Egerton family papers: Finding Aid

Finding aid prepared by Huntington Library staff and Diann Benti.

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

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Overview of the Collection

Title: Egerton family papers

Dates (inclusive): approximately 1150-1803

Bulk dates: 1580-1803

Collection Number: mssEL

Creator: Egerton (Family)

Extent: approximately 13,000 pieces

Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Manuscripts Department

1151 Oxford Road

San Marino, California 91108

Phone: (626) 405-2191

Email: reference@huntington.org

URL: http://www.huntington.org

Abstract: This collection contains the official, semi-official, and personal papers of six generations of the Egerton family of Great Britain. Also known as the "Ellesmere Collection," the papers span from 1150-1803 and include approximately 13,000 pieces with particular strengths related to domestic management, religion, politics, literature, law, and diplomacy from the late 16th through 18th centuries. The geographic scope of the collection includes all of the British Isles, the British Atlantic, and early colonial America, and foreign relations with Western Europe.

Language: English.

Administrative Information

Publication Rights

The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

Facsimile material: Researchers must apply for permission to publish or quote these materials from the owners of the originals. Please contact: Estate Administrator. Mertoun Estate. St. Boswell’s, Melrose, Roxburghshire. SCOTLAND TD6 0EA.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item]. Egerton family papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Provenance

Purchased with the Bridgewater library from John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton, 4th Earl of Ellesmere, through the agency of George D. Smith and Sotheby's of London, 1917.

When the collection was purchased in 1917, the Egerton family chose to retain some 1,600 manuscripts of personal or literary interest or value, but facsimiles of these items were subsequently provided to the Huntington and have been integrated into the original collection.

Access

Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.

Historical Note

Descendants of Sir Thomas Egerton, Baron Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley (1540?-1617), a noted jurist, statesman, and patron of the arts and literature, the Egertons were known as a politically and socially influential family. John Egerton, son of Sir Thomas Egerton, obtained earldom, and John Scrope Egerton was made the 1st Duke of Bridgewater. With the death of Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, the dukedom became extinct. The childless duke left the Bridgewater House in London, together with its famous library to his nephew George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland. His son Francis Egerton Ellesmere (1800-1857) who assumed the name of Egerton, was created Viscount Brackley and 1st Earl of Ellesmere. He was known as a poet, collector and patron of scholarship, the first President of the Camden society. He retained the services of John Payne Collier, the literary critic and notorious forger. Collier published a catalog of selected items from the Bridgewater Library. He also acquired the collection of plays of John Larpent, Examiner of Plays, which he sold to the Earl in 1853.

Bibliography

Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library, 1982). View online version in Hathi Trust Digital Library.

Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, Calif. : The Library, 1989). View online version in Hathi Trust Digital Library.

Scope and Content

This collection contains the official, semi-official, and personal papers of six generations of the Egerton family of Great Britain. Also known as the "Ellesmere Collection," the papers span from 1150-1803 and include approximately 13,000 pieces with particular strengths related to domestic management, religion, politics, literature, law, and diplomacy from the late 16th through 18th centuries. The geographic scope of the collection includes all of the British Isles, the British Atlantic, and early colonial America, and foreign relations with Western Europe.

The papers include the personal letters and papers of the family (although there are relatively few household and estate accounts), literary manuscripts, and the official and semi-official papers relating to offices held by various members of the family, particularly those accumulated by Sir Thomas Egerton, 1540?-1617, Baron Ellesmere and Viscount of Brackley, Solicitor-General (1581-1592), Attorney-General (1592-1594), Lord Keeper (1596-1603), and Lord Chancellor (1603-1617); Sir John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, 1579-1649, President of the Council of Wales (1631-1649); John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, 1622-1686, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (1660-1686); John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater, 1646-1701, President of the Board of Trade (1696-1699), First Lord of Admiralty (1699-1701), Speaker of the House of Lords (1697 and 1700); John Scrope Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater, 1681-1745, a Whig courtier under Anne and George I, and Francis, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, 1736-1803. Included are literary manuscripts (many of them presentation copies), which comprised the library at Bridgewater House. Also included are the papers of the Stanley family, earls of Derby related to the Egertons, through the marriage of Sir Thomas Egerton to Alice, widow of Ferdinando Stanley, the 5th Earl, including some material concerning the Isle of Man, of which the earls of Derby were hereditary lords. As well, the women in this family are well documented and represented within the papers, including Alice Spencer (1559-1637), Countess of Derby; Frances Stanley Egerton (1583-1636), Countess of Bridgewater; Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton (1626-1663), Countess of Bridgewater; Elizabeth Cranfield Egerton (ca. 1627-1663); Jane Paulet Egerton (ca. 1656-1716), Countess of Bridgewater; Elizabeth Churchill Egerton (ca. 1687-1714), Countess of Bridgewater; and Rachel Russell Egerton (ca. 1700-1777), Dowager Duchess of Bridgewater.

The collection also contains photocopies of some 1,600 manuscripts that the Egerton family chose to retain in their possession.

Calendar of the Bridgewater and Ellesmere Manuscripts

Prior to the purchase of the collection by Henry Huntington, a ten-volume handlist entitled "Calendar of the Bridgewater and Ellesmere Manuscripts" was compiled at Bridgewater House by London historical researcher Mary Trice Martin (ca. 1868-1925), the daughter of the assistant keeper of the Public Record Office Charles Trice Martin (author of The Record Interpreter) and a student of his colleague Dr. Hubert Hall. These volumes contain typed itemized lists of the 13,000 manuscripts in this collection, with additional handwritten notes added by various scholars and curators.

These volumes have been digitized and are available as downloadable PDFs.

Volume 1: Before 1617 Part 1 (EL 1-1923)
- PDF version
Volume 2: Before 1617 Part 2 (EL 1924-6308)
- PDF version
Volume 3: 1617-1649 (EL 6309-8007)
- PDF version
Volume 4: 1649-1686 (EL 8008-8596)
- PDF version
Volume 5: 1687-1803 (EL 8597-10439)
- PDF version
Volume 6: Undistributed bundles and various undated and unclassified manuscripts and title deeds (EL 10440-12044) and list of dockets in the collection
- PDF version
Volume 7: Subject Index, A-E (pp. 1-128)
- PDF version
Volume 8: Subject Index, F-O (pp. 129-232)
- PDF version
Volume 9: Subject Index, P-Z (pp. 233-330)
- PDF version
Volume 10: List of Bridgewater Manuscripts in Separated Volumes
- PDF version

Unlocated items

Approximately 1600 items listed in the Calendar of the Bridgewater and Ellesmere Manuscripts were never received by the Huntington Library. Facsimiles of most of these items were provided in the 1960s and integrated into the collection, though a small group of approximately forty items listed in the Calendar remain unlocated. In addition, five other items have been identified as missing.

Items not received

EL 994 Genealogical tree showing the descent of Egertons and other families (before 1617) (listed in Calendar vol. 1, page 117a)
EL 2406 Notes of leases of customs, 1 Jas. 1 (listed in Calendar vol. 2, page 329)
EL 6616a Letter from Lord Bridgewater to Arthur Swannicke, John Carlton and Maurice Griffith, 1639 (listed in Calendar vol. 3, page 543)
EL 6644e List of townships in Cheshire belonging to Lord Bridgewater and their values (listed in Calendar vol. 3, page 546)
EL 6856 (34/B/55) Volume containing copies of sermons by various persons. 1. A Sermon on the 72 Ps. v. 18. ... 26. Mr. Shute, on Luke 17: v. 29 (listed in Calendar vol. 3, page 575-756)
EL 8216a Note of leases of lands in High Leigh (listed in Calendar vol. 4, page 738)
EL 8270f Suggestions for sale of tithes to the tenants of Mould (listed in Calendar vol. 4, page 746)
EL 8278 Answer of Sir Spencer to Francis Randolfe, plaintiff, 1651 (listed in Calendar vol. 4, page 748). Note: this item may be EL 8274b (Randolph v. Spencer. Answer of the defendant as to debts of the first Earl of Bridgewater)
EL 8950a Deed for settlement of estate of Hon. Alice Herbert on marriage with John Burrard, 1696 (listed in Calendar vol. 5, page 817)
EL 11038 a miscellaneous document (listed in Calendar, vol. 6, page 978)
EL 11048 a miscellaneous document (listed in Calendar, vol. 6, page 978)
EL 11051 a miscellaneous document (listed in Calendar, vol. 6, page 978)
EL 11765b Diploma of Trinity College, Dublin, conferring Degree of Doctor of Laws upon the First earl of Ellesmere (listed in Calendar, vol. 6, page 1048-1050)
EL 11766-11780 Sothern Papers (listed in Calendar, vol. 6, pages 1049-1050)
EL 11780a (Bundles I-III) Legal papers: Sothern v. Egerton. Note: a facsimile was received of EL 11780a Bundle IV only (listed in Calendar, vol. 6, page 1050-1051)
EL 11944 Acknowledgment by Mary Leay of Grisburgh of money received from Henry Holme, 1618 (listed in Calendar, vol. 6, page 1074)
EL 11986 Madame Downes' answer to Mr. Kinnaston's letter concerning the title to her estate, which she inherited from her brother, 1677/8 (listed in Calendar, vol. 6, page 1078)
EL 12025 A note of servants' wage, c. 1600 (listed in Calendar, vol. 6, page 1082)
EL 3/I/1 Catalogue of the Books at Dunrobin, Sutherland, 1786 (listed in Calendar vol. 6, page 1044a, and vol. 10, page 9)
EL 3/I/2 Catalogue of the Library at Trentham, Staffs., 1782 (listed in Calendar vol. 6, page 1044a, and vol. 10, page 9)
EL 10/C/30 Catalogue of the Library of Gonville and Caius Colleges, Cambridge, by the Rev. J. J. Smith (printed) (listed in Calendar vol. 1, page v, and vol. 10, page 9)
EL 10/E/23 Descriptive Index of Historical MSS. in Dawson Turner's Library (printed) (listed in Calendar vol. 1, page vi)
EL 10/H/12 Eastwick, E. B. Vocabulary of the Sindi Language, 1843 (listed in Calendar vol. 6, page 1044a and vol. 10, page 28)
EL 11/G/2 Memo respecting MSS. in Bridgewater (Cleveland) House (listed in Calendar vol. 6, page 1044a, and vol. 10, page 17)
EL 11/I/7 Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum Orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur [Catalogue of the Oriental MSS. in the British Museum, printed, London, 1846] (listed in Calendar vol. 6, page 1044a)
EL 11/I/16 Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum Orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur Pars II Arabic [Catalogue of the Oriental MSS. in the British Museum, printed, London 1752] (listed in Calendar vol. 6, page 1044a, and vol. 10, page 9)
EL 20/E/10 Abstract of deeds, etc., of the Estates of Francis, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater (listed in Calendar vol. 5, page 946a)
EL 25/B/23-29 Original Letters (listed in Calendar vol. 6, page 1044a)
EL 27/B/2 Rime di diversi in burla e in sul grave (listed in Calendar vol. 6, page 1044a)
EL 27/B/16 Proceedings of Parliament, 1692-1693 [MSS., Black Letter] (listed in Calendar vol. 5, page 903a)
EL 30/D/1-15 Acts and Parliamentary Journals, 1689-1707 [some MSS.] (listed in Calendar vol. 5, page 903a)
EL 30/E/1-6 Statutes Votes and MSS., 1689 (listed in Calendar vol. 5, page 903a)
EL 30/F/1-21 Statutes Votes and MSS. (listed in Calendar vol. 5, page 903a)
EL 32/C/9 Meditations on consecutive Chapters of the Old Testament, by Elizabeth Countess of Bridgewater (listed in Calendar vol. 4, page 754a)
EL 34/B/61 Catalogue of lithograph views of Syrian Scenery - drawn by the First Earl of Ellesmere and Lady Ellesmere (listed in Calendar vol. 6, page 1047, and vol. 10, page 9)
EL 34/C/1 Navigation: A brief Abstract, Exposition & Demonstration of all Parts & Things belonging to a Ship. A Dictionary of Sea-terms dedicated to the Earl of Bridgewater (listed in Calendar vol. 3, page 708a, and vol. 10, page 61)

Missing items

EL 1860 Part of a series of legal papers chiefly concerning the rectory of Gresford, Denbighs [missing from Huntington Library since late 1960s?] (listed in Calendar vol. 1, page 241)
EL 5599 Patent granted to Thomas Folyott, 1595 November 27 [missing from the Huntington Library as of May 10, 1983] (listed in Calendar vol. 6, page 1106)
EL 5601 Patent granted to Charles Trevanyon, 1595 November 27 [missing from the Huntington Library as of May 10, 1983] (listed in Calendar vol. 6, page 1106)
EL 7924a (35/B/6) Copy of Commission to the Master and Counsaile of the Court of Wards and Liveries [printed] (listed in Calendar vol. 3, page 701a) [this number appears to have been assigned in error, possibly due to a note in the Calendar for EL 6445, which has also not been located that says "Transferred to No. 7924a"]
EL 11253 (missing as of 12/2016) Grant from Richard Boux, chaplain, to Alice,late wife of June Robert de Rydelegh of Rode, of lands in Torperlegh & Utkynton. (listed in Calendar, vol. 6, page 994)

Items transferred out of the collection

A small number of items listed in the Calendar, chiefly printed volumes, were transferred to the Rare Books Department, assigned new call numbers, and cataloged individually in the Huntington Online Catalog. In addition, some items were incorporated into the John Larpent Papers.

EL 913 transferred to RB 120311: Atholl, James Murray, Duke of, 1690-1764. The case of James Duke of Athol, Lord of Mann, and the Isles, &c. claiming the barony of Strange, ... [printed, London, 1737] (listed in Calendar vol. 1, page 109)
EL 8573 (35/B/40) transferred to RB 48045: Egmont, John Perceval, Earl of, 1711-1770. To the King's most excellent majesty, the memorial of John Earl of Egmont, [printed, London, 1764] (listed in Calendar vol. 4, page 780)
EL 9919 (35/C/25) transferred to RB 78429: The arguments of the Lord-Keeper, the two Lords Chief Justices, and Mr. Baron Powell, when they gave judgment for the Earl of Bath [printed, London, 1693] (listed in Calendar vol. 1, page 154a)
EL 10315 (35/B/58) transferred to RB 194001: Laws, statutes, etc. (George III) [12th Parliament, 5th session, pp. 851-855, An Act for altering the Oath of Abjuration and the Assurance and for amending ... an Act of 7 Anne, intituled An Act for the Improvement of the Union of the two Kingdoms, etc.] [printed, 1766] (listed in Calendar vol. 5, page 953, and vol. 10, page 1)
EL 10316 (35/B/59) transferred to RB 194005: A bill intituled An act to abolish church briefs, &c. [printed, 1828] (listed in Calendar vol. 5, page 953, and vol. 10, page 17)
EL 10350 transferred to RB 194003: An Act for draining, dividing, and inclosing, certain moors, commons, or waste lands, called Edington, otherwise Burtle Moor, East Heath, West Heath, and Clyde Batch, within the hamlet of Edington, and parish of Moorlinch, in the county of Somerset [printed, London, 1790] (listed in Calendar vol. 5, page 972)
EL 10351 transferred to RB 194002: An Act for draining and dividing King's Sedgmoor, co. Somerset [printed, 1791] (listed in Calendar vol. 5, page 972)
EL 11756 (34/A/30) transferred to RB: Three Engravings by Bartolozzi of a portrait of John Egerton, Bishop of Durham, by Gaussett (listed in Calendar vol. 6, page 1046)
EL 8/G/8 (previously 2/G/8) transferred to RB 297343 due to fragility of binding: Egerton, Elizabeth Cavendish, 1626-1663. [Meditations on the severall chapters of the Old Testament]: [manuscript] (listed in Calendar vol. 4, page 754a)
EL 21/91 transferred to RB 62593: Middleton, Thomas. A faire quarrell [printed, London, 1617] (listed in Calendar vol. 6, page 1044a)
EL 26/A/14-16: Three boxes of epilogues, etc. identified in library records as being transferred to the John Larpent Papers
EL 26/B/11 cataloged separately: Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883. Larpent dramatic manuscripts catalogue, 1737-1824 (listed in Calendar vol. 1, page v)
EL 31/C/39 transferred to RB 62639: Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627? The custumers apology [printed, London, 1599] (listed in Calendar vol. 1, page viii)
EL 41/I/32 transferred to RB 62681: Morton, Thomas. The Encovnter against M. Parsons [printed, London, 1610] (listed in Calendar vol. 5, page 907)
Item from the Cheyne Papers (EL number unknown) transferred to RB 194004: A bill for vesting lands in Chelsea in the county of Middlesex, purchased of Charles late Lord Cheyne Viscount Newhaven in Scotland, ... in John Lord Vaughan Earl of Carbery in Ireland, and his heirs. [printed, London, 1707]

Related materials

The more than 8,000 printed volumes purchased as part of this collection have been individually cataloged in the Huntington Library Online Catalog and can be retrieved by doing an author search for "Bridgewater House Library, former owner."
Some printed volumes in the Bridgewater House Library include manuscript materials:
- RB 124677 (EL 50/A/28) England and Scotland's Covenant with their God interleaved with "Some quære's concerning the league or covenant solved in p[ar]te," manuscript notes concerning the Solemn League and Covenant.
- RB 89494 (EL 21/I/58) Orders and directions ... tending to the reliefe of the poore ... (London, 1630) contains manuscript notes and lists of Privy Councilors and justices.
- RB 134739-134765 (EL 3/G/22) a printed collection of tracts containing a manuscript copy of a tract of Wm. Wode against the Puritans, 17th century.
- RB 21327-21328 (EL 15/E/7) Anno Regni Annæ Reginæ Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ & Hiberniæ, primo. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the twentieth day of August, ... 1702. ... And from thence continued ... to the twentieth day of October, 1702. Being the first session of this present Parliament. with manuscript transcriptions of journals of the House of Lords for October 20, 1702-February 1702-3.
- RB 21329-21333 (EL 15/E/8) Ànno Regni Annæ Reginæ Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, secundo. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the twentieth day of August, ... 1702. ... And from thence continued ... to the ninth day of November, 1703. Being the second session of this present Parliament with manuscript transcriptions of journals of the House of Lords for November 9, 1703-April 3, 1704.
- RB 135199-135220 (EL 4/G/10) bound volume of pamphlets dated 1679 as well as two manuscripts: "Considerations for the repressing of the increase of priests, Jesuits and recusants without drawing blood," 1623 (27 pages) and "Trial of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, Trinity 29 Chas II June 27 and 29, 1677" (25 pages).
John Larpent Papers (mssLA 1-2503) (purchased with the Egerton Family Papers).
The present collection should be distinguished from the Egerton Papers in the British Library, which were bequeathed to that institution by the 8th Earl of Bridgewater.
Supplementary Egerton family papers (chiefly estate papers and accounts for the Brackley estate) may be found in the Northamptonshire Record Office.
In the 19th century, when the Egerton family bequeathed manuscripts and funds to the British Museum, they accidentally included some family papers that were not intended to be part of the gift. (Why they were initially given or why they were not intended to be given is not clear.) These manuscripts were initially accepted by the British Museum and stamped in red with the British Museum stamp. Before cataloging, the error was discovered and the manuscripts were returned to the family. These manuscripts are now part of the Huntington's Egerton Family Papers. They are distinguishable by the red British Museum stamp.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged according to the organizational system created at Bridgewater House prior to the collection's purchase by Henry Huntington, and reflected in the "Calendar of the Bridgewater and Ellesmere Manuscripts." Each item was assigned to one of numerous subject or genre categories, which were, in turn, grouped broadly into chronological periods as follows:

1. To 1617 (the death of Lord Chancellor Ellesmere)
2. 1617-1649 (the death of the 1st Earl of Bridgewater)
3. 1649-1686 (the death of the 2nd Earl of Bridgewater)
4. 1686-1701 (the death of the 3rd Earl of Bridgewater)
5. 1701-1745 (the death of the 1st Duke of Bridgewater)
6. 1745-1803 (the death of the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater)
7. Miscellany and undated. ca. 1200-1800.

Note: there are very few 19th-century papers.

Each item retains the permanent reference number assigned at Bridgewater House (either a simple "EL" number and/or, in the case of individual volumes, a combination of numbers and letters according to their Bridgewater House shelf marks). Although this organization is at times inconsistent and the subject categories in particular often overlap, both the assigned reference numbers and the general format of the ten-volume "Calendar" have been widely cited and, therefore, the decision was made to retain the present system.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Huntington Library's Online Catalog.

Subjects

Egerton family -- Archives.

Bridgewater, John Egerton, Earl of, -1649 -- Archives.

Bridgewater, John Egerton, Earl of, 1623-1686 -- Archives.

Bridgewater, John Egerton, Earl of, 1646-1701 -- Archives.

Bridgewater, Scrope Egerton, Duke of, 1681-1745 -- Archives.

Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, Duke of, 1736-1803 -- Archives.

Derby, Ferdinando Stanley, Earl of, 1559?-1594 -- Archives.

Derby, Alice Egerton, Countess of, 1559- -- Archives.

Ellesmere, Thomas Egerton, Baron, 1540?-1617] -- Archives.

England and Wales. Attorney General (1592-1594 : Egerton) -- Archives.

England and Wales. Attorney General. Solicitor General (1581-1592 : Egerton)

England and Wales. Lord Keeper of the Great Seal (1596-1603 : Egerton) -- Archives.

England and Wales. Lord Chancellor (1603-1617 : Egerton) -- Archives.

England and Wales. Council of Wales and the Marches -- Archives.

England and Wales. Board of Trade. President (1696-1699 : Bridgewater) -- Archives.

Great Britain. Board of Trade -- History -- 17th century -- Sources.

England and Wales. Admiralty -- Archives.

Great Britain. Admiralty -- History -- 17th century -- Sources.

England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords -- Archives.

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords -- History -- Sources.

Literary patrons -- Great Britain -- Archives.

Book collecting -- Great Britain.

Manuscripts, English -- Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain.

Statesmen -- Great Britain -- Archives.

Law -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources.

English literature -- Manuscripts.

Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Sources.

Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Sources.

Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Sources.

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1485-1603.

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1714.

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 18th century.

Isle of Man -- History -- Sources.

Forms/Genres

Family papers -- Great Britain.

Government records -- Great Britain.

Contributors

Bridgewater, Elizabeth Churchill Egerton, Countess of, 1687 or 1688-1714

Bridgewater, Frances Stanley Egerton, Countess of, 1583-1636

Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, Duke of, 1736-1803

Bridgewater, Jane Paulet, Egerton Countess of, 1655-1716

Bridgewater, John Egerton, Earl of, -1649

Bridgewater, John Egerton, Earl of, 1623-1686

Bridgewater, John Egerton, Earl of, 1646-1701

Bridgewater, John Scrope Egerton, Duke of, 1681-1745

Bridgewater, Rachael Russell Egerton, Duchess of, -1777

Derby, Alice Egerton, Countess of, 1559-1637

Derby, Ferdinando Stanley, Earl of, approximately 1559-1594

Derby, Henry Stanley, Earl of, 1531-1593

Egerton, Elizabeth Cavendish, 1626-1663

Egerton, Elizabeth Cranfield, 1647 or 1648-1670

Ellesmere, Thomas Egerton, Baron, 1540?-1617]

Stanley family.

England and Wales. Attorney General (1592-1594 : Egerton)

England and Wales. Lord Chancellor (1603-1617 : Egerton)

Part I. Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, up to 1617

Domestic and Personal Papers

EL 1-433 Letters, accounts, etc.

Scope and Content Note

Personal correspondence of Lord Chancellor Egerton, his family, friends, clients, and would-be clients, on various topics including domestic and personal affairs, estate, financial, and legal matters (including proposals for marriage with his daughter [EL 417]), patronage, and some politics; lists and accounts (many receipted bills) of household and personal possessions (chiefly plate) and expenses; 2 checkrolls of the Egerton household (EL 137, EL 290); Egerton's warning to his son, the future 1st Earl, against the Dowager Countess of Derby (EL 213-214); documents concerning another John Egerton's death in a duel with Edward Morgan in 1611 (EL 215-222).

