Hale MS 12
A folio composite volume of legal and antiquarian writings, in various hands and paper sizes, 540 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-morocco.
Assembled, at least in part, by John Selden, MP (1584-1654), lawyer and historian. Among collections bequeathed by Sir Mathew Hale (1609-76), Chief Justice of the King's Bench, legal writer.
ff. 217r-232v
• *HoH 97: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Treatise on the Nobility
Autograph MS, with corrections and revisions, some on tipped-in slips of paper, of an antiquarian treatise in English on Counts, Dukes, and Earls, headed ‘The deriuation of this word Comes or Counte acordinge to the trewe Etimologie’, possibly incomplete. Late 16th-early 17th century.
Described in Hunter's catalogue of Lincoln's Inn Manuscripts (1838) as endorsed ‘My Lord of Northampton's discourse of earls and dukes’, but this endorsement appears to be no longer present.
ff. 319r-347r
• CtR 482: Sir Robert Cotton, That the Kings of England have been pleased usually to consult with their Peeres in the great Councell, and Commons in Parliament, of Marriage, Peace, and Warre. Written...Anno 1611
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, the title-page beginning ‘The Antiquitie and Dignitie of Parliamts. Or An Extraccon out of Records Shewing...’, as ‘Written by Sr Robte Cotton’, and undated. c.1620s-30s.
Tract beginning ‘To search so high as the Norman Conquest...’. First published, as The Forme of Governement of the Kingdome of England collected out of the Fundamental Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome, London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [11]-39.
Hale MS 81
A folio composite volume of legal and historical tracts, in several professional secretary hands, 200 leaves (plus blanks), in modern cloth.
Among collections bequeathed by Sir Mathew Hale (1609-76), Chief Justice of the King's Bench, legal writer.
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• CtR 300: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.
Copy, principally in a professional secretary hand, the title-page and ‘ffinis’ subscription at the end in another professional hand, entitled ‘A declaracon how kinges of England have...collected out of the Recordes of the Tower by William Noye Esqr and then Attorney generall. / Anno decimo Caroli Regis’ [i.e. 1634-5]. c.1635.
Tract beginning ‘The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates...’. First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-‘200’[i.e. 202].
Hale MS 104
Manuscript, largely in a neat secretary and italic hand, headed ‘The title of the La: Anne Clifford daughter and heare generall to the late right honorable George Earle of Cumberland, Lord Clifford, Westmerland and Vesey, to the style and title of the said three Baronies’, 52 folio leaves (plus blanks), with (ff. [iiir-v] a table of contents in another hand, followed by two tipped-in sheets of related material in yet another hand, in modern quarter-leather vellum boards. Mid-17th century.
CdA 11: Lady Anne Clifford, The title of the La: Anne Clifford...to the style and title of...three Baronies
Among collections bequeathed by Sir Mathew Hale (1609-76), Chief Justice of the King's Bench, legal writer.
Formerly Hale MS 97.
Lady Anne Clifford's evidences for her claim to the title and banonies of Clifford, Westmorland and Vesey, 1606.
Hale MS 138
A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament from 19 February 1592/3 to 9 April 1593, in a professional cursive secretary hand, 259 pages, in modern cloth. c.1620s-30s.
Formerly Misc. MS 25. (Not owned by Hale).
pp. 87-90, 178, 179-84
• BcF 390: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
Copy of summaries of three parliamentary speeches delivered by Bacon on 2 and 13 March 1592/3.
Maynard MS 20
Copy of 25 Rules, closely written in a mixed hand, with a title-page ‘A Collection of the Rules of the Comon Lawes of England by Francis Drake’, on 31 quarto leaves. In a quarto volume of 68 leaves, the last 37 leaves occupied by extracts from legal Year Books written from the reverse end in another hand, in modern quarter-leather vellum boards. Early 17th century.
BcF 226: Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Law
Among collections of Sir John Maynard, MP (1604-90), lawyer and politician.
