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Confeffor. The famous charter of king Edgar, wherein he is ftiled MARIUM BRIT. DOMINUS; which Dr. Hicks hath demonftrated to have been forged after the Norman conqueft. A curious book, covered with crimson velvet, and adorned with boffes and hafps of filver gilt and enamelled; the cover and all the leaves indented at the top; containing four original Indentures of Covenant, illuminated and embellished with hiftorical miniatures, dated the 16th of July, in the 19th year of king Henry VII. and made between that king and the abbot and convent of St. Peter's, Westminster, for certain maffes to be for ever after faid in the chapel 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, queen, and royal family; and for other purposes. To this indenture book, five broad feals of king Henry VII. preferved in filver boxes, and ornamented with his badges of the portcullis and rofe fprigs, are appendant by Atrings of filk, and gold and filver thread.

X. Heraldical and armorial books, particularly forms of appointing and crowning kings at arms, and of the establishment of their fubordinate officers, tricks of arms, and enfigns armorial. Tracts on the order of the garter, pedigrees of most of the nobility and gentry of England, with notes, monumental and feneftral infcriptions illuftrating their family histories.

XI. Register-books, chartularies, and other evidences of the eftates of our ancient nobility.

XII. Ceremonials, pomps, and folemaities; as the coronations of

most of our kings and queens from the time of the Anglo-Saxons, to that of king George II. Public entries, introductions, receptions, and feastings of royal and princely vifitors, foreign ambaffadors, &c. with the forms of their departures, and accounts of the presents made to them on thofe occafions. Tilts, journies, jufts, royal mafques, and other public entertainments, pub lic proceffions and cavalcades. Funerals of kings, queens, princes, and great perfonages allied to the royal family, and alfo of perfons of quality and distinction.

XIII. In regard to Wales, here are topographies, defcriptions, and general hiftories of the principality.

Natural and civil hiftories of feveral of its counties, furveys of commotes, and extents of lands.

Statutes touching the Lords Marchers, and orders for the obfervance of the council of Wales.

Tranfcripts of the laws of Howel Dha; collections of particular laws and cuftoms prevailing in different parts of the principality; accounts of the revenue arifing from the principality; lifts of feefarm rents; and pleas of quo warranto upon liberties claimed.

The hiftories of Welch heroes, by Threes, and many pedigrees and genealogies of families, with three volumes of useful materials, extracted by Mr. Hugh Thomas from a multitude of public records, and private evidences, in order to his compiling a genealogical hiftory of the nobility and gentry of Wales, and the feveral families defcended from them, now living in England.

XIV. Materials relative to the civil and ecclefiaftical history of Scotland. L 4 Defcrip

The forms and manner of election, and confecration of archbifhops and bishops; their jurifdictions, privilege, and courts. Surveys, terriers, and rentals of their poffeflions; taxations of their fpirituals and temporals, and inquifitions relative to the ftate of their refpective diocefes.

Lives and canonizations of fundry Eritish, Saxon, and English faints.

Authentic papers and memorials relating to the diffolution of religious houfes, and the establishment of the reformation; particuJarly draughts of acts of parliament for their diffolution, fome in the hand-writing of king Henry VIII. Inventories of plate, jewels, and other valuables belonging to them. Inquifitions, with the ftate of feveral epifcopal diocefes, and the returns made thereto by the bishops. Accounts of the erection and proceedings of the court of augmentation; with four original and very valuable volumes belonging to that court.

Hiftorical accounts of the fucceffions, rights, forms, and inftruments of elections of abbots, priors, and other fuperiors and their officers. Chartularies, regifters, and ledger books of fundry monafteries. The most accurate and valuable register of Dunftable, begun by Richard de Morins, the prior of that house, and carried on from the foundation of the priory by king Henry I. to the reformation.

of Cleves, authenticated under the hands of public notaries.

Papers relating to the laws, pality, and civil government of England; divers copies of the laws of feveral of the Anglo-Saxon, Danish, and Norman kings. Tranfcripts of divers of the Magne Charte of king Henry III. and an infpeximus and copy of his confirmation, both of the great charter, and of the fimilar one, fealed by prince Edward, at London, the 10th day of March, 1264. Tranfcripts of ancient ftatutes, never printed. Readings of them; and extracts of all the private acts of parliament remaining in the Rolls chapel.

Hiftorical accounts of, and memorandums relating to, baronies, ferjeancies, knight-fees, and other tenures. Copies of escheat, rolls, inquifitions poft mortem, pleas of the crown, &c. and abundance of other law books.

