Registrum brevium, in Latin and French :

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  "Memorial of the Registrum Brevium", i.e. of the Collection of Writts shewing the ancientness and value of both

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  Official, semi-official, and personal papers of six generations of the Egerton family, particularly those accumulated by Sir Thomas Egerton, 1540?-1617, Baron Ellesmere and Viscount of Brackley, Solicitor-General (1581-1592), Attorney-General (1592-1594), Lord Keeper (1596-1603), and Lord Chancellor (1603-1617); Sir John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, 1579-1649, President of the Council of Wales (1631-1649); John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, 1622-1686, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (1660-1686); John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater, 1646-1701, President of the Board of Trade (1696-1699), First Lord of Admiralty (1699-1701), Speaker of the House of Lords (1697 and 1700); John Scrope Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater, 1681-1745, a Whig courtier under Anne and George I, and Francis, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, 1736-1803

  EL 1164

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  [Register Brevium]

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  Collection of writs from the fifth year of the reign of Henry IV (1402) to the thirty-eighth year of Henri VI (1460). It also contains additions from the 16th century, including the alphabetical index. Subjects of writs include lands and manors held by various men from the King; instructions to the King's bailiffs; tenancies and inheritances; and ecclesiastical holdings and prebendaries. In the early 16th century, the contents list, alphabetical index and eight new sections (ff. 33-40, 65-88, 315-44, 358, 359, 400-09) were added in a more recent hand (by Bishop Richard Nix?). Further additions at ends of book include oath of the master of chancery, in French (f. II), a list of charges payable by Genoese and other foreign merchants of chancery, in French (ff. 404v-405), the coronation oath sworn by medieval English kings (f. 410), a short Middle English tract opening, "All writtez of Couenaunt ..." (f. IIv), and two copies of formulas in the name of "Bysshopryk of C" renouncing "all wordys comprised in the Popes Bull made vnto me" and instead promising loyalty to "the kyng our sovreign lord" (f. 404r). ff. i-ii. Table of contents, headed ""Kalendare."". f. ii recto-verso. Oath of the Master in Chancery. Incipit: Sacramento unius magistrorum de cancellarie domini regis. Lang: Anglo-Norman. ff. iii - xxxii verso; f. xxxiii recto-verso blank. Alphabetical index. The material indexes the main run of the codex, i.e. the writs copied on ff. 1-410v. ff. 1-410v. Royal writs. Incipit: [H]enricus dei gratia Rex Anglie et Francie et Dominus hibernie Ballivis suis de N. salutem. Precipimus vobis quod sine dilatione plenum rectum teneatis I. de C. de uno mesuagio cum pertinentiis in M. quod clamat tenere de nobis. English.

  mssHM 81170

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  Legal formulary, etc., in Latin, French and English : [manuscript]

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  ff. 9-12v. Treatise on Courts Leet. Incipit: All maner of persons which owe sute to this court or lete come forthe and answer for yower namys as ye be callid upon. Explicit: Also of all such persons as holde eny erroneose oppynyons or use to teche or preche eny heresye. Rubric: Modus observandi curiam cum leta sive visu franciplegii sequuntur hoc modo. Latin; English. On ff. 1-8, alphabetical index to the volume with reference to folio number. ff. 13-30v; ff. 31-32v blank. Treatise on Courts Baron. Incipit: And as for the Court Baron ye shall fyrst inquyre of all such persons as owe deuty to this court. Explicit: Et sachez que en cheste court sont comprisez iii chosez ... il revyendra et pledra en barre &c. Rubric: Le charge del Court baron. Latin; English; French. ff. 33-65; ff. 65v-69v blank. Tractatus Justicia Pacis. [Abridgment of Statutes concerning Justices of the Peace]. Incipit: What persons shulde bee Justices of peas ther auctoryte & power the forme of ther charge & whereoff they maye enquyre consequently as appereth drawen oute of dyvers statutes that is to seye ffyrst what persons shulde bee Justices &c. Rubric: Tractatus Justicia Pacis. Latin. ff. 70-170v. Formulary of Legal Documents. Latin; English. Formulary for, e.g., letters, indentures of apprenticeship, the documents of the office of the clerk of the peace, presentments, conveyancing, leases, testimonial letters, bills of sale, letters of safe conduct, of presentation of a living, of supplication to the king, of manumission, of licence in mortmain, of enfeoffment in mortmain, forms of declaration of banns of marriage, form of a last will and testament, of an obligation, statement of conditions for arbitration, form of a codicil to a loan agreement, form of agreement for discharge of a loan, conditions for determining a loan agreement on death, form of quittance for payment, form of general relears from a loan, supplications in law, form of the oath of the king to maintain the traditional rights of all parties, memorandum of the powers of the Officers of Escheat, etc.

  mssHM 67911

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  Old Tenures, Natura brevium and Subject index to the statutes, Accusacions to Wurstede : [manuscript]

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  ff. ii verso-v verso: [15th cent. notes on the number of vills, etc. in England; mnemonic verses on the return days in Michaelmas, Hilary, Easter and Trinity terms; a couplet in a more formal hand, "Dat crux lucia mereres [?] karismata dies/ Ne sis in angaria quarta sequens feria"; ownership notes; notes in prose on the beginnings and endings of the terms; a note defining measurements of land, "In libro de domsday sub titulo terre Regis in comitatu Surr. inter al. continetur sic, xxiiii acres terre faciunt unam virgatam" ff. iii verso-v verso, blank] ff. 1-6v: [Calendar in red and black, including the feasts of David (1 March), Chad (2 March), "Resurrectio domini" (27 March, in red), Richard of Chichester (3 April, in red), Dunstan (19 May, in red), Translation of Richard of Chichester (16 June, in red), Anne (26 July, in red)]. ff. 7-13v: [Old Tenures; beginning defectively in the section on mortgages, with 18 sections; at the end, a number of short definitions, Sute service through Obligatio]: Incipit: //ou tenementz sount donez a un homme a un certeyn terme ... Explicit: astringitur ratione debeti vel contractus absolucio perpetua et cetera. ff. 14-69v: [Natura brevium, ending defectively in the writ Quale ius]. Incipit: Dicitur q'il ad breve de droit patent et brief de droit clos ... Explicit: et s'il ne demande deinz l'an donques le proscheyn//. ff. 70-117v: [Index to statutes, Accusacions to Wurstede; with no later additions in the spaces reserved for that purpose]. On the back flyleaf iii, ownership note; a proverb, back flyleaf iii: [Ownership note; a proverb"Multa volumus, pauca scimus et minora possumus"; a biblical passage (Luke 14, 26); a citation attributed to Augustine on living a good life to avoid a bad death].

  mssHM 47619

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  passages in French, Spanish, & Latin;

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  The collection consists of maps, field books, legal documents, business papers, and diaries related to the work of surveyors George Hansen, Alfred Solano, Sidney B. Reeve, and others. The maps and surveys in the collection are of the city of Los Angeles, Southern California ranchos, and subdivisions of the city of Los Angeles and neighboring towns. The collection contains over maps and sketch maps. Other subjects represented in the collection include: civil engineering, land subdivision, mines and mineral resources, and daily life in Los Angeles and Los Angeles County.

  mssSolano

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  The Apocalypse in Latin and French : (Bodleian ms. Douce 180)

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