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Holmes, Thomas, to George Holmes. 1661, 3, and 4. 3 letters.

Holmes, William, to George Holmes. 1664. 2 letters.
Hunt, J., to Lord Hatton. 1682.

H. H., to Lord Hatton. 27th Nov. 1675.
Jodrell, Paul, to Lord Hatton. 20th Dec. 1687.
Knyveton, St. Lo. to Sir Chr. Hatton. 26th May 1619.
K. ——, John, to George Holmes. 20th Jan. 1661.
Langhorne (?), R., to Chr. Hatton.
Lee, Robert, to Lord

1665. 2 letters. 1699. 2 letters.

Legge, W. (?), to Lord Hatton. 15th Feb. 1687.
Levingston, James, to Mr. Mortimer. 1619. 2 letters.
Longueville, William, to Lord Hatton. 24th Dec. 1695.
Mansfield, Eliz., Lady, to
17th Nov. 1767.

Mitchell, Sir D. (Enclosures, relating to the States General and a List of Ships.) 3 papers.

Monoux, George (Alderman), to Nic. Angell and another. 10th Oct. 1514.

M., George, to Mr. Willis. 18th Aug. 1623.

News Letters. Abstracts and copies of. Circa 1703–1706.

9 letters, &c.

Purrell, John, to Mrs. Gildon. Undated.

Ranelagh, Lord, to Lord Hatton. 2nd Aug. 1686.
Rowley, William, to the Earl of Winchilsea. 31st Aug.
1757.

Letters, with autographs undecipherable. 5 letters.
Letters, without signatures. 36 letters.

A portfolio containing autograph letters of Oliver Cromwell, Charles II., William III., Queen Anne, Pedro II., King of Portugal, Catherine Queen of Portugal, Duke of Savoy, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, Sir William Dugdale, &c., &c. Also a curious letter from a Rev. Wilkinson.

SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF CORRESPONDENCE.
Akdin, William, to Mr. Pulkin. Undated.
Allen, Thomas, to Lord Hatton. 18th March 1727.
Bréval, D., to Lord
9th Nov. 1693.

Brigham, Phillip, to Thomas Streatthay. Dec. 1691.
Brudenell, Lord, to the Earl of Nottingham.
Canterbury, the Clergy of, to the Earl of Nottingham.
Capelin, Nicholas, to George Holmes. 2nd Sept. 1664.
Cardigan, Lord. Proposals of, for Lord Hatton.
Clements, John. Petition to the King.

Clements, John, to Lord Hatton et al. 1665, 71, 3, and 91.

Clough, Mary, to Jane Hatton. 28th July 1691.
Coles, Samuel, to Lord Hatton.

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29th Jan. 1674.

1668. 2 letters. 7th June 1664. 20th March 1680.

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Desborow, Thomas, to Mr. Holmes.
De Sou, Alexandre, to Lord Hatton.
Dixon, Philip, to Lord Hatton. 17th Dec. 1677.
Downall, William, "to the Major-General." 20th Dec.

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Finch, Essex, to Lord Hatton. 10th June.

Fothers, William, to Lord Hatton. 24th July.
Fuller, Daniell, to Mr. Smith. 29th March 1664.

Gale (or Sale), William, to Lord Hatton. 1689 and 1690. 2 letters.

Gee, Marmion, to Mr. Hatton. 9th April 1697.
Gentil, M., to Mr. Streethay. 1691 and 1692.
Gilbert, William, to Chr. Hatton. 1st Nov. 1668.
Graye, F., to George Geoffreryes. 3rd Nov. 1640.
Greene, Francis, to Macarty. 1686. 2 letters.
Greene, J., to Mr. Hatton. 31st Oct.

Grimston, A., to Lord Hatton. Undated. 2 letters.

Gross, Robert (?) Le, to H. Fanshawe. (An acrostic.) 1675. Hatton, A., to Lord Hatton. 4th Sept.

Hatton, A. E., to Lord Hatton. Undated. 3 letters. Hatton, Chr., to Mr. Percevall and another. 18th June

1601. 2 letters.

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BOOKS, PAPERS, &c.

Parliamentary Papers, Copies of Privy Seals, Orders, &c.
Papers relating to the Act of Union with Scotland.
Papers relating to Scotland.

Acts of Parliament, &c.

Speeches made in Parliament by members.

Royal Speeches made to Parliament. Some are drafts in the handwriting of Lord Treasurer Godolphin, with alterations made by the Earl of Nottingham.

Papers relating to charges made against the Duke of Buckingham, the Earls of Bristol, Clare, Strafford, and Lord Danby.

