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Sir William Drake commonplace book on legal, historical, and other notes

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    Journal and commonplace book of Sir William Drake

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    Sir William Drake's personal and political diary and commonplace book that covers events from Nov. 30, 1631 to the outbreak of the Civil War. Included are extensive notes on books, the law courts in London, and the Long Parliament

    mssHM 55603

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    Legal commonplace book compiled by Scottish solicitor containing sample legal forms and notes on heraldry

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    This substantial Scottish legal manuscript dateable to circa 1690 contains numerous sample texts that would have been used by a Scottish solicitor for drawing up legal documents. A tabbed index has been compiled at the beginning of the book. Penned on the final twenty pages are heraldic and genealogical notes relating to various Scottish families.

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    Commonplace book. English law: manuscript

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    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.

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    Commonplace book. English history: manuscript

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    Copies of letters of Sir Walter Ralegh, Robert Devereux (2nd Earl of Essex), Henry Brooke (8th Baron Cobham), Sir Philip Sidney, William Cecil (Baron Burghley), Thomas Egerton (1st Viscount Brackley), and other prominent persons.

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    William F. Fraser commonplace book and scrapbook

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    Volume includes copies of legal documents, court records, recipes, medical information, accounts and receipts, poems, and clippings.

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    William Hone letter to J. Drake, Jr., concerning a transcript of part of Holinshed's Chronicles

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    The present letter, to a J. Drake, Jr. of Highgate, Middlesex, mentions Hone's interest in Holinshed's Chronicles and Drake's apparent offer to loan him a transcript for study.

    mssHM 76849