View descriptions of items EL 1-433 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (pages 1-48) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 1

EL 1-100

Facsimiles: EL 2-4, EL 8, EL 10, EL 15, EL 15a, EL 22-27, EL 36, EL 40-41, EL 45-47b, EL 54-61, EL 65, EL 68-74, EL 77-79, EL 81, EL 85, EL 90-100

Changed call numbers: EL 1 removed to EL 401a; EL 43a removed to EL 8173; EL 82 removed to EL 47a; EL 83 removed to EL 47b

Items removed to Oversize Box 1: EL 32; EL 44; EL 49

Box 2

EL 101-200

Facsimiles: EL 101-121, EL 130-131, EL 136-141, EL 146-154, EL 156-157, EL 160-169, EL 171-174, EL 176-181, EL 183-192, EL 195-198

Items removed to Oversize Box 1: EL 144

Box 3

EL 201-300

Facsimiles: EL 203, El 210-211, EL 213-214, EL 226, EL 229-231, EL 235-237, EL 239, EL 245-249, EL 245-269, EL 271, EL 273-300

Items removed to Oversize Box 1: EL 216; EL 223; EL 233; EL 253

Box 4

EL 301-400

Facsimiles: EL 203, El 210-211, EL 213-214, EL 226, EL 229-231, EL 235-237, EL 239, EL 245-249, EL 245-269, EL 271, EL 273-384, EL 387-395, EL 397a-c, EL 399-400

Changed call numbers: EL 399 removed to EL 6469a

Box 5 (EL 401-433)

EL 401-433

Facsimiles: El 401, EL 407, EL 411-412, EL 414-415, EL 417, EL 421

Changed call numbers: EL 400 removed to EL 6469b

Items removed to Oversize Box 1: EL 410; EL 423; EL 424; EL 425; EL 426; EL 428; EL 429; EL 430

EL 434-497 Notes for speeches and on legal and political matters

Scope and Content Note

Notes and memoranda, many by Lord Chancellor Egerton, on legal cases, statutes, points of law, political matters; some notes for Ellesmere's speeches in Parliament; includes two volumes of legal notes in French, arranged topically (EL 492, EL 494); a volume of readings by Ambrose Gilberde (on 34-35 Henry VIII c.5) and John Denshall (on 4 Henry VII c.24) (EL 481a); an alphabetical digest of the law, with notes by Ellesmere (EL 496); "John Penry's Journal," including his appeals for justice, a confession of faith, etc. (EL 483)

View descriptions of items EL 434-497 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (pages 49-56) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 5 (EL 434-497)

EL 434-497

Facsimiles: EL 484, EL 490

Items removed to Oversize Box 1: EL 468; EL 478; EL 487

Separated volumes

EL 481a (35/C/29) The Lectures of Ambrose Gilbird on the Statute Anno 34 and 35 Henry VIII, Cap. 5, which commences "Wherein the last Parliament", &c. [40 leaves]; The Lectures of Mr. Dynsill [John Denshall] on the Statute of Fines, Anno 4 Henry VII [54 leaves]; A charge for a Justice of Peace at a Quarter Sessions [5 leaves]; The charge for a Leet, that is a Court Leet [6 leaves].

EL 483 (34/B/20) John Penry's Journal. [Approximately 1593]

Related Material

See also EL 2113 and EL 2146-2156 bound in volume EL 2101-2158 (Examinations of the following Catholic Recusants...).

EL 492 (34/A/12) Legal notes, in French, under headings.

EL 494 (34/A/11) Legal notes, in French, under headings.

EL 496 (34/A/10) A 'painfull' digest of the Law under headings, with marginal notes and references. A monument of Industry. Some maxims, quotations, from the fathers, &c., by Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, in a youthful hand, at the beginning and a few notes.

Box 6

EL 482

EL 498-544 Appointments and grants to Lord Chancellor Egerton

Scope and Content Note

Appointments to and grants of office, grants of lands, fees and annuities, etc., to Egerton by various individuals and institutions (including the crown), 1581-1607; includes half-yearly accounts of fees for faculties paid to Egerton, 1612-1616 (EL 535-544).

View descriptions of items EL 498-544 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (pages 56-61) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 5 (EL 498-500)

EL 498-500

Facsimiles: EL 498-500

Box 7

EL 501-520

Facsimiles: EL 501-511, EL 513-514, El 516-519

Items removed to Oversize Box 1: EL 512; EL 520

Box 8 (EL 521-544)

EL 521-544

Facsimiles: EL 523, EL 534

Items removed to Seals Box 1: EL 532

EL 545-746 Deeds and Miscellaneous Papers (Chiefly Estate and Manorial)

Scope and Content Note

Deeds and various supplementary notes and legal documents chiefly concerning supplementary notes and legal documents chiefly concerning the Egerton estates and those of related families or associates.

Also includes a rental for Tatton (Cheshire), temp. Elizabeth (EL 555b), three inquisitions post mortem (for Lord Chancellor Egerton, taken 1623 [EL 732], Margaret the wife of Sir Fulk de Penbrugge, 1400 [EL 565], and Peter Sergeante, 1586 [EL 633]) and eight original, copy, or draft wills (for John Bothe, Archdeacon of Hereford, 1542 [EL 548], William Cecil, Baron Burghley, 1598 [EL 665], Ambrose Dudley, 1st Earl of Warwick, 1590 [EL 651], Lady Mary Egerton of Ridley, 1597 [EL 664], Lord Chancellor Egerton, 1615 [EL 720, EL 723], Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland, 1583 [EL 558], William Pymme, 1609 [EL 703], and William Wettenhall, 1570 [EL 618]), notes and drafts of marriage and other property settlements concerning the Egerton family, and a few legal papers concerning suits over property (including that involving Sir Edward Norreys and Lord Francis Norreys [EL 683, EL 685-690]).

View descriptions of items EL 545-746 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (pages 61-94) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 8 (EL 545-555B)

EL 545-555B

Box 9

EL 555C-571

Items removed to Oversize Box 1: EL 558

Items removed to Oversize Box 4: EL 545

Box 10

EL 572-587

Items removed to Oversize Box 1: EL 577

Box 11

EL 588-607

Changed call numbers: EL 598 removed to EL 6829b

Items removed to Oversize Flat Folder: EL 593

Items removed to Oversize Box 1: EL 595

Box 12

EL 608-617

Box 13

EL 618-625

Facsimiles: EL 623

Box 14

EL 626-635b

Box 15

EL 635b/1-635o

Items removed to Oversize Box 1: EL 635m

Box 16

EL 635p-655

Facsimiles: EL 638-639, EL 655

Box 16a

EL 656-670B

Facsimiles: EL 656, EL 663-664

Box 17

EL 671-694

Facsimiles: EL 691-692

Items removed to Oversize Box 1: EL 686

Box 18

EL 695-704

Facsimiles: EL 696

Box 19

EL 705-730

Facsimiles: EL 706-711, EL 713, EL 720-721, EL 723-726

Separated volumes

EL 713 Declaration by Lord Chancellor Ellesmere of the conditions of his assignment of his leases of the rectory of Gresford, and of lands in cos. Denbigh and Chester, to his son, Sir John Egerton, his son-in-law Sir Francis Leigh, Sir George more and Sir John Egerton of Egerton, enjoining the persons who held the leases for him to assign the same as directed by his son, and providing for annuities of ₤10 thereout to his servants Marbury, Cartwright and Maynwaringe.

Box 20

EL 731-733

Facsimiles: EL 732-733

Box 21

EL 734-745

Box 22 (EL 746)

EL 746

EL 747-767 Rentals and Miscellaneous Papers re Land

Scope and Content Note

Accounts, receipts, and miscellaneous notes and memoranda concerning Egerton lands.

View descriptions of items EL 747-767 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (pages 94-96) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 22 (EL 747-767)

EL 747-767

Facsimiles: EL 750, EL 759

EL 768-993 Derby Papers

Scope and Content Note

Letters and papers of the Stanley family, earls of Derby, related to the Egertons through the marriages of Lord Chancellor Egerton to Alice, Dowager Countess of Derby (widow of Ferdinando Stanley, the 5th Earl) and of John Egerton, afterward 1st Earl of Bridgewater, to Frances Stanley, one of the three daughters and co-heirs of Ferdinando.

Includes letters to and from various members of the Stanley family re family and business affairs; legal papers concerning proceedings in Chancery (ca. 1617-1619) and Exchequer (ca. 1625-1629) courts re lands purchased by the 1st Earl of Bridgewater from William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, and proceedings in the Court of Wards and Liveries in the 1630s re the property of the heirs of Ferdinando, 5th Earl of Derby (EL 792-850); papers re various legal cases involving Alice Stanely Egerton, the Dowager Countess; some material concerning the Isle of Man, of which the earls of Derby were the hereditary lords, temp. Elizabeth I, including books of charges at Castle Peele (EL 985-992) and Castle Rushen (EL 977-984) on the Isle of Man; notes and memoranda re Stanley lands and finances, including three rentals of the Derby estates (two undated, temp. Elizabeth and James I, the third 15-16 Elizabeth) (EL 934-936) and a valor of the possessions of Earl Ferdinando, 1593 (EL 939); a roll of extracts from the register of Whithorn Priory, Scotland, made in 1504 (EL 993).

Also includes a volume of copies of documents concerning the 5th Earl of Derby and the settlement of his estate, including the inquisitions post mortem of Thomas, Edward, and Ferdinando Stanley, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th Earls, the will of Edward the 3rd Earl, and lists of lands and deeds of the family (EL 784).

View descriptions of items EL 768-993 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (pages 97-117) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 22 (EL 768-780)

EL 768-780

Box 23

EL 781-845

Items removed to Seals Box 1: EL 808

Separated volumes

EL 784 (34/C/10) A Book containing copies of documents related to the affairs of Ferdinand, Earl of Derby, and the arrangements made after his decease, viz :-

Box 24

EL 846-869

Box 25

EL 870-899

Box 26

EL 900-916

Items transferred to the Rare Books Department: EL 913 Atholl, James Murray, Duke of, 1690-1764. The case of James Duke of Athol, Lord of Mann, and the Isles, &c. claiming the barony of Strange, ... [printed, London, 1737] (Call number: 120311)

Items removed to Oversize Box 1: EL 915

Box 27

EL 917-942

Items removed to Oversize Box 1: EL 937

Items removed to Oversize Box 4: EL 941

Separated volumes

EL 934 Rentals of the Derby Estates.

EL 936 Rentals of the Derby Estates. Indicates ownership in some cases by Alice, Countess of Derby, and notes a lease by Lord Chancellor Ellesmere and her ladyship.

Box 28

EL 943-960

Items removed to Oversize Box 1: EL 955

Box 29

EL 935

Box 30 (EL 961-993)

EL 961-993

Separated volumes

EL 977-984 (34/C/7) The booke of Chardge at the Castle Rushen ...

EL 985-992 (34/C/8) A Book of Charge and Book of Allowances for Castle Peele ...

EL 994-1120 Pedigrees, family notes and verse, etc.

Scope and Content Note

Pedigrees and genealogical notes concerning the Egerton, Stanley, and many other families; includes volumes of arms of gentlemen in the county palatine of Chester temp. James I (EL 1114), of pedigrees and coats of arms of the Spencer family together with those of English and European ruling families temp. Elizabeth, and of the Egerton and related families (EL 1046); two volumes of colored coats of arms for the nobility; a volume of the names of those promoted to the dignity of "equitum auratorum" for serving with the Earl of Essex in France, with pedigrees of Elizabethan and Jacobean peers (EL 1045); "The coppie of a Book written by Mr. Ttescemos" being an account of the various orders of nobility with sumptuary regulations, ca. 1587 (EL 1118).

Also includes occasional verse relating to affairs of the Egerton family, with volumes of verse from Nathaniel Harris (in Latin and Greek) and from Brasenose College, Oxford (in Latin) on the death of Sir Thomas Egerton, the son of the Lord Chancellor (EL 1002, EL 1008, and EL 1007); also, a legal and historical commonplace book (EL 1120).

View descriptions of items EL 994-1120 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (pages 117a-137) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 30 (EL 994-1023)

EL 994-1023

Facsimiles: EL 995-1023

Missing items: EL 994

Box 31

EL 1024-1042

Facsimiles: EL 1024-1026; EL 1040

Box 32

EL 1043-1112

Changed call numbers: EL 1047 now part of EL 6206d

Items removed to Oversize Box 1: EL 1046

Separated volumes

EL 1045 (35/B/65) A volume containing: -- The names of those promoted to the dignity of "equitum auratorum" for serving under the Earl of Essex in France. Notes as to the creation &c. of the different ranks of the English nobility and gentry. Genealogical tables of the House of Saxony. Pedigree of Charles, Lord Montjoy.

Box 33 (EL 1113-1120)

EL 1113-1120

Separated volumes

EL 1114 (34/B/22) "Armes of Gentlemen in the Countie Pallatine of Chester".

EL 1117 (34/B/58) A Treatise "Of Honour" by Robert Ashley. Dedicated to Lord Chancellor Ellesmere. [Before 1604]

EL 1118 (35/C/58) "Placing of the Estates." "The Coppie of a Book written by Mr. Ttescemos that lived Ano Dni 1587." An account of th different orders of nobility, rules for apparell, &c. ...

EL 1120 (35/C/57) Notes of inquisitions, extracts from Patent and Close Rolls, pedigrees, &c.

EL 1121-1182A Miscellaneous and Literary Manuscripts

Scope and Content Note

Chiefly individual volumes, many dedicated to Lord Chancellor Egerton, many with original bindings, which are grouped here for convenience in the following categories:

a) Medieval and Renaissance volumes
b) Government, Politics, and Administration
c) Law
d) Literature and Philosophy
e) Religion, the Church, and Sermons
f) Miscellaneous

View descriptions of items EL 1121-1182A in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (pages 137-146) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 33 (EL 1121-1138b)

EL 1121-1138b

Government, Politics, and Administration

EL 1138 (35/B/71) [FACSIMILE] "The Plea betweene the Advocate and the Ant'advocate concerning the Bathe and Bacheler knightes wherein are shewed manye Antiquityes touchinge Knighthoode by Francis Thynne Esquier Lancaster Herrolde."

Enclosed: EL 1138a [FACSIMILE] A paper on the Order of the Knights of the Bath at Coronation of Queen Mary, "for Master John Egertone".

EL 1138b [FACSIMILE] Letter from Francis Thynne, Lancaster Herold, to Sir John Egerton, with a copy of his book. 1607 April 8

Literature and Philosophy

EL 1129 A Latin verse on each of the English sovereigns from William I to Elizabeth.

EL 1133 (34/B/28) [FACSIMILE] "Tranquillitas Vera" - a Latin discourse by Tobias Shaw.

EL 1135 (34/B/30) [FACSIMILE] "Successio et Gesta Judicum Israeliticorum", by Georgius Casus [A Latin [poem].

Religion, the Church, and Sermons

EL 1136 (34/A/13) [FACSIMILE] "The rites and customes that the auncient Jewes used in their Repentaunce reduced into a compendious methode, and now newly translated out of Hebrew into Englishe by R.B." [i.e. Richard Brett].

Miscellaneous

EL 1126 A Treatise on the ports and east coast of England and its defences. With a letter to the Earl of Essex.

Separated volumes

Medieval and Renaissance volumes

EL 1121 (34/C/9) Historical Miscellany: a volume containing copies in various 15th century hands of: part of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Chronicle, "History of the Kings of England," (Book IV, cap. 13); a short account of the Kings of England from William I to Edward III; "Prophesia de Rege Edwardo iijo et de sequela sua"; part of Nicholas Trivet's Annals; an old French poem on chess; and a philosophical treatise by "Petrus Amfusus."

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EL 1122 (34/B/23) Statutes consisting of copies of Magna Carta: Carta foreste: Sententia Lata super Cartas: Statutum ... de Merton: Statutum de Marleberg: Westm Primum: Statutum Glouc': Explanationes statutum Glouc', Statutum Westm secundum: Statutum de Mercatoribus: Statutum de Scaccario: Districciones ejusdem: Statutum religiosorum: Gauelet in London: De Recognitionibus Juratarum et Assisarum: Statutum de Militibus: Statutum de Regia Prohibitions: Articuli contra prohibitionem regiam: Statutum de Ragman Visis Francplegii. Novum quo Waranto: De homagio et fidelitate facienda: Modus calumpniandi essona: Dies communes in Banco: (Expliciunt Statuta) Sequuntur. Surnma Judicium essoniorum: Modus componendi Breuia. Summa de Bastardia. Parvum Hjmgham. Extenta manerii admensuraco terre.

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EL 1123 (35/B/63) "The Mastyr off Game by the Mastre of the Game to Henry IV, King of England" by Edward, 2nd Duke of York.

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EL 1131 (34/C/18) Sir John Fortescue, Governance of England and Declaracion ... Uppon Certen Wrytinges Sent out of Scotland.

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Law

EL 1124 (34/B/24) A short explication of some things contained in Canutus his lawes.

Literature and Philosophy

EL 1125 (35/B/67) Fortunia. A Latin play. 1615

EL 1127 (34/B/25) Notes on mediaeval metaphysics, scholasticism &c.

EL 1128 (34/B/26) History of England from the foundation of the world to the time of writing - 8th February 1591.

EL 1130 (34/B/27) The Olympian Catastrophe. Dedicated to the worthy memory of the most Heroicall Lord Henry, late illustrious Prince of Wales, &c. By Sir Arthur Gorges, kt. 1612

EL 1134 (34/B/29) Latin Discourse on "Equivocation" by Roger Fentoun, chaplain. [i.e. Roger Fenton]

EL 1137 (25/A/67) "Parte of the fyrst parte of the Commentaries of Great Britain", by Francis Thynne. 1583-1587

Religion, the Church, and Sermons

EL 1132 (35/B/66) "A reiuewe of Dr. Kellisons survey of the first ground, or foundation (as he maketh it) of religion; to witt, the aucthoritie of the Teachers, Logically Analysed, and directly Answered, By Henrie Bankes Doctor in Diuinitie, and Chapleine to his Matie."

EL 1171 (34/B/41) A sermon on Hebrews 12:3.

Box 34

EL 1139-1159

Literature and Philosophy

EL 1139 (34/B/31) [FACSIMILE] Latin verses by George Goodwin with dedication to Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, with woodcuts pasted in.

EL 1144 Analysis in Latin of the Manilian Oration of Cicero, by Thomas Bing. 1577

EL 1154 [FACSIMILE] "Barlaami vetusti et eruditi Monachi Liber de Papae principatu. Auctore editionis atque interpretationis Joanne Luido".

Religion, the Church, and Sermons

EL 1146 [FACSIMILE] A treatise on the state of religion in England by John Norden. [Between 1596 and 1603]

EL 1149 (34/C/21) [FACSIMILE] "De disciplina Ecclesie Primitauae." Dedicatory letter to Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, signed by "R[oger?] F[enton?] Capellanus".

EL 1150 (34/B/34) [FACSIMILE] "The perille of Pluralities, nonresidence and choppinge of Benefices," a treatise by John Shawe. 1598 March 30

EL 1152 (34/B/37) [FACSIMILE] "A Chaplaine's new yeare's guift, or, A Declaration of the six Holy daies", by Roger Fentoun [a treatise on six religious holidays by Roger Fenton].

EL 1153 (34/A/14) [FACSIMILE] "Refutatio Roberti Bellarmini, et Calumniarum, quae asperguntur, Remotio, per Rodolphum Rauens Oxen, et. Johannensem Responsio quinta". 1599 February 25

EL 1156 "A Prayer in a Scottish Psalme booke printed 1596". "A thanksgiving unto God after deliverance from the tyranny of the ffrenchmen wth prayers made for the continuance of the peace betwixt the Realmes of England and Scotland."

EL 1157 (34/B/38) [FACSIMILE] A Sermon by Owen Neale.

EL 1159 (34/B/59) [FACSIMILE] "Christian meditationes vppon foure Psalmes of Dauid written in French by Philip Mornay Lord of Plessis." Translated by Thomas Master.

Separated volumes

Literature and Philosophy

EL 1140 Verses by R.B. [Richard Brett] in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Caldaic, Syriac and Arabic, on the deliverance of James I from the Gunpowder Plot.

EL 1158 (34/B/39) "Thesis comitijs ipsis Cantabrigiae publice proposita et propugnata. 5 Jul. 1615. Gratia Dei determinat voluntatem humanam in prima conversione. 1615 July 5

With a text by Samuel brook titled "De Auxilio divinae Gratiae et Libero Arbitrio".

Religion, the Church, and Sermons

EL 1147 (34/A/27) Sir Edwin Sandys' "Europae Speculum". An account of the state of religion in different countries, shewing the evils of the Roman Catholic religion. In the form of a letter from Edwin Sandes. 1599

EL 1148 (34/B/33) "Mr. Tho. Jones, of Commendums" - "The churche faulle, describynge that the faulle and ruyne of the Church grewe by the Pope and prelates plottynge for ther owne pryvate abondonyng the truth and right government of the Church".

A polemic by Thomas Jones with papers enclosed (6 leaves) of copies of statutes and extracts from writers on Church revenues.

EL 1151 (34/B/36) "Mr. Kinges Sermon before his Maty at Otelandes." [Sermon preached by Bp. John King before James I at Oatland.] 1604 July

Miscellaneous

EL 1141 (34/C/19) "The Vse of the Mathematicall Scale, Inuented by Jo. Speidell."

EL 1142 (34/C/20) "The Fowles of Heaven." Dedicated to Lord Chancellor Ellesmere. Illustrated in water colors. [Approximately 1613]

EL 1143a-b (34/A/26) "A Discorse on the Arte of Bitting", with diagrams, by Arthur Sendaye [two copies]. 1594

EL 1145 (34/B/32) "A Pamphlett conteyneing the description of Milford Haven ... by George Owen of the Countie of Pembroocke esquire, Anno Dni 1595". 1595

Box 35 (EL 1160-1182A)

EL 1160-1182A

Government, Politics, and Administration

EL 1181 An epigrammatic description (very witty and abusive) of the Low Countries and the Dutch, entitled "Three Moneths observation of the Lowe Countries especially Holland". With a dedicatory letter signed "J.S." [John Selden] and dated Aegigt. 22 January.

Note

Published as A Brief Character of the Lowe Countries, by Owen Felltham.

Literature and Philosophy

EL 1182 (34/B/44) [FACSIMILE] Latin treatise by William Wood on quodlibetical questions.

Religion, the Church, and Sermons

EL 1172 (34/B/42) [FACSIMILE] "The Rehearsall Sermon' 1605". By R. Barlow. 1605

The volume also includes a manuscript titled "Doctor Goodwin- Tuesday", "Mr Ireland Wednesday".

Separated volumes

Medieval and Renaissance volumes

EL 1160 (34/B/60) Sir Thomas Littleton's "Tenures." A law treatise in Norman French, with notes in the margin.

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EL 7/H/8 "Flos Decretorurn" of Johannes Hispanis, Martin of Troppau, and other texts.

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EL 7/H/9 Legal Matters [a volume of commentaries on civil law, with fragments of Roman and English law].

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EL 9/H/3 "Summa Summarum" of William of Pagula (Juris canonici ac reportorium et uocatur Summa Summarum, Speculum).

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EL 9/H/4 Biblia Latina [Bible].

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EL 9/H/9 "De Regimine Principum" of Aegidius Romanus and Nicholas Tryvet's commentaries on Boethius.

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EL 9/H/10 Statute book written in England in the second half of the fifteenth century.

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EL 9/H/11 Praecepta Grammatica - Priscianus [the "Institutio Grammatica" of Priscia]

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EL 9/H/13 Album of miniatures from Venetian ducali and fragments from an antiphonal, Italy, chiefly 16th century [disbound].

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EL 9/H/15 Liber Sactorum [a martyrology and customal of the College of Boni Homines at Ashridge, Buckinghamshire].

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EL 9/H/17 Horae Passionis [a psalter].

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EL 26/A/3 Book of French poetry, including Gautier de Metz, Jean de Meun, and Jacobus de Cessolis.

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EL 26/A/13 Regiment of princes. [A collection of Middle English poetry including translations of LaDanse Macabre by John Lydgate].

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EL 26/A/17 Gower's "Confessio Amantis" [the "Stafford Gower"]

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EL 26/C/9 Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" (the "Ellesmere Chaucer")

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EL 34/A/1 Livre D'Heures (Book of Hours).

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EL 34/A/3 MS Table or Index of Lessons [? Key to Book of Hours].

EL 34/A/5 Comm Seminar Index ex Jure, Canonico et Ciuili selectus [an Alphabetical Index to the Canonical and Civil Law]. 1596

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EL 34/A/8 Collection of Charters on Vellum with the name "Robt Bukleley" on the fly leaf.

