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Legal formulary, etc., in Latin, French and English : [manuscript]

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ff. 9-12v. Treatise on Courts Leet. Incipit: All maner of persons which owe sute to this court or lete come forthe and answer for yower namys as ye be callid upon. Explicit: Also of all such persons as holde eny erroneose oppynyons or use to teche or preche eny heresye. Rubric: Modus observandi curiam cum leta sive visu franciplegii sequuntur hoc modo. Latin; English. On ff. 1-8, alphabetical index to the volume with reference to folio number. ff. 13-30v; ff. 31-32v blank. Treatise on Courts Baron. Incipit: And as for the Court Baron ye shall fyrst inquyre of all such persons as owe deuty to this court. Explicit: Et sachez que en cheste court sont comprisez iii chosez ... il revyendra et pledra en barre &c. Rubric: Le charge del Court baron. Latin; English; French. ff. 33-65; ff. 65v-69v blank. Tractatus Justicia Pacis. [Abridgment of Statutes concerning Justices of the Peace]. Incipit: What persons shulde bee Justices of peas ther auctoryte & power the forme of ther charge & whereoff they maye enquyre consequently as appereth drawen oute of dyvers statutes that is to seye ffyrst what persons shulde bee Justices &c. Rubric: Tractatus Justicia Pacis. Latin. ff. 70-170v. Formulary of Legal Documents. Latin; English. Formulary for, e.g., letters, indentures of apprenticeship, the documents of the office of the clerk of the peace, presentments, conveyancing, leases, testimonial letters, bills of sale, letters of safe conduct, of presentation of a living, of supplication to the king, of manumission, of licence in mortmain, of enfeoffment in mortmain, forms of declaration of banns of marriage, form of a last will and testament, of an obligation, statement of conditions for arbitration, form of a codicil to a loan agreement, form of agreement for discharge of a loan, conditions for determining a loan agreement on death, form of quittance for payment, form of general relears from a loan, supplications in law, form of the oath of the king to maintain the traditional rights of all parties, memorandum of the powers of the Officers of Escheat, etc.
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Date
[between 1500 and 1515]
Call number
mssHM 67911
Provenance
Purchased by the Library Collectors' Council from Sam Fogg Rare Books and Manuscripts, January 2004. Inscribed with a variety of names and pen-trials, s. XVI to s. XVIII: "Capell" (f. 170v); "John", "William", "James Parker", and with phrases in French and English, and "Antonius Somers iii [in?] propria" (f. 172v); "margarita", "Drémare", "William" (f. 173); "John Lambe", "antonius" (f. 174); "Wildersh" (f. 174), "William", "Thomas", "Billingsley" (f. 175v), "Roger Addams" (f. 177). With the armorial bookplate, s. XVIII(?), with crest and name of "George Thornhill Esqr", engraved by Mitchell of Bond St (f. iii), perhaps the man of this name admitted to the Inner Temple in 1755. An old paper leaf (f. iv), perhaps a former flyleaf, is inscribed with a table of contents, s. XIXex or XX. Even if not written there, in East Anglia by the twentieth century, when bound at Wymondham. Lic. Milton F. Rúa: his sale at Sotheby's, New York, 13 June 1991 (which states, opposite lot 105, "almost all of Lic. Rúa's collection was formed in the 1960s"), lot 118, (mis-) described as mid to late fifteenth century, bought by Quaritch, and shown to John Baker; returned to Sotheby's and re-offered with a revised date of ca. 1520 ("copies of dated instruments go to as late as 1517"), New York, 17-18 June 1992, lot 196, bought by Fogg. Sam Fogg, Catalogue 15 (1992), no. 45; with his inventory number "6422" (erased, back pastedown). Martin Schøyen (b. 1940), businessman and manuscript-collector, with the bookplate of "THE SCHØYEN COLLECTION", Oslo and London, inscribed "MS 1641" (cf. spine label); sold back to Sam Fogg in March 2003, with his inventory number "9380" (back pastedown).
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RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
95 x 180 mm
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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