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Charles Gross research notes and transcriptions made at the P.R.O

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Description: The research notes and transcriptions are written in pencil and are divided into four sections: (1) Rentals and Surveys, General Series, Rolls 414-425; Exchequer Ancient Petitions File 275, Nos. 13739, 13740 (69 p., in legal French). (2) De Banco Roll 169. Hillary Term, 1 Edward II (1307/8) (3 p., in Latin). (3) Curia Regis Roll 146 (18 p., in Latin). (4) Exchequer Plea Roll 17 (11 p., in Latin). (5) Original portfolio flap with provenance information (1 piece).
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Production date: Approximately 1900.
Call number: mssHM 82638 (1-5)
Creator: Great Britain(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edwin F. Gay, October 1937.
Associated people: Gay, Edwin F. (1867-1946,); Gross, Charles, (1857-1909.)

Cartulary of Battle Abbey : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-43v. Latin. Privileges of Battle Abbey followed by precedents concerning the abbey's privileges, including records of writs, allowances of fines and announcements, and judgments in Exchequer, King's Bench and by various itinerant justices from the reigns of Richard I to Edward III, inclusive. The number of the roll from which each has been copied is recorded; the latest judgment is dated 25 July 1322 (f. 42). Folios 1-8, the liberties of Battle in the time of Henry of Rye (steward 1307-ca. 1327; see E. Searle, Lordship and Community: Battle Abbey and its Banlieu, Toronto 1974, 244-46) are printed from this manuscript in W. Dugdale, Monasticon anglicanum (London 1846) 3:248-51; ff. 11-20 are printed in English from a later version in Sussex Archaeological Collections 26 (1875) 155-63. BA 33 includes pleadings of the Eyre of Kent; also in Placita de Quo Warranto (London 1818) 333-35, 364-65, and in Eyre of Kent. Selden Society 24 (1909); 27 (1912); 29 (1913). Battle's pleading in the Eyre of Kent also in London, Lincoln's Inn, Hale B87.

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Lamb, Charbles. The letters of Charles Lamb : newly arranged, with additions / edited, with introduction and notes, by Alfred Ainger (Boston: R.H. Hinkley Company)

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Spine title: The Works of Charles Lamb Edmonton Edition X : Letters Volume II Dummy with blue hand-painted covers, Japan vellum paper; containing printed title page, front matter, and pages [1]-275 (Chapter II-continued); with uncut pages. With stamp "Printer's Copy: Not in Edition."

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The ancient form of entering a judgment for a debt...: notes concerning forms of entering judgements

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A.MS.S, the manuscript is signed with the initials "MT," the notes are followed by additional notes, in Latin, in another hand (1 p.).

