Public records; a description of the contents, objects, and uses of the various works printed by authority of the Record commission [by sir N.H. Nicolas.]. - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...the language or contractions of the original. III. Calendar of Writs of Elections and Returns, page 1, xcvi. IV. Parliamentary Writs, being literal copies of original documents, page 1--192. V. Writs, Records, and Muniments, relating to the Military service due to the Crown, whether by reason of tenure or of allegiance; also copies of original documents, page 193--390. VI. Appendix of illustrative documents, page 381--409 VII. Alphabetical Digest, preceded by a " Roll of the "names and arms of the Bannerets of England, compiled in "the early part of the reign of Edward the Second, and "which affords a curious illustration of ancient heraldry." e Page 411--947 An Index Nominum. The Digest of Places and of principal matters in the first volume is to be given on a future occasion. The second volume of the "Parliamentary Writs" embraces the reign of Edward the Second, 1307 to 1327, and is divided into two volumes, each of which is called " a "Division." The editor observes in the preface: "The writs of Election are exhibited in a series which, "though by no means complete, does not offer any very "important chasms; and the comparison between the nura"ber of returns, now printed for the first time at full length, "and the number catalogued by Prynne, will show how "many have been recovered since the age of that laborious "writer." "The several bundles of proxies contain only one exe"cuted by a temporal peer (Part 1, p. 267, No. 30), but "that one is of considerable importance from the fact which "it establishes,3 viz., that a peer might consider himself as "bound to attend parliament, although his name does not "appear amongst the persons summo...
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