Miscellaneous papers, in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, &c.

Petitions of various kinds.

Printed papers, chiefly Parliamentary.

Miscellaneous papers; some are interesting. A few are in

the handwriting of Dugdale.

Inventories and Catalogues.

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Papers By the Commissioners for Compounding with Delinquents." Sequestrations.

Indentures.

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The Will of Cecilia Hatton.
Recipes.

Addresses (of residence).
Bills.
Receipts.

Covers of letters.

A bundle of Pamphlets.

Lists and Catalogues of Books, MSS., &c.

Three papers (in French) indorsed by the Earl of Nottingham," Characters," they being headed "Suitte de "Porteraits et Caracteres des personnes les plus illustres "de la Cour de France." Interesting. Circa 1702. A great number of Rent and Court Rolls, Terriers of Land, Frank-pledges, &c. &c.

A bundle of papers (principally legal) relating to the Hatton family.

Two rolls (in French), one being a recognizance (with alehouse licences); the other of anchorage, at Guernsey. Eight books, being Surveys of Lincolnshire Land; Abstract of Admittances to the Manor of Raunds; Book for the Ale-houses and Overseers of the Poor for Northampton; a Book of Subsidies for Northampton, granted 3 Car. 1; Halmote Book of the Manor of Raunds; a translation of "The Book of Ancien demayn of Corby," &c.; and a book containing the names of persons? living in the various Hundreds of Northampton?, as also the names of the victuallers in the said County.

Three books relating to Guernsey.

Books and papers, giving the names of the various officers in the Royal service, their fees, lists of precedence, revenues of the Crown, &c. (Temp. Jac. 1, and Car. 1?) 48 books and papers on Theological and Religious subjects, sermons, &c. &c.

17 books and papers relating chiefly to Parliamentary affairs, viz.-Observations made by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury (1693); book of oaths to be taken by various officers under the Crown; an estimate of the state of Ireland, &c. (1599); heads of proceedings in Parliament (1642); remonstrance of the Scots; the Bill and proceedings in the House of Commons to attaint Sir John Fenwick of treason (1596); a letter relating to the King disavowing having been married to the Duke of M's (Monmouth) mother, &c. (1680); a collection of speeches, &c., delivered to King James touching the necessity of calling a Parliament, with the answer thereunto by Robert (late) Earl of Salisbury; reasons inducing the referees to take the means to find out the proportion in assessing the ship money, &c.; return of patents, or commissions granted since the King (Car. 1) came to the Crown, &c. (1637); a remonstrance concerning impositions without the assent of Parliament; arguments in Parliament concerning the lands, lives, and liberty of the subject; discourse of the King's right to levy money; book, indorsed "Marches of Wales ;" a commission of arrays for all the counties, &c. (in the hand-writing of Dugdale: it also contains some interesting items); judicature in Parliament, written by Sir Robert Cotton, 1621 (a copy); and Cooke's case concerning the King's trial.

6 books, being Parliamentary Journals: 3, temp. Elizabeth, 2, temp. James 1, and I of Charles 1.

2 volumes of extracts from the Parliament Rolls, and mode of proceeding therein.

A registrum of 184 leaves, dated 18th Oct., 14 Edw. 3, and of France the 1st. In board covers. There is an index of its contents.

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29 books and papers relating to legal affairs, viz.-"The Arguments of the Judges concerning Ship Money;" Ordinances for Inquisition of Wards and Liveries; the Arraignment of Anthony Babington, et al. (1586); the Arraignment of Lord and Lady Somerset (1616); the Case of Sir John Elliot, et al., concerning the jurisdiction of the Court of King's Bench, &c.; a relation of the prosecution of the nullity of the marriage between the Earl of Essex and his then wife, Lady Frances Howard, by Sir Daniel Dunn; Serjeant Fleetwood's opinion concerning the original foundation of the Courts of Justice in England; a Compendium, pointing out what the officers of the Court of Exchequer may, and usually do, by virtue of their office, in England; a book indorsed "Exchequer;" Proceedings in the Exchequer Chamber, Hilary, 1632 (the King and sixteen defendants); Extracts from the Records, wherein may be collected by what means the Kings of England have and may raise money; the Proceedings against Mary, Queen of Scots, &c.; Bacon on the use of the Law; Ordinances made by the Lord Chancellor (Bacon) for the better administration of Justice in the Chancery (1618); Sir Francis Bacon's Speech at the arraignment of Lord Sanquer (1612); cases in Chancery; abstracts of all the cases contained in the 11 books of Coke, written in French; the course of proceedings in the Star Chamber; Information against Prynne, et al. in the Star Chamber; two copies of a Treatise of the Court of Star Chamber; speech delivered by Sir Francis Bacon in the Star Chamber; a book relating to proceedings in Guernsey; five books showing the manner of proceeding and drawing out forms at law; a book in French, treating on law; and a number of loose sheets on legal matters, amongst which are two relating to the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh, &c.

