• Preface

a legitimate ambition on the part of the members of the existing Incorporations, to have the records illustrative of their ancient history arranged and placed in safe repositories, where, subject to proper supervision, the genealogical or historical inquirer might have

• Thomas Morgan's Commonplace Book1708-36

to be Constables. His grounds, however, seem distinctly weak. He points out that the ancient Charters provide for the Lord's appointing his Constable -forgetting that the ancient Lords of Cardiff were Lords Marcher of Glamorgan, with jura regalia . Counsel's

• The corporation of CoventryIntroduction

on Historical Manuscripts directed the late Mr. Henry Thomas Riley to repair to Coventry, and inspect and report upon the ancient writings of the Corporation of that City,-an order that resulted in the brief account of the Coventry Records, which

• The manors of Cardiff districtIntroduction

the ancient customs of this manor duly and truly observed."No person could be amerced without the consent of the affeerors. These, and other customs referred to in the Surveys of the hill lordships, show that the retention of their ancient

• Notes on the aldermen, 1220-1400

with the name for the first time as an Alderman, in the list which is printed on page 368 from Ancient Deed, A 10849, under date 34 Henry III. (1249-50). It recurs frequently in succeeding years amongst the Aldermen from

• Close Rolls, Edward IIIApril 1351

received from him, and all the money received by them of the ancient custom in that port from 12 March last, and to permit him to levy the ancient custom there henceforth until further order, notwithstanding the king's order to

• St. Mary Colechurch 105/32A

only microfilmed in part); Court Min. Bk. iii, ff. 277v, 279v, 283v (GL, microfilm 326); Ancient MS Bk. 8, pp. 45-8 (GL, microfilm 310); Ancient MS Bk. 14, Abstracts of Leases 1550-1660, p. 49 (GL, microfilm 311); Court Min. Bk.

• Edward II1307-1337

Ancient Petitions, SC 8, with a notable concentration in file s 5, 6, and 7 of that class. P. 387: No.1: The community of North Wales to the king and council. (Four petitions) SC 8/4/187. See Rees, Calendar of

• DeedsA.6601 - A.6700

St. David's, at Burnam. [A.D. 1128-1134. ] Fragment of Great Seal . Printed in Pipe Roll Society's Publications, Vol. X. Ancient Charters, & c. No. 16 . London. A. 6683. Confirmation by King S [tephen ] , to the canons

• Index of Persons and PlacesC

of Fownhope, of the diocese of Lincoln, 614. Cornwood , Cornwode [co. Devon ] , 159. Coron , Coronen . [Greece ] , Christopher, bishop of. See Garatoni. Corqhuodilstane . See Coldstone. Corran , Dachorand and Muta, Dacorand and Mota

• Rymer's Foedera with SyllabusJuly-December 1436

Die Julii. Per Breve de Privato Sigillo . July 26. Denization of Thomas Franc, master of medicine, a native of Greece. Canterbury . O. x. 650. H. v. p. i. 33. Petitio Magistri in Medicina . Au Roy notre Souverain

• The city of ExeterLetters and other papers (9 of 10)

the men are from Holland (33), Gelderland (5), Flanders (3), France (3), Germany (2), and 1 each from Zealand, Poland, Greece, Prussia, Brandenburg, Switzerland, Sweden, Shetland, England, Berwick, Berkshire and Modbury. The maladies are chiefly fever, ague or Scurvey, with

• Close Rolls, Edward IIISeptember 1347

collect wool of them and answer to the king therefor, superseding the levying of wool of them according to the ancient tax, beyond the said 100 s ., and to release them from any distraint made for that cause, restoring

• Appendix BTo Memorial II

revive an ancient custom, some of the Batchelors' Company to meet every Monday fortnight.-This Committee to consist of 4 Wardens Substitutes and 2 of the Sixteen men.-To make search throughout the City (according to authority of their ancient Charter) for

• Glamorgan Calendar Rolls and Gaol FilesIntroduction

its value, was forfeited to the Crown, under the name of a "deodand." The history and signific ance of this ancient legal provision would furnish material for an interesting volume of antiquarian lore. Nothing can be more tantalising to the

• ArchdeaconsChichester

excluded exempt peculiars of the dean and chapter in Chichester, abp.'s deanery of Pagham and Tarring (see W. Hudson, 'The ancient deaneries of the diocese of Chichester', Suss. Archaeol. Collections lv (1912) 108-22, with map). For a note on the

• ArchdeaconsLewes

1 March 1232 ( Cat. Ancient Deeds V no. A/11537; cf. Chart. Sele no. 39). Occ. several times. Also bp.'s official 24 Feb. 1236/7 ( Chart. Lewes II 110). Last occ. Nov. 1239 ( Cat. Ancient Deeds IV no. A/8010).

• Vatican Regesta 5781476-1477

deputed in the said dispensation), the perpetual vicarage of the parish church of Leylmane, value 4 l . sterling, by ancient custom in the presentation of the provost and chapter of St. Salvator at St. Andrews, void by the death

• Lateran Regesta, 38011441

which, on its voidance by the death of John Renouf without the Roman court, was made to him by the ancient collators, the dean and chapter, by their ordinary authority, by vigour of which he obtained possession, but now doubts

• Lateran Regesta 597A1464

the bishops of Whiteherne and St. Andrews respectively, who, at the presentation of the abbot of Holyrood, to whom by ancient custom belongs the presentation to both vicarages, made the respective institutions, under pretext of which presentation and institution John