Volume 1

A catalogue of the Harleian collection of manuscripts, purchased by authority of Parliament, for the use of the publick; and preserved in the British museum / Published by order of the Trustees. [By H. Wanley, C. Morton, and others. With preface by C.M].

British Museum. Department of Manuscripts.

Date:: 1759[-1763]

Credit: A catalogue of the Harleian collection of manuscripts, purchased by authority of Parliament, for the use of the publick; and preserved in the British museum / Published by order of the Trustees. [By H. Wanley, C. Morton, and others. With preface by C.M]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$pointed to examine the Abbies, &c. and from the Abbots, Prwrs, Of Churches to Cromwell, and the Vifitors. Vifitatonal Certificates; of theMnotAwn their Difr belonging to thofe Ecclefiaftical todies-, and Draughis of At lny^torks of Piatej Jewels, folution ; fome in the Hand-writing of Ki g ^ p • • Colleges free Chapels, and other Valuables, belonging to drived Abb.es Pnor.es, Colleges, Chantries, and Gilds. Inquifitions, wit tea Eredtion and Proceed- the Returns made thereto by the Bilhops. Accounts of the: E,e&on and Augmentation ings of the Court of Augmentation; mote e pecia y Tranfcripts Gf the Surveys of “ Volumes beloogiog,» lh« ton. » *• the Poffeffions belonging to divers Gilds and r, R $ ers 0f Entries, and Defcrip- Crown, with Warrants tor leafing them. Secondly, g Commiffioners under tions of the feveral Houfes, Manors, Lands &e. fold by the CommUlione two feveral Commiffions in the Reigns of PM/- and Mary; with their Rates, Names of the Perfons to whom they were fold [605, tstt-j , Foundat!on and Churches and For the ancient State of particular Churches, an re lg o ^ ^ Inftruments Religions other charters. Hiftorical Accounts of the Succeffions, Rig , > p, , - Hoofes. r i fAKhmte Prinrs and other Superiors, and their Officers. Chartuiaries, Chartuiaries, of Eleftions of Abbots, i riors, ana otner oupci , religious Houfes, viz. tegiiters.fev. Regiflers, and Ledger Books of fundry Monafte , ° Bittlefden Battel, Aberconwei St, Man’s, Alnewick, Barnewell, Blythe, St. Bees, Bittlejden, nauei, r Jh-7/re' Clare Deeting, and Dunrnrw. The moll accurate and greatly valuable Readier of'Dunflable, began by Richard de Morins, the Prior of that Houfe, on a P an unuHallv copfots and regularly caried on from the Foundation of the Priory by King Henry I to the Reformation [1885]. Thofe of Evejham, St. Edmunds Bury Holme C.ultrum, Hagmond, Holme, Kenelworth, Lancafter, Leigh, Lichfield, Mefienden, St. Mary's at York, Newnham, St. Paul's in London, Rarnfey, Rujf ord, Reading, RonBon, Shaftesbury, Selleya, Soutbwike, Spalding, St. WereburgBs in Chefier, Welbeck Waltham 77 ill Thofe of the Hofpitals and Gilds of Holy Crofs near Winchejler Chncb Hofpi'als and St- &lu in London, thrift Church at Bojlon in Lincolnjhire, E-A me, C/un, 301ThfsamttffPC^hedral and Collegiate Churches ; as Winchejler, Wells, Wefi- and Rentals of Church Lands. Extras statutes Smut^f thf twoUnTverfities, and of their feveral Colleges and Halls, anda vaft “unu Mafs of other Materials relating to their Hiftory and Antiquities} with a noble Tranf- vafmes. • £ t) e proCeedings of the Convocation upon the Divorce of Ann of Cleves, au¬ thenticated under the ftands of public Notaries. [.061] , . . Fnr the Laws Polity and civil Government of the Realm, of England-, divers extent Copies of the Laws 0/ feveral of the Anglo-Saxon, Danijb, and Norman Kings Lawi, Magna Tranfcripts of divers of the Magna Charter of K. Henry III. and an Injpeximus and Copy of his Confirmation, both of the great Charter and of the fimilar one, failed by Prince Edward, at London on the tenth Day of March,in the Year 126451 and which 7*- fpeximus is dated 13th of March, in his forty-ninth Year ; and w.tnefled by Simon Mont- fort Earl of Liecefter, Hugh le D’Efpencer, the Chief Jufticiary, nine Bilhops, and fifteen Ancient Sta- Temporal Lords [489]. Tranfcripts of fundry ancient Statutes, fome whereof have not cute, been printed. Learned Readings on thofe and other Statutes; and Extrafts of all the private Aits of Parliament, remaining in the Chapel of the Rolls. Exadt Copies ox X fome Parts of Domefday Book, and Extrafts from other Parts; as alfo from the Red and STM Black Books of the Exchequer. Tranfcripts of the Chart a Antique,_ and other Records remaining in the Lower of London, the Exchequer, the Chapel of the Rolls, and other Public Repofitories • with divers Explanatory and other Papers relative thereto. Several Law Writers, excellent Copies of Breton, BraBon, Fleta, Glanvilie, Hengham Horne, and other Writers on the ancient Municipal Laws of this Kingdom.---Sundry ancient Reg,Iters of Original Writs, Formulae Plcicitandi, \ear Books, Reports, and Adveilana of Hiftorical Accounts of, and Memoranda relating to, Baronies, Serjeancies, Knight- fees * and other Tenures. Copies of Efcheat, Rolls, Inquifitions poft Mortem, Pleas of the Crown, &c. together with other Law Books in great Abundance. Plenty of Treatifes on the Inftitution, Eftabliffiment, and Jurifdi&ion of the Ex- ^t>r RpncVi Cnnrtc nf Wards and Liveries. Star C!h;jmher Statutes of Ca¬ thedrals. Charters, &c. Statutes, &c. &c. fenures. Plenty 01 ireauieson me xuiuiuuuu, wwuuumiwiis, *v.- SjuHHic chequer/Curia Regis, Common Bench, Courts of Wards and Liveries, Star Chamber ions. and Chancery, as alfo of the Courts Leet, Baron, Pye Powder, and other inferior Courts; .u« tnA Methods of Proceedings in them refpe&ively, and Accounts of their and Chancery, as alio or tne courts l^ceu, dhiuu, a yc a the Forms and Methods of Proceedings in them refpedively, and Accounts of their feveral Officers, Regifters, and Records. Difrnii rie«s$