Report 1-

CIRCULAR OF THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION.

CIRCULAR

HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION,
OP THE
SECRETART
OP THB

Rolls House, Chancery Lane.
COMMIS-
SION.

Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint under Her Sign Manual certain Commissioners to ascertain what MSS. calculated to throw light upon subjects connected with the Civil, Ecclesiastical, Literary, or Scientific his. tory of this country are extant in the collections of private persons and in corporate and other institutions. A copy of the Commission is enclosed, which will best explain the object Her Majesty has in view.

The Commissioners think it probable that you may feel an interest in this object, and be willing to assist in the attainment of it, and with that view they desire me to lay before you an outline of the course which they propose to follow.

If any person express his willingness to submit any paper or collection of papers within his possession or power to the examination of the Commissioners, they will cause an inspection to be made by some competent person, upon the information derived from whom the Commissioners will make a private report to the owner on the general nature of the papers in his collection, such report will not be made public without the owner's consent, but a copy of it will be deposited and preserved in the Public Record Office, to which no person will be allowed to have access without the consent of the owner of the papers reported on. .

Where the papers are not mere insulated documents, but form a collection which appears to be of Literary or Historical value, a chronological list or brief calendar will be drawn up, and a copy thereof presented to the owner, and to no other person without his consent, but the original of such calendar will be deposited for preservation in the Public Record Office, to which no person will be allowed to have access without the consent of the owner of such collection.

The Commissioners will also, if so requested, give CIRCO their advice as to the best means of repairing and pre. OF THE serving any papers or MSS. which may be in a state of decay, and are of Historical or Literary value.

To avoid any possible apprehension that the examina clus. tion of papers by the Commissioners may extend to or include any title deeds or legal documents, I have to call your attention to the fact that nothing of a private character or relating to the titles of existing owners is to be divulged, and to assure you that positive instructions will be given to every person who examines the MSS. that if in the course of his examination any title deeds or other documents of a private character chance to come before him, they are to be instantly put aside, and are not to be reported on or calendared under any pretence whatever.

The object of the Commission is solely the discovery of unknown Historical and Literary materials, and in all their proceedings the Commissioners will direct their attention to that object exclusively.

In no instance will any MS. be removed from the owner's residence without his request or consent, but if for convenience the Commissioners be intrusted with any MSS., they will be deposited in the Public Record Office, and be treated with the same care ,as if they formed part of the Public Muniments, and will be returned to the owner at any time specified by him.

The costs of inspections, reports, and calendars, and the conveyance of documents will be defrayed at the public expense without any charge to owners.

The Commissioners will feel much obliged if you will communicate to them the names of any gentlemen who may be able and willing to assist in obtaining the objects for which this Commission has been issued.

I have the honour to be,
Your obedient servant,
JOHN ROMILLY,

Secretary.

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INDEX TO THIRD REPORT.

Abbey of the Holy Ghost, The, [by John Alcock]; xiii, 180. Admiralty-cont.
Abbeys, in England, list of, with anecdotes of them ; 366.

jurisdiction of the, in Ireland, letter about the, 1638 ; 76.
Abbot, Charles, the Right Hon. (afterwards Lord Colchester); --- suggestions touching the ; 79.

his official correspondence while in Ireland, and as --- a paper concerning the ; 199.
Speaker of the House of Commons; xi.

a Latin treatise, “ De officio Admirallitatis Angliæ,” temp.
Abbott, Dr. Geo., Dean of Winton, and Bishop elect of Lich-

Eliz. ; 108.
field, letter from ; 176.

notes taken oute of the Statute Lawe concerning the
Abdey, Chr., letter from ; 178.

Admiraltye ; ib.
Abercairny:

papers connected with the, 18th cent. ; 125, 146.
report on Mr. C. H. Drummond Moray's MSS. at ; xxiii, Lords of the, instructions by the, 1636 ; 71, 74.
416-420.

-- letters of the, 1636–7; 72, 74.
lairds of, correspondence of the ; 418, 419.

Commissioners of the, letter to the, 1653 ; 266.
Abercorn, Earl of :

Lords of the letters to the, 1757-60 ; 146.
letters of the (17th cent.); 428.

Court, the ; 13.
- temp. Anne; 368, 369.

matters, disputes touching, between England and France,
Abercromhy, Thomas, letters of ; 334.

1640; 83.
Aberdeen, 412 :

Office, return by the, of ships lost and damaged, 1691; 101.
visit of knights and gentlemen to, 1617; xxiv, 413.

- letter dated at the, 1715; 369.
letters dated at, 1714-6 ; 369, 373.