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Statutes : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-214v; ff. 215-217v blank. [Statuta vetera]. Latin; French. See below for 17 other texts that occupy sections of this codex. On ff. 209-210v, list of contents of the volume (for ff. 1-140v), followed by chapter lists of the Magna Carta, of the provisions of Merton, of the statutes of Marlborough, Westminster I, Gloucester and Westminster II. f. 8r-v. Sententia lata super cartas. Incipit: En le noun del pere e del fiz e seynt espirit. Cum nostre seignur le Roi al honur de dieu e del seynt eglise e a commun profit de tut le Reaume est grante pur luy. . .Nous Roberd Ercevesqe de Caunterbury e Primat de tut Engleterre amovescoms un foiz deus foiz e trois foiz puisse qe le brefte du tems plus longe delaie. Explicit: e de touz les sacrementz de seynt Eglise desceveroms. Fiat fiat amen. Rubric: Incipit sentencia super cartas lata. French. ff. 51v-52, 144v-145, 149-200v, 208v, 211v-212. [Materials relating to Scarborough]. Latin. For the register of writs on ff. 149-200v, please see entry for that text. ff. 73-84. Fet asaver. Incipit: Fet asaver a comencement de chesqun ple q est plede en la court le Roy. . .[f. 83v:] s'il n'ad renable enchesoun pur quay il n'y ad fet venir. Rex vicecomiti salutem. Precipimus tibi sicut alias tibi Precepimus quod corpus Rogeri Glere de Linne. Explicit: oportebit de corpore suo vel de predicto debito respondere. Et habeas ibi hoc breve. Explicit summa Fet asaver. French. G. E. Woodbine, ed., Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts (Yale University Press 1910) 53-115, followed straight on by a writ to arrest Roger Glere de Linne in execution of a recognizance made at Shrewsbury before Thomas Callou and Robert de Bockesers, clerk of the recognizances, to pay a debt to Richard, son of Richard de Bergh on 24 August 1299. ff. 84-104. Hengham Magna. Incipit: Licet ordo placitandi in curia domini Regis per leges et consuetudines Regni. Explicit: si docatur quod is de cuius seisina petit actor non fuisse in seysina rei petite tempore Ricardi Regis Avunculi Regis Henrici patris regis Edwardi sic peremptorie deciditur actio actoris. Explicit Summa Magnum Heyngham. Rubric: Incipit Magnum Heyngham. Latin. W. H. Dunham, ed., Radulphi de Hengham Summae (Cambridge 1932) 1-50. ff. 104-109v. Summa bastardie. Incipit: Nota quod si Bastardus se clamando legitimum heredem. Explicit: quamvis uxor infantis obierit dum fuerit in custodia. Nota si un home cleyme par meme le descent en bref de possession e l'autre met encountre Ly q'il est bastard qe unkes son pere esposa sa mere deit estre deit estre [sic] pris en la Curt le Roy. Explicit summa Bastardye. Rubric: Incipit summa Bastardye. Latin; French. Woodbine, Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts, p. 1 and n. 3. ff. 109v-118v. Hengham Parva. Incipit: Quinque sunt essonia primum de ultra mare secundum de terra sancta. . .si compertus fuisset tenens. Homagium est iuris vinculum quo quis astringitur ad warantizandum. Explicit: et si uterque consenserit potest homagium dissolvi quia nichil tam naturaliter et cetera. Explicit Summa Parvum Heyngham. Rubric: Incipit Parvum Heyngham. Latin. Dunham, Radulphi de Hengham Summae, 51-71; for the passage "Homagium est iuris vinculum. . .," see G. E. Woodbine, ed., Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England, trans. and with notes by S. E. Thorne (Harvard University Press and the Selden Society 1968-77) 2:228. ff. 118v-123v. Modus componendi brevia. Incipit: Cum sit necessarium conquerentibus in Curia domini Regis ut in suis casibus congruum exhibeatur remedium. Explicit: licet antecessor conquerentibus de pastura illa fuerit disseisitus. Explicit summa cum sit Necessarium. Rubric: Incipit Summa Cum Sit Necessarium. Latin. Woodbine, Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts, under the title "Modus componendi brevia," pp. 143-59, ending incomplete with respect to the printed text. ff. 123v-126. De corona. Incipit: Eodem modo quo quis feloniam facere potest interficiendo alium idem feloniam facere potest interficiendo se ipsum. Rubric: Incipit tractatus de Corona. Latin. nec sunt per plegios dimittendi nisi sit ex speciali precepto domini Regis et tunc fiat de hiis quod ser__?