21 books upon heraldy and genealogies; one indorsed "MS. Baronagium Angliæ;" a book of arms and pedigrees of Northamptonshire families; papers (in covers) unbound, relating to the Heralds; "Upton on

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Arms;" "A Collection of ye Nobility of England, in MS.," with arms, coloured; a MS. book indorsed Alphabett in Blazon p' Flower als Norreys Roi d'Arms;" the Black Book of the Garter; Selden on the Baronage of England; book on the Barony of Latimer; Of the Nobilitie by the law of England;" Williams' Catalogue of the Nobility of England, &c., &c., 1620; a book of the Hatton genealogy; Extracts from various records; and in the same book are arms, names of towns, and churches within the county of Northampton, &c.; a discourse of the Descent and Genealogy of all the Kings and Princes of England to 1599, written by D. R.; book beginning, "Of the Peers of England;" Genealogie Incertæ," in the hand-writing of Dugdale; a book written chiefly in Celtic, being Triads, and containing genealogies of Welsh princes, &c.; book indorsed Miscellanea ;" four papers without covers, one headed "De Imperatoriis insignibus ;" another, "De Hodiernis Insignibus et primo quare dicuntur arma ;" the third "De Rebus insignitis ac primum de scutis in genere ;" and the fourth," Aspilogiæ libri tres ;" and some loose papers. A portfolio containing a number of coloured plates of arms, on vellum. Unbound sketches of arms on paper, being principally drawn in ink.

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A book indorsed "MSS. by Spelman."

9 letter books, containing copies of Walsingham's; the Earl of Nottingham's, relative to Spain and Portugal, 1702-1704; relating to Italy, 1703 and 1704; another to foreign affairs, 1703 and 1704; another containing copies of 7 letters; one relating to the affairs of Guernsey; one on military matters, temp. Elizabeth, &c. &c.

4 volumes indorsed "Leland Collect." One vol. is in the hand-writing of Dugdale.

3 volumes indorsed "Manuscripts." One contains extracts
from Charter, Close, and Fine Rolls; another relates
to Parliamentary affairs from the 1st to the 38th
Henry 8; and the other is a book containing copies of
charters granted by Henry 2, written on vellum.
Book indorsed "Marriages, Christnings, and Funeralls of
Princes."

Book indorsed "Coronation and Reception of Princes."
Book indorsed "Liber Regis."

Book indorsed "Retin. pour servir le Roy."

Book indorsed "A Corographicall Description of some Counties by Norden.'

Book indorsed "Miscellanea."

"A book of the Workes of Edw. the Black Prince called the Regester," relates to Chester. The names of the persons and places in the margin are written by Dugdale.

"Collectio Antiquitatum Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis."

"A Demonstrative Confutation of sundry Jesuiticall Assertions," &c. &c.

"A Discourse on Ancient Laws."

3 books indorsed "Hæredes."

22 indexes of all the counties of England and one for Hibernia; all in the hand-writing of Dugdale.

Book of copies and extracts from records indorsed "Inqui"sitiones Henr'i 3tii & Edwar' 1mo "

Book of copies and extracts indorsed "Inquisitiones Edwar’

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Book of copies and extracts indorsed "Inquisitiones Henr'i 7ti, Henr'i 8ti, Edwar. 6ti, Phil. & Mari." Book of copies and extracts indorsed "Inquisition. ab año "Imo Henrici 8vi ad añum 19mi "

Book of copies and extracts indorsed "Inquisitiones Henr'i ❝gvi ab año 20mo vsq' ad añm vltimum ex parte "Remem' Regis Comitat. North'ton."

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Book of copies and extracts indorsed “Inquisitiones Elizabethæ in Scaccario ex parte Remem' Regis Comitat. "North'ton."

Book of copies and extracts indorsed "Inquisitiones Eliza"bethæ, Jacobi 1mi, Caroli 1mi ad añm 6mos

A book of Patents, temp. John, Henry 3, Edward 1, and Edward 2.

A book of Patents, temp. Edward 3 and Richard 2.

A book of Patents, temp. 1 Henry 4 to the end of Edward 4.

A book of Close Rolls, temp. John. Vol. 1.

Vol. 2. Vol. 3. Vol. 4.