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EL 34/B/6 Satirae Persii & Juvenalis with a prologue Auli Flacci petij in satyr [the "Satires" of Juvenal and Persius"].

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EL 34/B/7 "Processional of Dame Margery Byrkenhead" [missal].

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EL 35/B/53 Missal with musical notes of an old type [a gradual].

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EL 35/B/61 "Modus siue Forma Regum" and "Reginarum Coronationis in Regno Anglie sequitur in hue modum" [For the Coronation of Edward 6].

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Government, Politics, and Administration

EL 1161 (34/C/24) "Leycester's Commonwealthe" - "The Coppie of a Lettre written by a Master of Arte in Cambridge to his friend in London, concerneinge somme talke passed of late betweene Two worshippfull and grave men about the present state, and somme proceedeinges of the Earle of Leicester and his friends in England": consisting of invective against the Earl of Leicester's character and power.

EL 1162 (34/C/23) "Burleghley's Commonwealth". Preface thus: - "A Slainderous and defamatory Libell sett out and published by the Trayterous Papists beyonde Seas", and intituled "Burleygh's Commonwealth". 1592

EL 1169 (35/C/53) A collection of notes out the Records in the Tower of London. "Not purposelie nor perfectlie gathered in due order of yeres, But skatteringlie, and by occasion gleaned as they came to hand, ..." On the subject of "The Kinge his oath, office, Authoritie, Royall and Prerogatyve."

EL 1170 (34/C/11) Treatise on a revenue belonging to the Queens of England and called Aurum Reginae.

Also three loose papers as follows:- (1) The Copy of a record among the Patent Rolls, 52 Henry III, claiming Queen's Gold for Queen Elinor within the kingdom of Ireland.

"Causes cryminall of sundry kyndes with the proces and penalties therevppon ensewing Ancient lawes and Customes not vsed or not knowen Marti all matters as well by Sea as by lande. Subsidies The nature and nomber of the kings riche Jewelles, &c. The Kinges rewardes and extraordinary expenses Matters apperteyninge to the Church and specially against the popes vsurpacons.

(2) Out of the Rolls of Easter Terme 14 Henry IV in the Office of the Kings Remembrancer of the Exchequer of the third Roll. Copy Writt from the King as to Queenes Gold, with a list of fines.

(3) Copy claims of Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford, and of Daniel Cage, gentleman, to be Chamberlayne to the Queen (by Grand Serjeantry) and to have certain therewith in connection with Queenes Gold the keeping of the Queen's Chamber on her Coronation day and perquisites.

EL 1174 (34/C/12) "Observations", a treatise of political science by T.B., consisting according to his exordium, of "notes wch in reading of diuers histories and other writers I have observed".

EL 26/A/6 Treatise on the office of Chancellor of England by Francis Thynne.

EL 34/B/64 "Certaine observations vppon a libel published this present yeare of 1592 Intituled a declaration of the true causes of the greate troubles presupposed to be intended against the Realme of England." 1592

EL 35/B/60 Summaria quedam descriptio Recordorum repositorum in Archiuis Domine Rne Elizabethe & collecta per Arthur Agarde Anno Domini 1602. With a dedication to Ld. Ch. Ellesmere by Ralphe Starkey. 1602

Law

EL 1165 (34/C/22) Indice ou Table Alphabetizue des Actions Recordes et Pleas mises avaunt per Mons" Plowden en ses Comentaries et des choses et matiere principalles contennes in icelles, & c."

EL 1166 (34/B/40) Obseruations gathered out of Authors De iure maiestatis.

EL 1182a (34/C/17) "The Lawes of England" - a tract comparing English and Hebrew institutions.

EL 34/A/9 Copies of Statutes on vellum. Prefaced by a List of Kings of England with dates of commencement of Reign, date of Coronation, Years of Reign, death, sepulture from Seus son of Ethelred to Elizabeth.

EL 35/C/36 Petitiones et Placita coram domino rege ad Parliamentum (et suo consilio) ad parliamentum Edward I. Peticoes do Edward 3. In libro primo abbreuiacionum de tempore Regis Edward primi. Adjudicata coram Rege Edward I to Henry V (arranged by counties).

With notes of Adjudicata in Lord Chancellor Ellesmere's hand.

Literature and Philosophy

EL 1173 (34/B/43) "De Gradibus Academicis Concio ad Clerum, habita Cantabrigiae 17 Febr. die Cine qui apud eos dies Comitiorum".

EL 26/A/4 Miscellanea. - Quodlibetical Questions.

EL 34/B/9 "The Hoble Lorde & Lady of Huntingdon's Entertainment of theire right Noble Mother Alice Countesse Dowager of Darby the firste nighte of her honors arrivall att the house of Ashly" by John Marston, with a signed dedication to the Countess of Derby.

Access Information

RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.

EL 34/B/11 "Animadversions uppon the Annotacions and Correctons of some imperfectons of impressones of Chaucers workes (sett downe before tyme and nowe) reprinted in the yere of oure lorde 1598, sett downe by Francis Thynne. Soortie pur bien ou ne sortie rien". With a dedication to Lord Chancellor Ellesmere dated 20 Dec 1599 and a drawing of his arms.

EL 34/B/12 Emblemes and Epigrames by Francis Thynne with a dedication to Lord Chancellor Ellesmere.

EL 35/B/26 Miscellaneous Verses - Fair copied here & there in a large book.

Religion, the Church, and Sermons

EL 1171 (34/B/41) A sermon on Hebrews 12:3.

Miscellaneous

EL 20/E/3 "The Vse of a Mathe-maticall Scale In-vented by John Spei-dell, Professor of the Mathematicks in London."

"Ellesmere Part-Books". [Approximately 1610]

A set of six volumes of Italian madrigals, with music, set for different voices

EL 25/A/46 Canto.

EL 25/A/47 Quinto.

EL 25/A/48 Basso.

EL 25/A/49 Tenore.

EL 25/A/50 Alto.

EL 25/A/51 Sesto.

EL 34/A/7 A Latin dissertation on Spectres by Ralph Hutchins.

Miscellaneous (to be added to boxes)

EL 1155 A scholastic discourse entitled "An Deus absoluta sua pota faciat praeterita non fuisse".

EL 1159a Copy of Royal Grant to the Abbey of Bildewas of the monastery of St. Mary Dubbelin [Ireland] and lands. [Between 1171 and 1176]

Note

Was previously EL 1230.

EL 1159b Grant from the King to the Abbot and Monks of Bildwas of a fishing boat to fish in the water at Dublin [Ireland] called Auenlif. [Between 1184 and 1186]

Note

Was previously EL 1231.

EL 1163 Discourse that "There should be an abatement of severity in the punishment of delinquencies by magistrates".

EL 1164 "Memorial of the Registrum Brevium", i.e. of the Collection of Writts shewing the ancientness and value of both.

EL 1167-EL 1168 Notes on Casual Fines in Chancery. "The Pretended casuall fines vpon writts of Debt, Trespasse and such like haue beene receaved and enjoyed by the Chancellors of England, and keepers of the Great Seale, and by the Masters of the Rolles and Cursitors of the High Court of Chancery, time without all memory of man for many ages togeather". They had been questioned in the times of several of the Chancellors - "twice in the time of that graue and wise Counsellor the late L. Ellesmere" - but the matter had been fully answered: with a note of observations by Sir Nicholas Bacon. [After 1617]

EL 1175 [FACSIMILE] "An estimate of your L. yerely charge".

EL 1176 [FACSIMILE] Receipt for £100 part of moneys due from Lord Chancellor Ellesmere to Dame Mary Egerton. 1586 July 18

EL 1177 [FACSIMILE] Receipt by Dame Marie Egerton for £400 received from Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, including the foregoing £100. 1586 July 18

EL 1178 [FACSIMILE] Petition of Francis Allen to. Lord Chancellor Ellesmere respecting his son, Sir Thomas' debt of £200, - with a calculation of principal and interest due - on the fly leaf.

EL 1179 [FACSIMILE] Description of the duties of household Officers, dietaries for dinner and supper for each month, lists of provisions and instructions for the Steward for each month.

EL 1180 [FACSIMILE] Rules general and particular drawn up for the conduct of a great establishment of a peer (? Earl of Bridgewater) and prescribing minutely the duties of the following Officials :The Steward. The Comptroller. The Gentleman Hussiers. The Gentleman of the Horse. The Clerk of the Kitchen. The Yeoman of the Horse. The Yeoman Husshers of the Chamber. The Groom of the Chamber. The Yeoman of the Seller. The Yeoman of the Pantrie. The Yeoman of the Ewrie. The Yeoman of the Buttrie. The Hussher of the Hall. The Groome of the Hall or Almner. The Porter.

EL 1183-1229 Royal Papers

Scope and Content Note

Miscellaneous letters, documents, and notes concerning the English Crown and Court, including: draft of a letter from the Council at Windsor to the Council at London concerning Somerset's withdrawal from Edward VI, 1549 (EL 1183); copy proclamation of Queen Mary concerning the commission of enquiry into claims to serve at her coronation, 1553 (EL 1183b); copy of proclamation of Elizabeth I on her accession, 1558 (EL 1184); letters to Elizabeth concerning her intended invasion of Scotland (1560) and other political matters, including a working draft of Parliament's petition to the Queen to carry out sentence on Mary Queen of Scots, 1586 (EL 1191); copies, drafts, and some original letters re the Earl of Essex's rebellion; Deed of Association of Lincolns Inn for the defense of Queen Elizabeth, signed and sealed by 87 persons, ?1584 (EL 1193); letters and papers concerning James I and Prince Henry; notes re the proposed union of Scotland and England; James I's speech to Parliament of 1621 (EL 1214).

Separate volumes include: a list of public officials, nobility, churches and livings, officers of the law courts, etc., temp. Elizabeth I [between 1579 and 1587] (EL 1198); the order of the coronation of James I and Queen Anne at Westminster Abbey (EL 1222); a brief discourse on the union of Scotland and England, addressed to James I (EL 1227).

View descriptions of items EL 1183-1229 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (pages 147-156) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 35 (EL 1183-1194)

EL 1183-1194

Items bound with volume EL 6162-6206 (34/C/5): EL 1183a; EL 1183c

Items removed to Oversize Box 1: EL 1184

Box 36 (EL 1195-1229)

EL 1195-1229

Facsimiles: EL 1027-1208

Items bound with volume EL 1612 (35/C/35): EL 1199 (bound as pp. 349-359); EL 1200 (bound as pp. 61-62); EL 1200a (bound as pp. 63-64); EL 1201 (bound as pp. 67-68)

Items bound with volume EL 6162-6206 (34/C/5): EL 1195a-c; EL 1196-1197; EL 1205a-j

Separated volumes

EL 1222 (35/B/32) The Order of the Coronation of James I, and his queen, at Westminister Abbey.

EL 1227 (34/B/45) A Briefe discourse touchinge the happy Vnion of the Kingdomes of England and Scotland.

Official Papers

EL 1230-1481 Crown grants, appointments, etc.

Scope and Content Note

Chiefly drafts and copies, stemming from Egerton's legal work (as Solicitor-General, Attorney-General, Lord Keeper, and Lord Chancellor), of royal grants of lands and offices, pardons, licenses, commissions, charters, etc. includes petitions to the crown for confirmation of grants, letters to Egerton (Several from Walsingham, Burghley, and Cecil) concerning grants and patronage, and royal warrants to Egerton as Lord Keeper or Chancellor for issuing commissions, appointments, etc.; some papers re concealed lands; sections of legal documents concerning Wollaston, Northamptonshire; two volumes of registers of signed bills, privy seals, commissioners warrants, etc., received by Lord Chancellor Egerton and passed under the Great Seal, 1609-1611 and 1611-1613 (EL 1461 and EL 1464).

View descriptions of items EL 1230-1481 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (pages 157-189) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 36 (EL 1230-1245)

EL 1230-1245

Changed call numbers: EL 1230 removed to 1159a; EL 1231 removed to EL 1159b; EL 1232 removed to EL 6219b; EL 1233 removed to EL 6219d.

Items removed to Seals Box 1: EL 1235; EL 1243; EL 1244

Box 37

EL 1246-1249

Box 38

EL 1250-1259

Changed call numbers: EL 1257 removed to EL 6206b

Items removed to Oversize Box 1: EL 1255

Box 39

EL 1260-1262a

Items removed to Oversize Box 2: EL 1262

Items removed to Oversize Box 7: EL 1260

Box 40

EL 1263-1269

Items removed to Oversize Box 2: EL 1265; EL 1267

Items removed to Oversize Box 3: EL 1264b

Items removed to Oversize Box 7: EL 1264c

Box 41

EL 1270-1290

Items removed to Seals Box 1: EL 1288

Box 42

EL 1291-1310

Items removed to Oversize Box 2: EL 1295; EL 1309b

Items removed to Oversize Box 4: EL 1309a

Items removed to Seals Box 1: EL 1309c; EL 1310

Box 43

EL 1311 (1-7)

Items removed to Oversize Box 2: EL 1311/06

Box 44

EL 1311 (8-23)

Items removed to Oversize Box 4: EL 1311/18

Items removed to Seals Box 1: EL 1311/08; EL 1311/12

Box 45

EL 1312-1327

Items removed to Oversize Box 4: EL 1326

Box 46

EL 1328-1340

Box 47

EL 1341-1355

Items removed to Oversize Flat Folder: EL 1351

Items removed to Oversize Box 4: EL 1351a

Box 48

EL 1356-1378

Changed call numbers: EL 1361 removed to 1264a; EL 1363 removed to 1264b; EL 1366 removed to EL 1264c

Box 49

EL 1379-1410

Box 50

EL 1411-1432

Box 51

EL 1433-1477

Separated volumes

EL 1461 (34/C/14) Account of signed bills, warrants, received by Lord Chancellor Ellesmere and passed under the Great Seal. 1609-1611

EL 1464 (34/C/15) Account of Warrants of Bills signed, received by Lord Chancellor Ellesmere and passed under the Great Seal. 1611-1613

Box 52 (EL 1478-1481)

EL 1478-1481

EL 1482-1515 Creation of honors

Scope and Content Note

Copies and drafts, again related to Lord Chancellor Egerton's official work, of charters of creation of various earldoms (many 1606-07) and other titles of honor (including some copies of 15th- and 16th-century letters patent); and index of letters patent granting honors, lands, etc. to Prince Henry son of James I, ca. 1610-1611 (EL 1509).

View descriptions of items EL 1482-1515 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (pages 189-193) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 52 (EL 1482-1508)

EL 1482-1508

Changed call numbers: EL 1500 removed to part of EL 1045

Box 53 (EL 1509-1515)

EL 1509-1515

Separated volumes

EL 1509 (34/C/13) Letters Patents granted to Prince Henry, son of James I. Index of Honors, Manors and possessions given to him, - Liberties granted to him.

EL 1516-1589h2 Crown lands and affairs

Scope and Content Note

Papers concerning various aspects of crown lands, particularly letters (many from Egerton to Burghley) and papers (including surveys, accounts of sales, etc.) re commissions of 1589 and 1599 for the sale of crown lands; notes and copies of documents re lands held by other members of royal family (e.g. the jointure of Henry VII's queen, Elizabeth of York); some notes and accounts of revenues owed to the crown from royal lands, including a copy of Edmund Dudley's book of accounts of money received on behalf of crown, 1504-1508 (EL 1518); a report on the decay of royal revenues and suggestions for remedying this through escheats, liveries, wardships, etc. temp. Elizabeth (EL 1521); deeds, accounts and court rolls for manors in the lordship of Bromfield and Yale (EL 1589a-EL 1589h2).

View descriptions of items EL 1516-1589h in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (pages 193-203a) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 53 (EL 1516-1539)

EL 1516-1539

Items removed to Oversize Flat Folder: EL 1530; EL 1531; EL 1535

Separated volumes

EL 1521 (35/C/37) Book entitled "A Declaration of ye decayc of her Ma'tes revenue rysing by her Highnes Prerogative of tenures in Capite, &c." Being a report on, and suggestions for the improvement of the Royal Revenue ...

Box 54

EL 1540-1574

Items removed to Oversize Box 7: EL 1553; EL 1559

Box 55

EL 1575-1585

Items removed to Oversize Box 2: EL 1578

Items removed to Oversize Box 7: EL 1576; EL 1579

Box 56

EL 1586-1589h2

Items removed to Oversize Box 2: EL 1589f2

Items removed to Oversize Box 4: EL 1589a; EL 1589b; EL 1589c; EL 1589d; EL 1589e; EL 1589f; EL 1589g; EL 1589h; EL 1589i; EL 1589j; EL 1589k; EL 1589l; EL 1589m; EL 1589o; EL 1589q

Items removed to Oversize Box 5: EL 1589n; EL 1589p; EL 1589r; EL 1589s; EL 1589t; EL 1589u; EL 1589v; EL 1589w

EL 1590-1678 Foreign Affairs

Scope and Content Note

Brief tracts, reports, notes, and letters relating to foreign affairs, particularly Anglo-Spanish relations and Spanish activities in Europe, temp. Elizabeth and James I, including documents re the Court of Admiralty proceedings at suit brought against English piracy by the Spanish ambassador ca. 1611-12; extracts from and notes on various diplomatic treaties (with France 1572 and 1596; with the Netherlands temp. Elizabeth); notes and letters of instruction to Lord Chancellor Egerton re preparing commissions concerning foreign affairs; letter and report concerning Sir Thomas Bodley's missions to the Netherlands in the 1590s (EL 1614); papers re Francis Cherry's embassy to Moscow in 1598 (EL 1621); reports and letters to John Egerton, later 1st Earl of Bridgewater, from English diplomats and other agents abroad, chiefly from Richard Daniell (9 letters, from Vienna, Ratisbon, Paris, 1613-1614 [EL 1648-1658]) and Henry Tweedy (5 letters from Italy, ca. 1606-1615 [EL 1664-1668]).

Separate volumes include: "Ye Compleat Ambassador," being instructions for Sir Francis Walsingham, sent by Elizabeth to the French king, 1570 (EL 20/E/5); "The Suddaine and ill digested opinions of G.L." concerning Spain's offer of a treaty with Queen Elizabeth (EL 1622); 3 copies of "An Epistell directed unto the Lords and States of the Empire of Germany written 1564, yet principallie unto the Lord or Earle of Embden," one bound with Bacon's "Certaine observacions upon a Libell published … 1592 intituled a Declaration of the true causes of the great troubles pre-supposed to be intended against the Realme of Englande" (EL 1604, EL 1605, EL 1606); a commonplace book of copies of letters, documents, tracts, etc. re. Anglo-European (chiefly Anglo-Spanish) affairs, temp. Elizabeth and James I (EL 1612).

View descriptions of items EL 1590-1678 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (pages 204-218a) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 57

EL 1590-1621

Items removed to Oversize Box 7: EL 1617

Separated volumes

EL 1604 (34/C/25) "A book containing:- (1) "An Epistle directed unto the Lords and States of the Empire of Germany written 1564...

EL 1605 (34/B/46) An Address to "the Lorde Edgbert, the Lord John, and the Lord Christopher the Lordes and Earles of East frezlande", by W.G. 1564 (98 pp.) and "A Rewarninge 1572" (5 pp.). Against the ascendency of Spain and the house of Burgundy.

EL 1606 (34/C/26) "An Epistell directed unto the Lords and States of thempire of Germanye yett principally unto the L. or Earle of Embden, written 1564", warning them against the designs of the Spanish-Burgundian House.

EL 1611 (35/B/33) An account of an embassy to the United Provinces, withdrawing Elizabeth's financial support, &c., and demanding payment of debts.

EL 1612 (35/C/35) "A volume containing copies of ... [List of miscellaneous documents concerning foreign affairs]."

Box 58 (EL 1622-1678)

EL 1622-1678

Separated volumes

EL 20/E/5 Ye Compleat Ambassador: Instructions for Fraunce [Francis] Walsingham Esquier sent by the Q: Matie to the french kinge for the matters followinge the xi of August 1570 and the xiith yere of her mates raigne.

EL 1622 (34/B/47) "The suddaine and ill digested opinions of G.L. committed to the censure of farr more wourthie spirites". A discourse on the occasion of the King of Spain offering to make a treaty with Elizabeth - pressing the Privy Council not to temporise with Papists and shewing how England, if she maintains her alliance with the Netherlands, can cut off the trade and commodities of Spain.

EL 1679-1681 Admiralty

Scope and Content Note

A short report on the state of the English Navy in 1584 (EL 1679); letter from Sir John Popham and Lord Chancellor Egerton re Sir Thomas Williams' suits in the Court of Admiralty and other courts, 1590 (EL 1681); copy of the letters patent creating Lord Howard of Effingham Lord High Admiral of England, 1585 (EL 1680).

View descriptions of items EL 1679-1681 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (page 219) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 58 (EL 1679-1680)

EL 1679-1680

Box 59 (EL 1681)

EL 1681

EL 1682-1683 Colonies

Scope and Content Note

Copy of a report attributed to Battista Antonelli, addressed to Philip II, concerning Spanish fortifications in the West Indies, 1594 (EL 1682); Capt. Peter Wynne's letter to John Egerton, (later 1st Earl of Bridgewater) from Jamestown, Virginia, including a description of that settlement, 1608 (EL 1683).

View descriptions of items EL 1682-1683 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (page 220) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 59 (EL 1682-1683)

EL 1682-1683

EL 1684-1698 Militia

Scope and Content Note

Commissions to Lord Lieutenant and their deputies, chiefly for Buckinghamshire; notes on a statute (2 & 3 Edward VI, cap. 2) re runaway soldiers (EL 1686); notes and lists of men fit to bear arms in various places (EL 1688).

View descriptions of items EL 1684-1698 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (page 220-221) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 59 (EL 1684-1698)

EL 1684-1698

Changed call numbers: EL 1684 removed to EL 6202b #16; EL 1685 removed to EL 6202b #18

Items removed to Seals Box 1: EL 1697; EL 1698

EL 1699-1747 Ireland

Scope and Content Note

Letters, reports, commissions, and articles (many drafts) concerning the resettlement of Munster after Desmond's rebellion, 1586-87; a few privy seal warrants to Lord Chancellor Egerton for issuing letters patent concerning Irish affairs; documents and accounts re the Plantation of Ulster, 1610-13; the exemplification by Henry VI of the Irish "Modus tenendi Parliamentum" (EL 1699). Separate volumes include: "A Briefe Declaration of the Gouernment of Irelande opening many Corruptions in the same," 1594 (EL 1731); Francis Bacon's "Certaine Considerations touching the Plantations in Ireland," 1609 (EL 1721); E. S[pencer?]'s "Suruey of the present estate of Ireland Anno 1615" (EL 1746).

View descriptions of items EL 1699-1747 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (page 222-227) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 59 (EL 1699-1706)

EL 1699-1706

Separated volumes

EL 1699 Modus tenendi parliamenta" in Ireland ...

Box 60

EL 1707-1740

Separated volumes

EL 1721 (34/A/15) Considerations touching the Plantations in Ireland" by Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Albans.

EL 1731 (34/B/48) "A Briefe Declaration of the Gouerment of Irelande opening many Corruptions in the same, discouering the discontentments of the Irishry and the causes mouing theis expected troubles; And shewing meanes how to establish quietnes in that kingdome honourably to your Maties profit without any encrease of charge".

Box 61 (EL 1741-1747)

EL 1741-1747

Separated volumes

EL 1746 (34/A/16) "Suruey of the present estate of Ireland Anno 1615. Addressed to his most excellent Maiesty James the first, &c. E.S." Prefaced by the Report of King James' speech in Parliament 18th Nov. 1606.

EL 1748-1765 Wales

Scope and Content Note

Letters and papers chiefly relating to legal affairs in the Council of Wales and to appointments to office in Wales; includes copies of instructions given by Queen Elizabeth to the Council of Wales in 1601 (EL 1757) and to Edward la Zouche, Lord Zouche, as President of the Council of Wales, 1602 (EL 1758); copy of a speech given by Robert Cecil in the year 43 Elizabeth concerning the Welsh Council (EL 1756); report on a debate and speech given by James I in 1608 on the royal prerogative in relation to the question of jurisdiction in the Welsh marches (EL 1763).

