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Commonplace book. English history: manuscript

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    Commonplace book. English history: manuscript

    Manuscripts

    Extracts from medieval records about defense, including information about the general musters, the provision of ships for defense, the defense of the sea coast, and the use of beacons.

    mssHM 30661

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    Henry Stafford, Barron Stafford commonplace book: manuscript

    Manuscripts

    Includes extracts from chronicles, lists of noblemen, extracts from or notes on parliamentary statues, etc.

    mssHM 202

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    Commonplace book. English history: manuscript

    Manuscripts

    Includes copies of "Leicester's Commonwealth," "Burghley's Commonwealth," Sir Francis Bacon's "Certain Observations Made Upon a Libel," letters by Sir Walter Ralegh, etc.

    mssHM 267

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    Commonplace book. English law: manuscript

    Manuscripts

    Extracts from Year Books, abridgements of cases and decisions, law reports, precedents and formularies, notes on the Assize of Forests and other legal matters. Owned by and [partly in the hand of?] Sir John Port.

    mssHM 46980

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    Commonplace book. English law : manuscript

    Manuscripts

    A bound manuscript volume, possibly in the hand of George Wither; includes notes on court cases, legal opinions, etc. Half-bound in maroon morocco over cloth with ex-libris of Thomas Brooke, and an unidentified ex-libris; spine reads "Wither's M.S. Note-Book 1650-1660."

    mssHM 103

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    Commonplace book. English history: manuscript

    Manuscripts

    Copies of letters, treatises, and accounts of legal proceedings, chiefly in England, in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, including accounts of the rebellion, trial, and execution of the Earl of Essex, a copy of the "Liber Intrationem [in Camera Stellata tempore Regis Henr. Septimi]", other proceedings in Star Chamber, Sir Henry Wotton on George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, etc.

    mssHM 41952