An Account of the Most Important Public Records of Great Britain: And the Publications of the Record Commissioners : Together with Other Miscellaneous, Historical, and Antiquarian Information. Comp. from Various Printed Books and Manuscripts, Volum 2

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Baldwin and Cradock, 1832

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Pàgina 179 - those measures, which, at the close of the last and the beginning of the present centuries, produced the magnificent establishment of the General Register House. He died in 1816 : and in the following year the Commissioners on the Public Records of Great Britain caused a little work to be printed, entitled
Pàgina 492 - VIII VII VI V IV III Prid. Idus XIX XVIII XVII XVI XV XIV XIII XII XI X IX VIII VII VI V IV III Prid. AUGUSTUS. FESTUM S. PETRI AD VINCULA. Ethelwold. Ep. & Conf.
Pàgina 93 - exact Abridgment of the Records in the Tower of London from the reign of King Edward II. to that of King Richard III., which he published from the papers of Sir Robert Cotton, fol. Lond. 1657, was a very valuable work in its time: but as it relates almost solely to the Parliamentary Records, it could be but of little use in the plan of the
Pàgina 385 - if I remember richt, it spake some thing of harvest, & prophecied my destruction about that tyme, ye may thinke of this, for it is like to be the laboure of suche a desperate fellow as this is: if he vill not other wayes confesse, the gentler tortours are to be
Pàgina 224 - on the Public Records, vol. ip 520.] CHAPTER XXVI. ROYAL CHARTERS OF SCOTLAND. ABRIDGMENT OF THE RECORDS OF CHARTERS, OR REGISTER OF THE GREAT SEAL OF SCOTLAND.—RECORDS OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL OF SCOTLAND. PLAN OF THE COLLECTION OF ROYAL CHARTERS OF SCOTLAND [From the Appendix to the First General Report from the Commissioners on Public
Pàgina 326 - the order and form of issuing out writs and tallies; the manner of stating the accounts of those times, and the way of collecting the rents, both in money and purveyances of victual, &c. Some share of the book at least, as particularly the last chapter save one of the first part, which bears the title de
Pàgina 204 - to visite the their predecessors, it were good, that vpon a mature deliberation, the exposition of the law were set downe by Acte of Parliament, and such reports therein confirmed, as were thought fit to serue for law in all times hereafter, and so the people should not depend vpon the bare opinions of
Pàgina 239 - by William, Jirst Earl of Douglas, anno 1371, is without Foundation.] (20) [Robert Keith is the author of the following works:—The History of the Affairs of the Church and State of Scotland, from the beginning of the Reformation, in the reign of King James V., to the Retreat of Queen Mary into England;
Pàgina 396 - As to the manner in which the present editions are printed.—It has been remarked, as matter of regret, " that Doomsday Book, as printed, is a mere fac simile, constituting a very large folio, full of abbreviations, and signs, that cannot be understood without a key, and much previous information.

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