View descriptions of items EL 1748-1765 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (page 228-230) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 61 (EL 1748-1765)

EL 1748-1765

Facsimiles: EL 1761

Separated volumes

EL 1757 (34/C/28) "A Copie of the Instruccions given by the Queenes Maiestie to her highnes councel wthin her Maties dominion and Principalyty of Wales, and the Marches of the same."

EL 1758 (34/C/27) "Instructions given by the Queenes Maiestie to her right trusty and welbeloued Edward Lord Zouch ..."

EL 1766-1861 Manors etc. in Flint and Denbigh

Scope and Content Note

Chiefly deeds and miscellaneous papers concerning Egerton and other lands in Flint and Denbigh, including Holt (EL 1766), Coleshill (EL 1767-1782), Northope (EL 1783-1826), Mold (EL 1827-1828), Ruthland (EL 1829-1835), Kyrchynan (EL 1836), and Gresford (EL 1837-1861).

Also includes legal papers re Lord Chancellor Egerton's interest in the rectory of Gresford (EL 1853-1861); the inquisition post mortem for Peter Stanley, 1539 (EL 1767); a rental of the lands in Denbigh and Merioneth of John Salisbury, the Queen's ward, 1601 (EL 1782e); and an inventory of the goods and chattel, with particulars of lands, of Sir Robert Salisbury, deceased, 1601 (EL 1782g, EL 1782h).

View descriptions of items EL 1766-1861 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (page 231-241) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 61 (EL 1766-1785)

EL 1766-1785

Items removed to Oversize Box 2: EL 1767; EL 1778; EL 1782h

Items removed to Seals Box 2: EL 1766; EL 1768; EL 1769; EL 1770; EL 1771; EL 1772; EL 1773; EL 1774; EL 1775; EL 1776; EL 1777; EL 1779; EL 1781; EL 1782a; EL 1782b

Box 62

EL 1786-1830

Items removed to Seals Box 2: EL 1786; EL 1787; EL 1789; EL 1790; EL 1792; EL 1793; EL 1794

Items removed to Seals Box 3: EL 1796; EL 1797; EL 1798; EL 1799; EL 1800; EL 1801; EL 1802; EL 1804; EL 1805; EL 1805a; EL 1806; EL 1810; EL 1813; EL 1816; EL 1817; EL 1819; EL 1820; EL 1823; EL 1824; EL 1825; EL 1827

Box 63

EL 1830-1861

Missing items: EL 1860

Items removed to Oversize Box 2: EL 1853; EL 1854

Items removed to Seals Box 3: EL 1836; EL 1840; EL 1843; EL 1844; EL 1845

Items removed to Seals Box 4: EL 1846; EL 1847; EL 1848; EL 1849; EL 1850; EL 1851; EL 1851a; EL 1851b; EL 1852

EL 1862-1873 Scotland

Related Material

EL 1188 is a 1577 letter from Nicholas Bacon to Queen Elizabeth, treating, among other matters, of Scottish affairs.

Scope and Content Note

Letters addressed to Lord Chancellor Egerton on Scottish affairs; speeches (by Egerton and Francis Bacon) and notes on speeches (by Sir Edward Coke, Sir George Snigg, and Sir David Williams) on Calvins Case, or the case of the post-nati, 1608 (EL 1868-1873); list of acts hostile to England passed by the Scottish parliament (EL 1865).

View descriptions of items EL 1862-1873 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (page 241-242) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 64 (EL 1862-1873)

EL 1862-1873

EL 1874-1890 Border Affairs

Scope and Content Note

Documents concerning various aspects of affairs on the Anglo-Scottish borders, chiefly temp. Elizabeth I, including: a petition to the Privy Council from the town of Berwick with notes on their case (EL 1874); papers re the charges against Ralph Lord Eure as Lord Warden of the Scottish Marches (EL 1876-1877); instructions given by Queen Elizabeth to the Council in the North, 1595 (EL 1881), with various reports and drafts for commissions and instructions to be given to the Council (EL 1882-1883); warrants to Egerton for appointments to be made to offices in the Scottish Marches (EL 1884-1885); copy of a letter from Elizabeth I to James VI (afterward James I of Great Britain) as King of Scotland, reproaching him for border raids, 1596, with a copy of his answer (EL 1889-1890).

View descriptions of items EL 1874-1890 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (page 243-245) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 64 (EL 1874-1890)

EL 1874-1890

EL 1891-1912 Jersey and Guernsey

Scope and Content Note

Letters to Lord Chancellor Egerton on legal matters involving Jersey and Guernsey, chiefly concerning the Queen's rights there, and a report by Egerton and Sir Walter Mildmay on this subject, 1584 (EL 1902); letters and notes for a case involving the governor (Sir John Peyton) and bailiff (John Herault) of Jersey, ca. 1616 (EL 1907-1911); a volume containing copies of reports, orders, articles, letters, petitions, etc. re the island of Guernsey and adjoining islands, chiefly 1580-87 (EL 1904); a volume containing "The Ecclesiasticall Discipline as it hath been used synce the Church was reformed by the ministers elders and deacons on the Isles of Guerneze, Jerze, Serch and Alderney established," ca. 1597 (EL 1897).

View descriptions of items EL 1891-1912 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (page 245-249) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 64 (EL 1891-1909)

EL 1891-1909

Separated volumes

EL 1897 (34/A/17) "Th' Ecclesticall Discipline as it hath been used synce the Church was reformed by the ministers elders and deacons of the Isles of Guerneze, Jerze, Serch and Alderny established by authority and in the presence of the honorable Gouernors of the said Islands at the Synode holden at Guerneze the 28th of June 1576 et synce examined by the said Ministers & Elders et confirmed by the said honorable Gouernors at the Synode holden at Guerneze the 11th, 12, 15, 14, 15 & 17th dayes of October in the yeare 1597."

EL 1904 (34/C/29) "The Book of Garnsey (Guernsey) and the Islands adjoining ... List of miscellaneous documents concerning Jersey & Guernsey."

Box 65 (EL 1910-1912)

EL 1910-1912

EL 1913-1977 Universities

Scope and Content Note

Letters, requests for patronage, and complaints addressed to Lord Chancellor Egerton as Chancellor of Oxford, including in particular those from Christ Church re electing a dean, and those re the "town and gown" disputes of 1611; includes also accounts of disputations at Oxford and notes concerning scholarships and fellowships at each of thirteen colleges at Oxford, ca. 1610?; a volume titled "Concio Ad Clerum habita Oxoniae Maij 24o 1598" (EL 1929). Includes papers relating to Cambridge (EL 1913-1919) and Oxford (EL 1920-1977).

View descriptions of items EL 1913-1923 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 1 (page 249-250) in the Huntington Digital Library.

View descriptions of items EL 1924-1977 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (page 251-258) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 65 (EL 1913-1965)

EL 1913-1965

Items removed to Oversize Box 5: EL 1915

Separated volumes

EL 1929 (34/B/21) "Concio ad Clerum habita Oxoniae Maij 24 1598" "in templo beatae Mariae pro forma". Acts, Chapter 20, verses 26 & 27.

Box 66 (EL 1966-1977)

EL 1966-1977

EL 1978-2030 Ecclesiastical Affairs

Scope and Content Note

Drafts and copies of a few Parliamentary statutes concerning religion; papers concerning the establishment of a Choir College at Hereford Cathedral; institutions to rectories; documents concerning the establishment and jurisdiction of the High Commission, and the controversy surrounding it ca. 1608-11. Includes as a separate volume the "petition" of Maurice Gruffyn to Lord Chancellor Egerton and Chief Justice Sir John Popham against simony and other ecclesiastical abuses (EL 2029).

View descriptions of items EL 1978-2030 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (pages 258-262) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 66 (EL 1978-1999)

EL 1978-1999

Items removed to Oversize Box 2: EL 1995

Box 67 (EL 2000-2030)

EL 2000-2030

Changed call numbers: EL 2023 removed to EL 6206b (pp. 3-5); EL 2024 removed to EL 6206b (pp. 6-7)

Separated volumes

EL 2029 (34/B/49) "The humble Petition of Maurice Gruffyn, Bachelor of Law To the right honorable the two greate Lightes of this Common wealth Sir Thomas Egerton, knight, Baron of Ellesmere, Lord Chancelor of England, and Sr John Popham, Knight, Lord Cheefe Justice of England", for the amendment of abuses, viz:- Simony and sacrilege in the Church, oppression and beggary in the state.

EL 2031-2076c Religious Persecutions

Scope and Content Note

Consists entirely of disbound pages from a volume of extracts from John Foxe's Actes and Monuments (chiefly Books VII and VIII).

View descriptions of items EL 2031-2076 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (pages 263-266) in the Huntington Digital Library.

EL 6162-6206 (34/C/5) Commonplace book of various political, religious, legal, and miscellaneous papers.

This bound volume contains EL 1183a, EL 1183c, EL 1205a-j, EL 2031-2076c (ff. 22-34), and EL 6162-6206d.

EL 2077-2197a Recusants

Scope and Content Note

Examinations by Sir John Popham and others of recusants, and of John Penry, with notes and letters concerning official action against recusancy, including a volume of examinations for the period February-May 1593 (EL 2101-2158); certifications or significavits from various bishops (Chichester, Coventry & Lichfield, Ely, Gloucester, Hereford, Lincoln, Norwich, Rochester, Salisbury, Winchester) and the Archbishop of Canterbury for the delivery of recusants (listed) in their dioceses to secular powers, 1601. Separate volumes include a discourse "provinge the Lawfulness of the Othe of Allegiance," by John Goode (EL 2187); "An Humble Supplication [pro-Catholic] to her Majestie in aunswere of a late Proclamation," 1592 (EL 2089); an account of various Protestant tenets and heresies (EL 2170), arranged alphabetically; a list of recusants indicted in Oxfordshire, 2-10 James I (EL 2178); a report of "The Case of Praemunire, or, the conviction and attainder of Robert Lalor, priest," 4 James I (EL 2181).

View descriptions of items EL 2077-2197a in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (pages 267-298) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 67 (EL 2077-2099)

EL 2077-2099

Items removed to Seals Box 4: EL 2081

Box 68

EL 2100-2197a

Items removed to Seals Box 4: EL 2159; EL 2161; EL 2164; EL 2166; EL 2167; EL 2168; EL 2169

Separated volumes

EL 2101-2158 (34/C/30) Examinations of the following Catholic Recusants: -

EL 2170 (34/C/31) A Theological book treating of Protestant heresies etc. Dialogues.

EL 2178 (34/B/51) "Nomina et cognomina Recusantium indicatoru ab anno 2o Regis Jacobi ad annu 10u inclusiue". [A valuable list of Recusants in county/dioc. of Oxford arranged mainly in alphabetical order with final lists of recusant Knights or their wives, Squires or their wives, Recusants of the gentry.

EL 2181 (34/C/32) The Case of Praemunire, or, The conviction and Attainder of Robert Lalor, priest, being endited vppon the Statute of 16 R. 2 c.5.

EL 2187 (34/B/52) "A discourse prouinge the Lawfulness of the Othe of Allegiance". By Jo. Goode.

EL 2198-2285a Coinage and the Mint

Scope and Content Note

Notes and records on the organization and procedures of the Royal Mint; few accounts of monies coined, profits, etc.; copies of earlier grants or office to warden, master, worker of monies, etc.; treatises, letters, and suggestions of Gerard de Malynes concerning money, coinage, and Mint affairs; several papers concerning the transportation of gold out of England, the debased coinage of the 1590s (and how to improve it), and plans to coin debased coins for Ireland ca. 1598-1601; a few notes re the value of various coins, and a volume by Francis Hoffman giving the value of exchange of coins in different countries (EL 2229).

View descriptions of items EL 2198-2285a in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (pages 299-313) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 69

EL 2198-2246

Separated volumes

EL 2229 (34/C/35) A book shewing the value of exchange of coins in different countries, and the fineness of their moneys. By "Fra: Hoffman."

Box 70

EL 2247-2285a

Changed call numbers: EL 2285a removed to EL 11749

EL 2286-2469 Trade and Monopolies

Scope and Content Note

Drafts, notes, and other papers concerning legal cases involving merchants, guilds, and customs farms; notes, accounts, and records of importing and exporting goods, giving prices, quantities, etc.; notes on and extracts from statutes and proclamations regulating trade; drafts of leases and licenses granting rights to import, export, collection customs, etc., with relevant correspondence; reports and recommendations (chiefly brief and anonymous) on various aspects of English trade and mercantile companies (especially the Merchant Adventurers); letters and documents re the unsuccessful suit of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, for the farm of the Cornish tin mines (EL 2335-2351). Separate volumes include a brief treatise in support of the Merchant Adventurers (EL 2373) and "The Vsurer Reformer," a tract against usury attributed by Lord Chancellor Egerton to Sir Thomas Chaloner (EL 2468).

View descriptions of items EL 2286-2469 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (pages 313-338) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 71

EL 2286-2298

Box 72

EL 2299-2326

Box 73

EL 2327-2374

Box 74

EL 2375-2425

Missing items: EL 2406 Notes of leases of customs, 1 Jas. 1

Box 75

EL 2426-2463

Box 76 (EL 2464-2469)

EL 2464-2469

Separated volumes

EL 2468 (34/C/34) "The Vsurer Reformed, or a Treatise tendinge to the restraint of Immoderate Intereste ioyntly wth the Inconveniences therevpon dependinge most humbly referred to the Judicious Censure of the thrise happie and Gratious Uniter of the Realmes of England and Scotland. &c."

EL 2470-2513 Subsidies and Taxation

Scope and Content Note

Notes and copies of documents re the collection of subsidies; miscellaneous undated lists of men in Middlesex and Buckhinghamishire to be rated for loans under the privy seal; accounts of collection of subsidies in the hundreds of Northwich, Esbury, Broxton and Worall, ca. 1589 (EL 2481, EL 2482); warrants for levying subsidies temp. Elizabeth & James I; 5 subsidy rolls for James I of subsidies levied on all above rank of baron, 1606-1610 (EL 2489-2493); accounts of Arthur Maynwaring as collector of three payments on subsidies of 3 James I (EL 2495); a note of assessments for subsidies, with lists of [? justices of the peace] for each of the English counties, 1609 (EL 2513).

View descriptions of items EL 2470-2513 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (pages 338-344) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 76 (EL 2470-2511)

EL 2470-2511

Items removed to Oversize Box 5: EL 2495; EL 2496a; EL 2502

Items removed to Oversize Box 7: EL 2499

Items removed to Oversize Box 8: EL 2492; EL 2494; EL 2496b

Items removed to Seals Box 4: EL 2484; EL 2485

Items removed to Seals Box 5: EL 2487; EL 2489; EL 2490; EL 2491; EL 2493

Box 77 (EL 2512-2513)

EL 2512-2513

EL 2514-2519 Strangers

Scope and Content Note

Extract of returns of the 7113 aliens living in and around London, 1593 (EL 2514); undated complaints against merchant strangers living and trading in England ( temp. Elizabeth or James I); record of the number of aliens in various trades and professions, 1593.

View descriptions of items EL 2514-2519 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (pages 344-345) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 77 (EL 2514-2519)

EL 2514-2519

EL 2520-2527 The Poor

Scope and Content Note

Notes on statutes and procedures affecting the poor, rogues, vagabonds, etc.; a volume of orders for setting "Roges and ydle persons to woorke" in London, 1597 (EL 2522).

View descriptions of items EL 2520-2527 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (pages 346-347) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 77 (EL 2520-2527)

EL 2520-2527

Separated volumes

EL 2522 Orders to be appointed to be executed in the Citie of London for setting Roges and ydle persons to woorke, and for releife of the poore. TThere are to be sett vp in Bridewell certeine arts,occupacons, woorkes and Labours".

EL 2528-2530 Mines

Scope and Content Note

Letter from Sir Francis Walsingham to Egerton re a commission for the assistance of dealers in northern copper mines, 1586 (EL 2528); letter from Egerton to Lord Burghley concerning Ralph Bowes' mines and debts, 1592 (EL 2529); undated draft commission from Queen Elizabeth to the Earl of Huntingdon, Bishop of Carlisle, and others concerning royal mines in the North (EL 2530).

View descriptions of items EL 2528-2530 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (page 347) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 77 (EL 2528-2530)

EL 2528-2530

EL 2531-2535 Fens

Scope and Content Note

Undated notes and draft grants re draining fen land, and the method of conveying fen lands; abstract of a legal case involving rights of common on Erles Fenn in Lincolnshire (EL 2534).

View descriptions of items EL 2531-2535 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (page 348) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 77 (EL 2531-2535)

EL 2531-2535

EL 2536-2546 Forests and Hunting

Scope and Content Note

Warrants for commissions dealing with royal game in Buckinghamshire (1566) (EL 2541), archery (1596) (EL 2544), and the office of Master of the Hawks (1608) (EL 2546); a schedule of the divisions of the Forest of Rockingham, Northants., with officers and grantees thereof, temp. Elizabeth (EL 2542); includes a volume containing "A Declaracion of the Statute De Charta de foresta collected for the moost part out of Master Trehern's Readinge vpon the sayd statute, ao 12 H.8," "Lectura Mri Treherne de statuto de vsura edit. Ao 11 H.7 ca. 8," extracts from Adam Blackwood, extracts from Pleas of the Forest, writs, inquisitions, etc., and Lord Chancellor Egerton's loose notes (EL 2536-2540).

View descriptions of items EL 2536-2546 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (pages 348-350) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 77 (EL 2536-2542)

EL 2536-2542

Separated volumes

EL 2536-2539 (34/C/33) One volume containing "A Declaracion of the Statute De Charla de foresta collected for the most part out of Master Trehern's Readinge vpon the statute, a'o 12 H.S." [EL 2536, pp. 1-34]; "Lectura Mri Treherne de statuto de vsura edit a'o 11 H.7 ca.8." [EL 2537, 2 leaves]; Extracts from Adam Blackwood: Apologia pro Regibus [EL 2538, 2 leaves]; Extracts from Pleas of the Forest, copies of writs, inquisitions, &c. [EL 2539, 48 leaves].

Box 78 (EL 2543-2546)

EL 2543-2546

EL 2547-2624 Parliamentary Affairs

Scope and Content Note

Copies of and extracts from rolls and, later, journals of Parliament (sporadically, from Edward II on); drafts of parliamentary bills dealing with sumptuary legislation (1576) (EL 2581), the courts of Justices of the Forest (1576) (EL 2582), and an explanation of the statute of 18 Elizabeth for confirmation of grants made to and by the Queen (EL 2567); proposals for (legislation concerning?) outlawries and possible royal profits therefrom, undated (EL 2575-2576), and reordering of the state of the realm, 1559 (EL 2580); copies of, or extracts from, speeches delivered by Queen Elizabeth in 1601 (her "Golden Speech") (EL 2571), James I in 1607 and 1616 (to the judges in Star Chamber) (EL 2600, EL 2595), Sir John Croke (Speaker of the House of Commons) in 1601 (EL 2569), Sir Walter Mildmay in 1581 and 1584 (EL 2583, EL 2584), Sir Edward Phellips in 1614 (not given in Parliament) (EL 2608), and Sir Christopher Yelverton (Speaker of the House of Commons) in 1597 and 1598 (EL 2585, EL 2570); lists of statutes on various topics; warrants for the preparation of writ of summons to Parliament; a list of royal proclamations, divided into groups by type, Edward I-Henry IV (EL 2562); a memorandum by Lord Chancellor Egerton of "Things to be Considered of before a parlemt to be called," 1615 (EL 2610); a dissertation on the laws and records of England, dedicated to Lord Chancellor Egerton (EL 2622); draft by Egerton endorsed "Memorialles for Judicature. Pro Rege. Pro Bone publico." temp. James I (EL 2623). Miscellaneous notes and documents re parliamentary affairs.

Separate volumes include: a collection of speeches in Parliament and the Star Chamber, some by Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1558-1571 (EL 2579); a collection of speeches by the Lord Keeper (Sir Nicholas Bacon) temp. Elizabeth (EL 2573); "An Exposicion of the Kynges Prerogative" and "A Discourse upon the exposicion and understanding of Statutes" dedicated to Nathaniel Bacon by Sir William Stanforde, 1548 (EL 2565); and "The Priuiledges or special rights belonging to the Baronage of England" by John Selden (EL 2624).

View descriptions of items EL 2547-2624 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (pages 350-361) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 78 (EL 2547-2572)

EL 2547-2572

Changed call numbers: EL 2549 removed to EL 8392-8394

Items removed to Seals Box 5: EL 2564

Separated volumes

EL 2565 (34/B/53) "An Exposicion of the Kynges Prerogative" and "A Discourse upon the exposicion and understandinge of Statutes".

Box 79

EL 2573-2594

Separated volumes

EL 2579 (35/C/32) A Collection of Speeches in Parliament and the Star Chamber, etc.

Box 79a (EL 2595-2624)

EL 2595-2624

Facsimiles: EL 2622

Changed call numbers: EL 2612 removed to EL 6206b (f. 1)

Separated volumes

EL 2624 (34/C/36) "The Priuiledges or speciall rights belonging to the Baronage of England" by John Selden.

EL 2625-2628 Privy Council

Scope and Content Note

Copy of "Instructions for the Counsellors appointed to heare and determine the Requests made either to the King or to his Privy Counsell," 1551 (EL 2627); copy of a commission to certain counselors to hear and determine suits preferred to the King or Privy Council, so as to expedite the hearing, 1551 (EL 2626); proposals (chiefly mercantile and economic) for "redresse of the state of the Realme," temp. Elizabeth (EL 2625); Lord Chancellor Egerton's notes on the opinion of the Council on holding a parliament and raising money, 1615 (EL 2628).

View descriptions of items EL 2625-2628 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (pages 361-362) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 79a (EL 2625-2628)

EL 2625-2628

EL 2629-2651 Exchequer

Scope and Content Note

Notes on past and present procedures in the Exchequer; several legal documents in suits and other conflicts involving Chidiocke Warder, Clerk of the Pells (especially against Vincent Skinner), 1590-1590s; a few letters and other papers concerning appointments to office in the Exchequer. A copy of "Gervasii Tilberiensis de necessariiz Scaccarii obseruantiiz Dialogus" presented to Lord Chancellor Egerton by William Lambarde, 1598 (EL 2649).

View descriptions of items EL 2629-2651 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (pages 362-365) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 79a (EL 2629)

EL 2629

Box 80 (EL 2630-2651)

EL 2630-2651

Separated volumes

EL 2649 (34/B/54) Copy of "Gervasii Tilberiensis de necessariiz Scaccarii obseruantiiz Dialogus". Letter enclosed from W. Lambarde to Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, presenting the book.

EL 2652-2805 Star Chamber

Scope and Content Note

Notes and extracts from Star Chamber records re precedents, jurisdiction, procedure, fees, judgments; few petitions, letters, notes, briefs, particulars, etc. re various cases in Star Chamber (including proceedings against Edmund Campion and case between Edward Dymock and Henry Clinton or Fiennes, 2nd Earl of Lincoln); documents re the clerkship of William Mill; papers re serjeant John Hele and the accusations brought against him at the time of Egerton's successful opposition as candidate for the office of Master of the Rolls; letters to Egerton re various Star Chamber affairs and offices; 36 cause lists (chiefly temp. James I; one for 1632), many with Egerton's notes (EL 2770-2804); miscellaneous notes and papers dealing with Star Chamber affairs.

Separate volumes include: three compilations of transcripts and extracts from Henrician Council registers (compiled in the later part of the 16th century) (EL 2654, EL 2655, EL 2766); compilations of letters and speeches in Star Chamber relating chiefly to Spanish affairs and Anglo-Spanish relations, temp. Elizabeth and James I (EL 2805).

View descriptions of items EL 2652-2805 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (pages 365-385) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Related Material

See also EL 7878-7921 (Star Chamber).

Box 80 (EL 2652-2666)

EL 2652-2666

Separated volumes

EL 2654 (35/C/30) Copy of Proceedings in the Star Chamber. 1 Hen. VII - II Hen. VIII.

