Catalogue of manuscripts in the library of All Souls College / [Anon].

  • All Souls College Library
Date:
1842
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Credit: Catalogue of manuscripts in the library of All Souls College / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dedicating his work to Mr. William Absa- lom, 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 Aula- rum studentium in eisdem; dat. Jul. 27. 1629. fol. 18. 3. The danger wherein the kingdom now stand- eth with the remedy, “ written by Sir Ro- bert Cotton, knight and barronett in Janu- ary, 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 severall judiciall courts in England, their jurisdiction, officers, and manner of proceeding therein, fol. 48. At the end, “Finis Febru. 14, 1593, Robinson.” 5. “ Presidents and forms of pleading in se- verall cases.” fol. 59. 6. “ A note of the principall Acts of the Par- liament 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 Rush worth, vol. ii. p. 1260. 8. Proverbial sentences, fol. 91. Beg. “ Fearfull jealousyes a disease inci- dent to kings.” CXXVI. Paper, in folio, ff. 41, xvn. 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., Ed- ward IV., and James I. At the end is a list of “ Bodies buried in the coligiat church of St. Peters at West- minster.” Reversing the volume is a report of the case of John Pulford, gent, against Thomas Gill; dated Hilary Term, 1652. CXXVII. Paper, in folio, ff. 77, xvn. 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], Northamp- tonshire, 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 reforma- tion, by Henry Guthry, bishop of Dunkel. Printed in 8vo. London, 1702. Prefixed, “ Memorandum, that this was co- pied 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. Lut- trell.” CXXIX. Paper, in large folio, ff. 36, xvii. Cent.; for- merly belonging to N. Luttrell. History of the expedition in Holland under the duke of Alva, in 1572—73, in eighteen chap- ters, 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 differ- ent towns, Amsterdam, Brill, etc., with the movements of the army. From the arms of Cecil on the cover, it ap- pears to have been the presentation copy.