A book of Close Rolls, temp. 1 to 6 Henry 3.
A book of Close Rolls, temp. 7 to 12 Henry 3.
A book of Close Rolls, temp. 13 to 22 Henry 3.
A book of Vascon and Scotch Rolls, 26 Henry 3 to the
end of Edward 4.

A book of Fines, temp. Richard 1, and Placita, temp.
Richard 1 and John.

A book of Fines, temp. Richard 1, John, Henry 3, in Thesaur' Regii Scaccarii.

A book of Fines levat in Banco Com. comitat. North'ton. A book of Index Finium de Comitat. North'ton.

book of Carta Antiquæ, A to P.

A book of Carta Antiquæ, R to Z.

A book of Cartæ, 3 Edward 1 to the end of Edward 4.
A book of Placita Parliam., 18 to 35 Edward 1.

A book of Summon. Parliamen., 49 Henry 3 to 21 Henry 8.
A book of Irrot. Cartarum ex Rot. Claus., temp. Edward 3,
Richard 2, Henry 4, 5, and 6, and Edward 4.

A book of Abbat. Cantar. Capell. Decan. Episc., &c.
A book of Placita, temp. Edward 1. (Without covers).
A book of Abridgments, 1 Henry 6 to 1 Richard 3.

A book of Northampton Papers, concerning the County
Militia, 1588.

A book of Abstract of the Register of the Archbishop of York.

A book of Modus tenendi Parl., by Elsing.

A book of Villare Anglicum.

A book of Abb'tia de Pippewell, fondata MCXLIII. Vol. 1.

A book of Abb'tia de Pippewell, fondata MCXLIII. Vol. 2.

A book of Abb'tia de Pippewell, fondata MCXLIII. Vol. 3.

A book of Miscellanea, Antiq., Officior. &c.

A book of Patents of Honours.

A book of extracts from the Doomsday Book. (Without covers.)

Copy of the Doomsday Book for Northamptonshire.

13 large folio books of extracts from records, &c. Lettered on the back A, B, C, E, F, G, H, I, L, N, V, X, and Z.

Lettered W, and Y. Lettered on

11 smaller books of extracts from records, &c.
on the back D, K, M, O, P, Q, R, S, T,
4 large books of extracts from records, &c.
the back AC, AD, AI, and AK.

19 smaller books of extracts from records, &c.

Lettered on the back AA, AB, AE, AF, AG, AH, AI, AL, AM, AN, AO, AP, AQ, AR, AS, AV, AW, AX, and AZ. 2 large folio books of extracts, &c. from records. Lettered AAH and AAK.

6 smaller books of extracts, &c. from records. Lettered AAA, AAB, AAC, AAD, AAF, AAG, AAI, and AAL.

1 book belonging to one of the above-named series, unlettered.

Amongst the 56 lettered volumes (which are compiled

from documents at the Tower, the Chapter House, and Monastic Registers) are accounts of the duties appertaining to the Earl Marshal's Office. Lists of the Knights of the Garter in various reigns. Names of those summoned to Parliament. A long account of the Order of the Bath. Creation of Peers from the reign of Henry 7 to Elizabeth. Names of Knights in various Counties. Copies and Extracts of Wills. Appointments. Copies of Inscriptions on Tombs and Brasses in various Churches, &c. List of Chancellors from Wolfuinus to John Puckering. Keepers of the Privy Seal. Pedigrees of English Families. Extracts from the Registers of the Charters and Muniments of St. Leonard's Hospital, York. Comparisons of Precedency between England and Spain (Z). Discourses on the High Stewardship of England; Ireland; the Ordinances and Privileges by order of the Common Law due to Peers of the Realm and Knights. Copy of John Selden's Book to Lord Bacon, upon the office of Lord Chancellor (AAK). Genealogical tables. A decree of the Earl Marshal concerning Felton. Objections against changing the name and style of England and Scotland to that of Great Britain. Copies of Acts of Parliament. Surveys of Land. Names of Heirs (V), &c. &c. &c.

A book of Aphorisms, military and civil, amplified with authority, and exemplified with history, out of the First Quarterne of Francis Guicciardini, written by R. Dallington, 1609. Bound in leather, with the Royal Arms on each cover.

A Dialogue betwixt a Councillor of State and a Justice of the Peace it is preceded by a copy of a letter of Sir Walter Raleigh's.

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Two books in German (being apparently articles of agreement).

Book of Subsidies, &c. granted from the Conquest to the 3rd of Hen. 8.

Book indorsed " Roberti Talboti Annotationes Itinerarii "Antonini."

Directions, &c. how to keep merchants' accounts, dated 1654.

