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Dd. XIII. 30.

A folio, on paper, of 25 leaves, printed.

THE BOOK OF JOB, according to the LXX. printed from the Codex Alexandrinus, London, 1637, with MS. notes, containing various readings from the Complutensian, Aldine, and Roman editions, the Catena Patrum, a MS. Dni Lindselli,' and another in the Bodleian Library.

It is bound up with the two following MSS.

Dd. xш. 31.

A paper book, in folio, containing documents which, with the exception of the first, were written by various hands of the xviith century.

1. On two leaves, in a contemporary handwriting,

The ARTICLES agreed on betwixt the earl of MURRAY and the Lords of the SECRET COUNCIL and others of the nobility and estates of SCOTLAND.

Begins :

At Edinburgh ye [xxij] day of August ye 3ere of God, my thre score sevin 3eris. The lordis of secreit counsall......

There are a few additions by a contemporary hand: but otherwise the text is that printed under the above title by the Maitland Club, Illustrations of the Reign of Queen Mary (4to, 1837), pp. 283-6. See also under No. 153, 2.

2. On 33 pages, written in French about 1685,

Grievances of the Protestants in France from the infraction of the Edict of Nantes.

Begins :

L'Edit sous la protection du quel les Protestans de France ont vescu paisiblement......

Ends:

...

.Et qu'ils n'ont pas autant de tort de se plaindre des violations de l'Edit de Nantes que Messieurs du Clergé ont accoutumé de le dire. See Histoire de l'Edit de Nantes...par Elias Benoit. 4to. Delft. 1693-5. 3. On pp. 3. Extraict des regrea. du Conseil d'Estat.' Concerning seven English vessels which had been detained.

At the end is the date 'Le XIX Auril м VI. soixante dixhuict. signé Colbert.'

4. On pp. 4. An account of the Stock, amounting to £7522, made over to some Roman Catholic Chapter in England, with the names of the donors between 1630 and 1662.

Begins:

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The Lord Richard of Chalcedon in the presence & by the advise and consent of divers PP oversed the fund of the Chapter in manner and forme following...

5. On 7 leaves, in three parallel columns on every two pages,

Copie du Memoire pour les Sr intéressez en la Compagnie de la Baye de Hudson. Sur le droit et la possession de la Couronne d'Angleterre pour la commerce en la dite Baye.'

Reponses données par Messieurs les Commissaires de France, à ce Memoire pour la Compagnie Francoise de Canada.'

'Repliques a ces Reponses pour la Compagnie Angloise de la Baye de Hudson.'

These are followed, in the same handwriting, on 4 pages, and in parallel columns, by

'Titres produicts de la part de la Compagnie Francoise de Canada sur les pretentions pour le droict de Commerce en la Baye de Hudson, Riuiere et port de Nelson.'

'Response de la Compagnie Angloise de la Baye de Hudson en forme de Contredicts à ces titres.'

6. On 6 leaves. A case with the Opinion of H. Finch respecting the interest of Henry Flynt in an estate demised to him and others by Anthony, Bishop of Norwich, in April 1680.

On the last leaf is the endorsement, ' For M' Wrightson at his seate in the six clerks office,' with the lawyer's bill.

7. On 14 leaves. Several papers relating to the Dean and Chapter of Sarum, and the Right of the Bishop to visit the same; dated 1682, 1683, and 1684.

8. The Commission of King Charles I. to the Earl of Arundel to be General of his Army, dated at Westminster the seaventh day of March in the fowerteenth yeare of our Raigne.'

Printed in Rushworth, Hist. Coll. 11. 835—8.

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9. On 6 pages. A Copy of a Treaty of Peace and Amity concluded between the French and English Governors of the American islands A.D. 1678.

10. On 11 pages. Le Temple de la Mort. Or The Temple of Death translated out of French by the E. of M—' (Earl of Mulcaster).

11. On 21 pages, in double columns,

'Deuxieme Memoire de la compagnie Françoise pour seruir de reponse a la replique fournie par la compage Angloise.'

Réponse de la Compagnie Angloise.'

See above, under § 5.

12.

Hadriani Beverlandi · Adhortatio ad Pudicitiam et castitatem.' Imperfect.

13. Imperfect, containing a few lines at the end of a Form of Coronation of the King. After which, on about 3 pages, follows The Coronacon of the Queene.'

The latter begins:

The Queene must be supported by two Bishopps from the west dore of the Churche of Westminster.