Adventurers, in a ship called the Pearl, petition of; 286.
report on Mr. John Webster's MSS. at; 420, 421.

See Merchants Adventurers.
Bishop of, Alexander Forbes, letter of, 1617 ; xxiv, 413. Æsopus in Fabulis ; 243.
- George, letter of, 1714; 369.

Affidavits; 319.
Marischal College at; 369.

Affiliation, proceedings in cases of; 350.
Provost of, Robert Stewart, letters of ; 369.

Africa :
University of, memorial touching the, 1715 ; 369; copy

trade of, 1735-67; 144.
thereof; 372.

supplies to the troops in, 1748 seg. ; 146.
Aberfoil, parish Kirk, &c. of; 399 (ter).

letter on the internal trade of, 1766 ; 136.
Abergavenny, Lord, amendments to his Bill, 1610 ; 13.

Poncet's scheme with regard to, 1767; 136.
Abernethy, Thomas, letters of; 334.

correspondence relative to the coast of, 1767; 143.
Abingdon, Corporation of; MSS. belonging to the, repaired African Company, the Royal, proceedings of the Commissioners
and bonnd; xi.

for making compensation to the, 1755, with other papers
Abingdon, Lord, letters of ; 428.

thereon ; 146.
Abjuracion, forme de ; 182.

Agar, Thomas, letters of ; 428,
Abjuration, oath of, letters concerning the, temp. Anne &

Agazario, F., letters of; 235.
Geo. I. ; 273, 370, 371, 374, 376.

Agnew, Robert Vans, Esq., MSS. of, at Barnbarroch; x, 402.
Abuses, “ certain special projects to discover” ; 213.

Agretti, the Abbate, mission of, from Rome to England ; 234.
Accounts, 406, 410, 426.

Aid for Knighting Prince Henry, Council letter touching the,
14th cent.; 185.

1609 ; 196.
temp. Ric. II. ; 304.
14th and 15th cent. ; xiv, 199.

Aid, a general, 1689; 101.
14th to 17th cent. ; 363.

Aikenheid, letter from ; 152.
15th cent. ; 109, 232.

Ailesbury, Earl of :

letter of the, 1680; 43.
temp. Hen. VI. ; 312.
15th and 16th cent. ; 231.

letters of the, in the Ormonde collection ; 428.
15th, 16th, and 17th cent. ; 315.

18th cent. ; 431.
16th cent. ; xiv, 186, 198, 199, 200, 206, 207, 216.

Airlie, Lord, letters of ; 428.

Airth, Earl of:
1510-1787; 320, seq.
temp. Hen. VIII. ; 217, 304.

creation of William, Earl of Monteith as, 1633-4 ; 400.
temp. Eliz. ; 227, 228 ;-1583–1602; 292.

information to the King by the [1633] ; 400.
16th and 17th cent. ; 41, 44, 332, 348.

letters of Charles I. respecting the, 1637–9; ib.
temp. Jac. I. ; 16.

commission to the, 1640; ib.
from 1620; 292.

See Menteith and Airth, Earls of; also Herth.
17th cent. ; xxiv, 51, 63, 64, 71, 257, 309, 326, 346, 347, | Akenside, Dr.; 291.
409, 412, 414, 425,

Alabaster, Sir Thomas, letters from ; 161, 162, 164.
17th and 18th cent. ; 302, 308, 1743–7 ; 411.

Alacampi, Edward, letters of ; 334.
of sheriffs, escheators, collectors, &c., drafts of, Acts for the

Albani, Vita Sancti, 14th cent., in the Marquis of Bute's collec-
passing of; 19, 28.

tion; 205.
ministers', 19-20 Edw. IV.; 41.

Albani, Cardinal, letter of; 138.
public, temp. Hen. VIII. ; 41 (ter).

Albany :
Declared, a large volume of, 1588-94 ; 217.

Duke of, protest against the legality of a court and assize
See Bailiffs' accounts, Churchwardens' accounts, Computi,

held by the, 1400 ; 422.
Constables' accounts, Receivers' accounts, Sheriffs'

- Governor of Scotland, license by the, 1416 ; xxiv, 413.
accounts.

--- Earl of March, &c., Alexander, letters of procuratory
Ackland, Sir John, his bill touching the prebend of Cutton ; 11.

by, 1470; 389.
Acre, note of the difference between a French and an English;

-- charter of, 1479 ; 4.
64.

Dukes of, charters, &c. by ; 397, 398, 402, 404, 405.
Adair, Recorder of London, letters of; 146.