___itis fit de aliis et cetera. Explicit tractatus Corone. ff. 126v-128. Articuli corone. Incipit: Dictum est ut supra quod nemo potest habere Curiam suam de probatore et latrone cognoscente videamus ergo que placita pertinent ad Curiam et que ad Comitatum. Explicit: quod femine imponunt viro alicui de quo se dicit violenter oppressam et contra pacem domini Regis. Explicit Officium Corone. Rubric: Incipiunt articuli corone. Latin. ff. 129-130. De antiquo dominico corone. Incipit: Licet in antiquo dominico Corone non currat aliquod breve nisi parvum breve de Recto clausum. Explicit: propter quod si ego fuissem assignatus Iusticiarius ego secure procedere ad assisam sicut conueti [sic for "consuevi"] quid alii faciunt ignoro et cetera. Rubric: Incipiunt statuta de antiquo dominico Corone. Latin. A. J. Horwood, ed., Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the first, years XX and XXI. RS 39 pt. 16 (London 1866) xviii-xix , here ending incomplete with respect to the printed text. ff. 133-140v; f. 141r-v blank. Cadit assisa. Incipit: Edwardus dei gratia Rex Anglie Dominus Hibernie et dux Aquitanie vicecomitibus London. salutem. Si Willelmus de Kyrkeby. . ., Cadit assisa si petatur tenementum vel servicium per assisam. Explicit: sic inde [cancelled] probatur __?___ recte ut de Itinere W[illelmi] de R[alegha] in Comitatu [catchword:] Cantie//. Rubric: Incipit quedam summa cadit assisa. Latin. See Woodbine, Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts, p. 1 and n. 4 giving references to Bracton; the text is preceded by an assize of mort d'ancestor by William of Kyrkby in the time of Edward I. ff. 143v-144. [Medical astrology]. Incipit: Mens Ianuarius vinum ieiunus bibe. Latin. Other texts in this section include: Magister philosophorum computavit omnes malos dies tocius anni periculosos et sunt xxxta duos dies. . .[list of the dies nefasti or aegyptiaci in each month for beginning a new project, bloodletting or taking medicine]; Si quis in septimo die mensis marcii de dextro brachio sanguine minuerit. . .[bloodletting on special days to avoid loss of eyesight and fevers; special days in which to be born so as to never fall ill]. f. 145. [Claim to liberties]. Incipit: Iste libertates clamant habere ab antiquo. Burgenses clamant rendere dare et legare terras suas in lecto mortali. Explicit: Item habent placita que pertinent ad portum maris. Latin. ff. 145v-146. [Against abuses]. Incipit: De Articulis qui domini Regis scutagium contingunt. De magnatibus et aliis venientibus hospitaturis ad domos Religiosorum per gubernatorem earundem. Explicit: secundum quod in eisdem statutis continetur. Latin. Index of articles, largely against abuses by royal and franchisal officers. ff. 146v-148. Incipiunt Cronice Anglie [i.e. Chronology of England]. Incipit: Scire cupiens quis subscriptas interrogaciones de cronicis ponat prius annum dominicum in presenciarum ultimum. . .; Sepes trina canes et equus hominesque subaddas/ Cervos et corvos aquilas in maria cete. . .; Anni ab origine mundi __?___ septuaginta interpretes sunt. Anni ab incarnacione domini xxvus die marcii. Explicit: Qui vus die februarii in Angliam rediens xx die mensis eiusdem apud Westmonasterium est coronatus. Rubric: Incipiunt Cronice Anglie. Latin. Computistic material, 5 verses to determine the number of years between Adam and Christ, and a brief chronology from the birth of Christ to the coronation of Edward II in 1308; material on ff. 201-202 possibly intended as a continuation of this text. On f. 148, medical recipe added by a different hand. On ff. 148-149, writ in French to the sheriff of Yorkshire. ff. 149-200v. [Register of writs]. Latin. Register of writs, beginning with a writ of right brought by William of Scarborough against H. de Rostoun; text ends defectively in a writ to the justices of the forest beyond the Trent concerning the lawing of dogs. ff. 201-202. [Chronology of England]. Incipit: Anno domini Mo CCCo xi quinto kalendas Octobris ordinaciones cum exilio petri de gaveston cui Rex Edwardus filius Regis Edwardi contulit comitatum cornubie. Explicit: interfecti sunt scotti xxx Milia per Regem Edwardum tercium post conquestum. Latin. Chronology of the years 1311-33, apparently intended as a continuation of the material on ff. 146v-148. Flyleaf, f. iii: f. 1r-v. [Gradual]. Latin. For the mass of the third Sunday in Lent and the following Monday. Layout: 10 lines of text and music. Music: English square notation on 4-line red staves. Constitutes flyleaf, f. iii, in the parent volume. Assigned Date: s. XIII.