Many treatifes on the inftitution, eftablishment, and jurifdiction of the Exchequer, King's-Bench, Common Bench, Courts of Wards and Liveries, Star Chamber, and Chancery; as alfo of the Courts Leet, Baron, Pye-Powder, and other inferior courts; the forms and methods of proceedings in them respectively, and accounts of their feveral officers, regifters, and records.

Difcourfes on the antiquities, jurifdiction, and authority of the ancient great officers of the kingdom; to wit, the marshal, fteward, conftable, and admiral. The forms, ceremonies, and proceed

Statutes of the two universities, and of their feveral colleges and halls, and a vaft mafs of otherings used in their courts; and exmaterials relating to their hiftory traordinaty trials before them. and antiquities; with a tranfcript of the proceedings of the convocation upon the divorce of Anne

Original charters of our ancient kings, as Edward the Elder, Edgar, Hardicanute, and Edward the

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Confeffor. The famous charter of king Edgar, wherein he is filed MARIUM BRIT. DOMINUS; which Dr. Hicks hath demonftrated to have been forged after the Norman conqueft. A curious book, co vered with crimfon velvet, and adorned with boffes and hafps of filver gilt and enamelled; the cover and all the leaves indented at the top; containing four original Indentures of Covenant, illuminated and embellished with hiftorical miniatures, dated the 16th of July, in the 19th year of king Henry VII. and made between that king and the abbot and convent of St. Peter's, Westminster, for certain maffes to be for ever after faid in the chapel 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, queen, and royal family; and for other purposes. To this indenture book, five broad feals of king Henry VII. preferved in filver boxes, and ornamented with his badges of the portcullis and rofe fprigs, are appendant by ftrings of filk, and gold and filver thread.

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X. Heraldical and armorial books, particularly forms of appointing and crowning kings at arms, and of the establishment of their fubordinate officers, tricks of arms, and enfigns armorial. Tracts on the order of the garter, pedigrees of most of the nobility and gentry of England, with notes, monumental and feneftral infcriptions illuftrating their family hiftories.

XI. Register-books, chartularies, and other evidences of the eftates of our ancient nobility.

XII. Ceremonials, pomps, and folemaities; as the coronations of

most of our kings and queens from the time of the Anglo-Saxons, to that of king George II. Public. entries, introductions, receptions, and feaftings of royal and princely vifitors, foreign ambassadors, &c. with the forms of their departures, and accounts of the prefents made to them on thofe occafions. Tilts, journies, jufts, royal masques, and other public entertainments, public proceffions and cavalcades. Funerals of kings, queens, princes, and great perfonages allied to the royal family, and alfo of perfons of quality and distinction.

XIII. In regard to Wales, here are topographies, descriptions, and general hiftories of the principality.

Natural and civil hiftories of feveral of its counties, furveys of commotes, and extents of lands.

Statutes touching the Lords Marchers, and orders for the obfervance of the council of Wales.

Tranfcripts of the laws of Howel Dha; collections of particular laws and cuftoms prevailing in different parts of the principality; accounts of the revenue arifing from the principality; lifts of feefarm rents; and pleas of quo warranto upon liberties claimed.

The hiftories of Welch heroes, by Threes, and many pedigrees and genealogies of families, with three volumes of useful materials, extracted by Mr. Hugh Thomas from a multitude of public records, and private evidences, in order to his compiling a genealogical hiftory of the nobility and gentry of Wales, and the feveral families defcended from them, now living in England.

XIV. Materials relative to the civil and ecclefiaftical hiftory of Scotland. Descrip

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Defcriptions, hiftories, chro nicles, and ftate of the kingdom.

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A remarkable transcript of John Fordun's Schotochronicon, and Bafton's verfes on the battle of Bannocks Bourne, written in the year 1484, for the ufe of William Schevez, archbishop of St. Andrew's, hy his domeftic chaplain Magnus Maculloch, a prieft of the diocefe of Rofs, fuppofed to be either the famous Black book of Schone, or the St. Andrew's Copy, or perhaps the original of both.

The chronicle of Andrew Wintone in verfe. Ker's, Lindley's, and other chronicles.

A fine copy of the chronicle of Mailros.

The life of king David I. written by Alred, abbot of Rievaulk. Tranfcripts of public inftruments concerning the vaffalage of Scotland, and the fovereignty of England over it, which are omited by Rymer and Harding.