Duchess of, and Countess of Lennox, Isabella, charter by,
Adderston (Warw.), schoolmaster at; 196.

1445 ; xxiii, 407.
Addington, Prime Minister, fall of, 1804 ; xv, 221.

Albemarle :
Addison, Jos., letter of ; 291.

Duke of, letter of the, 1660; 90 : 1662; 248.
Adeliza, Queen of Henry I., charters by; 216.

- letters touching the, 1685 ; 97, 99. See Monck.
Admiral, Lord High:

Lord, letters of, in the Ormonde collection; 428.
statutes and ordinances decreed by the, 1556; 46.

Earl of, letters of the, 1699; 193.
letters from Sir W. Raleigh to the, 1592 ; 195.

Ambassador at Paris, despatches from and to the,
letter to the, 1595; 37. See Howard, Lord.

1754 ; 141, 142.
letters from and to the, temp. Jac. I. ; 153, 156, 159, 164, -_- correspondence of the, 1763-8; 222.
168, 172, 173, 174. .

- letter of the, 1763 ; xxiii, 407.
treatise on the office of ; 211.

Alberoni, Cardinal, compendium of the Life of; 242.
Admirals :

Albert, Archduke, letters from, 1603 ; 149.
instructions to, 1692-9; 212.

letters to ; 151. See Archduke.
List of; 294.

Alchemy :
Vice, rules and regulations for the guidance of, by Sir books on ; 122.
Henry Martin's advice, 1639; 79.

a treatise on, by John Garland ; ib.
See Fees.

treatises on; 123, 272.
Admiralty :

- transcripts of ; 186.
warrant by the ; 31.

treatise on, by John Bubelem, 1384 ; 186, 244.
jurisdiction of the ; 46.

| Alchorne, Thomas, letters of; 277.

Alcock, John. See Abbey of the Holy Ghost.
Aldboro', customer of, letter from the ; 164.
Aldgate. See London.
Aldred, Mr., his letter to the Marquis Villiers by way of

prevention of the Spanish match, 1620; 204.
Aldworth, Richard, letters of ; 428.
Ale and beer, excise of, 1662, 283. See Beer.
Alehouse keepers and victuallers, petition touching the register

books of licenses and recognisances of ; 52. See Innkeepers.
Alehouses :

account of the receiver of profits on licenses for keeping,

1618; 1.
letters patent appointing Commissioners of, 1618; 15.
a book of licenses granted for the keeping of, 1617-20; 17.
proclamation repealing the patent touching, 1621 ; 21.

notes concerning, temp. Jac. I. ; 285. '
Ale.tasters, presentments of; 342.
Ales and revels, papers relative to, 1633 ; 286.
Alexander the Great, Latin history of ; 186.
Alexander, Jerome, letters of ; 428.
Algerine pirates ; 282.
Algiers :

captives in, proposal in Parliament for the relief of, 1624 ;

34.

- report on their petition ; ib.
propositions for redeeming English captives in, and sup-

pressing Algerine pirates, 1638 ; 75. A treatise on the

same subject; 76.
estimate of the charge of ships for, 1640; 83.
treatise concerning the best mode of relief of the English

captives in ; ib.
report concerning the setting out of ships against, 1640;

83.
a note of English vessels taken by those of, with the number

of captives there, 1641 ; 84. See Angiers.
letters to the English consul at, 1674 seq. ; 190.
Viceroy of, Mustapha, letter from, 1607; 169. See Mustapha

Agha.
Alienations :

licenses and pardons of, draft of an Act touching ; 25.
office of compositions for, discourse on the, by Lord Bacon ;

214.
Aliens residing in England, articles of remonstrance touching

the multitude of; 70. See Glass ; Cloth.
Alington, H., letter from; 154.
Allan, Cardinal ; 235.
his opinion concerninge the late printed booke of the

succession ; 235.
letters and papers by ; 235.

letters of ; 334. See Allen, W.
Allegiance :

oath of, a list of Lords who had not taken the (in Parlia-

ment), 1610; 12.
- a speech respecting the proclamation to take the,

1610 ; 13.
- list of peers taking the ; 13.
and supremacy, oath of, papers, letters, &c., concerning

the ; 339. See Bellarmine.
Allen, John, letters of ; 240, 428.

Joshua, letters of ; 428.
Th., letter from ; 177.
Thomas, presbyter; letters from, to the Earl of Shrewsbury;

297.