Miscellany of patristic literature : [manuscript]

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ff. 1v-43. [William of Malmesbury]. [De gestis regum anglorum. Excerpts] Incipit: Anno ab incarnatione domini cccc xl ixo venere angli et saxones britanniam. Explicit: et fumea volumina peplo suo submovens. Rubric: Incipit liber primus de gestis anglorum. Latin. W. Stubbs, ed., Willelmi Malmesburiensis Monachi De Gestis Regum Anglorum. RS 90 (London 1887-89), excerpts only, up to Bk. 3 chapt. 286; this manuscript described by Stubbs, pp. cii-ciii. ff. 43-44. [De confessione in ultimis positorum Patristic excerpts]. Incipit: Vera ad dominum confessio in ultimis positorum mente est potius estimanda quam tempore. Nunquam enim est sera penitentia confessio propheta attestante qui ait, Cum conversus ingemueris salvus eris. Explicit: Vir prudens ab imprudente muliere avertit oculos suos. Luxuriosus autem intuens eam solvetur ut cera a facie ignis. Christus non in corporis sed in anime pulcritudine delectatur. Tua ergo et tu dilige in quibus delectatur deus. Rubric: De confessione in ultimis positorum. Latin. Quotations from Isidore, Jerome, Augustine, Bernard, Hilary, Gregory, Seneca, Cyprian, Origenes, Paul, Basil, Caesarius. ff. 44v-53v. [Cassiodorus]. [De institutione divinarum scripturarum]. Incipit: Primus scripturarum divinarum codex est eptateucus. Explicit: si dicta ipsius nulla presumptione carpamus//. Rubric: Incipit liber cassiodori senatoris de institutione divinarum scripturarum, De eptateuco. Latin. R. A. B. Mynors, ed., Cassidori Senatoris Institutiones (Oxford 1961) 3-48, breaking defectively; this manuscript listed on p. xlii. The text is preceded by a preface and a chapter list. ff. 54-58. [Hugh of Fouilloy]. [De claustro animae]. Incipit: //reatur. Si autem cui parti phylosophie supponatur queritur ethice supponitur. Explicit: in futuro autem dabit virtutem incorruptionis fortitudinem immortalitatis benedictus deus. Amen. Explicit liber de claustro non manufacto. Latin. Hugh of Fouilloy, De claustro animae. PL 176:1171-1182, beginning defectively. ff. 58-64. [Hugh of Fouilloy]. [De medicina animae]. Incipit: Homo microcosmus id est minor mundus appellari ab antiquis solet. Explicit: necesse est ut emplastrum verecundie fronti superponat. Explicit liber de medicina anime. Rubric: Incipit liber de medicina anime. De homine qui microcosmus id est minor mundus appellatur. Latin. Hugh of Fouilloy, De medicina animae. PL 176:1183-1202. The text is preceded by a preface and a chapter list. ff. 64-69. [Hugh of Fouilloy]. [De nuptiis]. Incipit: Secundum phylosophos, Fertur aureolus teophrasti liber de nuptiis in quo querit an vir sapiens uxorem ducat. Explicit: et fac animam tuam talem quam summi regis adoptet filius, qui cum patre et spiritu sancto vivit et regnat per eterna secula. Amen. Explicit libellus ad socium volentem nubere. Latin. Hugh of Fouilloy, De nuptiis. PL 176:1201-1218. The text is preceded by a preface. ff. 69-83v. [Hugh of Fouilloy]. [De avibus]. Incipit: Si dormiatis inter medios cleros penne columbe deargentate et posteriora dorsi eius in pallore auri. In sacra scriptura frater tres columbas legendo repperi. Explicit: qui ad petram rostrum acuit dum se ipsum christo per bonam operationem conformem reddit. Rubric: Incipit libellus cuiusdam ad Ragnierum conversum cognomine corde benignum. De tribus columbis. Latin. Hugh of Fouilloy, De avibus. PL 177:13-55. The text is preceded by two prologues. ff. 84-85v. [Pseudo John Chrysostom]. [De eo quod scriptum est in psalmo xxx iii quis est homo qui vult vitam et cupit bidere dies bonos Sermons]. Incipit: Sermo divinus peragrans currensque per campos singulis velut luminaria ecclesiis claritatem contulit. Explicit: Quotquot ergo perfecti sumus hoc sapiamus ut credentes deum pacis nobiscum habeamus. Rubric: De eo quod scriptum est in psalmo xxx iii quis est homo qui vult vitam et cupit bidere dies bonos. Latin. Ps. Chrysostom, Sermons 5 and 29, PL Suppl. 