Box 81

EL 2667-2694

Box 82

EL 2695-2755

Items removed to Oversize Box 2: EL 2726

Box 83

EL 2756-2790

Separated volumes

EL 2768 (34/C/37) A book containing (1) Proceedings in the Court of Star Chamber from the 1st Henry VII, which is prefaced by the same Introduction as No. 2654, but with the following addition: --

Box 84 (EL 2791-2805)

EL 2791-2805

Separated volumes

EL 2805 (34/C/6) Copies of letters and Speeches, etc., in the Star Chamber relating to Spanish affairs, as follows:-

EL 2806-3042a Official Matters in the Courts of Law

Scope and Content Note

Appointments and drafts of appointments of various persons to offices in Chancery; lists and accounts of fees of various offices or for various procedures in courts of law; copies and drafts of oaths taken by various officials; a few notes and papers concerning procedures in Chancery; documents in the dispute between the Six Clerks and the Examiners in Chancery; letters from Thomas Sackville, Baron Buckhurst (afterward 1st Earl of Dorset) and other papers re the office of his client and cousin John Parker in Chancery, ca. 1594; letters to Lord Chancellor Egerton requesting patronage or other favors involving Chancery; notes and documents concerning the jurisdictional disputes within and among the courts of law; petitions and other documents concerning charges against Richard Orrell, usher of Chancery, for misdemeanors in office, ca. 1600 (EL 2925-2933); papers re the objections of the Clerk of the Hanaper to farming out fees for writs (EL 2949-2952); some few documents re the jurisdictional dispute between Lord Chancellor Egerton and Sir Edward Coke (EL 2920, EL 2958). Miscellaneous letters and papers concerning Chancery, including a schedule of small writs issued 33-34 Elizabeth (EL 2821); a collection of the number of writs made by the Cursitors 34-37 Elizabeth, with names and terms of County Cursitors (EL 2822); "Ordinances provided in Easter Terme Anno 39 Elizabeth by Sir Thomas Egerton … [ et al.] for the remedie of sundry abuses…," concerning the Court of Requests, 1597 (EL 2916); a defense of the Court of Requests by Sir Julius Caesar in a paper endorsed "Touchinge the prohibitions and habeas corpus graunted out of the comon pleas, to stay sutors from pleading in ye Court of Whitehall," 1600 (EL 2924); an undated list of Doctors of Law in London in term time (EL 2981); an undated list of "Petitions towching Chancery" [Chancery Register] (EL 3004).

Separate volumes include an Entry Book of warrants to Chancery in 12 James I (EL 2953) and a "Collection as well of all the Kings Maties offices and fees in any of the Courtes at Westminster, as of all the offices and fees of his Maties honorable howshold. Togethr wth all fees apertaineinge to Captaines and souldiors, haueinge charge of Castells, Bullwarkes, and fortresses wthin ye Realme of England. And likewise ye offices and fees of his highness honorable howses, Parkes, forrestes, and chases wthin ye said Realme" (EL 3042a).

View descriptions of items EL 2806-3042a in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (pages 385-408) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 84 (EL 2806-2836)

EL 2806-2836

Box 85

EL 2837-2870

Changed call numbers: EL 2844a removed to EL 11737

Box 86

EL 2871-2918

Box 87

EL 2919-2952

Items removed to Seals Box 5: El 2941

Box 88

EL 2953-2993

Changed call numbers: EL 2973 removed to EL 6206b and EL 1198 (?); EL 2978 removed to EL 1198 (?)

Box 89

EL 2994-3024

Changed call numbers: EL 3016 removed to EL 10440

Box 90 (EL 3025-3042a)

EL 3025-3042a

Separated volumes

EL 3042 (35/C/33) On the decay of her Majesty’s revenue from wardship, &c. A paper is attached to the fly leaf on the tenures of lands lying within the counties palatine (holden in chief from the Crown) and entitled: "A proiecte of the service offred by Hugh Hurleston and referred to your honours honourable consideracion".

EL 3042a (35/C/33) "A true Collection as well of all the Kinge's Maties, offices and fees of his Maties, honorable howshold, Togethr wth all fees apertaineinge to Captaines and souldiors haveinge charge of Castells, Bullwarkes, and fortresses wth in ye Realme of England, And Likewiese ye offices and fees of his hignes honorable howses, Parkes, forrestes, and chases wth in ye said Realme."

EL 3043-5646 Dockets

Scope and Content Note

Ca. 2,600 dockets for the preparation of documents to be issued under the Great Seal, 1592-1596, at which time Sir John Puckering was Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.

View descriptions of the dockets in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 6 (pages 1086-1216) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Note: The dockets are arranged in the boxes chronologically but were grouped in the Calendar according to document type. Within each grouping, documents are then listed chronologically. In a few cases, a document contains entries from more than one category, and, consequently, the same EL call number may appear twice in the Calendar's list of dockets.

1. Patents: pages 1086-1106

Includes: EL 3152, EL 3177, EL 3180, EL 3181, EL 3190, EL 3213, EL 3218, EL 3235, EL 3254 (incorrectly listed under EL 3244 in Calendar), EL 3261, EL 3266, EL 3274, EL 3291, EL 3297, EL 3301, EL 3309, EL 3339, EL 3342, EL 3347, EL 3368, EL 3374, EL 3384, EL 3385, EL 3386, EL 3393, EL 3394, EL 3402, EL 3405, EL 3411, EL 3418, EL 3419, EL 3420, EL 3421, EL 3434, EL 3450, EL 3451, EL 3452, EL 3453, EL 3454, EL 3455, EL 3456, EL 3459, EL 3460, EL 3463, EL 3464, EL 3466, EL 3467, EL 3469, EL 3470, EL 3471, EL 3482, EL 3483, EL 3484, EL 3485, EL 3490, EL 3501, EL 3505, EL 3507, EL 3508, EL 3510, EL 3525, EL 3526, EL 3527, EL 3532, EL 3533, EL 3546, EL 3547, EL 3556, EL 3563, EL 3575, EL 3579, EL 3588, EL 3590, EL 3592, EL 3593, EL 3596, EL 3599, EL 3606, EL 3610, EL 3669, EL 3701, EL 3704, EL 3711, EL 3719, EL 3723, EL 3726, EL 3744, EL 3746, EL 3755, EL 3778, EL 3786, EL 3803, EL 3805, EL 3809, EL 3827, EL 3844, EL 3846, EL 3847, EL 3848, EL 3912, EL 3914, EL 3918, EL 3920, EL 3922, EL 3933, EL 3935, EL 3949, EL 3955, EL 3961, EL 3962, EL 3965, EL 3972, EL 3978, EL 3980, EL 3981, EL 3987, EL 3989, EL 3990, EL 3999, EL 4002, EL 4003, EL 4004, EL 4005, EL 4006, EL 4007, EL 4008, EL 4009, EL 4012, EL 4015, EL 4023, EL 4024, EL 4032, EL 4033, EL 4035, EL 4041, EL 4044, EL 4046, EL 4051, EL 4055, EL 4056, EL 4061, EL 4062, EL 4068, EL 4073, EL 4074, EL 4075, EL 4081, EL 4086, EL 4087, EL 4090, EL 4101, EL 4102, EL 4103, EL 4107, EL 4110, EL 4127, EL 4128, EL 4131, EL 4132, EL 4140, EL 4143, EL 4144, EL 4149, EL 4150, EL 4151, EL 4177, EL 4188, EL 4191, EL 4192, EL 4194, EL 4201, EL 4202, EL 4207, EL 4208, EL 4213, EL 4214, EL 4215, EL 4216, EL 4217, EL 4218, EL 4219, EL 4220, EL 4221, EL 4222, EL 4223, EL 4224, EL 4225, EL 4226, EL 4227, EL 4228, EL 4229, EL 4230, EL 4231, EL 4232, EL 4233, EL 4234, EL 4235, EL 4236, EL 4237, EL 4238, EL 4239, EL 4241, EL 4242, EL 4243, EL 4244, EL 4245, EL 4246, EL 4247, EL 4250, EL 4252, EL 4253, EL 4259, EL 4265, EL 4266, EL 4268, EL 4272, EL 4273, EL 4274, EL 4277, EL 4281, EL 4285, EL 4290, EL 4291, EL 4297 (incorrectly identified as part of EL 4298 in Calendar), EL 4298, EL 4299, EL 4302, EL 4303, EL 4318, EL 4331, EL 4332, EL 4347, EL 4354, EL 4361, EL 4367, EL 4368, EL 4397, EL 4415, EL 4417, EL 4420, EL 4437, EL 4438, EL 4465, EL 4466, EL 4467, EL 4468, EL 4471, EL 4476, EL 4488, EL 4489, EL 4492, EL 4493, EL 4495, EL 4515, EL 4516, EL 4529, EL 4547, EL 4550, EL 4551, EL 4552, EL 4560, EL 4593, EL 4601, EL 4609, EL 4610, EL 4625, EL 4626, EL 4627, EL 4632, EL 4644, EL 4647, EL 4648, EL 4649, EL 4653, EL 4663, EL 4670, EL 4687, EL 4717, EL 4722, EL 4723, EL 4728, EL 4733, EL 4737, EL 4739, EL 4746, EL 4752, EL 4753, EL 4757, EL 4758, EL 4768, EL 4770, EL 4780, EL 4785, EL 4795, EL 4796, EL 4797, EL 4832, EL 4835, EL 4837, EL 4841, EL 4847, EL 4854, EL 4864, EL 4879, EL 4882, EL 4890, EL 4891, EL 4893, EL 4895, EL 4897, EL 4901, EL 4910, EL 4931, EL 4934, EL 4941, EL 4946, EL 4954, EL 4965, EL 4978, EL 4988, EL 4997, EL 5014, EL 5027, EL 5032, EL 5033, EL 5035, EL 5038, EL 5039, EL 5040, EL 5041, EL 5050, EL 5122, EL 5144, EL 5162, EL 5163, EL 5176, EL 5185, EL 5186, EL 5187, EL 5189, EL 5190, EL 5198, EL 5199, EL 5206, EL 5207, EL 5213, EL 5223, EL 5224, EL 5225, EL 5232, EL 5234, EL 5236, EL 5241, EL 5242, EL 5247, EL 5277, EL 5309, EL 5311, EL 5312, EL 5319, EL 5323, EL 5324, EL 5330, EL 5339, EL 5341, EL 5344, EL 5350, EL 5352, EL 5356, EL 5357, EL 5372, EL 5380, EL 5381, EL 5382, EL 5383, EL 5384, EL 5386, EL 5400, EL 5414, EL 5426, EL 5429, EL 5431, EL 5447, EL 5461, EL 5470, EL 5477, EL 5479, EL 5507, EL 5508, EL 5517, EL 5520, EL 5526, EL 5527, EL 5528, EL 5532, EL 5535, EL 5537, EL 5544, EL 5551, EL 5552, EL 5553, EL 5559, EL 5560, EL 5566, EL 5570, EL 5575, EL 5581, EL 5584, EL 5585, EL 5586, EL 5587, EL 5588, EL 5589, EL 5590, EL 5591, EL 5592, EL 5593, EL 5594, EL 5595, EL 5596, EL 5597, EL 5598, EL 5599, EL 5600, EL 5601, EL 5602, EL 5603, EL 5604, EL 5605, EL 5606, EL 5607, EL 5612, EL 5614

2. Pardons: pages 1107-1111

Includes: EL 3048, EL 3161, EL 3167, EL 3168, EL 3170, EL 3171, EL 3219, EL 3234, EL 3244, EL 3264, EL 3265, EL 3271, EL 3272, EL 3292, EL 3293, EL 3295, EL 3305, EL 3317, EL 3318, EL 3336, EL 3346, EL 3348, EL 3354, EL 3370, EL 3372, EL 3380, EL 3395, EL 3403, EL 3404, EL 3407, EL 3423, EL 3436, EL 3439, EL 3440, EL 3465, EL 3476, EL 3496, EL 3509, EL 3512, EL 3515, EL 3560, EL 3787, EL 3925, EL 4014, EL 4029, EL 4039, EL 4064, EL 4076, EL 4077, EL 4083, EL 4084, EL 4123, EL 4145, EL 4146, EL 4152, EL 4181, EL 4186, EL 4256, EL 4278, EL 4330, EL 4407, EL 4428, EL 4429, EL 4442, EL 4478, EL 4498, EL 4508, EL 4531, EL 4540, EL 4606, EL 4607, EL 4620, EL 4631, EL 4652, EL 4665, EL 4669, EL 4679, EL 4683, EL 4742, EL 4851, EL 4887, EL 4925, EL 4944, EL 4951, EL 4967, EL 4974, EL 4979, EL 4991, EL 5008, EL 5025, EL 5045, EL 5151 (incorrectly identified as EL 5051 in Calendar), EL 5152 (incorrectly identified as EL 5052 in Calendar), EL 5200, EL 5331, EL 5353, EL 5358, EL 5373, EL 5415, EL 5430, EL 5452, EL 5462, EL 5471, EL 5485, EL 5504, EL 5514, EL 5515, EL 5529, EL 5569, EL 5577

3. Ecclesiastical Presentations: pages 1112-1119

Includes: EL 3163, EL 3175, EL 3176, EL 3197, EL 3214, EL 3215, EL 3216, EL 3236 (incorrectly listed under EL 3235 in the Calendar), EL 3238, EL 3276, EL 3277, EL 3278, EL 3279, EL 3300, EL 3324, EL 3355, EL 3356, EL 3357, EL 3358, EL 3359, EL 3360, EL 3361, EL 3362, EL 3363, EL 3376, EL 3406, EL 3412, EL 3413, EL 3422, EL 3426, EL 3435, EL 3441, EL 3442, EL 3443, EL 3444, EL 3445, EL 3446, EL 3447, EL 3472, EL 3473, EL 3479, EL 3480, EL 3487, EL 3493, EL 3498, EL 3502, EL 3504, EL 3511, EL 3518, EL 3519, EL 3520, EL 3535, EL 3536, EL 3537, EL 3548, EL 3553, EL 3554, EL 3561, EL 3565, EL 3572, EL 3580, EL 3594, EL 3595, EL 3694, EL 3706, EL 3707, EL 3708, EL 3710, EL 3718 (incorrectly identified as EL 3717 in Calendar), EL 3757, EL 3758, EL 3759, EL 3767, EL 3769, EL 3801, EL 3813, EL 3823, EL 3825, EL 3831, EL 3832, EL 3927, EL 3936, EL 3943, EL 3950, EL 3952, EL 3956, EL 4000, EL 4020, EL 4021, EL 4025, EL 4042, EL 4043, EL 4058, EL 4059, EL 4060, EL 4067, EL 4069, EL 4080, EL 4088, EL 4097, EL 4099, EL 4133, EL 4148, EL 4153, EL 4154, EL 4162, EL 4167, EL 4175, EL 4204, EL 4287, EL 4292, EL 4296, EL 4300, EL 4301, EL 4306, EL 4340, EL 4341, EL 4342, EL 4363, EL 4382, EL 4390, EL 4392, EL 4419, EL 4433, EL 4449, EL 4479, EL 4486, EL 4509, EL 4517, EL 4518, EL 4519, EL 4520, EL 4532, EL 4538, EL 4596, EL 4600, EL 4615, EL 4616, EL 4633, EL 4634, EL 4662, EL 4664, EL 4666, EL 4667, EL 4673, EL 4675, EL 4686, EL 4720, EL 4726, EL 4730, EL 4735, EL 4736, EL 4738, EL 4747, EL 4748, EL 4775, EL 4801, EL 4807, EL 4808, EL 4809, EL 4828, EL 4830, EL 4839, EL 4850, EL 4859, EL 4875, EL 4912, EL 4982, EL 5019, EL 5026, EL 5049, EL 5051, EL 5052, EL 5053, EL 5054, EL 5120, EL 5130, EL 5155, EL 5156, EL 5169, EL 5170, EL 5182, EL 5183, EL 5184, EL 5194, EL 5216, EL 5244, EL 5315, EL 5316, EL 5365, EL 5377, EL 5390, EL 5396, EL 5397, EL 5402, EL 5403, EL 5427, EL 5446, EL 5458, EL 5538, EL 5557, EL 5562, EL 5578, EL 5613

4. Commissions of Peace: pages 1120-1121

Includes: EL 3165, EL 3928, EL 4095, EL 4111, EL 4124, EL 4490, EL 4522, EL 4533, EL 4537, EL 4544, EL 4613, EL 4639, EL 4655, EL 4656, EL 4724, EL 4743, EL 4744, EL 4774, EL 4844, EL 4971, EL 4999, EL 5163, EL 5210, EL 5333, EL 5346, EL 5347, EL 5351, EL 5404, EL 5434, EL 5443, EL 5448, EL 5469, EL 5530, EL 5548

5. Commissions of Rebellion: pages 1122-1129

Includes: EL 3145, EL 3164, EL 3173, EL 3192, EL 3203, EL 3204, EL 3205, EL 3230, EL 3257, EL 3259, EL 3270, EL 3280, EL 3281, EL 3287, EL 3288, EL 3289, EL 3304, EL 3308, EL 3312, EL 3313, EL 3314, EL 3315, EL 3316, EL 3319, EL 3322, EL 3323, EL 3327, EL 3328, EL 3329, EL 3330, EL 3332, EL 3333, EL 3341, EL 3350, EL 3351, EL 3352, EL 3367, EL 3373, EL 3383, EL 3388, EL 3396, EL 3400, EL 3431, EL 3438, EL 3489, EL 3531, EL 3731, EL 3804, EL 3816, EL 3845, EL 4013, EL 4109, EL 4178, EL 4182, EL 4189, EL 4190, EL 4196, EL 4197, EL 4199, EL 4209, EL 4210, EL 4211, EL 4240, EL 4254, EL 4255, EL 4258, EL 4359, EL 4360, EL 4381, EL 4421, EL 4430, EL 4431, EL 4432, EL 4452, EL 4453, EL 4454, EL 4456, EL 4457, EL 4460, EL 4474, EL 4475, EL 4483, EL 4484, EL 4485, EL 4499, EL 4500, EL 4501, EL 4510, EL 4511, EL 4591, EL 4782, EL 4805, EL 4824, EL 4833, EL 4845, EL 4856, EL 4878, EL 4898, EL 4902, EL 4904, EL 4905, EL 4926, EL 4938, EL 4942, EL 4947, EL 4949, EL 4952, EL 4962, EL 4964, EL 4976, EL 4980, EL 4981, EL 4984, EL 4986, EL 4989, EL 4995, EL 5000, EL 5001, EL 5002, EL 5003, EL 5005, EL 5010, EL 5021, EL 5022, EL 5023, EL 5028, EL 5029, EL 5135, EL 5143, EL 5150, EL 5181, EL 5197, EL 5211, EL 5215, EL 5231, EL 5238, EL 5245, EL 5304, EL 5321, EL 5326, EL 5361, EL 5389, EL 5422, EL 5425, EL 5464, EL 5466, EL 5472, EL 5473, EL 5478, EL 5481, EL 5482, EL 5483, EL 5484, EL 5491, EL 5492, EL 5495, EL 5496, EL 5499, EL 5500, EL 5501, EL 5505, EL 5506, EL 5511, EL 5512, EL 5513, EL 5534, EL 5565, EL 5576, EL 5583, EL 5607, EL 5611

6. Commissions of Bankrupte: pages 1130-1131

Includes: EL 3076, EL 3241, EL 3258, EL 3397, EL 3414, EL 3429, EL 3481, EL 3522, EL 3523, EL 3543, EL 3558, EL 3566, EL 3583, EL 3797, EL 3853, EL 3854, EL 3991, EL 3998, EL 4036, EL 4072, EL 4092, EL 4093, EL 4098, EL 4270, EL 4271, EL 4279, EL 4295, EL 4395, EL 4640, EL 4732, EL 4799, EL 4871, EL 4973, EL 5313, EL 5370, EL 5392, EL 5521, EL 5525, EL 5579, EL 5608, EL 5610

7. Commissions of Provisions: pages 1132-1133

Includes: EL 3156, EL 4085, EL 4108, EL 4125, EL 4156, EL 4313, EL 4315, EL 4329, EL 4357, EL 4374, EL 4482, EL 4543, EL 4629, EL 4630, EL 4658, EL 4676, EL 4677, EL 4727, EL 4745, EL 4773, EL 4783, EL 4896, EL 4911, EL 4919, EL 4920, EL 4955, EL 5034, EL 5048, EL 5140, EL 5229, EL 5310, EL 5340, EL 5362, EL 5363, EL 5376, EL 5450, EL 5465, EL 5547, EL 5554, EL 5561, EL 5645

8. Protections for Begging: pages 1134-1148

Includes: EL 3044, EL 3045, EL 3046, EL 3047, EL 3049, EL 3131, EL 3139, EL 3144, EL 3151, EL 3160, EL 3172, EL 3174, EL 3193, EL 3217, EL 3221, EL 3228, EL 3229, EL 3239, EL 3256, EL 3262, EL 3267, EL 3268, EL 3337, EL 3364, EL 3365, EL 3381, EL 3416, EL 3417, EL 3432, EL 3433, EL 3457, EL 3458, EL 3462, EL 3474, EL 3475, EL 3478, EL 3488, EL 3500, EL 3501, EL 3506, EL 3513, EL 3514, EL 3524, EL 3542, EL 3545, EL 3549, EL 3550, EL 3551, EL 3552, EL 3557, EL 3567, EL 3568, EL 3573, EL 3574, EL 3582, EL 3584, EL 3591, EL 3597, EL 3598, EL 3703, EL 3721, EL 3722, EL 3753, EL 3754, EL 3765, EL 3766, EL 3779, EL 3780, EL 3781, EL 3802, EL 3842, EL 3917, EL 3919, EL 3923, EL 3924, EL 3929, EL 3930, EL 3931, EL 3937, EL 3939, EL 3947, EL 3954, EL 3988, EL 3992, EL 3993, EL 4001, EL 4063, EL 4070, EL 4082, EL 4089, EL 4094, EL 4104, EL 4105, EL 4126, EL 4129, EL 4130, EL 4134, EL 4135, EL 4136, EL 4138, EL 4141, EL 4142, EL 4179, EL 4180, EL 4200, EL 4257, EL 4293, EL 4294, EL 4314, EL 4316, EL 4317, EL 4348, EL 4349, EL 4350, EL 4351, EL 4355, EL 4372, EL 4373, EL 4375, EL 4376, EL 4403, EL 4441, EL 4472, EL 4477, EL 4491, EL 4496, EL 4535, EL 4536, EL 4553, EL 4554, EL 4561, EL 4602, EL 4614, EL 4637, EL 4659, EL 4660, EL 4685, EL 4718, EL 4718, EL 4721, EL 4740, EL 4749, EL 4750, EL 4754, EL 4755, EL 4756, EL 4769, EL 4779, EL 4798, EL 4815, EL 4817, EL 4840, EL 4842, EL 4843, EL 4852, EL 4853, EL 4894, EL 4903, EL 4907, EL 4908, EL 4914, EL 4915, EL 4916, EL 4921, EL 4922, EL 4966, EL 4996, EL 4998, EL 5013, EL 5016, EL 5017, EL 5036, EL 5145, EL 5146, EL 5147, EL 5148, EL 5149, EL 5159, EL 5160, EL 5175, EL 5179, EL 5188, EL 5196, EL 5202, EL 5306, EL 5327, EL 5334, EL 5336, EL 5337, EL 5360, EL 5388, EL 5405, EL 5413, EL 5416, EL 5423, EL 5440, EL 5457, EL 5459, EL 5460, EL 5480, EL 5519, EL 5540, EL 5541, EL 5555, EL 5564, EL 5567, EL 5609

9. Dispensations: pages 1149-1152

Includes: EL 3140, EL 3208, EL 3209, EL 3210, EL 3298, EL 3299, EL 3302, EL 3408, EL 3427, EL 3492, EL 3494, EL 3562, EL 3715, EL 3742, EL 3800, EL 3822, EL 3824, EL 3830, EL 3921, EL 3942, EL 3944, EL 4016, EL 4022, EL 4053, EL 4195, EL 4203, EL 4248, EL 4249, EL 4283, EL 4286, EL 4352, EL 4362, EL 4387, EL 4391, EL 4398, EL 4480, EL 4481, EL 4521, EL 4539, EL 4548, EL 4592, EL 4617, EL 4635, EL 4636, EL 4641, EL 4643, EL 4661, EL 4678, EL 4684, EL 4734, EL 4800, EL 4820, EL 4821, EL 4838, EL 4855, EL 4858, EL 4876, EL 4917, EL 4970, EL 4983, EL 5012, EL 5030, EL 5031, EL 5055, EL 5205, EL 5233, EL 5308, EL 5332, EL 5343, EL 5345, EL 5348, EL 5366, EL 5369, EL 5395, EL 5401, EL 5428, EL 5445, EL 5455, EL 5558, EL 5642, EL 5644