W., Cardinal, letter of ; 196. See Allan.
Allerton, T., letter from ; 163.
Allestree, W., letters of; 217.
Allingetone, Richard, confession of ; 260.
Allison, Th., letters from ; 157.
Alliterative poem. See Scottish Field, The.
Almond, John, letters of ; 334.
Almoner's roll, an ; 251.
Alne, grant of the fishing in the water of ; 47.
Alnwick Castle:

report on the Duke of Northumberland's MSS. at ; 45.

inventory of household stuff, &c. in [1616]; 63.
Alnwick:

Abbot and convent of, grant to the ; 47.
forest of; ib.

grant of property at, ib.
Alre (Somerset). See Clivedon.
· Alsiston (Sussex), manor of, charters relating to the ; 223, 224.
Alured :

Matthew, colonel ; 266.
Thomas, letter of ; 297.

- his letter to the Marquis of Buckingham ; 300, 326.
Alva, Duke of:

extracts and copies from the Archives at Brussels relating

to the administration of the ; 236 (bis).

letter from the, 1560 ; 262.
Alvensleben, Baron, letters of ; 146.
Alwartone [Somerset), the Lord of ; 353,
Ambassadors:

precedents for confining ; 244.
and agents, allowances to, temp. Eliz., Jac. I., et Car. I. ;

184.
instructions to, 1692-9; 212.

temp. Ann, ; 252.

Ambassadors-cont.

ceremonials on the reception of, 1710 ; 250.
letters of, 1766–7; 136, 137, 138.
despatches to, 1766-7; 138, 139. See Austria ; Denmark;

France ; Portugal; Prussia; Russia; Spain ; Sweden; &c.
Amboyna business, answer of the States General to the report of

their commissioners about the ; 190.
Ambrose, St., his treatise on the Epistles, 12th cent. ; 242.
Amelia, Princess :

letters to and from, 1748 ; 222.

correspondence of, 1763-8; 223.
America ; 126.

draft of an Act touching fishing voyages to the sea-coasts

of, 1621 ; 21.
trade of, 1735-67 ; 144.
supplies to the British forces in, &c., 1748–89; 146.
North, differences between England and France with re-

spect to their colonists in, 1754 ; 141, 142,
convention of neutrality between the Empress Queen and

France respecting the differences between England and

France in, 1756, (copy); 132.
memorial on the differences between the French and

English in, 1756 ; 134.
letter from the War Office to Lord Rollo in, 1762 ; 407.
letter on the state of affairs in, 1765 ; 130.
South, affairs of the Jesuits in, 1766 ; 136.
resolutions of the Committees of both Houses of Parliament

on the compensation to be given by the colonists to the

sufferers in the late riots there, 1766 ; 145.
letter of Frederick, King of Prussia, on the folly of the

English measures towards, 1768; 140.
civil and (military affairs in, during the war, 1776-81;

xxvi, 430.

politics of, 1780–2; 140.
American iron, a bundle of printed and MS. papers touching

the duty on, 1749–50 ; 226.
American war:

letters and papers relating to the, 1775-80 ; 108.
“rebel orderly book," taken at the Island of New York,

1776 ; 124.
diary of operations of Lord Howe's feet and army, 1778;

124.
Amherst, Sir Jeffery ; 407.
Amory, Thomas, letters of; 428.
Ampthill (Bedf.), draught plan of; 164.
Amsterdam, letters from the British enroy at, 1717; 219.
Amyand, Claudius, letter to ; 141.
Amyce, Thomas, letters of ; 229.
Anabaptist Conventicles, an information against frequenters of,

1718; 319.
Anabaptists:

petition of, to the King [1613]; 14.
letter touching the, 1659 [-60]; 269.

an unlawful assembly of [1663]; 93.
Analysis Juris Pontifici, extracts from ; 56.
Anatomy, a Spanish treatise on ; 123.
Ancrum, Earl of, opinion as to the legality of a grant by

Charles I. to the, 1653 ; 420.
Anderson :

H., letter from ; 165.

Patrick, letters of; 334.
Andersonus, Christopherus, de fratre Joanne Collino ; 337.

de patre Carolo Barretio ; ib. 1
André, Bernard, poet laureate to Henry VIL ; tract by; xi.
Andresfeld (Somerset), property in ; 314.
Andrews :

E., letter of ; 300.

Major, letters to; 190.
Anecdotes of historical characters; xi.
Anees, William, letters from; 174, 175.
Angel, the ship, papers relating to; 248, 249.
Angier :

F., letter to ; 156. Sce Aungier.