4:752-756 and 821-825. ff. 86-110v. [John Chrysostom]. [De laudibus sancti Pauli apostoli. Incipit: Nichil prorsus erraverit qui pratum quoddam insigne virtutum ad paradysum spiritualem pauli animum nuncupaverit]. Explicit: Oremus etiam ut ipsi quoque eisdem perfruamur bonis gratia et misericordia domini nostri ihesu christi per quem et cum quo gloria patri cum sancto spiritu in secula seculorum. Amen. Explicit omelia vii. Rubric: Incipit liber sancti iohannis crisostomi de laudibus beati pauli apostoli. Incipit omelia 1. Latin. Chrysostom, De laudibus sancti Pauli apostoli. PG 50:471-514. The text is preceded by a prologue. ff. 111-121. [Peter Damian]. [Sermo in natali sancti iohannis evangeliste Sermons]. Incipit: Hodie nobis dilectissimi letitie gaudia geninantur quia recenti adhuc nativitate dominica beati iohannis occurit sollempnitas gloriosa. Explicit: ad eum qui calcato mortis imperio celum cum triumphali gloria penetravit ihesus christus dominus noster qui cum patre et spiritu sancto vivit et re[gnat. Amen.]. Rubric: Sermo in natali sancti iohannis evangeliste. Latin. Peter Damian, Sermons 63 and 64. PL 144:857-875. ff. 121v-124v. [Alexandri et Dindimi collatio]. Incipit: Sepius ad aures meas fando pervenit rationem vite vestre a communi qui ubique sunt hominum discrepare. Explicit: his si tuendo valueris [sic] abstinere aut superbie notaberis quia donata repudias aut invidie quod a meliore prestantur. Expliciunt scripta alexandri regis magni macedonum ad dindimum regem bragmanorum de natura et statu vite ipsorum et responsio ipsius ad inquisiciones eorundem dictorum. Rubric: Incipit alexandri magni macedonum regis et dindimi regis bragmanorum de phylosophia per litteras facta collatio. Latin. B. Kübler, ed., Iulii Valerii, Alexandri Polemi res gestae Alexandri Macedonis (Leipzig 1888) 169-89. ff. 125-130. [Alexandri Epistola ad Aristotelem]. Incipit: Semper memor tui etiam inter dubia bellorum nostrorum pericula. Explicit: ut invidendum mortalibus esset perpetuo de nobis opinio et animo et industria optime aristotiles ponderari. Explicit epistola alexandri magni ad aristotilem doctorem. Rubric: Incipit epistola alexandri quam ab india de situ indie aristoteli magistro suo direxit,. Latin. W. W. Boer, Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem. Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie 50 (Meisenheim am Glan 1973) 1-60. For a list of the manuscripts of arts. 11 and 12, see D. J. A. Ross,"A Check-List of Manuscripts of three Alexander Texts: the Julius Valerius Epitome, the Epistola ad Aristotelem and the Collatio cum Dindimo," Scriptorium 10 (1956) 127-32, this manuscript recorded on p. 132; see also T. Hahn,"Notes on Ross's Check-List of Alexander Texts," Scriptorium 34 (1980) 275-78. f. 130. [Note on Alexander the Great]. Incipit: Phylippus magnus procreat qualibet olympias alexandri mater nobiliorem ei patrem acquirere affectaverit. Explicit: victor omnium vino et ira victus morbo vinolentie [sic] apud babylonem humiliore quam auxerat fortuna exemptus est. Latin. f. 130. [Note on chronology]. Incipit: Collatis nostris et grecorum temporibus invenimus olympiade septima romam conditam anno post ilium captum ccccm xxx iii. Explicit: Sic inter exortum urbis et troiam captam iure esse annos ccc xxx iii constat. Latin. ff. 130v-155. [Palladius]. [Opus agriculture]. Incipit: Ars [sic] est prima prudentie ipsam cui preceptuus [sic] es estimare personam. Explicit: Hora xi pedes xxix. Palladii rutili tauri emiliani viri clarissimi et illustrissimi opus generale de omni agricultura de edificiis hortis nemoribus vinetis olivetis arbustis frutectis seminariis plantis insitionibus translationibus remediis restitutionibus de amariis armentis gregibus apibus mellificationibus sationibus messionibus __illegible___ sive ceteris omnibus ad ea pertinentibus disciplinis per menses et titulos diligenter distinctum explicit feliciter. Amen. Rubric: De preceptis rei rustice, i. Latin. R. H. Rodgers, ed., Palladii Opus Agriculturae, De Veterinaria Medicina, De Insitione (Leipzig 1975) 1-198, 218-40; last quire misbound and to be read ff. 154, 150, 151, lacuna of 2 leaves with loss of text (XI, 6-XII, 3), 152, 153, 155; last leaf badly damaged with loss of text. See also Rodgers, An Introduction to Palladius, University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, Bulletin Supplement n. 35 (London 1975), listing this manuscript on p. 169. The text is preceded by a chapter list.

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