10. Wardships and Marriages: pages 1152-1154

Includes: EL 3166, EL 3237, EL 3255, EL 3275, EL 3286, EL 3325, EL 3375, EL 3425, EL 3461, EL 3497, EL 3720, EL 3748, EL 3828, EL 3941, EL 3957, EL 4034, EL 4187, EL 4338, EL 4401, EL 4425, EL 4440, EL 4502, EL 4507, EL 4530, EL 4849, EL 4874, EL 4881, EL 4937, EL 4950, EL 4990, EL 5121, EL 5129, EL 5136, EL 5166, EL 5168, EL 5203, EL 5204, EL 5228, EL 5387, EL 5421, EL 5451, EL 5467, EL 5497, EL 5549, EL 5574, EL 5582

11. Alienations of Property: pages 1154-1188

Includes: EL 3043, EL 3050, EL 3051, EL 3052, EL 3053, EL 3054, EL 3055, EL 3056, EL 3057, EL 3058, EL 3059, EL 3060, EL 3061, EL 3062, EL 3063, EL 3064, EL 3065, EL 3066, EL 3067, EL 3068, EL 3069, EL 3070, EL 3071, EL 3072, EL 3073, EL 3074, EL 3075, EL 3077, EL 3078, EL 3079, EL 3080, EL 3081, EL 3082, EL 3083, EL 3084, EL 3085, EL 3086, EL 3087, EL 3088, EL 3089, EL 3090, EL 3091, EL 3092, EL 3093, EL 3094, EL 3095, EL 3096, EL 3097, EL 3098, EL 3099, EL 3100, EL 3101, EL 3102, EL 3103, EL 3104, EL 3105, EL 3106, EL 3107, EL 3108, EL 3109, EL 3110, EL 3111, EL 3112, EL 3113, EL 3114, EL 3115, EL 3116, EL 3117, EL 3118, EL 3119, EL 3120, EL 3121, EL 3122, EL 3123, EL 3124, EL 3125, EL 3126, EL 3127, EL 3128, EL 3129, EL 3130, EL 3132, EL 3133, EL 3134, EL 3135, EL 3136, EL 3137, EL 3138, EL 3141, EL 3142, EL 3146, EL 3147, EL 3148, EL 3149, EL 3150, EL 3184, EL 3185, EL 3186, EL 3194, EL 3195, EL 3196, EL 3198, EL 3199, EL 3233, EL 3246, EL 3247, EL 3248, EL 3249, EL 3250, EL 3294, EL 3335, EL 3371, EL 3390, EL 3409, EL 3424, EL 3600, EL 3601, EL 3602, EL 3603, EL 3605, EL 3607, EL 3609, EL 3611, EL 3612, EL 3613, EL 3614, EL 3615, EL 3616, EL 3617, EL 3618, EL 3619, EL 3620, EL 3621, EL 3622, EL 3623, EL 3624, EL 3625, EL 3626, EL 3627, EL 3628, EL 3629, EL 3630, EL 3631, EL 3632, EL 3633, EL 3634, EL 3635, EL 3636, EL 3637, EL 3638, EL 3639, EL 3640, EL 3641, EL 3642, EL 3643, EL 3644, EL 3645, EL 3646, EL 3647, EL 3648, EL 3649, EL 3650, EL 3651, EL 3652, EL 3653, EL 3654, EL 3655, EL 3656, EL 3657, EL 3658, EL 3659, EL 3660, EL 3661, EL 3662, EL 3663, EL 3664, EL 3665, EL 3666, EL 3667, EL 3668, EL 3670, EL 3671, EL 3672, EL 3673, EL 3674, EL 3675, EL 3676, EL 3677, EL 3678, EL 3679, EL 3680, EL 3681, EL 3682, EL 3683, EL 3684, EL 3685, EL 3686, EL 3687, EL 3688, EL 3689, EL 3690, EL 3691, EL 3692, EL 3693, EL 3695, EL 3696, EL 3697, EL 3698, EL 3699, EL 3702, EL 3709, EL 3724, EL 3727, EL 3728, EL 3729, EL 3730, EL 3732, EL 3736, EL 3737, EL 3738, EL 3739, EL 3740, EL 3741, EL 3749, EL 3770, EL 3771, EL 3772, EL 3773, EL 3774, EL 3775, EL 3812, EL 3843, EL 3855, EL 3856, EL 3857, EL 3858, EL 3859, EL 3860, EL 3861, EL 3862, EL 3863, EL 3864, EL 3865, EL 3866, EL 3867, EL 3868, EL 3869, EL 3870, EL 3871, EL 3872, EL 3873, EL 3874, EL 3875, EL 3876, EL 3877, EL 3878, EL 3879, EL 3880, EL 3881, EL 3882, EL 3883, EL 3884, EL 3885, EL 3886, EL 3887, EL 3888, EL 3889, EL 3890, EL 3891, EL 3892, EL 3893, EL 3894, EL 3895, EL 3896, EL 3897, EL 3898, EL 3899, EL 3900, EL 3901, EL 3902, EL 3903, EL 3904, EL 3905, EL 3906, EL 3907, EL 3908, EL 3909, EL 3910, EL 3911, EL 3951, EL 3973, EL 3974, EL 3975, EL 3976, EL 3977, EL 3982, EL 3983, EL 3984, EL 3985, EL 4026, EL 4027, EL 4028, EL 4048, EL 4050, EL 4052, EL 4054, EL 4057, EL 4112, EL 4113, EL 4114, EL 4115, EL 4116, EL 4117, EL 4118, EL 4119, EL 4120, EL 4121, EL 4122, EL 4157, EL 4158, EL 4159, EL 4160, EL 4161, EL 4163, EL 4164, EL 4165, EL 4166, EL 4168, EL 4169, EL 4171, EL 4183, EL 4184, EL 4185, EL 4260, EL 4261, EL 4262, EL 4263, EL 4264, EL 4308, EL 4309, EL 4310, EL 4319, EL 4323, EL 4324, EL 4327, EL 4328, EL 4339, EL 4356, EL 4357, EL 4377, EL 4378, EL 4379, EL 4380, EL 4386, EL 4393, EL 4394, EL 4396, EL 4404, EL 4405, EL 4406, EL 4408, EL 4409, EL 4410, EL 4411, EL 4412, EL 4413, EL 4414, EL 4427, EL 4450, EL 4451, EL 4473, EL 4497, EL 4555, EL 4558, EL 4562, EL 4563, EL 4564, EL 4565, EL 4566, EL 4567, EL 4568, EL 4569, EL 4570, EL 4571, EL 4572, EL 4573, EL 4574, EL 4575, EL 4576, EL 4577, EL 4578, EL 4579, EL 4580, EL 4581, EL 4582, EL 4583, EL 4584, EL 4585, EL 4586, EL 4587, EL 4588, EL 4589, EL 4590, EL 4604, EL 4668, EL 4688, EL 4689, EL 4690, EL 4691, EL 4692, EL 4693, EL 4694, EL 4695, EL 4696, EL 4697, EL 4698, EL 4699, EL 4700, EL 4701, EL 4702, EL 4703, EL 4704, EL 4705, EL 4706, EL 4707, EL 4708, EL 4709, EL 4710, EL 4711, EL 4712, EL 4713, EL 4714, EL 4715, EL 4716, EL 4725, EL 4762, EL 4765, EL 4786, EL 4788, EL 4816, EL 4831, EL 4834, EL 4836, EL 4857, EL 4863, EL 4866, EL 4872, EL 4873, EL 4923, EL 4924, EL 4927, EL 4928, EL 4932, EL 4933, EL 4935, EL 4939, EL 4943, EL 4945, EL 4957, EL 4975, EL 4994, EL 5015, EL 5059, EL 5060, EL 5061, EL 5062, EL 5063, EL 5064, EL 5065, EL 5066, EL 5067, EL 5068, EL 5069, EL 5070, EL 5071, EL 5072, EL 5073, EL 5074, EL 5075, EL 5076, EL 5077, EL 5078, EL 5079, EL 5080, EL 5081, EL 5082, EL 5083, EL 5084, EL 5085, EL 5086, EL 5087, EL 5088, EL 5089, EL 5090, EL 5091, EL 5092, EL 5093, EL 5094, EL 5095, EL 5096, EL 5097, EL 5098, EL 5099, EL 5100, EL 5101, EL 5102, EL 5103, EL 5104, EL 5106, EL 5107, EL 5108, EL 5109, EL 5110, EL 5111, EL 5112, EL 5113, EL 5114, EL 5115, EL 5116, EL 5117, EL 5118, EL 5126, EL 5132, EL 5133, EL 5134, EL 5138, EL 5141, EL 5157, EL 5167, EL 5173, EL 5177, EL 5178, EL 5191, EL 5192, EL 5193, EL 5217, EL 5218, EL 5219, EL 5220, EL 5222, EL 5235, EL 5239, EL 5240, EL 5248, EL 5249, EL 5250, EL 5251, EL 5252, EL 5253, EL 5254, EL 5255, EL 5256, EL 5257, EL 5258, EL 5259, EL 5260, EL 5261, EL 5262, EL 5263, EL 5264, EL 5265, EL 5266, EL 5267, EL 5268, EL 5269, EL 5270, EL 5271, EL 5272, EL 5273, EL 5274, EL 5275, EL 5276, EL 5278, EL 5280, EL 5281, EL 5282, EL 5283, EL 5284, EL 5285, EL 5286, EL 5287, EL 5288, EL 5289, EL 5290, EL 5291, EL 5292, EL 5293, EL 5294, EL 5295, EL 5296, EL 5297, EL 5298, EL 5299, EL 5300, EL 5301, EL 5302, EL 5303, EL 5318, EL 5342, EL 5391, EL 5399, EL 5409, EL 5410, EL 5411, EL 5412, EL 5436, EL 5437, EL 5438, EL 5439, EL 5449, EL 5453, EL 5475, EL 5490, EL 5531, EL 5542, EL 5615, EL 5616, EL 5617, EL 5618, EL 5619, EL 5620, EL 5621, EL 5622, EL 5623, EL 5624, EL 5625, EL 5626, EL 5627, EL 5628, EL 5629, EL 5630, EL 5631, EL 5632, EL 5633, EL 5634, EL 5635, EL 5636, EL 5637, EL 5638, EL 5639, EL 5640

12. Exemplifications of Depositions, Bills, Decrees, etc. of Chancery and Star Chamber and of Letters Patent, Inquisitions, etc.: pages 1189-1197

Includes: EL 3143, EL 3158, EL 3162, EL 3182, EL 3183, EL 3201, EL 3222, EL 3223, EL 3224, EL 3227, EL 3231, EL 3232, EL 3242, EL 3243, EL 3260, EL 3263, EL 3283, EL 3290, EL 3311, EL 3321, EL 3331, EL 3343, EL 3349, EL 3366, EL 3369, EL 3377, EL 3378, EL 3379, EL 3398, EL 3399, EL 3415, EL 3430, EL 3437, EL 3449, EL 3477, EL 3491, EL 3495, EL 3503, EL 3517, EL 3530, EL 3534, EL 3544, EL 3559, EL 3577, EL 3587, EL 3589, EL 3604, EL 3608, EL 3705, EL 3712, EL 3733, EL 3734, EL 3735, EL 3756, EL 3764, EL 3777, EL 3783, EL 3788, EL 3807, EL 3817, EL 3818, EL 3819, EL 3820, EL 3837, EL 3840, EL 3932, EL 3946, EL 3958, EL 3966, EL 3968, EL 3970, EL 3986, EL 4010, EL 4011 (incorrectly identified as EL 4014 in Calendar), EL 4014, EL 4019, EL 4040, EL 4049, EL 4065, EL 4066, EL 4078, EL 4079, EL 4147, EL 4155, EL 4172, EL 4267, EL 4276, EL 4321, EL 4322, EL 4325, EL 4333, EL 4334, EL 4335, EL 4336, EL 4337, EL 4343, EL 4344, EL 4345, EL 4346, EL 4353, EL 4364, EL 4365, EL 4383, EL 4389, EL 4399, EL 4400, EL 4422, EL 4434, EL 4435, EL 4436, EL 4443, EL 4444, EL 4461, EL 4462, EL 4463, EL 4464, EL 4487, EL 4494, EL 4503, EL 4504, EL 4505, EL 4512, EL 4513, EL 4514, EL 4524, EL 4525, EL 4526, EL 4527, EL 4528, EL 4534, EL 4546, EL 4549, EL 4556, EL 4557, EL 4594, EL 4595, EL 4599, EL 4603, EL 4605, EL 4611, EL 4622, EL 4623, EL 4624, EL 4628, EL 4645, EL 4646, EL 4650, EL 4651, EL 4680, EL 4681, EL 4682, EL 4741, EL 4760, EL 4763, EL 4764, EL 4766, EL 4767, EL 4776, EL 4784, EL 4787, EL 4789, EL 4790, EL 4793, EL 4794, EL 4802, EL 4811, EL 4812, EL 4814, EL 4823, EL 4848, EL 4860, EL 4861, EL 4862, EL 4870, EL 4877, EL 4888, EL 4889, EL 4892, EL 4929, EL 4940, EL 4959, EL 4960, EL 4961, EL 4972, EL 4987, EL 5009, EL 5011, EL 5056, EL 5057, EL 5058, EL 5124, EL 5125, EL 5127, EL 5128, EL 5131, EL 5137, EL 5164, EL 5171, EL 5172, EL 5195, EL 5221, EL 5226, EL 5279, EL 5306, EL 5314, EL 5322, EL 5328, EL 5364, EL 5367, EL 5368, EL 5374, EL 5375, EL 5385, EL 5393, EL 5406, EL 5407, EL 5408, EL 5417, EL 5418, EL 5419, EL 5420, EL 5441, EL 5444, EL 5467, EL 5474, EL 5476, EL 5486, EL 5487, EL 5488, EL 5489, EL 5498, EL 5502, EL 5503, EL 5509, EL 5510, EL 5516, EL 5518, EL 5524, EL 5536, EL 5545, EL 5563, EL 5568, EL 5641

13. Commissions for Inquests: pages 1198-1202

Includes: EL 3166, EL 3200, EL 3207, EL 3255, EL 3275, EL 3282, EL 3286 (incorrectly listed under EL 3287 in Calendar), EL 3310, EL 3325, EL 3375, EL 3387, EL 3425, EL 3448, EL 3461, EL 3499, EL 3521, EL 3528, EL 3538, EL 3540, EL 3541, EL 3564, EL 3570, EL 3571, EL 3576, EL 3585, EL 3586, EL 3720, EL 3760, EL 3782, EL 3799, EL 3806, EL 3808, EL 3826, EL 3838, EL 3839, EL 3913, EL 3915, EL 3916, EL 3926, EL 3934, EL 3941, EL 3945, EL 3959, EL 3963, EL 3967, EL 3979, EL 3995, EL 3997, EL 4017, EL 4018, EL 4047, EL 4071, EL 4091, EL 4100, EL 4139, EL 4187, EL 4205, EL 4206, EL 4251, EL 4280, EL 4282, EL 4284, EL 4289, EL 4305, EL 4311, EL 4312, EL 4401, EL 4425, EL 4440, EL 4448, EL 4458, EL 4502, EL 4530, EL 4559, EL 4612, EL 4621, EL 4672, EL 4674, EL 4751, EL 4771, EL 4772, EL 4781, EL 4825, EL 4881, EL 4899, EL 4906, EL 4950, EL 4956, EL 4985, EL 5004, EL 5006, EL 5018, EL 5024, EL 5047, EL 5121, EL 5246, EL 5305, EL 5349, EL 5355, EL 5451, EL 5497, EL 5522, EL 5523, EL 5571, EL 5572, EL 5643

14. Commissions of Appeal: pages 1203-1205

Includes: EL 3153, EL 3154, EL 3178, EL 3179, EL 3240, EL 3269, EL 3303, EL 3320, EL 3326, EL 3344, EL 3345, EL 3486, EL 3539, EL 3555, EL 3569, EL 3581, EL 3700, EL 3745, EL 3761, EL 3762, EL 3763, EL 3792, EL 3798, EL 3814, EL 3815, EL 3851, EL 3852, EL 3940, EL 3964, EL 3994, EL 3996, EL 4037, EL 4106, EL 4170, EL 4174, EL 4198, EL 4307, EL 4326, EL 4545, EL 4729, EL 4778, EL 4792, EL 4803, EL 4822, EL 4846, EL 4865, EL 4930, EL 4953, EL 4958, EL 5105, EL 5119, EL 5142, EL 5180, EL 5209, EL 5329, EL 5371, EL 5424, EL 5433, EL 5456, EL 5539, EL 5546, EL 5556

15. Faculties: page 1205

Includes: EL 4969

16. Various: page 1205

Includes: EL 3157, EL 3159, EL 4608

17. Custodye of Land: page 1206

Includes: EL 3206, EL 3340, EL 4128, EL 4619, EL 4759, EL 5442 (incorrectly identified as EL 5443 in Calendar)

18. Liveries: pages 1206-1213

Includes: EL 3155, EL 3187, EL 3188, EL 3189, EL 3202, EL 3211, EL 3212, EL 3220, EL 3225, EL 3226, EL 3227, EL 3245, EL 3251, EL 3252, EL 3253 (incorrectly listed under EL 3252 in Calendar) EL 3273, EL 3284, EL 3285, EL 3296, EL 3306, EL 3307, EL 3338, EL 3349, EL 3382, EL 3389, EL 3391, EL 3392, EL 3713, EL 3714, EL 3716, EL 3717, EL 3725, EL 3743, EL 3747, EL 3750, EL 3751, EL 3752, EL 3768, EL 3776, EL 3782, EL 3783, EL 3789, EL 3790, EL 3791, EL 3793, EL 3794, EL 3795, EL 3796, EL 3810, EL 3811, EL 3821 (incorrectly listed under EL 3282 in Calendar), EL 3829, EL 3833, EL 3834, EL 3835, EL 3836, EL 3841, EL 3849, EL 3850, EL 3948, EL 3953, EL 3960, EL 3969, EL 3971, EL 3978, EL 4030, EL 4031, EL 4038, EL 4045, EL 4137, EL 4173, EL 4176, EL 4193, EL 4212, EL 4269, EL 4275, EL 4288, EL 4304, EL 4320, EL 4369, EL 4370, EL 4371, EL 4384, EL 4385, EL 4402, EL 4416 (incorrectly identified as part of EL 4417 in Calendar), EL 4418, EL 4423, EL 4424, EL 4426, EL 4439, EL 4445, EL 4446, EL 4447, EL 4455, EL 4469, EL 4470, EL 4506, EL 4541, EL 4542, EL 4597, EL 4598, EL 4618, EL 4642, EL 4654, EL 4671, EL 4804, EL 4805, EL 4810, EL 4813, EL 4818, EL 4819, EL 4826, EL 4829, EL 4867, EL 4868, EL 4869, EL 4884, EL 4885, EL 4886, EL 4900, EL 4909, EL 4913, EL 4918, EL 4936, EL 4948, EL 4963, EL 4968, EL 4977, EL 4992, EL 4993, EL 5007, EL 5020, EL 5139, EL 5153 (incorrectly identified as EL 5152 in Calendar), EL 5154, EL 5158, EL 5165, EL 5174, EL 5201, EL 5208, EL 5214, EL 5227, EL 5230, EL 5317, EL 5320, EL 5338, EL 5375, EL 5394, EL 5398, EL 5432, EL 5435, EL 5442, EL 5454, EL 5463, EL 5542, EL 5552, EL 5573, EL 5580

19. Commissions of Enquiry: pages 1213-1214

Includes: EL 3169, EL 3334, EL 3353, EL 3410, EL 3428, EL 3468, EL 3571, EL 3808, EL 3826, EL 4091, EL 4459, EL 4621, EL 4638, EL 4674, EL 4731, EL 4761, EL 4777, EL 4791, EL 4880, EL 4883, EL 5037, EL 5044, EL 5046, EL 5123, EL 5161, EL 5212, EL 5237 (incorrectly identified as EL 5257 in Calendar), EL 5325, EL 5354, EL 5359, EL 5379, EL 5493, EL 5494, EL 5533, EL 5550, EL 5646

20. Protection Roiall: page 1215

Includes: EL 3516, EL 3529, EL 4827, EL 5335

21. Proclamations: page 1215

Includes: EL 4366

22. Military & Naval Commissions: page 1215

Includes: EL 3191

23. Commissions of Sewers: page 1216

Includes: EL 3401, EL 4096, EL 4523, EL 4657, EL 5042, EL 5043, EL 5243, EL 5378

Box 90 (EL 3043-3062)

EL 3043-3062: Dockets, 1 January-2 March 1591/2

Box 91

EL 3063-3114: Dockets, 2 March-1 April 1592

Box 92

EL 3115-3162: Dockets, 1 April-24 May 1592

Box 93

EL 3163-3215: Dockets, 24 May-2 June 1592

Box 94

EL 3216-3283: Dockets, 2-10 June 1592

Box 95

EL 3284-3338: Dockets, 10-17 June 1592

Box 96

EL 3339-3402: Dockets, 17-28 June 1592

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EL 3403-3462: Dockets, 28 June-21 July 1592

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EL 3463-3522: Dockets, 21 July-21 August 1592

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EL 3523-3602: Dockets, 28 August-2 November 1592

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EL 3603-3679: Dockets, 2 December 1592-19 March 1592/3

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EL 3680-3750: Dockets, 19 March 1592/3-11 May 1593

Box 102

EL 3751-3830: Dockets, 11-26 May 1593

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EL 3831-3910: Dockets, 28 May-2 September 1593

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EL 3911-3999: Dockets, 2 September 1593-11 January 1593/4

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EL 4000-4080: Dockets, 12 January 1593/4-12 August 1594

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EL 4081-4160: Dockets, 12 August-10 October 1594

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EL 4161-4233: Dockets, 10 October-26 November 1594

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EL 4234-4300: Dockets, 26 November-26 December 1594

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EL 4301-4360: Dockets, 26 December 1594-5 February 1594/5

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EL 4361-4420: Dockets, 4-8 February 1594/5

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EL 4421-4490: Dockets, 8-16 February 1594/5

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EL 4491-4560: Dockets, 13 February-12 March 1594/5

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EL 4561-4630: Dockets, 26 February-14 March 1594/5

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EL 4631-4694: Dockets, 11 March 1954/5-2 April 1595

Box 115

EL 4695-4764: Dockets, 2-29 April 1595

Box 116

EL 4765-4830: Dockets, 27 April-15 May 1595

Box 117

EL 4831-4900: Dockets, 15-23 May 1595

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EL 4901-4970: Dockets, 22 May-5 July 1595

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EL 4971-5030: Dockets, 5-18 July 1595

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EL 5031-5100: Dockets, 18 July-2 September 1595

Box 121

EL 5101-5170: Dockets, 2 September-8 November 1595

Box 122

EL 5171-5240: Dockets, 8-28 November 1595

Box 123

EL 5241-5310: Dockets, 28 November-6 December 1595

Box 124

EL 5311-5380: Dockets, 6 December 1595-23 January 1595/6

Box 125

EL 5381-5450: Dockets, 23 January-5 February 1595/6

Box 126

EL 5451-5520: Dockets, 5-17 February 1595/6

Box 127

EL 5521-5590: Dockets, 17 February 1595/6-27 November 1596

Box 128 (EL 5591-5646)

EL 5591-5646: Dockets, 27 November-31 December 1596

EL 5647-6161 Papers relating to Legal Proceedings

Scope and Content Note

Numerous letters and papers concerning lawsuits involving members of the Brereton family, including: suits involving Dame Jane Brereton (16th century) and Richard and Sir William Brereton ( temp. Charles II) (EL 5647-5680) ; the case of Richard Brereton v. Francis Sherington et al. in the Court of the Duchy of Lancaster and in Star Chamber over lands at Stanistreet, Worsley, temp. Elizabeth (EL 5681a-5698); the case of Richard Brereton v. Sir Robert Worsley, in the Court of the Duchy of Lancaster (EL 5698a-5700); the case of Richard Brereton of Worsley v. Thomas Worsley et al. in Star Chamber concerning a forcible entry into Ellenbrook Chapel, 1591 (EL 5700a-5713i); papers concerning the tenure of the manor and lordship of Worsley in Lancashire (EL 5714-5718a).

