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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$E. ti Difcourfcs on the Antiquity, Jurifdiaion and Authority of the ancient nm Great Office, of the Kingdom ; to wit the Marfhal, Steward, Conftable, and Admiral. ^he Formf Ceremome5, and Proceedings ufed in their Courts; and extraordinary Trials had before Original Charters of our ancient Kings, as Edward the Elder Edvar * n • • i TA^T/ te ConM°r- The famous6Charter of King Edgar, wherein helsftded MARIUM BRIT. DOMINUS [7513], on which great Stre/ha’s b«nWd by feS Writers, in Support of England s Superiority over iht four Seas ■, but which Charter Dr. Hicks hath evidently demonftrated to be fpurious, and to have been fas manv others m the fame Language likewife were) forged after the Norman Conqueft A pf n°bf ClVncl,,S °k,’ CTred with crimfon Velvet, and richly adorned with Boffes and Hafps of Silver g,It and enamelled , the Cover and all the Leaves indented Beinp T°P’h cotalni,’g Fo.ur origmal Indentures of Covenant, illuminated and em- belhfhed with hiftoncal Miniatures, dated the 16th of July, in the 19th Year of King Henry V I. and made between that King and the Abbot and Convent of St PeVerf IVeftmnfter, for certainMafle* Coiled* fifc. to be forever after faid in the ChaS of the Virgin Mary, then determined to be built at the Eaft End of that Church as a Place of Reception of the Bodies of the King, Qneen, and Royal Family after’their refpedhve Deceafes; for providing Chantry Monks there; for founding Anniverfaries in that and other Chapels and Churches; for Converfes and Scholars in the Univer- %; for maintaining Almfmen ; for the Livelihood amortiz’d to the Abbey of WeZL fie? for thole Foundations; and for various other Puroofes To his Tnr! * d i live broad Seals of King Henry VII. preferred in SdvPer BoxeT pi el 2lt tH ° ’ mented with his Badges of the' Portcullis and Role Sprigs aXppXl! h’v 8t e Silk, and Gold and Silver Thread [1498] \ P S Wendant bY Strings of Another Book with its Cover of blue Velvet, and the Tops of all the Leaves indented- containing an illuminated Quadrupartite Indenture, dated the Twentieth of November m the zoth Year of the Reign of K. Henry VII. made between the King the Abhol and Convent of' Weftmn ler the Abbot and Convent of St. Alban’s, and tlfe Mayor and ■Commonalty of London; whereby the Abbot and Convent of Si. Alban’s oblige themfelves 0 hold a folemn Anmverfary ,n their Church for ever; and to pray there for the Kin the Royal Family, and the Realm 1. Likewife numerous T™C,l J, J t & Patent Signs Manual, Privy Seals, Charters, and fundry hiftorical Law Trafts ^and Kingdom.011 Ant^UltieS> Excellence, and Ufefulnefs of the Municipal Laws of the IX. HERALDICAL AND ARMORIAT POnfc-Q t? r . Al0phaSsK0Sdat ArmS’ a,nd °f*e Eftabhfoment of their fuboXate° off t a™he CouS-f;gof and partly fair Tranfcripts. TraJs on the Order of the Oan^ LfoS ‘ Pedigrees of moft of the Nobility and Gentry-of England in winch f?™ X her of ^urRaXknTENRoWlkyfaSs’ ^he^mous filber’hlfi^de mgZT[ ^ wifh W? strait?sirsfcfK&fr ' SSSS' Th' °f H”“ ”f ^” [474*lS XI. CEREMONIALS, POMPS, AND SOLEMNITIES • as thr r* r moft of our Kings and Queens from the Time of the Anglo-Saxons, to that of°Kin°g .1 LMaurus L',t. Septentrion. fol. 85. 6f Dijfertatio EpiJ},laris 152. The Abbot tlT ^ decorated in all Refpe&s as the Original, is preferved amonpft the R A’ 0”ve”t0^ lEeJiminJier, bound and ■ On the Top of each Leaf of fhis Bookt being in the Counterparts of the Indenture To thk RnnL- ( i Alphabet, the other Parts of them “*■ *■ *»&, issaris -*• George$