An unspecified MS in Lincoln's Inn Library is recorded in Spedding, VII, 309.
First published in The Elements of the Common Lawes of England (London, 1630). Spedding, VII, 307-87.
Bacon claimed to have collected ‘300 of them’, of which only ‘some few’ (25 maxims) were subsequently published. For an attempt to track down the ‘missing’ maxims, see John C. Hogan and Mortimer D. Schwartz, ‘On Bacon's “Rules and Maximes” of the Common Law’, Law Library Journal, 76/1 (Chicago, Winter 1983), 48-77.
Maynard MS 52
A folio volume comprising four state tracts, in several professional secretary hands, v + 101 leaves, in old reversed calf.
Among collections of Sir John Maynard, MP (1604-90), lawyer and politician.
ff. 1r, 3r-16r
• CtR 301: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed. c.1620s.
Tract beginning ‘The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates...’. First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-‘200’[i.e. 202].
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• CtR 302: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.
Copy, in three or four secretary hands, one predominating, as ‘By Sr Robt Cotton Ano Dni i6’. c.1620s.
Tract beginning ‘The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates...’. First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-‘200’[i.e. 202].
Maynard MS 59
A folio composite collection of legal and state tracts, in various hands, now bound in two volumes, foliated 1-307 and 308-617 respectively, in modern quarter-calf vellum boards.
Among collections of Sir John Maynard, MP (1604-90), lawyer and politician.
Part I, ff. 164r-96v
• BcF 743: Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Of the Lately erected Seruice Called the office of Composicons for Alienacons’. c.1630s.
A tract, beginning ‘All the finances of revenues of the imperial crown of this realm of England...’. Discussed in Spedding, IX, 120-1. By William Lambarde (1536-1601), whose partly autograph MS (1590) is in the Folger (MS V.a.208), but the work is frequently ascribed to Bacon, who may have used and adapted it at the time of the debate on alienations in October 1601.
Part I, ff. 197r-224v
• BcF 94.5: Francis Bacon, Arguments of Law. The Arguments on the Jurisdiction of the Council of the Marches
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page ‘The Cause of the Marches of Wales’.
Spedding, VII, 567-611.
Part I, ff. 289r-307r
• CtR 303: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Extracts out of the Records wherein may be collected by what meanes the kings of England haue and may rayse moneys’, ‘per Cotton milit et Baronett’ added at the side in another hand. c.1630s.
Tract beginning ‘The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates...’. First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-‘200’[i.e. 202].
Part II, ff. 308r-39v
• RaW 728.23: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
Copy of ‘The Arraignment of Sr Walter Rawley’ on 17 November 1603, in a professional secretary hand. c.1630s.
Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, ‘“The Great Day of Mart”: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603’, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.
Part II, ff. 340r-343v
• RaW 958: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Copy of three letters by Ralegh, to James I, to Ralegh's wife, and to Sir Robert Carr, in a professional secretary hand. c.1630s.
Part II, f. 594r
• RuB 118: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 10 February 1628/9
Copy, in a secretary hand, introduced ‘Sr Beniamin Rudyard sayd’.
A speech beginning ‘There be diverse recantations, submissions and sentences remaining on record...’. Variant versions include one beginning ‘That there have been many publique censures and recantacions...’. See Commons Debates for 1629, ed. Wallace Notestein and Frances Helen Relf (Minneapolis, 1921), pp. 137, [274]-5.
MS Maynard LIX
Copy. Early 17th century.
BcF 743.5: Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations
A tract, beginning ‘All the finances of revenues of the imperial crown of this realm of England...’. Discussed in Spedding, IX, 120-1. By William Lambarde (1536-1601), whose partly autograph MS (1590) is in the Folger (MS V.a.208), but the work is frequently ascribed to Bacon, who may have used and adapted it at the time of the debate on alienations in October 1601.
Misc. MS 164
A quarto volume of legal works, in three hands, written from both ends, 138 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum with ties. c.1630s.
