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Material on the Marches of Wales

Notes collected from calendars of public records and from printed sources relating to the Marches of Wales and to the de Clare Earls of Gloucester, with transcripts in other hands of charters and other documents relating to William de Breos, Hugh le Despenser, Richard de Clare, Gilbert de Clare and others; notes from an extent of Caerphilly, 24 Edward I, and from an inspeximus, 14 Elizabeth, of a record of knight's fees held by the Earl of March.

Materials for a history of Herefordshire

A list of holders of Knights' fees in Herefordshire taken from the Black and Red Books of the Exchequer; extracts from close rolls, temp. Henry VI, illustrating the parliamentary history of the county; indexes to nomina villarum; lists of names taken from escheators' accounts, close rolls, originalia and other records, temp. Edward II - Henry V.

Material relating to English counties

Abstracts of cases in the coram rege rolls relating to Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Salop, Somerset, Staffordshire and Suffolk, temp. Henry III, together with notes of entries relating to ecclesiastical matters concerning Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire and Somerset taken from patent rolls, temp. Henry IV - Henry V.

Guide to MSS

Lists showing in which of his manuscript volumes of transcripts William Floyd's (c. 1810-c. 1898) extracts from inquisitiones post mortem and charter and patent rolls are contained.

Ireland and the public records, &c.

A list of references to Ireland and to Irish affairs in the public records, mainly in the close rolls. At the end is a list, taken from Appendix II to the Fifth Report of the Deputy-Keeper of the Public Records, of subsidies paid by bishops and other clergy in the dioceses of Wales, 8-27 Elizabeth.

Original documents, autographs, &c.

Autograph letters or documents signed by several persons (16-19 cents); treasury warrants, orders, receipts, etc. (1633-1785), with letters of attorney, certificates of employment, etc. of military, naval and civil personnel; a list of House of Commons messengers and doorkeepers (1680); miscellaneous tax receipts; draft Wiltshire militia papers (1661); miscellaneous English lawsuit papers (18 cent.); papers relating to Gilbert Dyer, bookseller; a copy of General Schuyler's directions for the culture of hemp in America; a transcript of the order of the Lord Mayor, aldermen and sheriffs of London at their meetings, 1629; miscellanea.

Original documents

The will of Gilbert Lyndfield of Ipswich (1618); a bill of complaint in Chancery; conveyance of property in Jamaica (1703) and a Nevis debenture (1722); accounts of receipts of rents and disbursements (1706-1717); a case concerning the insurance of the brig Wassity of St Petersburgh (c. 1812).

Indexes

Indexes of Pembrokeshire fees, temp. Edward II - Edward III, and of personal names in grants and liveries, 1509-1536; lists of Herefordshire fees, with the names of holders, at the times of Domesday, Testa de Nevill, Edward I, Edward III and Henry VI.

Index to MSS

Lists of the main contents of some of William Floyd's (c. 1810-c. 1898) manuscripts.

Material relating to Herefordshire

Particulars relating to holders of land in Herefordshire, arranged by parish and taken mainly from the Testa de Nevill, the Black Book of the Exchequer and inquisitiones post mortem.

Norman families in England

Notes on some Norman lords and their tenants in chief and their descendants, with an index of the names of the principal families described.

Brecknockshire studies

Short studies on the history of the Brecknockshire lordships of Crickhowel, Bronllys and Talgarth and also on the families of Baskerville, Clifford, Giffard, Le Wafre, Pychard and Waldebeuf.

Anglo-Norman families

One of two volumes containing notes on Norman-English families, including some connected with the Welsh Border.

Anglo-Norman families

One of two volumes containing notes on Norman-English families, including some connected with the Welsh Border.

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