The play of Richard 3, in Latin, with an Epilogue; the stage directions are in English.

A play, in Italian, entitled “Origine di Venetia," by Signor Cesare Cremonini.

Sir Robert Cotton's answer to certain propositions, made to Prince Henry, of War and Peace.

An inquiry by the King's Commissioners after exacted fees and innovated offices.

A book upon the three Estates of the Realm, (Imperfect.) A book headed "New conclusions worthier for the most part of observation than imitation, &c."

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Abstract of the question of precedency between England and Spain, occasioned by Sir Henry Nevill, the English Ambassador, and the Ambassador of Spain, at Calais, before the Commissioners appointed by the French King, who moved for a Treaty of Peace, 42 Eliz., collected by Sir Robert Cotton.

Names of persons who held land, &c., in different counties; the value of the same; and how held, whether by service, in capite, or socage, &c.

Three books of "Percage et Mesurage du Fiefs," &c., one dated 1591, and two 1663.

A philosophical discourse of the body and soul. A hundred aphorisms containing the whole body of natural magic, and things necessary for physicians to know before they undertake this magnetical physic, &c. A book entitled "Nomina diversorum in hoc regno Anglie cenobiorum, &c. cum fundatoribus eorundem.' There is an index at the end, in the hand-writing of Dugdale.

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The State of the Scottish Commonwealth, with the causes of their often mutinies and disorders, written by Sir Robert Cecil, Principal Secretary of State. (A copy.) Accusations and articles against the Archbishop of Canterbury made by the Scotch Commissioners.

A book entitled "Magna Charta origo deliquium respi"ratio, discrimen, multiplex et confirmatio numerosa." A discourse touching a Match, propounded by the Savoyan, between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont, 9 James 1.

Advice concerning Iron Ordnance.

Copy of Patent creating Sir Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp; the heading written by Dugdale.

A Pindaric poem upon the Hurricane in November 1703. It also contains a Hymn and some Fables.

A book of Poetry, addressed to Robert, Earl of Somerset, and his Countess.

Another book of Poetry, headed "Mr. Norton's work "de lapide ph'orum."

"Considerations touching Entercourse, presented to the King, 1630," written by "P. S."

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Two books, being "Observations upon Phocion's Arraignment by the Commons, Political, Moral, and His"torical."

A book of, How the Kings of England may raise money. An interesting account of the War in Germany, &c., written temp. Eliz. (Imperfect.)

Treatise concerning the Navy of England, written, in 1570, by John Montgomery; with additions made by him

in 1588.

Book entitled "Princes Extremities beyond the ease of "their peoples by reason of Wars."

Book entitled "Archeion; or the High Courts of Justice in England, by William Lambard."

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Book, containing Statutes, Obligations, &c., written temp. Phil. and Mary.

An Argument upon the questions of Impositions, by Serjeant Davis, K. C., 1624.

A Discourse or Apology written by the Earl of Devonshire in defence of his marriage with Lady Rich, 1606. (Copy.)

A project to decay the Hollanders' fishing, and so lessen their shipping to the increase of our own, without offering violence to them.

Book explaining various terms and abbreviations in the Doomsday.

A book entitled "Iter Borealis," in Latin.

A book giving an account of the order and behaviour of the Earl of Surrey, Treasurer and Marshal of England, against the King of Scots and his Invasions; and how the King was slain by the said Earl at the Battle of Brakston (Flodden Field).

A complaint of four Fellows of Pembroke Hall, against Dr. Beale, the Master thereof, and his answer to the

same.

A book of Statutes, &c. of Christ's College, Cambridge. "Hogg's Character of a Projector."

A book headed the "Difference between a Justice and a "Conservator of the Peace," &c.

A book on Fortifications.

Sir Henry Manwayring's discourse of Pirates.

An "Answer by a loyal subject of the King Catholic to "the Manifests published by the King of France," 1635.

A description of several trees and plants found in the
Island of Barbadoes, by W. B.

Three books, containing Aphorisms, Proverbs, &c.
The History of Edward II. (Bound.)

A note-book containing extracts in Latin from the Scriptures, &c.

A book containing principal events in the History of England, from Egbert to Elizabeth, with a Genealogical Table; also contained in the same book are similar notes relative to France, from Pharamond to Henry 4 (with Genealogical Table); of Portugal, from Henry to 1643, with a Map and a Genealogical Table; of Sigismund, King of Poland; and a short account of Pope Alexander VI., &c. &c.

Copy of Cavendish's Life of Cardinal Wolsey, written temp. Elizabeth. Bound.