George, letters of; 334.
Angiers, a murder at, 1719 ; 273.
Anglesea, Justices of, letter from the ; 169.
Anglesey, Earl of :

letter from the [t. Jac. I.]; 180.
discourse by the, 1671 ; 184.
letter to the, 1675; 199.
Lord Privy Seal, letters to and from the, in the Ormonde

collection; 426, 428.
Anglo-Saxon times, copies of charters of ; 182.
Angulo, Don. Fr. Fernandez de, letter from ; 158.
Angus, Earl of :

Archibald, contract between Lady Margaret Douglas and,

respecting the Earldom, 1565; 394.
letters to the, 1603; 149.

William, acknowledgment by, 1630; 395.
Anhalt, Jo. Geo. Prince of, letter from ; 150.
Anjou, Duke of:

François d'Alençon, brother of Charles IX., letters of; 288.
letter of Sir P. Sidney to Queen Elizabeth about the pro-

posed match with the ; 297.

autographs of the ; xii.
Annals of English affairs, 1605-75, by Sir Bulstrode White-

locke; 202.

Annuities:

Annandale, Marquis of:

Arabella, Lady. See Stuart, Lady Arabella.
letters of the, in the Montrose collection; 368.

Arabic proverbs ; 244.
letter of the, 1715; 369.

Arabic words, vocabulary of ; 123.
Anne, Queen of England, consort of Richard II. ; 363.

Arable land, draft of an Act against the conversion of, into
Anne, Queen. See Boleyn, Anne.

pasture; 29.
Anne of Cleve, Queen:

Arbroath, abbey of, warrants by Mary Q. of Scots and James VI.
An order taken howe the Kinges Highnes shall ride at the

respecting the ; 394.
meting of the Lady Annes Grace of Cleve; 114.

Arbuthnot, letters of; xiv, 198..
orders for the Queen's coronation; ib.

Lord, MSS. of, to be inspected, x.
Anne of Denmark, Queen of James VI. (I.):

Archbishops and Bishops, a treatise on; 213.
letter of, 1592; 422.

Archduke :
missive of, 1603 ; xxiv, 419.

Ernestus, letter from, to Queen Elizabeth ; 203.
letter of, requesting attendance on her journey to London, letter from the States General to the, 1607; 168. See
1603; 423.

Albert; Austria.
letters from and to ; 151, 155, 160, 161, 167, 177, 178, 179, | Archduke's country, observations on the, by Sir T. Overbury;
185, 202, 264.

295.
letter from her tradesmen, 152; from the Commissioners | Archer :
of her Revenue, 155; from her tenants, 172.

James, Captain, letters of; 428.
draft of an Act of confirmation of a grant to, 1610; 12.

Lucas, letters of; 428.
petition to, for an Order of Knights Adventurers; 178.

Patrick, letters of; 428.
petition to, of “the six rockers of the late Ladie Marie's Walter, letters of; 428.
grace;" ib.

Arches, Court of:
petition of the grooms of the Queen's Stables to Cecil, ib. official copy of a sentence given by the, 1388; 358.
papers and poems on the death of; 298.

decree of the, 1402 ; 292.
lines by King James on the death of ; xviii, 299.

a citation to the, temp. Edw. Vl. ; 46.
Anne:

Architecture, English, letter concerning, 1765; 291.
Lady (afterwards Queen), letter respecting, 1678; 423. Ardern :
- William of Orange comes to court her, 1680 ; 269.

...., letter from ; 160.
- account of the Prince of Denmark's suit for the hand Sir John, letter to; 270.
of, 1683; 289.

Ardglass, Lord, letters of ; 428.
- order for payment of the King's gift to George and Ardrossane, Lord of, Alexander Mongomry, agreement by ; 388.
Anne, Prince and Princess of Denmark, 1685 ; 267. Ardyngton, church of; 313.
-- letter from, to William III. ; 195.

Arenberg, Count d’, letter from ; 149.
Queen, coronation of; order for a gown of scarlet for the letter to; 151.
Strewer of Herbs to Her Majesty ; 267.

Argyll :
—“truly zealous for the Church of England,” 1702; 273. Duke of, muniments of the, to be inspected ; x, 402.

– letter touching her relations with her ministers, 1710; Earl of, Archibald, his action against the Earl of Lennox,
270.

1541; 393.
- letter from Lord Oxford to, with an account of public

- letter touching the army of [15657; 394.
affairs from 1670 to 1714; 145.

- letter of James VI. to the tenants of the, 1603; 396.
- instructions by, to an ambassador, 1711 ; 252.

_ letters from the, 1603 seq.; 149, 152, 159, 174.
- letters of ; xxi, 198, 218, 252, 288, 368, 420, 421.

- letters of protection by the [t. Car. I.?); 408.
Annesley, Cordell, letter from ; 151.