Ends:

After they both putt on their crownes imperiall and soe goe to the Pallace.

Compare with these directions the narrative in Leland's Collectanea, t. IV. p. 223 (ed. Hearne).

At the end of the form for the king, mention is made of the 'Abott of Westminster.'

14. On two leaves, in the same hand as the preceding, 'The Christning of Queene Elizabeth."

This account is printed from the MS. of C. C. C. C. as an additional piece to Leland's Collectanea, t. 1. p. 663 (8vo, 1770).

Dd. XIII. 32.

A folio, on paper, of 24 pages, rather injured. The particulars of a SALE IN FEE FARM of Lands to Ralph Freeman, Esq. and others by King Charles I. A.D. 1630. It is similar to Dd. xIII. 18 and Ee. 11. 7.

There are six pages at the end concerning some similar sale.

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Dd. XIII. 33.

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A large paper book, in folio, containing on 36 pages, with the title,

'A brief state of the INCOMES and ISSUES of their MAJESTIES PUBLICK REVENUE from the 5th day of November 1688 to the 29th of September 1691 with Memorandums made by the Commissioners constituted by one Act of Parliament made in the second year of their Majestys reign, entituled An Act for appointing and enabling Commissioners to examine, take and state the Publick accounts of the Kingdom.'

See under Dd. xш. 9—16. See also Sinclair's History of the Public Revenue (3rd ed. 8vo, 1803).

Dd. XIII. 34.

A paper book, in folio, of about 600 pages, containing, in a set hand of the xvIIth century,

1. Arguments at two CONFERENCES of Committees of both Houses concerning the Liberty of the person of every Freeman, by S' Dudley Diggs, Mr Littleton, and Mr Selden.

Begins:

My lords: I shall I hope auspiciously begynne this conference this day with an observacon out of holy storye. In the dayes of good kinge Josiah...

See Parliamentary History, 4 Charles I., 3 St. Tr. 1-234, and Selden's Works (fol. 1726) m. 1958.

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2. The Earle of Oxons Case for the his (query, high) Chamberlaineship of England.'

See Cruise, On Dignities, p. 101.

3. An incomplete Treatise on the Rights and Privileges of the House of Commons.

There is no title; the first heading being, 'The choise of the speaker, his presentment, placeing and speeches.'

4.

The priviledges or speciall Rights belonginge to the Baronyes of England,' by John Selden.

This is the beginning of a long title of a work often printed. The last chapter (13) has the heading, 'Making deputies of places of Trust comitted unto them.'

There are a few additional and marginal references by other hands.

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A paper book, in folio.

Dd. XIII. 35.

1. Mr Littleton's and Mr Selden's Arguments for the Liberty of the person of every Free Man delivered at a Conference with the Lords, with an Introduction by Sir Dudley Diggs, the objections of Mr Attorney, and Replies.

A blank space is left for 'M' Littleton's Presidents.' See the preceding Number, § 1.

2. That the Kings of England have bine pleased usuallie to consulte with their Peares in the greate Counsells and Commons in Parliament of Marriage Peace and Warre.'

See Somers' Tracts, iv. 121, and Cottoni Posthuma, pp. 13-39.

3. The Proceedings or a Journall of the Passages in the second Session of Parliament houlden at Westminster in the 4th yeare of our Soveraigne Lord Charles King of England &c. begunne the 20th of January and ended the tenth of March in the same yeare, 1628.'

See Rushworth, Hist. Coll. 1. 643, and under Dd. 11. 39, § 2.

Dd. xiv. 1.

See Catalogue of Oriental MSS.

Dd. xiv. 2.

A small parchment book, of above 330 leaves, written about 1432.

1. REGISTRUM CARTARUM tenementorum et reddituum NICHI BYSSHOPP filii et heredis Barthoei Bysshopp de Oxon. burgensis et Isabelle vxoris sue patris et matris dicti Nichi Bysshopp de diuersis viris nobilibus ffeofatoribus.'

This title is on the leaf marked 1 by the author, who on the three pages preceding has written notes of his family pedigree. On the first leaf also H. Wanley has given an imperfect table of the contents, with the heading 'Collectanea Nicholai Bishop Anno Dni 1432,' and a reference to fo o. xxix, on which is Memorandum quod in vigilia sci Martini in yeme A° dni м° ccccTMo xxxijo, annoque regis henrici vrti xro istud librum primitus fuit ffinitum per Nichm Bysshopp de Oxon. filium et heredem Barthi Bysshopp.'