching the election and consecration of bishops, the vacating of benefices, dispensations, &c., in Latin. Dd. IX. 30. A paper book, in folio, containing 30 leaves, with the title 1679.' Dd. ix. 31. A thin paper book, in folio, bound up with the four preceding Numbers and containing, on 30 pages written about 1550, 1. pp. 1-14. The Will of King Henry VIII. This copy has some erasures on the last page, and in the order of the names differs somewhat from the text printed in Rymer, Fœdera, xv. 110-7. 2. ff. 8 a-10 a. In the same handwriting as the rest. Begins: Farewell worlde synce that no man may truste to the... Ends: ... with fyckell fortune I wishe from evill to fare. Then follow nineteen couplets Beginning: When I considere what is man, O Lord, I knowe of right, that in the wonderous wourke of man, thou hast advaunced thy might. Ending: Thou overthrowest hym to his luste, and amyddest his pryde & joye thou doest confounde his Deedes & Wourkes, and man thou doest destroye. Finis Quod Collyns. 3. Handwriting the same as the rest of the MS. One page containing only a few lines. 'To make a verye fyne perfume to avoyde the Daunger of the place suspected of the plague." 519 4. p. 23. This was the Duke of Somersetts style wch he write (sic) to the Scottes after Mustleburrowe feilde; at whiche tyme he was Lorde Protectoure.' 5. p. 24. Theise sayeinges followeinge were geuen to the Duke of Somersett for his newe yeares gifte at his first beinge Prysoner in the Towre of London, By his servaunte Grey.' 1550. Nine couplets follow, of which the first is If ever noble manne were bounde to thanke god Youre grace is most bounde for this your great scourge and rod. They contain advice similar to that in prose offered by Lord Paget in 1547, and printed by Strype, Eccl. Mem. 11. p. 21. 6. pp. 25-8 'When the Duke of Somersett was at his libertie vpon Newe yeares daye next followinge the afore sayde Grey his servaunte gave theise sayeinges unto the sayde Duke his Mr.' These consist of above fifty couplets, beginning: The wourkes of God be greate and also straunge The workes of the worlde do tosse tourne and chaunge. 7. p. 29. Thordynarye entreteynment of estraungers which were some tyme servinge at Boulloigne and Guisnes as well horsemen as ffootemen.' This is a statement of the rates of pay of the officers and soldiers: thus a 'peticapitayne' was to have xxx. crownes the month. Compare the table of wages appended to The Chronicle of Calais (Camden Society), p. 202. Dd. Ix. 32. A thin paper book of 44 leaves, the first 41 large folio, the last three small folio. Papers relating to a Controversy between Mr Edward Gwyn and Mr Samuel Phillips concerning ouoovotos, and about St Austin and St Bernard. The first 41 leaves contain a letter from Mr Gwyn to Mr Phillips; then follows a statement in the same handwriting of the questions in dispute between them, with an attestation by Samuel Macham, Bookseller, and two notes appended by J. Homberston, Artium Magistro, and Thomas Best. The back of the 1st leaf is filled with a long Latin inscription, beginning Bellum homousianum simul atque Augustino-Bernardinum. Mr Gwyn's letter begins: Sir. Yt seemeth the tempestuous wynde of passion... Ends: ... wishing you mentem sanam in corpore sano, et sic vale. Mr Gwyn upon Tuesday Morninge last I receaved ... ... to answer youre provoking apologie. This 14 of September '62. A folio, on paper; the lower portion of the MS. has been injured by exposure to wet. Its date is about 1600. This MS. consists of 188 pages, most of which contain eight staves of MUSIC of the same character as that in MS. 43. At the foot of each leaf the letters T. E. are stamped. 521 522 Dd. IX. 34. A thin paper folio, of 64 leaves (some blank). Precedents of WARRANTS, RELEASES, Indentures, &c. in the time of Chas. II. On the fly-leaf is written, 'Presidents, Anno 1678.' Dd. IX. 35. A folio, on paper, of 130 leaves, much injured by damp. Dr, afterwards Sir George, Oxenden was Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 1688. A folio, on paper, of 560 pages, in good condition. 