Manuscripts

Notes on Casual Fines in Chancery. "The Pretended casuall fines vpon writts of Debt, Trespasse and such like haue beene receaved and enjoyed by the Chancellors of England, and keepers of the Great Seale, and by the Masters of the Rolles and Cursitors of the High Court of Chancery, time without all memory of man for many ages togeather". They had been questioned in the times of several of the Chancellors - "twice in the time of that graue and wise Counsellor the late L. Ellesmere" - but the matter had been fully answered: with a note of observations by Sir Nicholas Bacon

Emblemes and Epigrames by Francis Thynne with a dedication to Lord Chancellor Ellesmere

Manuscripts

Official, semi-official, and personal papers of six generations of the Egerton family, particularly those accumulated by Sir Thomas Egerton, 1540?-1617, Baron Ellesmere and Viscount of Brackley, Solicitor-General (1581-1592), Attorney-General (1592-1594), Lord Keeper (1596-1603), and Lord Chancellor (1603-1617); Sir John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, 1579-1649, President of the Council of Wales (1631-1649); John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, 1622-1686, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (1660-1686); John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater, 1646-1701, President of the Board of Trade (1696-1699), First Lord of Admiralty (1699-1701), Speaker of the House of Lords (1697 and 1700); John Scrope Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater, 1681-1745, a Whig courtier under Anne and George I, and Francis, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, 1736-1803. Approximately 13,000 pieces.

EL 34/B/12

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