Also papers concerning other legal cases, including those of: Roland and Bridget Egerton v. Edward Egerton (EL 5719-5725); the alleged crimes of Thomas Coo, especially as they involved Sir Robert Newdigate and Edward Cage, ca. 1600-1611 (EL 5726-5768); the lands of the Earl of Arundel (chiefly Arundel Castle and Forest) and the case of Sir John Arundel of Treryes v. John Arundel of Gwarnacke, chiefly temp. Elizabeth; the lands and heirs of William Dacre, 3rd Baron Dacre of the North, and re Lady Anne Dacre; and petitions for assistance from Arthur Hall, imprisoned in the Fleet.

Miscellaneous notes and documents stemming from Lord Chancellor Egerton's legal activities for the Crown (1580s onward), including: occasional petitions, bills of complaint, answers, interrogatories, extracts from the Plea Rolls, briefs, orders of the court, etc.; Egerton's miscellaneous notes on legal matters before him, with subsidiary or supplemental lists, valuations, notes, etc.; notes of jurisdictional conflicts between Sir Edward Coke and Lord Chancellor Egerton. Also includes 2 sheets of legal notes or extracts from Yearbooks for Henry VI (EL 16/E/5).

Separate volumes include: a volume of notes on proceedings in the Court of Kings Bench 1-35 Edward I, written in a Tudor hand (EL 34/C/4); compilation of extracts from Robert Keilway's Reports, temp. Henry VII and VIII (EL 6108-6138); 15th-century register of writs (EL 6107); two copies of a volume of copies or compilations of various legal documents, including commissions, warrants, licenses, etc. temp. Elizabeth, partly written by Lord Chancellor Egerton (EL 6139-6161); a report of the arguments in the case in Chancery between Thomas Sackville Lord Buckhurst (afterward 1st Earl of Dorset) and the executors of the Lady Ann Dacre (EL 5189), with another volume of copies of the bill and answer with other documents relating to the suit (EL 5820) of a volume containing the schedule of the questions at issue and the arguments in the case, 1594 (EL 5815); a treatise on the descent of the Barony of Abergavenny (EL 5983).

View descriptions of items EL 5647-6161 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (pages 409-477) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 128 (EL 5647-5650)

EL 5647-5650

Facsimiles: EL 5647-5650

Box 129

EL 5651-5670

Facsimiles: EL 5651-5670

Box 130

EL 5671-5712

Facsimiles: EL 5671-5712

Changed call numbers: EL 5681 removed to EL 15a; EL 5682b removed to EL 11859

Box 131

EL 5713-5740

Facsimiles: EL 5713-5718a

Box 132

EL 5741-5799

Box 133

EL 5800-5830

Items removed to Oversize Box 2: EL 5811; EL 5815; EL 5816; EL 5817

Separated volumes

EL 5819 (35/C/47) "A full and large Report of the Arguments made in a Case depending in the high Court of Chauncerie Between the right honorable the Lord Buckhurst complainant and Edward Fenner esqr., one of the Justices of the pleas holden before her Matie Sr Drue Drury, knight, George Goringe and Edward More esqrs., executors of the last will and testamt of the ladie Dacre, deceased, defendants wherein were debated many notable pointer at the Common Law Concerning the will and Convenyanncies of the said Ladie And touching the Charters and Evidences concerning the land of the said Ladie."

EL 5820 (35/C/48) Copies of the bill and answer, and other documents relating to the above suit.

Box 134

EL 5831-5860

Box 135

EL 5861-5876

Items removed to Seals Box 5: El 5870

Box 136

EL 5877-5900

Box 137

EL 5901-5956

Box 138

EL 5957-6000

Items removed to Oversize Box 2: EL 5976

Separated volumes

EL 5983 (35/C/49) On the descent of the Barony of Abergauenny. "Whether the Baronie of Burgauenny with the title and dignitie bee descended unto the ladie being the daughter and heire of the honorable Henry Neuill the late Barron of Abergauenny or unto the special heire male unto whome the Castle of Abergauenny being aunciently the head of the Baronie is discended."

Box 139

EL 6001-6040

Items removed to Oversize Box 2: EL 6040

Box 140

EL 6041-6075

Items removed to Oversize Box 2: EL 6048

Box 141

EL 6076-6090

Box 142

EL 6091-6138

Items removed to Oversize Box 2: EL 6098

Separated volumes

EL 6107 (35/B/54) Copy of a book containing a collection of forms of writs, &c. (? Juris Canonici, &c.)

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EL 6108-6138 (34/C/49) A Volume containing copies from Year Books as follows ... Extracts from Robert Keilway's Reports, temp. Henry VII and VIII.

Box 143 (EL 6139-6161)

EL 6139-6161 (34/C/50)

Separated volumes

Box 303

EL 16/E/5 Extracts from Yearbook for Henry VI.

EL 34/C/4 A book of Records in a Tudor hand rather miscellaneous at the beginning and often faded. A new pagination beginning early seems to contain from folio 4 Notes of the proceedings before the Court of King's Bench from 1st Edward I in regular sequence relating to Manors &c. This is followed by an Index by Counties & runs to 119 folios without the Index. The Record ends in the 35th year of the Reign of Edward I & contains a note of his death. On the flyleaf are the words "Left to Mr William Agar by the note".

EL 6162-6206d Miscellaneous

Scope and Content Note

A commonplace book compilation of copies of various political, religious, legal, and miscellaneous papers, including some verse, historical notes, sermons, treatises temp. late Elizabeth or early James I (EL 6162-6206); a compilation of lists of central and local officers, peers, ships in the navy, forts and castles on the coast, schedules of musters and ordnance, fugitives, etc. temp. Elizabeth (after 1578) (EL 6202b); an undated volume containing a "Catalogus Nobilium siue magnatum Anglie" and "Consanguinitas Regis Hispanie," etc. (EL 6206d)

View descriptions of items EL 6162-6202d in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (pages 477-482) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 143 (EL 6162-6206)

EL 6162-6206

Changed call numbers: EL 6206a removed to EL 6242; EL 6206c removed to EL 6244; EL 6206e removed to EL 11733; EL 6206f removed to EL 11735; EL 6206g removed to EL 11736.

EL 6206b (34/C/51) A book containing the following: -- "The proceeding to a coronation" (Order of procession) No. 1 ... No. 120.

Separated volumes

EL 6162-6206 (34/C/5) Commonplace book of various political, religious, legal, and miscellaneous papers.

This bound volume contains EL 1183a and EL 1183c, EL 1205a-j, EL 2031-2076c and EL 6162-6206, and EL 6206b (34/C/1).

EL 6206d (35/C/1) A volume containing 1) "Catalogus Nobilium siue magnatum Anglie". (2) "Consanguinitas Regis Hispanie" etc.

EL 6207-6208 Commissions of Array

Scope and Content Note

16th-century copies of Commissions of Array for 10 Edward I and 1403.

View descriptions of items EL 6207-6208 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (page 482) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 143 (EL 6207-6208)

EL 6207-6208

EL 6209-6216 Judges

Scope and Content Note

Draft commissions for hearing suits of prisoners in the Kings Bench, with letter from Lord Burghley to Lord Chancellor Egerton (and his reply) on the same topic, 1585; letter to Egerton from Sir Francis Walsingham re commission to send condemned prisoners to the galleys, with copy to relevant commission, 1586; Privy Council letter of instruction to Egerton concerning a commission of oyer and terminer for the North, 1603; "A note of various Warrants and Commission issued to Lord Keepers and others" in 1 Edward VI, 1 Mary, and 1 Elizabeth.

View descriptions of items EL 6209-6216 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (page 483) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 143 (EL 6209-6216)

EL 6209-6216

EL 6217-6218 Lollards

Scope and Content Note

A note of commissions against heretics issued in Richard II's reign, and of the statute 3 Richard II cap. 5 and its subsequent repeals and revivals, with comment; abstract of writs of 1 Henry V directed against heretical preaching and for a reward for taking Sir John Oldcastle.

View descriptions of items EL 6217-6218 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (page 484) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 144 (EL 6217-6218)

EL 6217-6218

EL 6219-6222 London

Scope and Content Note

Letters to Lord Chancellor Egerton (from the Duke of Lennox) re receivership of London and Middlesex (1603) and from the Privy Council re issuing a commission to hear the controversy between the City and the Tower of London (1606); copy of a commission to inquire into royal title to certain lands in White Friars (1617); copies of medieval documents concerning London (a commission of 9 Edward I re amercement of aldermen; account of submission by London aldermen to the king 9 Edward II); copies of pardon of Gerard Salueme 10 Edward II and appointment of commission to enquire into oppression by sheriffs, 12 Edward II.

View descriptions of items EL 6219-6222 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (pages 484-485) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 144 (EL 6219-6222)

EL 6219-6222

EL 6223 Lord Cobham

Scope and Content Note

Privy Council letter to Lord Chancellor Egerton requiring him to make out writs of execution, endorsed by him "For the L. Cobham L. Graye, Sir Gryffin Markham. By Cuthbert Strongfleete."

View description of item EL 6223 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (page 486) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 144 (EL 6223)

EL 6223

EL 6224-6229 Sir John Perrot

Scope and Content Note

Four letters from Lord Chancellor Egerton to Burghley re the investigation of and proceedings against Sir John Perrot, 1590-1592; letters to Egerton re Perrot's land, 1609.

View descriptions of items EL 6224-6229 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (pages 486-487) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 144 (EL 6224-6229)

EL 6224-6229

EL 6230-6232 Sir Walter Ralegh

Scope and Content Note

Privy Seal to Lord Chancellor Egerton and others to order Ralegh to give over Durham House to the Bishop of Durham, 1603, with Ralegh's reply; letter from Ralegh to Sir Robert Carr (afterwards Earl of Somerset), ca. 1608.

View descriptions of items EL 6230-6232 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (page 487 ) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 144 (EL 6230-6232)

EL 6230-6232

EL 6233-6236 Sir Christopher Hatton

Scope and Content Note

Reports and accounts of his lands and legal affairs, including a draft of a grant to him of gold brought back to England by Sir Francis Drake.

View descriptions of items EL 6233-6236 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (page 488) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 144 (EL 6233-6236)

EL 6233-6236

EL 6237-6238 Papers relating to the Passing of Bills by Immediate Warrant

Scope and Content Note

Warrants to Lord Chancellor Egerton signed by Elizabeth (1596) and James I (1604) restraining the passing of Bills by immediate Warrant.

View descriptions of items EL 6237-6238 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (page 488) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 144 (EL 6237-6238)

EL 6237-6238

EL 6239 Commission for Sewers

Scope and Content Note

Petition to Lord Chancellor Egerton from two London aldermen and others re stopping a commission for sewers pending royal action on bill of the petitioners relating to sewers, temp. Elizabeth.

View description of item EL 6239 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (page 489) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 144 (EL 6239)

EL 6239

EL 6240 Oath of Allegiance

Scope and Content Note

Privy Council letter to Lord Chancellor Egerton requesting him to issue commissions to mayors and bailiffs of certain seaports (named in a schedule) to administer the Oath of Allegiance to suspected persons coming into the country, 1608.

View description of item EL 6240 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (page 489) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 144 (EL 6240)

EL 6240

EL 6241 Sumptuary Laws

Scope and Content Note

Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth concerning apparel, 23 July, 1597.

View description of item EL 6241 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (page 489) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box OV 2 (EL 6241)

EL 6241

EL 6246-6308 Soldiers, Arms, Etc. in Lancashire

Scope and Content Note

Letters, orders, notes, and other papers re levying troops in Lancashire for various services, chiefly 1582-1589; notes of assessments for soldiers arrayed at Ormeschurch (undated); copy of Presentment of Jurors in Salford Hundred re horses and arms; directions for drilling.

View descriptions of items EL 6246-6308 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 2 (pages 490-499) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 144 (EL 6246-6290)

EL 6246-6290

Facsimiles: EL 6246-6290

Box 145 (EL 6291-6308)

EL 6291-6308

Facsimiles: EL 6291-6308

Part II: temp. John, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, 1617-1649

Personal Papers

EL 6309-6666 Letters, etc.

Scope and Content Note

Personal and domestic correspondence of the 1st Earl and Countess of Bridgewater and their family and circle on various topics, including: the marriage of their daughter Elizabeth with Sir Robert Cecil's son David, legal aspects of the marriage settlement, and consequent financial, legal, and domestic affairs of the young couple; disposition of the estate of Robert Spencer, 1st Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, particularly as it concern legacies to his daughters; the dispute concerning the will of Peter Warburton and the wardship of his heir, related through Warburton's wife Elizabeth to the 1st Earl of Bridgewater; the creation of the earldom of Bridgewater in 1617; patronage and requests for favors; general politics; estate and financial matters; letters to and from servants (particularly Richard Harrison) with domestic and financial instructions.

Also a few lists and inventories of clothing, "A Catalogue of my Ladies [Countess of Bridgewater?] Bookes at London," 1617-32, a few building and estate accounts, an undated rental of the 1st Earl's lands in Flint and Denbighshire and a rental of tenements in Snape, the journal of David Evans, Bridgewater's steward, concerning legal and other affairs, 1629-31, and the will of William Noy.

Also includes letters and papers of the Herbert family, related to the Egertons through the marriage of the 1st Earl of Bridgewater's daughter Mary to Richard Herbert, 2nd Baron Herbert of Cherbury, particularly as they relate to the marriage settlement and Herbert lands in Wales. Also rentals and surveys of Herbert lands in Montgomeryshire (1598), Monmouthshire (1628), and Anglesea (1630, 1636-37).

Also notes and particulars of other Egerton family properties, including: two court rolls for Isdall, alias Snufnall, Shropshire, for 1622 and 1632-33; 23 small court rolls (view of frankpledge only) for Wilderley, temp. James I-Charles I; rentals for High Legh, Nether and Over Knutsford, Northope, Northwich, Olerton, and Plumley, temp. Charles I and undated; and notes and documents in suits between the Dowager Countess of Derby (and the 1st Earl of Bridgewater, her son-in-law and stepson) and Sir Edward Kynaston, over lands in Ellesmere and Hordley, Shropshire, temp. James I and Charles I.

View descriptions of items EL 6309-6666 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (pages 500-547) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 145 (EL 6309-6367)

EL 6309-6367

Facsimiles: EL 6309-6361

Items removed to Oversize Box 5: EL 6365a

Box 146

EL 6368-6390

Items removed to Oversize Box 5: EL 6371

Box 147

EL 6391-6450

Facsimiles: EL 6424-6450

Items removed to Seals Box 5: EL 6399; EL 6399a; EL 6400

Items removed to Seals Box 6: EL 6401; EL 6402; EL 6403; EL 6404; EL 6405; EL 6406a

Box 148

EL 6451-6510

Facsimiles: EL 6451-6469b, EL 6477-6481, EL 6484, EL 6487, EL 6492, EL 6495-6497, EL 6503-6507

Items removed to Seals Box 6: EL 6501

Box 149

EL 6511-6589

Facsimiles: EL 6525, EL 6529, EL 6533-6585

Changed call numbers: EL 6530-6532 removed to EL 397a-c

Box 150

EL 6590-6646

Facsimiles: EL 6594-6595, EL 6598-6610, EL 6612-6613, EL 6617, EL 6621-6624, EL 6644d, EL 6645

Items removed to Oversize Box 5: EL 6643

Items removed to Seals Box 6: EL 6620

Missing items: EL 6616a, EL 6644e

Box 151

EL 6647-6656

Items removed to Oversize Box 3: EL 6650a

Box 152 (EL 6657-6666)

EL 6657-6666

Items removed to Oversize Box 3: EL 6657

Items removed to Oversize Box 5: EL 6662

Items removed to Oversize Flat Folder: EL 6661

EL 6667-6692 Accounts

Scope and Content Note

Miscellaneous accounts of personal and household expenses (for travel, clothes, provisions, funerals, wages, etc.) for the period 1620-1649.

View descriptions of items EL 6667-6692 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (pages 548-550) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 152 (EL 6667-6692)

EL 6667-6692

Facsimiles: EL 6667-6692

EL 6692a-6830e Deeds and Miscellaneous Papers (Chiefly Estate and Manorial)

Scope and Content Note

Deeds, rentals, court rolls, and various supplementary notes and legal documents chiefly concerning Egerton estates and those of related families or associates.

Also includes occasional accounts, bonds, notes and memoranda, commissions from the 1st Earl of Bridgewater to his estate agents to make leases, etc.; receiver's accounts of the possessions late belonging to the Duke of Suffolk in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk, and Yorkshire in 1-3, 6, 9-10 Elizabeth and other papers and legal documents in proceedings concerning title to the Duke's estates, some of which were later granted to the 1st Earl of Bridgewater; papers in the case in Star Chamber between Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby and the commoners of Eighthundred Fen, ca. 1580s; documents re a dispute other tithes of the parsonage of Rostherne, Cheshire, 1616-37.

View descriptions of items EL 6692a-6830e in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (pages 550-572) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 152 (EL 6692a-6697)

EL 6692a-6697

Items removed to Seals Box 6: EL 6696

Box 153

EL 6698-6730

Facsimiles: EL 6704-6705a, EL 6708

Items removed to Seals Box 6: EL 6698; EL 6701; EL 6701a

Changed call numbers: EL 6702a removed to EL 734; EL 6707 removed to EL 6406a

Box 154

EL 6731-6747

Items removed to Oversize Box 3: EL 6745a

Box 155

EL 6748-6748/13

Box 156

EL 6748/14-21

Box 157

EL 6748/22-36

Box 158

EL 6748/37-59

Box 159

EL 6748/60-116

Items removed to Oversize Box 6: EL 6748/100; EL 6748/101; EL 6748/102; EL 6748/103; EL 6748/104; EL 6748/105; EL 6748/106; EL 6748/107; EL 6748/109; EL 6748/112; EL 6748/114; EL 6748/115

Box 160

EL 6748/99

Box 161

EL 6748/117-138

Items removed to Oversize Box 6: EL 6748/117; EL 6748/118; EL 6748/119; EL 6748/120; EL 6748/137; EL 6748/138

Box 162

EL 6749-6764

Items removed to Oversize Box 6: EL 6753

Box 163

EL 6765-6768/7

Box 164

EL 6768/8-14

Box 165

EL 6768/15-6769

Box 166

EL 6770-6772/11

Box 167

EL 6772/12-22

Box 168

EL 6772/23-6773/1

Box 169

EL 6773/2-12

Box 170

EL 6773/13-6777

Box 171

EL 6778-6782/7

Box 172

EL 6782/8-6783/7

Box 173

EL 6783/8-12

Box 174

EL 6783/13-6785/4-5

Box 175

EL 6785/6-6820

Items removed to Seals Box 6: EL 6792; EL 6814; EL 6815

Box 176 (EL 6821-6830e)

EL 6821-6830e

Items removed to Seals Box 6: EL 6821; EL 6823; EL 6830a

EL 6831-6855 Notes, inscriptions, verses, etc. relating to the Egerton family

Scope and Content Note

Chiefly epitaphs and memorial inscriptions, death and burial certificates, etc. re the deaths of the 1st Earl of Bridgewater's wife and children, including a volume of Latin and English verses by Robert Codrington, M.A., on the death of Frances (Stanley) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater.

View descriptions of items EL 6831-6855 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (pages 572-575) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 176 (EL 6831-6855)

EL 6831-6855

Facsimiles: EL 6831-6855

EL 6856-6897 Miscellaneous Treatises, Sermons, and other Literary Manuscripts

Scope and Content Note

Chiefly individual volumes, some dedicated to the 1st Earl of Bridgewater, and some with original bindings, grouped for convenience here into the following categories:

a. Literature and Philosophy
b. Politics and Government
c. Religion and the Church
d. Sermons
e. Miscellaneous

View descriptions of items EL 6856-6897 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (pages 575-580) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 176 (EL 6856-6857a)

EL 6856-6857a

Removed or Separated Material

Missing items: EL 6856 (34/B/55), a volume containing copies of sermons, is not held by the library. It was previously identified as being owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes.

Literature and Philosophy

EL 6857 (35/C/2) [FACSIMILE] "Observations of State and military affaires for the most parte collected out of Cornelius Tacitus, by Th. Gainsforde". 1612

EL 6857a [FACSIMILE] Later epitaph on Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, who was executed 12 May 1641.

Box 177

EL 6858-6893

Changed call numbers: EL 6889 removed to EL 1179; EL 6893a removed to 11741.

Literature and Philosophy

EL 6861 Brittanniae Pietas in Henricum Principem [poem in Latin to Prince Henry].

EL 6890 (35/C/7) Oceanus Brittanicus, or Narrowe Seas [history compiled from the Chronicles and records, subsequent to 29 Sept. 1614].

Politics and Government

EL 6858 (35/C/3) Journal of Sir Kenelm Digby from 22 December 1627 to February 1628/9 related to his fight with the Venetians at Scanderone. 1627-1628/29

EL 6859 The danger that the kingdome now standeth in and the remedy. By Sr. Robt. Cotton.

Religion and the Church

EL 6877 (35/B/13) A Dissertation on a theological work by Mr. Mountague [? Bp. Richard Montagu, successively Bishop of Chichester and Norwich] signed "J.S."

EL 6878 (35/B/14) Argument in defence of a work by Mr. Mountague [? Bp. Richard Montagu] against which the charge of Arminianism is brought.

EL 6865 The Atchievement of Sir John Presbyter; a description of the coat of arms of Calvinism, with his Matches with the howses of Geneva, Scotland, Amsterdam and the Cuntry of New England.

EL 6892 A supposed Catholicke prayer -- made by "A Preacher at Acon".

Sermons

EL 6873 (35/B/10) Sermon preached at Ludlowe, Ju.-Aug. 1639. "Fear God, Honor the King." 1639

EL 6874 Extract from a sermon by Mr. C. Downing, pro-parliamentarian. 1642

EL 6876 (35/B/12) Two sermons by Dr. Skynner, (i) on Acts 29. 9, 10. (ii) On John 21, 22, 23.

EL 6879 (35/B/15) "Sermon preached at Ludlowe 24 Sept. 1637, per Mr. T.L." 1637 September 24

EL 6880 (35/B/16) A Sermon by Mr. John Carter.

EL 6881 (35/B/17) [FACSIMILE] "A Sermon preached at Little Gaddesden, in the county of Hartford at the Funerall of the Right Honorable John Earle of Bridgewater, the first Earle of that family, the 7th day of December 1649, by T.F." 1649 December 7

EL 6883 (35/B/19) [FACSIMILE] "A Sermon preached at Little Gaddesden at the Funeral of Lady Frances Stanley, one of the daughters and co-heirs of Ferdinand, 2 April, 1636, by J.C." (John Carter). 1636 April 2

EL 6885 (35/B/21) [FACSIMILE] "A Funerall Sermon vpon the death of the Countesse of Bridgewater my deare Lady and Mother made Mr. John Carter."

EL 6886 (35/B/22) A Sermon preached before his Maiestie vpon Innocentes daie in the feaste of the natiuitie of Christe [sermon preached before the King on Innocents Day].

EL 6887 (35/B/23) [FACSIMILE] "Mr. John Carter's Funerall Sermon for Frances Countesse of Bridgewater."

Miscellaneous

EL 6860 [FACSIMILE] Dissertation by Lord Bridgewater in Latin on the education of children, probably as a juvenile exercise.

EL 6862 (35/C/4) A Relation of his Princes Noble and vertuous disposition and of sundry of his witty and pleasant speeches.

EL 6888 [FACSIMILE] Meditation on the death of the Countess of Bridgewater.

EL 6891 Series of anagrams on James I, his family, and courtiers.

Separated volumes

Literature and Philosophy

EL 6869 (35/B/4) "Scholia super prophetiam Jonae," and "Ars Cabalistica": treatises by Nathaniel Flick. 1630

EL 6872 (35/B/9) "Queen Ester's Haliluiahs and Hamans Madrigalls expressed in a sacred poem, with the translation and illustration of the 83 Psalme. By Francis Lenton, Gent. Her Maties Poet." 1635

EL 6893 (34/B/35) Manuscript by John Donne on Poems and Problems [commonplace book].

Access Information

RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.

Politics and Government

Religion and the Church

EL 6864 (35/B/1) Defensiuncula Fidei Catholice opposita impugnationi viri clarissimi A.W. de formali caussa Justificationis. 1617 January 17

EL 6870 (35/B/5) Theological discourse entitled "The Faultie Favorite." Dedicated by Ralph Crane to Lord Bridgewater, and "manuscribed" by him. January 1631/32

EL 6871 (35/B/8) "Certaine Collections of the Right honble. Elizabeth, late Countess of Huntingdon, for her owne private vse." 1633

EL 6875 (35/B/11) A Proposition of a Bloodlesse Stratagem" - a treatise "to amaze and beate downe" Cardinal Bellarmino, by Geoffrey Burdon.