Marquis of, Archibald, bond of relief by, 1642 ; 413.

Lord, letters of, in the Ormonde collection ; 428.
Court, original book of, 12 Eliz. ; 230.

Duke of, private memorial for the, 1703 ; 403.
and fees, 1605-12; 164.

-- John, Commissioner to the Scotch Parliament, letters
a paper relating to, 1745-6; 146.

of, 1705-6 ; xxv, 421.
Anson, Lord, despatches from and to, 1758; 142.

- letters relative to the, 1715 ; 372, 377.
Anstey, West (Devon), land in ; 358.

Arigoni, Cardinal, letters of; 334.
Anstis (Garter):

Arismendy, John, of London, will of; 277.
letter of; 113.

Aristotle :
MSS. bought at his sale ; 114.

Latin treatise on, 16th cent. ; 114.
Anstruther :

a treatise falsely ascribed to (Secreta Secretorum); 243.
Sir Robert, ambassador in Germany, letters to and from; 191. See Logic.
- letter from, at Nuremberg ; 285.

Arithmetic :
Sir Wm., letter from ; 167.

a treatise on ; 108.
Lord, letters of, 1707-11 ; 369.

Rules of, by Edward Cocker; 124.
Anthems, Latin ; 244.

Arley Hall (Cheshire), report on Mr. R. E. Egerton Warburton's
Antibes, designs of the French at, 1766 ; 139.

MSS. at; 290.
Antipædobaptists, Benjamin Stinton's journal of the affairs of Arlington, Earl of;
the ; 368.

letters of the, 1665–9, 245 ; 1666, 269, 1673, 197; 1674, 266.
Antiphonar, part of an ; 315.

letters to the, 1666, 190; 1674, seq., 190.
Antiquarian subjects:

letters from and to, 1672; 43.
letter on, 1763 ; 267.

letters of the, in the Ormonde collection ; 428.
extracts from various authors on; 294.

Armagh, Archbishop of :
Antiquaries, Society of, letter of the secretary of the, 334.

Thomas, license to, to receive native Irish into his protec-
Antiquities:

tion, 1576; 227.
report on a discovery of; 110.

John (elect), letters of, 1660[-1]; 41.
drawings of (camps, inscriptions, &c.); 124.

Oliver Plunket, Transactions and Letters of, 1681 ; 261.
collection of ; 294.

See Plunket; Usher.
Antonini, Antonio (at Venice), letters of ; 253.

Armine (York), manor of, petition touching the ; 34.
Antrim, Earl of:

Armour:
letters of the, 1629-31; xxiii, 408.

letter touching, 1559[-60]; 37.
- in the Ormonde collection ; 428.

makers, petition of, to Parliament ; 178.
Antwerp, the “ Flying Harte" of; 231.

and bows, bill for ; 231.
Apleton, priory of, charters to the ; 224, 225. See Appleton.

Arms:
Apocalypse, the, on vellum, 10th cent. ; 289.

An alphabet of, (being a large collection of coats of arms);
Apothecaries, of London, petition of the, to the House of Com-

120.
mons; 27.

collection of, taken out of Guillim Ashmole and other
Apothecary, order for payment to Charles I.'s, 1649 ; 266.

eminent heralds ; 208.
Apparel, inventories of; 61, 62, 63.

treatise concerning ; ib.
Appeal cases, documents connected with ; 1.

grant of ; 246.
Appeal:

College of, receipt for a subscription towards the rebuilding
: (from courts of equity to King's Bench or Common Pleas),

of the, 1673; 293.
draft of an Act respecting ; 29.

Office of, the first foundation of the ; 213.
of murder, cases of, temp. Car. I. ; 187, 211.

Officers of: Abuses committed by Painters and others to
Appeals, observations relating to; 295. See Appellis.

the prejudice of the, by W. Smith, Rouge Dragon ; 253.
Appelby (Somerset ?); 353.

Arms, orders to search for, 1660 and 1683; 245.
Appellis, De ; 189.

search for, 1661 ; 259.
Appleby Castle, siege of, 1648; 86.

orders to restore, 1664 ; 245.
Appleton, manor of, title to the ; 268. See Apleton.

taken at various houses, lists of (1666 ?] ; 245.
Apprentices, 324.

letters relating to the search for, 1683 ; 96.
admissions of; 247.

Armstrong:
female, indentures of ; 251, 311.

Archie, son of the Laird of Quhithauch, letters touching
Apprenticeship, indentures of; 309, 310, 312, 332.

the custody of, 1576, 1587, and 1597 ; 422.
Apsley, Sir Allen, Lieutenant of the Tower, letter to ; 285.