A book containing the dimensions, cost, stores required, and every thing relative to the building of ships of war, from a 1st to a 6th rate; there is also a list of the names of the English, French, and Dutch Fleets, and the number of guns each ship carried in 1673; also the rate of wages paid to all classes in the Royal Navy, &c.

Note-book and Almanack (1723), containing some notes, &c., by the Earl of Winchilsea.

Some loose sheets of poetry in Latin, and four leaves of an old book, having been covers.

A bundle of loose papers, imperfect, chiefly copies and extracts from Records.

Some loose sheets, being apparently part of a Dictionary,
in the handwriting of Dugdale. Placed in covers.
Portions of indexes, unbound, some written by Dugdale.
A bundle of papers relating to Northampton.

A Memorial and Narrative to the Queen by the Duke of
Athol, giving an account of the discovery of Captain
Fraser and his accomplices, 1704.

Papers (some printed) relating to Scotland, with notes in the handwriting of the Earl of Nottingham. Box 1 contains:

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A MS. book of recipes.

Patent appointing Sir Christopher Hatton, Steward of the Manors of Higham Ferrers, Warrington, Irchester, Russhden, and Raundes. 1637.

Pardon of Alienation for purchasing the Manor of Weldon, granted to Lord Chancellor Hatton. 1588.

A special pardon granted unto Sir Christopher Hatton. 18 Charles 1.

A custody granted to Alice, Lady Hatton, out of the Court of Wards. 1620.

Appointment of George Hatton to be a Lieutenant in the Militia for the Western Division of Kent. 1778.

A free and general pardon granted to Francis Lee, D.D. 1 Car. 1.

A dispensation granted unto Jeremy Taylor, D.D. 19 Car. 1.

A printed Act of Parliament (black letter) of the 43rd Elizabeth, for the "grant of four entire Subsidies, and eight Fifteenes and Tenthes."

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Grant to Sir Ambrose Cave of the custody of Moulton Park. 1568.

A pardon of general grace granted unto Sir Christopher Hatton. 1626.

Appointment of Christopher, Viscount Hatton, Custos Rotolorum of the County of Northampton. 1 Anne. Commission constituting Chr. Viscount Hatton, Custos

Rotolorum of the County of Northampton, 1 William and Mary.

A Special Livery granted to Sir Chr. Hatton, 1629.

24863.

A licence of Alienation from Sir Chr. Hatton to Sir Robert Riche. 13 Jac. 1.

An Exemplification at the request of Sir Edward Coke, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, for turning the pathway out of the Park at Stoke. 4 Jac. 1.

A general pardon for Sir Anthony Haslewood. 1 Car. 1. Patent of Sir Thomas Tyrringham of the office of Steward of Higham Ferrers, &c. 4 Jac. 1.

Will of Francis Mander. 1629.

The Will, and two Probates of the same, of Susannah, Lady
Grey de Ruthin. 1675, 6.

Pardon to Sir Maurice Berkeley, Knt. 26 Hen. 8.
Patent granting Eastwell Park, Acnt, in perpetuity to Sir
Moile Finche. 31 Eliz.

Two bundles of Title-deeds of Blaxley's Farm in Gretton.
Grant and Licence to John Haslewood out of the Court of
Wards. 4 Edw. 6.

A Fine of certain lands, &c. in Gretton and Weldon Magna. 1636.

A bundle of Indentures, Leases, &c. &c.
A tin box containing an Assignment. 1818.
A Release from William Spendlove and others to Messrs.
Braithwaite and Webster.

A bundle of legal papers in the suit of Clayton v. Meadows. 1841-1843.

Appeals for charity and assistance. An Indulgence granted by John (Whitgift), Archbishop of Canterbury, to William Newport, alias Hatton, his wife, and four others he may name, to eat flesh upon forbidden days on the payment of 13s. 4d. to the poor box of the parish wherein he resides. 1596.

Grant to Sir Thomas Tresham, Knt., of the custody of Moulton Park. 1 Edw. 6.

Inspeximus of a Recovery had of the Advowson of the Chapel of Kelmersh. 24 Eliz.

A parcel of loose and broken Seals.

Two books containing a list of Deeds, &c.

A bundle of Court Rolls of the Manor of Gretton.

A bundle of Surrenders, Quietuses, Warrants, and Suit Rolls of the Manor of Gretton.

A book of Admittances and Fines of the Court Leet for Gretton. 1715-1724.

A bundle of Surrenders for Wendlingborowe Hatton. 1623-1630.

A bundle of Receipts. 1824 and 1825.

A book of Accounts of Lord Grey de Ruthyn. 1680-1685. Book of Valuation of the Parishes of Great and Little Weldon, according to which the parish rates are to be assessed.

