Public records; a description of the contents, objects, and uses of the various works printed by authority of the Record commission [by sir N.H. Nicolas.].

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Page 58 - Commissions," and empowering them, in rating the said yearly values, to deduct " the rents resolute to the chief Lords and all other " annual and perpetual rents and charges which any spiritual
Page 32 - ... inventions, constitutions or patents of the officers of the " Crown, and various other matters under the Great Seal, " by reason of their connection with the Exchequer, are " transmitted there from the Petty Bag Office in Chancery, " and bear the name of Originals or Originalia.
Page 62 - Chancery, it has been deemed adviseable to preface this work with some examples of the bills or petitions addressed to the Chancellors in each reign from the earliest period that any of them are known to be extant ; as they throw considerable light on the origin of the Court of Chancery, as a court of equitable jurisdiction ; and, whilst they point out the variations that have taken place from time to time in the course of proceeding in that court, and...
Page 29 - To a transcript of a portion of the Testa de Nevill, on vellum, made about the time of James I., and forming the Lansdowne MS. 257, the following note, transcribed from the original record, is prefixed:—" Memorandum quod iste liber compositus " fuit et compilatus de diversis Inquisitionibus ex officio " captis tempore Regis E. filii RH, et sic contenta in eodem " libro pro evidences habeantur hie in Scaccario et non pro
Page 34 - Also there are or should be all recognizances forfeited " to the King in Chancery, and Charters of Denization. " And these be the contents of the Originals for the most " part, which, though it were disused in the Lord Chan" cellor Cromwell's days, yet it was restored to its former
Page 57 - Marches of the same; but that the King's Highness, his heirs and successors kings of this realm shall have the whole and sole power and authority, thereof united and knit to the imperial crown of this realm as of good right and equity it appertaineth; any grants, usages, prescriptions, allowances, act or acts of parliament or any other thing to the contrary hereof notwithstanding.
Page 65 - The second part, which commences at p. 107 of the first, and is continued in the second volume, contains " the " Pleadings, consisting of Bills, Answers, and Depositions, " and Surveys, in Suits exhibited in the Duchy Court : they " commence with the first year of King Henry the Seventh, " 1485, and are continued to the present time. The " Calendar extends from the earliest date of these plead" ings to the reign of Philip and Mary, including 5682

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