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A volume containing lists of commissions granted by the Crown during the period 1485-1661. Paper; pp. 1-125; 334 x 212; full parchment.

Transcripts of warrants follow forfeitures of popish recusants' estates. Transcripts, in different hands, of warrants directed to the receivers of revenue issuing from the forfeitures of Popish recusants, 1680-1683, together with an Index. Paper; pp. [I], 1-200, many being blank, aid [1 - 14]; 359 x 234; full parchment.

Resolutions for the establishment of a Lancasterian School at Usk, rules for its conduct, and minutes of the meetings of its committee of management, 24 June 1812–5 November 1823. Paper; 35 ff., unnumbered; 375 x 230; 1812-1823; half calf. At the end of the volume is a fragment of what appears to have been a list of pupils at the school. The earlier resolutions are not original, and must have been transcribed after the present volume was acquired by the committee. [See Western Mail, 7 January 1939, and Schoolmaster, 19 January 1939.

A transcript, [18 cent., second ½] (watermark similar to Churchill, no. 317, dated 1770), of a summary account of the revenue and expenditure of the French Treasury, mainly for the year 1675 but compiled in 1678 by Gédéon Berbier du Metz, garde du Trésor royal, for king Louis XIV.
It includes incomes from ordinary taxes deducted in the généralités (ancient French tax dominions) on woods, bridges, roads and Paris duties, from the 'Cinq Grosses Fermes', gabelles and other indirect taxes, royal farms and 'Parties casuelles' (incomes related to the selling of public charges), from extraordinary taxes in Pays d'états (free-tax French lands) and Church 'don gratuit' and levies, and from the selling of annuities, 1674-1677 (ff. 4-65 recto); expenses from king's rolls and gifts, 1674-1678 (ff. 66-80 recto); with a total sum for the year 1675 (f. 80). The original summary account is believed to have been destroyed during the French Revolution.

Transcript of the minutes of the secret committee appointed to inquire into the conduct of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, 31 March – 15 July1742. Paper; pp. 1-233; 370 x 235; full calf with gilt tooling.

Calendar of the Journals of the House of Lords April, 1660- November, 1689, both chronologically and alphabetically arranged, together with lists of appeals and writs of error, 1660-1685. Paper; 30 ff., unnumbered; 368 x 253; full parchment.

Transcript of the Journal of the House of Lords 6 January- 17 March 1646/7. The name of Jno. Walker is written inside the back cover. Paper; 471 ff., unnumbered; 352 x 230; early 18th century; full calf with blind tooling.

A composite volume containing legal precedents in English and Latin of the late Tudor and Stuart periods relating to accounts, entries of writs, dower, case, trespass on the case, declaration of debt, trespass and insult, etc. Paper; 176 ff.; 330 x 210; full rough calf.

Transcripts of warrants, letters, and other documents of Queen Elisabeth, 1583/4 - 1588, relating mainly to various measures for the defence of the realm. Most of the transcripts are contemporary, the remainder, together with the marginal and other notes, being in an early eighteenth century hand. Paper; ff. 1-191, some unnumbered, some blank, and some cut away; 346 x 240; half sheepskin.

Indexed alphabetical calendar of the Journals of the House of Lords,. 1640-1642. Formerly in the library of Sir Robert Walpole. Paper; pp. 1-460 (100-109 twice), 374 x 234; full blue morocco with gilt tooling.

Inventory of the library, statues, busts, paintings, instruments, etc., of [Thomas Cooke of Goitre]. Paper; 42 pp., numbered, 17 of which are blank; 236 X 187. On the fly-leaf the volume is called 'Cooks Inventory'.

Record of the trial of George Crossley late of the parish of St. Martin in the fields, co. Middlesex, gent., at the Old Bailey Sessions, 22 Feb., 1796, on the charge of forging the will of the Reverend Henry Lewis of Hygga, parish of Trelech, co. Monmouth. Paper; 270 pp., numbered, and 1 unnumbered; 321 X 186; paper.

Robin's administration of their father's estate. The writer's prospects at the election. His expenses at Oxford, and a request for money.

Thanks for a present.

The removal of a deposit account.

The return of documents together with Roger Williams' reply.

The gift of an engraved portrait of the late Mr. Granville Somerset.

The recipient's health. Pictures of the recipient's relatives at Whitehaven.

A deed relating to Mrs Cheslyn's estates.

The payment of a debt.