Parliaments and Councils; Collected and Edited by
Francis Palgrave, Esq. 2 vols.

1827-34.

"Volume I. was published in 1827, and contains the Writs, &c., relating to the Reign of Edward I., with an extensive 'English Apparatus, intended to render the Volume more easily accessible.' Vol. II. which contains the Writs of Edward II., is separated into three very bulky Parts or Divisions, of which Part 1. and II. bear date in 1830, Part III. in 1834. Nearly 600, out of the 1600 pages of Records comprised in Sir F. Palgrave's volumes, are occupied with the Military Writs. The part of the 2nd Volume recently published contains the Nomina Villarum. This is a document containing the returns made to Writs tested at Clepston, 5th March, 9th Edward II., severally addressed to all the Sheriffs throughout England, stating that the King wished to be certified how many and what Hundreds and Wapentakes there were in the Sheriffs' Bailiwick; how many and what Cities, Boroughs and Townships, there were in each such Hundred or Wapentake, and who were the Lords thereof; and the Sheriff was therefore commanded diligently to inform himself of the premises, so that at his next proffer at the Exchequer, he might give full information to the Treasurers and Barons thereupon.

"The importance of this document to topographers and genealogists is thus stated by the Rev. J. Hunter. 'In it we find direct evidence of the persons who held the smaller subdivisions of the great tenancies of a particular period. Without its assistance, I know not how this information is to be arrived at in any direct manner, where the correlative Record, called Kirkby's Inquest, (which belongs to the preceding reign,) is not to be found, and where no information of the place is to be gathered from the Testa de Nevil, or the Hundred Rolls. One fixed period of this kind is of great importance, inasmuch as a single line is an indication of the line in which the Lordship is passing, and may very often be the means of guiding an inquirer to a series of Lords before and after the date of the Record itself; and the deter. mining in whom the possession lay, is one of the chief points in the history of the rural parishes of England.''

See Gent. Mag., Aug., 1834. The Acts of the Parliament of Scotland; (1424 to 1707.) Volumes 2 to 11 inclusive. 1814-24.

The first volume intended to comprise various ancient MSS. of Statutes, prior to the Reign of King James I., has not yet been published. "The Indexes of matters to the whole work, will constitute the twelfth and last volumes. To the Acts of the Parliaments of each Reign has been annexed an appendix of certain Acts and Instruments, which could not with propriety be blended in the preceding series;

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but in the chronological table of the contents of the volume, these articles are set down in the order of time, and the particular sources from which they have been drawn are there specified."

See Cooper on the Public Records.
Abstract of the Returns of Charitable Donations for the
Benefit of Poor Persons, made by the Ministers and
Churchwardens of the several Parishes and Townships
in England and Wales.

Part. 1. Bedford to Middlesex, including London and Middlesex.
2. Monmouth to York, also Wales.

2 vols. (1786-88.) 1816.
1819-33.

B Parliamentary Reports on Charities. 26 vols.

Reports of the Commissioners appointed in pursuance of an Act of the 58th year of his present Majesty, cap. 91, intituled-"An Aet for appointing Commissioners to enquire concerning Charities in England, for the Education of the Poor.

The last volume containing an Analytical Digest of the whole.

London, (city, within the walls;) Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 20, 22, 23, 24.

London, (city, without the wails;) Vol. 1, 2, 8, 10, 14, 20, 22.

First and Second Reports made to His Majesty, by the
Commissioners appointed to enquire into the Law of
England, respecting Real Property. 2 vols.

1829-30.

First and Second Reports made to His Majesty, by the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the Practice and Proceedings of the Superior Courts of Common Law. 2 vols. 1829-30. Parliamentary Representation.-Copies of Instructions given by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Parliamentary Representation: likewise, Copies of Letters and Reports received by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in answer to such Instructions.-Reports from Commissioners on the proposed Division of Counties and Boundaries of Boroughs in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. 10 vols.

1832.

Population.-Comparative Account of the Population of Great Britain, in the years 1801, 11, 21, and 31; with the Annual Value of Real Property, in the year 1815: also, a Statement of Progress in the Inquiry regarding the Occupations of Families and Persons, and the Duration of Life, as required by the Population Act of 1830. 1 vol. 1831. Reports on the Proposed Divisions of the Counties mentioned in Schedule (F) of the Reform Bill, (England.) Illustrated by Plans; by J. G. Shaw Lefevre. 1 vol. 1832. Report from the Committee of Secrecy on the Bank of England Charter: with the Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index. Printed by Permission, as ordered by the House of Commons.

1832. Abstract of the Answers and Returns, made pursuant to an Act passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George IV., intituled "An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain, and of the Increase or Diminution thereof."

Vol. 1 & 2.-Enumeration Abstract.

3.-Parish Register Abstract.-3 vols. 1831. Report of the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty to enquire into the Ecclesiastical Revenues of England and Wales :

FIRST PART CONTAINING:

1.-Revenues of Archbishops and Bishops.

2.-Revenues of Cathedral and Collegiate Churches.

3.-Revenues of Dignitaries and other sole Corporations, from their separate Estates.

4.-Revenues of the Beneficed Clergy. (St. Asaph to Lincoln.)

PART SECOND CONTAINING:

4 Continued. Revenues of the Beneficed Clergy. (Llandaff to Sodor and Man.)

A List of Ecclesiastical Bishops; Deans and Chapters, and other Cor-
porations aggregate; Dignitaries, Prebendaries, and other Corporations
sole.

Abstract of the Revenues of the Beneficed Clergy, and Stipends of
Curates.

Scales of the Incomes of the Beneficed Clergy.

Classification of Patronage, and of Appropriations and Impropriations. 2 vols. 1835.

State Papers, Treaties, Correspondence, &c.

Ellis's Correspondence: Letters written during the years 1686, 1687, 1688, and addressed to John Ellis, Esq., Secretary to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Revenue in Ireland; comprising many particulars of the Revolution, &c., with Notes, and a Preface; by the Hon. George Agar Ellis. 2 vols. 1829. Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann, British Envoy at the Court of Tuscany; edited by Lord Dover. 3 vols.

1833.

(Original) written during the Reigns of Edward VI., &c., with Notes; by Sir John Fenn, (vide p. 318,) Vol. V., published with Notices of the Life of Sir John Fenn; by Wm. Frere, Serjeant-at-Law.

1823.

Treatises on the Constitution and Parliament, Debates,
Collections of Speeches, Precedents, &c.

Examination of Mr. Hume's Statements relative to the
Character of the English Government; by Geo. Brodie,
Esq., in his History of the British Empire.