Three books of Rentals.

A bundle of Rental Accounts, &c.

Fragment of a Survey of lands in co. North. 1685.

A Roll indorsed "Decaye of Rents in Wynchelsea." Circa Edw. 3.

Account of Rents received by William Walsynggam (Receiver to the Earl of Northumberland) in Eastwell and Potbury. 21 Hen. 8.

A sheet of parchment, being the state, value, and condition of the Manors of East and West Donyland. (Imperfect.)

A Court Roll, 12 Hen. 8, and one of Eastwell, 3 Hen. 6. Notice and Conditions of a Sale at Gretton. 1827. (Printed.)

Drawing of a Roman pavement.

Plan of Langham Rokeby and Corby Field.

Two appointments of George Finch Hatton, one as Captain (1781), the other as Major (1791) in the Militia for the Western Division of Kent.

Appointment of George Finch Hatton to be a Deputy Lieutenant for Kent. 1778.

The appointment, oath, and certificate of G. F. Hatton to be a Justice of Peace for Kent. 1786. Grant of Arms to Richard Henreyong, of Hoxton (Midd.). 4 Hen. 8.

A Charter of the 3rd Edw. 1.

A document in German (supposed to be a licence to travel). An exemplification of an Act of Parliament granted at the request of Chr. Hatton, Esq. 18 Eliz.

A Deputation for Sir Chr. Hatton in Rockingham Forest from Robert, Earl of Leicester, by whom it is signed. 28th Nov., 29 Eliz.

Grant from the Earl of Oxford to Sir Chr. Hatton, of Clayhall (Essex), of the Lieutenancy of Waltham Forest. 20 James 1.

An order from Richard (Cumberland). Bishop of Peterborough, for the removal of the old barn at Blisworth, North. 1704.

A Commission of the Peace for the Co. Northampton. 33 Car. 2.

A Rentale of Danbury, with the names of the tenants. 2 Eliz.

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Two Court Rolls, one of the 23 Ric. 2, the other of 17 Edw. 4.

The Arraignment of the Earl of Castlehaven. "Schola Reginæ Elizabethæ " in Guernsey.

A duplicate of the account of Lord Hatton of money had out of the Receipt of the Exchequer, &c.

A Writ of 7 Hen.

2. A large box containing papers relating to the Customs, Hearth Tax, and legal affairs (principally concerning Lord Fanshawe).

3. Box containing Indentures, Bonds, Counterparts of Leases, Warrants, Writs, Receipts, Inquisitions, Warrants of Attorney, &c. &c.

4. Box containing Documents and Papers (which seem to relate chiefly to the Hatton family), such as Fee Farm Rents, Inspeximuses, and Exemplifications, &c.

CROME COURT, WORCESTERSHIRE, Aug. 25.

The papers at Crome Court, to which the Earl of Coventry very obligingly gave access for the purposes of the Commission, are the official papers of Sir Thomas Coventry, afterwards Lord Coventry, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal from 1626 to 1639. They range through the entire period, and the greater number bear his autograph initials. They comprise

Petitions for Chancellor's Livings.
Dispensations for Pluralities.

Warrants for Patents for the creations of Bishops, and Congés d'elire.

Warrants for the grants of Leases and Perpetuities of Crown lands, and annuities and gross sums.

Confirmations of Contracts with the Board of Greer! Cloth relating to Crown lands.

Licenses for alienation of land held in capite of the Crown.

Certificates of Agreements for Composition for Pardons on alienation without license.

Warrants for general and special Liveries, and other matters connected with the Court of Wards and Liveries.

Warrants for Letters of Denization; one of them is for one Matthew Vandyke.

A letter from Sir F. Windebank, requesting Letters of Denization for the Count de la Vall, at the instance of the Queen.

Warrants for the Exemplifications of Inrolments.
Petitions regarding Privilege.

Orders of the Court regarding Privilege.

Warrants for Patents of Inventions. One of these is an Invention for earing, tilling, and ploughing without oxen or horses.

Another is for a privilege for a London Merchant to import certain copies of Daniel Chamier's celebrated work, "Panstratia Catholica." (4 vols., folio, Geneva, - 1626.)

Licenses for selling Wines.
Licenses for selling Tobaeco.

Warrants for licenses to eat flesh at times forbidden by law.

Duplicate license to Sir Kenelm Digby to take a voyage by sea. 15 Nov. 3 Car. 1.

Warrants for general and special pardons. Copy of the Covenant sealed by the Earl of Middlesex (Lionel Cranfield) at the sealing of his pardon.