Atchievements, arms, pedigrees, &c. of the nobility and principal gentry of Scotland,

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The journal of the treaty of and a a multitude of valuable and interefting papers of ftate, particularly, a tranfcript of public inftruments concerning the marriage of Mary queen of Scots to the dauphin of France, letters on fundry occafions from Mary queen of Scots, lord Burleigh, SirFrancis Walfingham, Sir Thomas Smith, the earl of Murray, queen Elizabeth, &c. and other pieces unnoticed by all writers, but extremely useful in fettling many controverfial points of the hiftory of that unfortunate princefs, and conducive to the difclofing and clearing up the myfterious intrigues

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carried on during her troubles in France, Scotland, and England. Hiftorical accounts of the ftate of the church of Scotland.

XV. Materials for the hiftory and antiquities, of Ireland. As, chorographies of the kingdom, and topographical defcriptions of its provinces.

Ancient and other hiftories, chronicles and annals, ecclefiaftical and civil, particularly.

A copy of the hiftory and pro phecies of that country, written in the tenth century, and in the old Irish language.

Many curious pedigrees, with the arms and hiftories of the prin cipal nobility.

A very ancient transcript of two remarkable pieces of the old Municipal laws of Ireland, with com mentaries and gloffes thereon. The text in this manufcript is fo very ancient, as to be coeval with the times the pieces relate to. The one being feemingly part of the Bretanime, or Judicia Cœleftia, with the trial of Euna, brother to Legarius, chief king of Ireland, for the murder of Orane, chariot driver to St. Patrick, before Dubhthac, the chief Filadha, or King's Bard; who, on that folemn occa fion, acted as fole Brehon, or judge, with the sentence paffed thereon in the year 430. The other, the great fanction or conftitution of Nine, made in favour of chriftianity in Ireland, anno 439, by three kings, three bishops, and three fages.

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Latin, Welch, Chinese, Perfic, Arabic, German, Courlandic, Saxon, English, Spanish, and Turkish languages, particularly the Arabic dictionary of Abu Nafr Ifmael, filius Hamad al Farabi, Al-Turki, with the fupplement of Sherfo'ddin, Al-Hafan filius Mohamedis, furnamed Alfagani, written in the beginning of the 13th century. XVIII. Chorographies, antiquities, hiftories, chronicles, &c. of France, and other countries. Elaborate genealogies of their kings, princes, and illuftrious houses; and a multitude of tracts and authentic papers, explanatory of their laws, customs, revenues, polity, and government; amongst which are

Gefta Francorum in Bello Sacro, written in the 11th century. A chronicle from Adam, of the 9th century,

Liudbrandi Ticienfis Chronicon, written in the 10th century.

Alfo a beautiful tranfcript of the 4th and last volumes of Froiffart's chronicle, elegantly illuminated, and having the fubject of each chapter represented in an historical miniature painting, highly finish ed, and placed at the head of it. The other volumes of this curious work are preferved in the French king's library, and are esteemed among its principal ornaments.

XIX. Hiftories of popes, and. the tranfactions of the fee of Rome; particularly three remarkable volumes, the original regifters of the Roman chancery, fecretly brought from Rome upon the death of pope Innocent XII. by Monf. Aymone, who was apoftolic prothonotary of that court. They contain the rules to be obferved by the clerks, and obedientiaries of the Roman chan

cery, in expediting papal bulls, briefs, mandates, difpenfations, and grants; a lift of fines payable by ecclefiaftics to the Roman fee, in all countries under its fubjection, on their being admitted to patriarchal, metropolitan, cathedral, or conventual churches; fees and fines payable for indulgences, li cences, and plenary abfolutions, as well in criminal as civil cafes; and a variety of other interefting matters, demonftrating the impo fitions practifed to fill the pope's coffers.

XX. A great number of poems, effays, ditties, ancient ballads, plays, and other poetical pieces in almost every modern language; many of them unpublished, and others extremely useful to such as fhall undertake to give new and correct editions of the works of fuch poets, particularly thofe of our own country as have been already printed. Amongst them are,

A very ancient and fair tranfcript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and a copy of his hiftory of Troilus and Creffida, the Knight's Tale, the Man of Laws Prologue and Tale, the Wife of Bath's Tale, and the Clerk of Oxenforde's Tale, neither of which MSS. feem to have been used by the editors of Chaucer; the text in both differing in many places from all other MSS of that author, as well as from the printed copies of his poems.

A large volume, being a col lection of ancient and valuable poems on curious fubjects, by Chaucer, Lydgate, and other Englifh poets; amongst thefe is a poem of Chaucer's addreffed to his empty purfe, and confifting of twenty ftanzas, though no more

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