Ffeil Wynnstay MS 50 [RESTRICTED ACCESS] - Legal and other notes.

A composite manuscript of mainly legal material:
(a) Directions for the practise of an attorney in the sessions in Wales;
(b) Notes on legal cases: Countess of Salop; Magdalen College; Spencer;
(c) An index of legal subjects; and
(d) Miscellaneous treatises and notes, comprising 'The forme of keeping of a law day or leete...', with a form of charge to be given; tables of legal fees; precedents; 'Lecture mgri. Treherne sur Carta forestar' (see also MS 39); notes of 27 lectures by Charles Calthropp upon copyhold tenure in 1574; notes of six lectures by Master Denishill upon the Statute of Fines (4 Hen. VII. cap. 24); a treatise on the law relating to islands arising in the sea; extracts of Placita de Quo Warranto at Chester, 1597, examined by Michael Heneage (joint-keeper of Tower Records), 1600; marriage articles of Frederick, the Elector Palatine, and Elizabeth, daughter of James I, 1612; notes on the Greek Church; a consideration upon the treaty of marriage between England and Spain, 1618; a treatise on the Apocrypha; notes on the prosperity of the United Provinces; Instructions agreed upon by a Council of War on board the Admirall 21 Oct. 1625, with a journal of the voyage written by Thomas Jeffreyes, chaplain to the Earl of Denbigh, rear-admiral to the Fleet, in HMS St Andrew, Oct.-Dec. 1625; the great charter made in 9 Henry III and confirmed by Edward I; forms of indictments, presentments and writs.
The headings and catchwords have been cut away in binding in a large number of folios.