Archibald, jester or “ plesant” to James I. ; xxiv, 409.
Aquaviva, Claudius, letters of; 334.

- attendant on Prince Charles (to Spain); xviii, 284.

111. to ; 297 rindel of Wardour,

Armstrong-cont.

Mr. (alias Sewell), letters of; 334.

Thomas, Sir, letters of ; 428.
Armstrongs, Borderers: rescue of thieves by ; 401.
Army:

letters about the, temp. Hen. VIII. ; 298.
papers relating to the, 1583, seq. ; 115.
- temp. Eliz.; ib.
lists (Ireland), 1598-1714 ; 426. See Ireland.
uote of the number of soldiers to be supplied by several

counties to the, 1599; 51. .
orders for payments to captains of the, 1599; ib.
pass warrants for captains of the ; ib.
matters : letters on, temp. Car. I. ; 229.

- 1638 ; 40.
letters and papers touching the King's, 1640-1 ; 80, 81, 82,

83, 84.
papers relating to the state of the, 1649-51 ; 216.
Commissioners for disbanding the ; letter from the, 1660;

90, 259.
letter directing the raising of money for disbanding the,

1660; 244.
orders and commissions, 1661-6; 425.
lists of officers, and papers relating to the, 1712; 252.
rules and regulations, 1744-5; 244.
three volumes of answers from towns and counties to the

plan for augmenting the domestic forces, 1782; 146.
several volumes of papers relating to the, 18th cent. ; 124,

125, 146.
papers and estimates ; 84.

See Military Levies.
Armyns of Asgardby, account of the family of; 367.
Arniston :

report on Mr. Robert Dundas's MS. at ; 414-416.
Lord (of the Session), letters of ; 368.
Lord (first President Dundas), letters to, 1742–7 ; 415.

See Dundas, Mr.
Arnold, General, letters of; 146.
Arnot, James, of Kirktonhill, commission to ; 409.
Arran, Isle of, grant of the office of sheriff of the ; 402.

charters of lands in ; xxii, 402.
Arran, Earl of :

James, agreement respecting the slaughter of the Earl of

Lennox by, 1530 ; 393.
James, Governor of Scotland, commission by, 1542; 413.
letter of the, 1546 ; 422.
licence by the, 1547; ib.
James, Governor of Scotland, protest touching lands sold

to, by compulsion, 1549; 403.
state of his affairs in Ireland, 1661; 425.
Richard, Deputy Governor of Ireland, 1682-4; correspon-

dence of; 426.
- petitions and memorials to; ib.
letters of the, in the Ormonde collection ; 428.

Lady, letters of; ib.
Arrests, documents relating to. See Privilege, breach of.
Ars Artium ; 123.
Arschot, Duke of, letter from ; 160.
Arthur, King, English poem on, in the Red Book of Bath ; 182.
Artbur, Prince of Wales, account of the christening of; 113.
Arthur :

Captain, letter from ; 157.
Francis, of Limerick, the case of; 341.
P., letter from ; 152.

Robert, letters of ; 228.
Artificers and handicraftsmen, English, an Act for the mainte-

Dance of; 6.
Artillery, papers relating to, t. Jac. I. ; 180.
Arundel, Earl of :

William de Albini, charters by ; 216.
Hugh de Aubeny, grant to; 251.
Richard, deed by, 1338 ; 251.
Philip Howard, extents of lands of, 8 Eliz. ; 272.

- a letter written by, to the Queen's Majesty, when he
departed the realm of England; 204.

- causes of his indictment, 1589 ; ib.
- his “ Apologetical defence," 1589 ; 196.

- his “ Apologie upon his restraynt for accepting the
title of Comes Imperii ;” 213.
- letter of, about the title of Comes Imperii; 300.
- Life and death of the renowned confessor ; 236.
letters from the, 1605 seq. ; 161, 166, 170, 172, 179.

- in the Ormonde collection ; 428.
Arundel and Surrey :'
Earl of, Thomas, letters of, 1638-9 ; xiv, 40.

- commission to, as general of the army to be raised,
1638; 75.
- names, &c. of officers serving in the King's army in

the North under, 1639; 79.
-- letters to his steward [t. Car. I.); 277.

letters of; ib.
Countess of, Anne (ob. 1630) two biographies of; 236.
Arundel, of Wardour, Lord :

Thomas, passport by, 1606; 164.
-- letters from, 1606; 161, 166.
- letters to ; 167. See Arundel, Thomas.
catalogue of Catholic writers by the Rt. Hon. ; 341.