The ‘Moote Cases’ at the reverse end are inscribed ‘collect p mey John Barton...de Middle Temple. M. 13o Carolij 1637’. Presented to Lincoln's Inn by E.J. Brevir, QC, June 1883.
pp. 1-111
• BcF 227: Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Law
Copy of 25 rules, in a neat secretary hand, untitled, a list of the rules (pp. 16-18) in italic script.
See BcF 226.
First published in The Elements of the Common Lawes of England (London, 1630). Spedding, VII, 307-87.
Bacon claimed to have collected ‘300 of them’, of which only ‘some few’ (25 maxims) were subsequently published. For an attempt to track down the ‘missing’ maxims, see John C. Hogan and Mortimer D. Schwartz, ‘On Bacon's “Rules and Maximes” of the Common Law’, Law Library Journal, 76/1 (Chicago, Winter 1983), 48-77.
Misc. MS 218
A folio composite volume of legal and state tracts and letters, in various hands and paper sizes, eight items unfoliated. Early-mid 18th century.
Once owned by Sir Thomas Clarke, MP, FRS (1703-64), Master of the Rolls, and by Richard Pepper Arden (1744-1804), first Baron Alvanley, Attorney General. Inscribed by Charles Purton Cooper (1793-1873), lawyer and antiquary, while at Wadham College, Oxford.
item 5
• DaJ 284: Sir John Davies, Speeches in Ireland (21 May 1613)
Copy, in a neat professional hand, with a title-page ‘Two Speeches made by Sir John Davis Knight...1613’, on eighteen folio pages. Early-mid 18th century.
Two speeches, one in the Irish House of Commons, the other in the Irish House of Lords, beginning respectively ‘Most honble. Lord & Rt. Worthy Deputy of Our most Invincible Renowned & Gracious Sovereign, I am here presented to your Lordp...’. and ‘Most honble. & Right Noble Lord. Since your high Wisdom (unto which I humbly made my Appeal) has not thought fit to repeal...’. The second speech first published in Davies, Historical Tracts (Dublin, 1787). The two speeches first published together in Grosart, III (1876), 215-21, 222-41.
item 6
• RaW 657: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Match between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont
Copy, unascribed, dated ‘9 Jacobi’ [i.e. 1611-12], 27 folio pages. Late 17th century.
A tract beginning ‘To obey commandment of my lord the prince, I have sent you my opinion of the match lately desired by the duke of Savoy...’. First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses: 1) Concerning a match propounded by the Savoyan, between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 223-36. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.
Misc. MS 579
A folio composite volume of legal tracts and reports, in several hands, disbound.
Sheaf P
• DaJ 235: Sir John Davies, Charge to the Jurors of the Grand Inquest at York [in 1619]
Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘Serjt Davis's Charge at York as Judge of Assize’, 43 folio pages, in a paper wrapper. c.1740s.
Charge beginning ‘You my Masters that are sworn, I am to direct my Speech principally unto you...’. First published (from a MS owned by A. Cooper Ramgard, Barrister) in Grosart, III (1876), 243-81.
Sheaf Q
• DaJ 236: Sir John Davies, Charge to the Jurors of the Grand Inquest at York [in 1619]
Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘Serjt Davis's Charge at York as Judge of Assize’, incomplete, 14 folio pages (plus six blank leaves), in a paper wrapper. c.1740s.
Charge beginning ‘You my Masters that are sworn, I am to direct my Speech principally unto you...’. First published (from a MS owned by A. Cooper Ramgard, Barrister) in Grosart, III (1876), 243-81.
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A lengthy Latin inscription in Donne's italic hand, in the first volume of a six-volume Latin Douai Bible which he presented to Lincoln's Inn in 1621. 1621.
*DnJ 4149: John Donne, Document(s)
The inscription is printed in John Donne, The Epithalamions, Anniversaries and Epicedes, ed. W. Milgate (Oxford, 1978), p. 79, and, with a facsimile, in Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 206-7.