The Warrant for his Pardon and release of all debts; and Sign Manual of Charles 1 for his Pardon; and Robert Heath's (the Attorney General) warrant to deliver up the above-mentioned Covenant. Commissions of the Peace.

Commissions of Provision for the King's household. Commissions of Bankrupt.

Commissions of Appeal in the Court of Arches and Court of Admiralty.

Commissions of Gaol Delivery.

Commissions to inquire of lands and goods given to charitable uses.

Commissions to inquire of Depopulations by conversion of arable land into pasture.

Commissions to compound with Recusants. Warrants for Proclamations; one of them is against the importation of foreign Glass; another is against the excessive use of Coaches.

Warrants for the appointments of High Sheriffs and Escheators.

In the 11th Car. 1 there is a grant to Sir Kenelm Digby of the profits arising from the Office of Greenwaxing within the dominion of Wales, the County of Chester, and the County of Northumberland.

There is a Copy of a Petition, dated the 23rd of March 1634, from Sir Giles Overbury and Walter Overbury, Registers of the Office of Assurance in London, and their deputies. It states that the office had been erected about 50 years, and that for 30 years they had certain allowances, and they pray the continuance of those allowances. (The business of the office was the Assurance of Merchandise).

The allowance was granted on the same date.

A List of the Officers and their fees in 1602 accompanies.

Warrant for a Patent to Dame Elizabeth Fleetwood, wife of Sir William Fleetwood, Cupbearer to his Majesty, of an Annuity of 2501. out of the Court of Wards and Liveries, from the death of Sir William.

Warrants for Patents of Peerage and Baronetcies. Warrants for Letters of Protection against Creditors. Warrants for appointment of Sir P. de Carteret, Knt., Elias de Carteret, and George de Carteret, during their lives, successively to be bailiffs of Jersey (14 Car. 1).

Warrant for Patent for life to Helias de Cartaret, to be procurator within the Isle of Jersey.

Warrant for Patent during life to Elizabeth, the King's niece, of an annuity of 400l. out of the impost of Tobacco, 1637.

And papers connected with other matters, which in this time of high prerogative had to pass before the Custos of the Great Seal, and for which he received fees.

Besides the papers of Sir Thomas Coventry while he was Lord Keeper, there is a small bundle relating to the Inner Temple, viz., Minutes of Proceedings in a Parliament of the Inner Temple, A.D. 1617.

Several Petitions to the Bench of the Inner Temple in 1619:

Compotus of Sir T. Coventry, Knt. A. G., the Treasurer of the Inner Temple, 1622; and with it various accounts, such as Bills of the Water Gate, Bills for buildings, Vouchers, Bills; and

A bundle of Certificates from Clifford's Inn and Clement's Inn, that the persons therein named, applicants for admission to the Inner Temple, had resided in and were students in the Inns respectively whence the Certificate issued.

The various papers in this collection are in small bundles tightly tied up, and are in a very tender state, owing to damp and want of ventilation. A few bundles could not safely be opened. The papers should, I submit, be removed from the boxes, be unfolded, flattened, and dried, and placed in portfolios in order. Some may require to be dipped in size water.

As these papers run through the whole time that Sir T. Coventry held the Great Seal, they are well worthy preservation. and they will doubtless disclose many facts of public and private interest.

ALFRED J. HORWOOD.

EARL OF MACCLESFIELD'S PAPERS.

GEORGE STEPNEY'S CORRESPONDENCE, 1694 to 1707. The Letters are addressed to Mr. Ellis, who was Under Secretary of State, and they inclose Copies of Stepney's Letters to Secretary Sir William Trumbull, Secretary James Vernon, and Secretary Sir Charles Hedges, which inclosures are for the most part duplicates of the Stepney Correspondence in the Public Record Office.

The Correspondence is of a very interesting character, relating as it does to the negotiations in which Stepney was employed during this bustling period, to the movements of the allied armies, the Electors of Germany, and the subsidized German troops.

During this period Stepney was employed as the King's Commissary and Deputy in Saxony; in negotiations at Dusseldorf and Frankfort; with the Elector Palatine and the Elector of Treves; and at Loo and the Hague in negotiations which resulted in the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697. In the following year Stepney was appointed Envoy to Berlin, whence he was recalled in August 1699. In March 1701 he was accredited to Vienna, where he had his audience of Congé, 21st Sept. 1706.

N.B.-The Stepney Correspondence in the Public Record Office is not complete; that for the latter part of 1698, for instance, is wanting, but is supplied by the letters in the accompanying List.

Again a great portion of the Stepney Correspondence in the P.R.O. is contained in Entry Books, some of the

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