Arundel :

sister Cicely Clare, death of ; 340.
Jo., letters from ; 149, 150, 158.
John, letter from Henry VIII. to ; 297.
Thomas, letters from ; 149, 150. See Arundel of Wardour,

Lord.
Asbury (Cheshire); 56.
Ascham, Roger :

presentation copy to Edw. VI. of his Toxophilus; 244.
letters of; xviii, 293, 296, 297.

letter to; 297.
Asgall, Simon, letter of ; 269.
Ashburnham, Lord, correspondence of, 1763–7; 223.
Ashburton, Lord, drafts of his bill for abolishing certain offices

[1782] ; 145.
Ashe and Dean, parsonages of; 12.
Asheton, Ra., letter from ; 150.

Raphe, report of the deputies of ; 244.
Ashley :

Sir Anthony, suit by, for conspiracy against his life ; 61.
- marriage of, with Philippa Sheldon ; 216.
-- charges against, in the Star Chamber ; ib.
- letters from, 1603, seq. ; 149, 153, 156, 159, 165, 166

175, 179.
Sir Ro., letters from ; 163, 172.

Lord, letters of, 1667-8; 245.
Ashmole, Elias, letter of; 269.
Ashover Wood, accounts of the iron forges in; 228.
Ashridge (Bucks), church of, a book formerly belonging to the;

335.
Ashton. See Asheton ; Assheton; Aston.
Assault and battery, case of, 29 Edw. I.; 225.

summonses for ; 318.
Assemblies, unlawful, proceedings against various persons for,

in the Star Chamber ; 54 seq.
Assembly, the General (of the Church of Scotland):

at Perth, 1618, a summons to; 423.
private instructions to the Royal Commissioner to, 1703 ;

xxiii, 404.

letters concerning, temp. Anne and Geo. I.; 370 seg.
Assessment:

list of persons for an, 1619 ; 16.

rolls ; 344, 346.
Assessments and rates, Yorkshire, 1672 ; 299.
Assheton, William, letters of ; 428.
Assisa cerevisiæ and Assisa panis ; 182.
Assisarum, Casus, 17th cent. (“put cases "); 275.
Assizes :

reports of cases before justices in Eyre at, temp. Edw. III. ;

xvii, xviii, 252, 267.
pleas of, temp. Hen. IV. (in cos. Hereford, Essex, Kent,

Sussex, and Surrey) ; 252.
and gaol deliveries, draft of an Act for holding; 24.

notes of cases at the, 1616-18; 268.
Astall and Fulbrook (Oxon.), rectory of; 32.
Asteley, Mrs., letter to ; 296.
Astley, Sir John, of Patshull, and Sir Philip Boyle; the battle

between, t. Hen. VI. ; 295.
Aston, Sir Arthur ; 191.
Aston (or Ashton), Sir Roger, letters from ; 157, 160 ter, 163

bis, 166 bis, 167 passim, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177,

178.

letters to; 157, 169, 177, 180.
Astrolabe, a treatise on the rules of the, 15th cent. ; 112.
Astrologer, letter from an; xiv, 198.
Astrologers ; 253.
Astrology:

a letter on the art of, 14th cent.; 199.
treatises on, 14th cent. ; 243.

- 15th cent. ; 186.
a treatise on, entitled “ The Bibill of Geomancye," 15th

cent. ; 112.
and the use of the Astrolabe, translated from John de Monte-

regio, 15th cent. ; 208.
an Italian work on, by L. M. Cagnacci, 1689 ; 122.

treatises on; 123.
Astronomicum, Organum, by Johannes Temporarius ; 208.
Astronomy, treatises on, 14th cent. ; 243.
“ Astrop-Wells, 1692,” poems entitled ; 101, 102.
Athelney (Somerset), Abbot of:

conveyance by the ; 317.
letter of attorney by the ; ib.

common for the ; 354.
Athenry, Lord, letters of ; 428.
Athole:

Duke of, muniments of the, to be inspected ; x, 402.
and Caithness, Earl of, Walter, precept of sasine by, 1424;

398.
Earl of, John, letters of procuratory by, 1565; 394.
Lord, letters of, in the Ormonde collection ; 428.
Marquis of, letters of the, temp. Anne; 421.
Duke of, John 1st, letters of, 1703-32; 368, 369.

note to the, 1715; 373.
-- letter of the ; ib.
-- protection by the, 1716; 419.
- papers about the, c. 1750; 222.
Countess of, Mary, letters from (temp. Jac. I.); 151, 156.

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