1. 'EXTENTA MANERIORUM domini Edwardi illustris regis Anglie et Francie primogeniti, PRINCIPIS WALLIE, Ducis Cornubie et Comitis Cestrie, facta...anno regni Regis Edwardi tertii post conquestum XIX.-P. 1. 2. Certificates of the Auditor of the Exchequer of the value of sundry parcels of lands in different counties, intended to be 524 included in a grant to be made by the King to the Prince, A. D. 1619. p. 81. 3. The names of such spirituall LYVINGS IN ENGLAND AS ARE IN THE GUIFTE OF THE most excellent PRINCE Charles, Prince of Wales...togeather with the valewes which are paid for their First Fruits and the names of the present incumbents.'p. 185. 4. The names of such spirituall LYVINGES IN WALES as are in the guifte of the most excellent prince Charles, Prince of Wales...togeather with their values paid for First Fruites.p. 217. 6 5. NOMINA MILITUM COMITATUM, civium civitatum, burgensium, villarum sive burgorum, ac baronum quinque portuum, VENIENTIUM AD PARLIAMENTUM summonitum apud civitatem Westm. xvi die Januarii, anno regis Jacobi, Anglie, Francie et Hibernie XVIII et Scotia LIII.' (1620).-p. 239. 6. THE REMONSTRANCE OF THE LOWER HOWSE OF PARLYAMENT to the King's Majesty.' This was in answer to the King's and Lord Keeper's speeches, and is given in Rushworth's Hist. Coll. 1. 243-6. It is dated at the end, April 1626,' and was read (to the King) by Mr Secretary Cooke in the presence of several persons of the lower house of Parliament at Whitehall in the Gallery. p. 319. 7. An account by the auditor of the Exchequer of the value of sundry parcels of land in different counties intended to be included in a GRANT to be made by the King TO THE PRINCE, 1624, and a copy of the grant.-p. 403. 8. Certificates of all FORESTS, Chases and Parks GRANTED TO THE PRINCE.—p. 525. Dd. IX. 37. A tall quarto, on paper, unpaged (having one or two inserted leaves on parchment), now containing 243 leaves, (excluding seven at the beginning which are blank), with 24 lines of text in a page (i. e. independently of the interlinear glosses, &c.), written in a legible but rather inelegant hand, having the initial letters of the plays illuminated in blue, red and gold inclosed in squares without marginal decorations; various other initials are written in red or blue. It may be referred to the xvth century. Begins: SENECE TRAGEDIE. Soror Tonantis hoc enim solum mihi. (Hercules Furens, v. 1.) Fulmina mittes. (Hercules Etaus, v. ult.) The colophon supplies the title. The first leaf of the Medea has been cut away. This MS. contains all the plays of Seneca: the Octavia (incerti auctoris) is placed after the Agamemnon; otherwise the order agrees with that of Bothe's edition. In the early part of the volume are many marginal and interlinear scholia. A parchment volume, in folio, containing books, or parts thereof, which formerly belonged to the Monastery at Reading, written in double columns by various hands in the xivth century. This MS. was collated by Wilkins for the Concilia, (Fol. Lond. 1737) where it is referred to as 'Elien. n. 235.' 1. f. 1. A citation to a chapter of the Benedictines in England at Northampton. It is headed Citacio recepta xijo kalň. Maij Anno dni m°. cccm. tricesimo octauo,' and begins, as in Wilkins' Concilia, 11. 585--8: Abbates monasteriorum be' Marie. Ebor. et Sancti Albani ordinis sancti Benedicti Lyncoln. dioc. Executores...Noveritis nos literas... It recites at length the Bull of Benedict XII. beginning, 'Paterne consideracionis aciem...' It ends with the dates by the two Abbots of the 10th and 17th of May, 1337, and does not give the Bull 'Ad salubrem et felicem,...' which is printed in Wilkins, Ib. 588. 2. f. 26. A Letter from Edward III. to the two Abbots above named. It begins: Quia intelleximus quod vos pretextu quarundam Bullarum... and is dated apud Turrem London. xii. die Maii ao r. n. xijo.' 3. f. 3. Data per copiam... Rogerus...Sarum Epus... Archidiacono Berk.' It begins: Audito multociens... |