Sermons

EL 6866 (35/B/2) A Sermon by Dr. Rawlinson, preached at Theobald's before the King. 1619 December 19

EL 6867 (34/A/18) A Sermon at Whitehall on Fryday ye 14 of March, 1622, by Dr Bell Canckwell, Mr. of ye Savoy. 1622 March 14

EL 6868 (35/B/3) A Sermon preached in St. Paul's Church, 15 October, 1626, by Matthew Griffith. 1626 October 15

EL 6882 (35/B/18) A Sermon by Mr. John Carter.

EL 6884 (35/B/20) Prayers and two sermons by Mr. John Carter.

Miscellaneous

EL 6863 (35/C/5) "Rules. How to compose" by Giovanni Coprario [John Cooper]

Box 178 (EL 6894-6897)

EL 6894-6897

Miscellaneous

EL 6894 (35/C/8) Four books dated 1612 and two treatises of Geometry, by Jo. Goo or Goe.

EL 6895 List of stopping places and distances for His Majesty's (Charles I) Journey to Yorke.

EL 6896 Letter from Fra. Michell to Lord Bridgewater, asking for a favourable hearing. Approximately 1621

EL 6897 Thomas Metham to Lord Bridgewater on behalf of Wm. Tyrrwhit.

Separated volumes

Literature and Philosophy

Box 304

EL 34/B/14 [FACSIMILE] "A Maske Represented before the right Hoble the Earle of Bridgewater Lord President of Wales and the hoble the Countesse of Bridgewater At Ludlow Castle the 29th of September 1634. The chiefe persons in the reprsentacon were - The Lord Brackley, The Lady Alice Egerton, Mr Thomas Egerton, Author Jo: Milton" [a copy of the masque "Comus" by John Milton]. 1634

EL 34/B/17 "A Game at Chesse" by Thomas Middleton.

EL 34/B/10 A volume containing: 1. Treatise on Logic or Rhetoric; 2. A Tractatus brevis de generibus poematum; Item De Arte Rhetorica Liber primus; 3. De Arte Rhetorica Liber secundus [? class notes of one John Prisewin, pupil of William Hart, Professor of the Art of Rhetoric, 1623]; 4. In Quintum Horatium flaccum de Arte Poetica.

Politics and Government

EL 34/B/3 A plaine Case or Reasons to convince any (That would be honest or thriue in the World) which side to take in this present Warre" [a manuscript copy of a printed book (published in York in 1643?)].

Sermons

EL 31/A/5 "An Elegiack Comemoration" for Mr. Josiah Shute, rector of the parish of St. Mary Woolnoth in Lombard Street, delivered by Mr. Povey. [1643]

Miscellaneous

EL 34/B/65 "Intt & Valuation Tables" endorsed "Mr. Richard Delamaine 1 March 1637."

Official Papers

EL 6898-6916 Foreign Affairs

Scope and Content Note

Letters, documents, drafts, notes and memoranda, etc. concerning the 1621 treaty with Denmark, war in the Palatinate, Anglo-Dutch relations, and the expedition to the Isle of Ré. Includes a volume containing "A Treatise about Impositions" [a historical account of British wars and foreign policy] and a "Treatise about an office for Compositions for Alienations" (EL 6898)

View descriptions of items EL 6898-6916 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (pages 581-583) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 178 (EL 6898-6916)

EL 6898-6916

Separated volumes

EL 6898 (35/C/9) A volume containing "A Treatise about Impositions," being an account of our foreign policy, with a "treatise about an Office for Compositions for Alienations."

EL 6917-6958 Parliamentary Affairs

Scope and Content Note

Notes for proceedings in the Parliaments of 1620, 1624, and 1640; petitions to Parliament and notes re petitions; copies of, or notes on, speeches in Parliament by James I, Charles I, John Pym (Against Abp. Laud), and Sir Benjamin Rudyerd; notes on impeachment proceedings against Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford; a list of the members of Parliament, May 6, 1625. Separate volumes include two copies of Henry Elsyng's treatise on parliamentary statutes entitled "Expeditio Billarum Antiqua," 1632 (EL 6933 and EL 6934).

View descriptions of items EL 6917-6958 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (pages 583-589) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 178 (EL 6917-6946)

EL 6917-6946

Separated volumes

EL 6933 (35/C/51) "Expeditio Billarum Antiqua". The treatise concludes: "Thus I shewed the manner of the Ancient Statutes, and the many inconveniences thereof: All which is remedied by that exact forme, which is now used, as shall appeare in the next Chap. of proceedings upon Bills at this day. And here I will end this tedious discourse."

EL 6934 (35/C/52) Copy of "Expeditio Billarum Antiqua".

Box 179 (EL 6947-6958)

EL 6947-6958

EL 6959-6968a Trade

Scope and Content Note

Notes and legal papers concerning the proceedings between the Goldsmiths' Company and John Reynolds, Common Assayer, ca. 1620s; notes on the commission for granting charters to brewers and masters, 1636.

View descriptions of items EL 6959-6968a in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (pages 589-590) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 179 (EL 6959-6968a)

EL 6959-6968a

Facsimiles: EL 6964

EL 6969-6979 Taxation

Scope and Content Note

Notes and extracts from documents concerning subsidy collections and loans; a letter of complaint to the 1st Earl of Bridgewater from Richard Harries re the assessment of Ship Money in Shropshire, 1635. Separate volumes include a collection of speeches on Ship Money in Hampden's Case (EL 6978) and a collection of "The Arguments of the Judges concerning Ship-Mony" in Hampden's Case, 1638 (EL 6977).

View descriptions of items EL 6969-6979 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (pages 591-592) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Related Material

See also "The Case of Ship Money" (EL 7877a 35/C/38).

Box 179 (EL 6969-6979)

EL 6969-6979

Facsimiles: EL 6971

Separated volumes

EL 6977 (35/C/59) "The Arguments of the Judges concerning Ship-mony" - in the Hampden's Case.

EL 6978 (35/C/6) Speech on Ship-money, in Hampden's case.

EL 6980-6997 Coinage and the Mint

Scope and Content Note

Notes and papers concerning the value of English coins; accounts of monies coined and of trials of the pyx, 1620s-1632.

View descriptions of items EL 6980-6997 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (pages 592-594) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 179 (EL 6980-6997)

EL 6980-6997

EL 6998-7001 Ecclesiastical Affairs

Scope and Content Note

An undated paper concerning the petition of King's College, Cambridge, for additional patronage (EL 6998); an attack on Abp. Laud by Hd. Blair, 1640 (EL 7001); a plan by Richard Daye to increase royal revenues through perpetual annuities from the church, 1629 (EL 6999); letter from Bishop Edmund Griffith of Bangor to the 1st Earl of Bridgewater re rights to a living, 1634 (EL 7000).

View descriptions of items EL 6998-7001 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (pages 594-595) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 179 (EL 6998-7000)

EL 6998-7000

Box 180 (EL 7001)

EL 7001

EL 7002-7040 Admiralty

Scope and Content Note

Various notes and papers concerning the Navy; records of lost or captured ships; legal papers in the lawsuit of Captain Thomas King against Humphrey Slaney, heard in the Admiralty Court, concerning shares in a prize taken by a ship, and apparently at some stage referred to the 1st Earl of Bridgewater and others for arbitration, 1627-1630. Also two volumes containing a report on the state of the Royal Navy, with recommendations, by a royal commission, 1626 (EL 7002).

View descriptions of items EL 7002-7040 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (pages 595-599) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 180 (7002-7040)

EL 7002-7040

EL 7041-7060 Ireland

Scope and Content Note

Brief reports, treatises, notes, and petitions dealing with Irish affairs; notes and documents concerning the Ulster Plantation and the settlement of Londonerry; notes on the titles of various individuals to Irish lands; a copy of the Scottish Commissioners' petition against Strafford, 1640. Separate volumes include a 17th-century copy of Edmund Spenser's "Vewe of the present state of Ireland" (EL 7041) and a short biographical dictionary of Irish peers, temp. Charles I (EL 34/B/5).

View descriptions of items EL 7041-7060 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (pages 599-602) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 180 (EL 7041-7054)

EL 7041-7054

Separated volumes

EL 7041 (35/B/25) "A Vewe of the present state of lreland. Discoursal by way of a Dialogue between Eudoxus and Frenius." By E.S.

Box 181 (EL 7055-7060)

EL 7055-7060

Separated volumes

EL 34/B/5 A list of Irish Peers in a hand of Charles I's time.

EL 7061b-7607 Wales

Scope and Content Note

Official and private papers stemming from the 1st Earl of Bridgewater's work as Lord President of the Council in the Marches of Wales, 1631-42, including: numerous lists of sheriffs, and of names to be presented for pricking as sheriffs, and of names fit to be sheriff, with letters to the 1st Earl asking to be excused from the office of sheriff; lists of escheators for the Marches, and of persons fit to be escheators; lists, schedules, etc. of military officers and military supplies in individual Welsh hundreds; miscellaneous lists of Welsh names for various purposes; a few Privy Council letters of instruction to the 1st Earl, authorizing commissions, etc.; documents re the collection of money in Wales for the repair of St. Paul's Cathedral; papers re the jurisdiction of the Council of Wales, particularly in English shires; notes and documents re individual legal cases and suits heard by the Council, particularly Vaughan v. Vaughan, the rape of Margery Evans, and Hugh Osborne v. Crompton; papers and accounts re the 1st Earl's residence at Ludlow Castle (provisioning of, diets at, etc.); requests for patronage addressed to the 1st Earl; miscellaneous reports, memoranda, letters, etc. re specific Welsh and local affairs.

Separate volumes include 64 Books of Hearing, or entry books, for the legal terms of the Council in the Marches of Wales (a few being first drafts), 1632-42 (EL 7564-7607).

View descriptions of items EL 7061b-7607 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (pages 602-654) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 181 (EL 7061b-7110)

EL 7061b-7110

Box 182

EL 7111-7170

Box 183

EL 7171-7231

Box 184

EL 7232-7276

Box 185

EL 7277-7320

Box 186

EL 7321-7370

Box 187

EL 7371-7430

Items removed to Oversize Box 3: EL 7416

Box 188

EL 7431-7467

Items removed to Oversize Box 6: EL 7459

Box 189

EL 7468-7510

Box 190

EL 7511-7560

Box 191 (EL 7561-7607)

EL 7561-7607

Separated volumes

EL 7564-7568 (34/C/38) Books of Hearings. 1632

EL 7569-7570, 7572-7574a (34/C/39) Books of Hearings. 1632-1633

EL 7571 (34/C/39) "Instructions giuen by or most gratious soueraigne Lord Charles ... to his right trusty and right welbeloued Cosen and Councellor John Earle of Bridgewater Lord President of his Counsell with his Mates dominion and Principality of Wales and Marches of the same ..." 1633 May 12

Related Material

EL 7397 Copy instructions of Charles I reconstituting the President and Council of Wales and determining the nature of their jurisdiction. 1633 May 12

EL 7575-7578 (34/C/40) Books of Hearings. 1633-1634

EL 7579-7583 (34/C/41) Books of Hearings. 1634 1634-1635

EL 7584-7587a (34/C/42) Books of Hearings. 1635-1636

EL 7588-7591a (34/C/43) Books of Hearings. 1636-1637

EL 7592-7594a (34/C/44) Books of Hearings. 1637-1638

EL 7595-7597a (34/C/45) Books of Hearings. 1638

EL 7598-7601 (34/C/46) Books of Hearings. 1639

EL 7602-7604 (34/C/47) Books of Hearings. 1640

EL 7605-7607 (34/C/48) Books of Hearings. 1640-1641

EL 7608-7612 Crown Lands

Scope and Content Note

Copy of an act temp. James I to explain a statute of 18 Elizabeth concerning grants to the crown by ecclesiastical bodies (EL 7611), with notes on a 1621 act dealing with grants to the crown between 13 and 25 Elizabeth (EL 7609); list of all grants made to Queen Elizabeth by deans and chapters, masters of colleges, and hospitals between 13 and 26 Elizabeth (EL 7612); unsigned declaration re royal grant of land to Endymion Porter, 1630s (EL 7608).

View descriptions of items EL 7608-7612 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (pages 655-658) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 191 (EL 7608-7612)

EL 7608-7612

EL 7613-7710 Militia

Scope and Content Note

Instructions and memoranda re musters, including those from the Privy Council, county officials, etc., chiefly during the 1630s; letters and other papers re the opposition to paying the muster master's fees in Shropshire, and re Sir John Corbett's petition to the House of Commons against the 1st Earl of Bridgewater in the matter of the Shropshire Muster Master's fees, with the resulting impeachment of the Earl before the House of Lords, 1640-41.

View descriptions of items EL 7613-7710 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (pages 658-670) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 191 (EL 7613-7650)

EL 7613-7650

Box 192

EL 7651-7697

Box 193 (EL 7698-7710)

EL 7698-7710

EL 7711-7877a Charles I

Scope and Content Note

Notes and other documents concerning proposals for the marriage of Charles I (while Prince of Wales); letters, documents, notes, and other papers concerning the relations between Charles I and Parliament, particularly re the Petition of Right and the Grand Remonstrance, and during the Civil War; letters, reports, notes, copies of acts and speeches, etc., dealing with relations between Charles I and Scotland, particularly re the Solemn League and Covenant and the negotiations with the Scottish Commissioners in 1640-41; a long series of 51 newsletters from John Castle ("de Sacro Bosco") to the 1st Earl of Bridgewater at Ludlow during the years 1638-40, with information about politics, the Court, London, etc.; a similar series of 9 newsletters sent to the Earl by Roger Holland in 1640, dealing chiefly with the proceedings at York and in Parliament.

Separate volumes include a collection of copies of letters from Charles I to the Prince of Wales concerning the Treaty of Newport, November, 1648 (EL 7782), and a collection of reports of proceedings in Kings Bench and Exchequer Chamber in the Ship Money case (EL 7877a).

View descriptions of items EL 7711-7877 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (pages 670-697) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 193 (EL 7711-7737)

EL 7711-7737

Items removed to Seals Box 6: EL 7716

Box 194

EL 7738-7784

Facsimiles: EL 7772-7774

Separated volumes

EL 7782 (35/C/11) Copies of letters from Charles I, to the Prince of Wales, about the Treaty of Newport.

Box 195

EL 7785-7837

Box 196 (EL 7838-7877)

EL 7838-7877

Separated volumes

EL 7877a (35/C/38) The Case of Ship Money Headings of Various Reports as follows: This is all inrolled lykewise in Starchamber Chancery Kings Bench and Excheqr. Hillarie vijo Caroli Rege Rotli lxiij.

EL 7878-7921 Star Chamber

Scope and Content Note

Letters, documents, and notes re various individual Star Chamber cases; 27 Star Chamber Cause Lists, giving names of plaintiffs and defendants and the nature of the suit, 1631-35 (with 3 additional Cause Lists temp. Lord Chancellor Egerton and James I). Also a treatise on the Court of Star Chamber by William Hudson, dedicated to the 1st Earl of Bridgewater by "J. E." (EL 7921)

View descriptions of items EL 7878-7921 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (pages 697-701) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 196 (EL 7878-7885)

EL 7878-7885

Box 197

EL 7886-7920

Separated volumes

EL 7921 (35/C/14) Treatise of the Court of Star Chamber, by William Hudson.

EL 7922-7929c Official Matters in the Law Courts

Scope and Content Note

Miscellaneous notes re the grant to Sir Robert Lloyd of a patent for ingrossing wills and inventories; memorandum of charges against Lord Chancellor Francis Bacon, with notes in the hand of the 1st Earl of Bridgewater re explanations and confessions; copies of a letter from Charles I, and petitions of Francis Burton, concerning fraud by clerks of the Exchequer, 1628-31, with note of King's further directions, 1631. Also a treatise on "The Office of Executors" by Thomas Wentworth (EL 7926).

View descriptions of items EL 7922-7929c in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (pages 701-703) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 198 (EL 7922-7929c)

EL 7922-7929c

Facsimiles: EL 7924

Missing items: EL 7924a (35/B/6) Copy of Commission to the Master and Counsaile of the Court of Wards and Liveries [printed] (listed in Calendar vol. 3, page 701a) [this number appears to have been assigned in error, possibly due to a note in the Calendar for EL 6445, which has also not been located that says "Transferred to No. 7924a"]

Separated volumes

EL 7926 (35/B/27) "The Office of Executors" by Wentworth.

EL 7930-7968 Legal Proceedings

Scope and Content Note

Letters, petitions, briefs, etc. on various legal matters, including notes and orders for specific cases (Love's v. Doyley, Eure v. Lorte, and cases involving the Egerton family); includes a Star Chamber cause list with notes by the 1st Earl of Bridgewater, chiefly re the prosecution of various people for slandering Lord Keeper Thomas Coventry, 1630.

View descriptions of items EL 7930-7968 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (pages 703-707) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 198 (EL 7930-7960)

EL 7930-7960

Items removed to Seals Box 7: EL 7948a; EL 7948b

Box 199 (EL 7961-7968)

EL 7961-7968

EL 7969-7970 Colonies

Scope and Content Note

Abstract of the patents re the Massachusetts Bay Co.

View descriptions of items EL 7969-7970 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (page 708) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 199 (EL 7969-7970)

EL 7969-7970

Facsimiles: EL 7970

EL 7971-8007a Miscellaneous Papers

Scope and Content Note

Notes and records of Court ceremonial occasions; vouchers, receipts, and bonds of 1st Earl of Bridgewater and receipts for money due to Lady Alice Hastings; two copies of "A Lre intituled from the Diuill to the Pope" purporting to have been translated from the Dutch, found in the hands of a widow of Okingham and sent to the Privy Council, 1627 (EL 7974 and EL 7975); a schedule of the names of all the vestry and quest men in the parish of St. Giles without Cripplegate, London, 1634 (EL 7978). Also a commonplace book containing copies of political discourses and treatises (EL 7976).

View descriptions of items EL 7971-8007a in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 3 (pages 708-712) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 199 (EL 7971-7980)

EL 7971-7980

Facsimiles: EL 7980

Changed call numbers: EL 7973a removed to EL 11768

Separated volumes

EL 7976 (35/C/13) A volume containing the following papers: 1. Ye Tryall of ye Earle of Castlehauen, 1631. 2. Ye Forme and manner of keeping ye Parlt of England [mss]. 3. A Discourse concerning Peace wth ye Netherlands, 1602.4. Ye King's Castell, or Instructions to Q. Elizabeth [mss]. 5. A Dialogue betweene a Councellor and a Justice of Peace. 6. A Report touching ye East Indies and ye States of Holland. 7. A mss. of Parlt. affaires from 4to to Ed. 3 to 25 H.S. 8. A Treatise of Publike Duels. 9. Ye seueral wayes of ye Support of ye Kings of England.

EL 3/I/5 Navigation. A Survey of the Navy.

EL 34/C/1 "Navigation: A brief Abstract, Exposition & Demonstration of all Parts & Things belonging to a Ship. A Dictionary of Sea-terms dedicated to the Earl of Bridgewater."

Box 200 (EL 7981-8007a)

EL 7981-8007a

Facsimiles: EL 7981-8007

Part III: temp. John, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, 1649-1686

Domestic and Personal Papers

EL 8008-8189 Letters, etc.

Scope and Content Note

Personal and domestic correspondence and other papers of the 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, his family, and circle of friends and associates, on a wide range of subjects, including: the 2nd Earl's household and domestic affairs; his estates and relations with his tenants; and the threatened sequestration of those estates during the Commonwealth; his debts and general financial affairs; the marriage of the 2nd Earl's son to the daughter of Lionel Cranfield, 3rd Earl of Middlesex; the second marriage of Bridgewater's son; patronage and requests for favor; the 2nd Earl's will and its subsequent administration; bonds, receipts, accounts, etc. relating to Thomas Savage, styled Viscount Colchester during the 1670s.

Individual items of interest include an inventory of the goods of the 2nd Earl at Ashridge, 1663 (EL 8094); orders for his house hold servants (EL 8037); a genealogical table of the Egerton family from the time of Lord Chancellor Egerton to 1676 (EL 8145); three rentals (1655-1657) and two court rolls (amercements only, 1655 and 1659) for the manor of Wollaston, Northamptonshire (EL 8070-8073, EL 8076); a volume containing notes of sermons and reflections by the 2nd Earl, 1645-1650 (EL 8008); four sermons by Robert Hitchcock (the Earl's chaplain) (EL 8178; EL 8178a; EL 8178c); a sermon by "Mr. Hooker" on Abak. 1:4 (EL 8178e); three additional sermons indexed by the 2nd Earl (EL 8178d); and a collection entitled "The Soules Banquet" made up of hymns, etc. written by Ralph Crane, Francis Davison, and other gentlemen and dedicated to the 2nd Earl (EL 8178b).

View descriptions of items EL 8008-8189 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 4 (pages 713-735) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 200 (EL 8008-8030)

EL 8008-8030

Facsimiles: EL 8008

Items removed to Seals Box 7: EL 8014; EL 8016; EL 8016a; EL 8027b

Box 201

EL 8031-8090

Facsimiles: EL 8037, EL 8041, EL 8044-8047, EL 8089-8090

Items removed to Seals Box 7: EL 8034; EL 8082

Box 202

EL 8091-8130

Facsimiles: EL 8091-8094, EL 8098, EL 8106, EL 8117, EL 8122

Box 203

EL 8131-8180

Facsimiles: EL 8131-8145, EL 8162-8172, EL 8174, EL 8178-8189

Separated volumes

EL 8178d (34/A/22) Three Sermons. Indexed by Lord Bridgewater.

EL 8178e (35/B/30) "Sermon by Hooker on Abak. Cap. I. verse 4."

Box 203a (EL 8181-8189)

EL 8181-8189

EL 8190-8270k Deeds and Miscellaneous Papers (chiefly Estate and Manorial)

Scope and Content Note

Deeds, rentals, letters, petitions, notes, and other miscellaneous papers related to Egerton family lands and tenants (particularly in Cheshire and Flint), marriage settlements of the Egerton family (particularly the marriage between Lady Alice Egerton and Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery).

View descriptions of items EL 8190-8270k in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 4 (pages 736-746) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 203a (EL 8190-8216a)

EL 8190-8216a

Facsimiles: EL 8215

Items removed to Seals Box 7: EL 8190; EL 8191; EL 81921/2; EL 8194; EL 8214; EL 8214a

Missing items: EL 8216a

Box 204

EL 8217-8243a

Facsimiles: EL 8218, EL 8222, EL 8226, EL 8228, EL 8231-8325, EL 8241-8243

Items removed to Seals Box 7: EL 8190; EL 8221

Items removed to Seals Box 8: EL 8223; EL 8229; EL 8230; EL 8236a; EL 8236c; EL 8236d; EL 8236e; EL 8236g; EL 8236h; EL 8236i; EL 8236j; EL 8236; EL 8237; EL 8238; EL 8239; EL 8240; EL 8243a

Box 205

EL 8244-8260

Facsimiles: EL 8244

Items removed to Seals Box 9: EL 8254; EL 8257; EL 8258

Box 206 (EL 8261-8270)

EL 8261-8270

Items removed to Seals Box 9: EL 8270a; EL 8270c; EL 8270d; EL 8270e; EL 8270g; EL 8270h; EL 8270i; EL 8270j; EL 8270k

Missing items: EL 8270f

EL 8271-8341 Lawsuits

Scope and Content Note

Bills of complaint, answers, briefs, judgements, notes, and other papers chiefly relating to actions for debts of the 1st Earl of Bridgewater, brought at or after the death of the 1st Earl, and to the sale of various estates to raise money during and after the Commonwealth. The principal cases involved are Love v. Bridgewater, beginning 1651; Frances Randolph v. Bridgewater, beginning ?1650; and 3rd Earl of Middlesex v. Lady Elizabeth Cranfield (the ward and subsequently daughter-in-law of the 2nd Earl of Bridgewater). Includes copies or abstracts of the wills of Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, and James Cranfield, 2nd Earl of Middlesex.

View descriptions of items EL 8271-8341 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 4 (pages 747-752) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 206 (EL 8271-8279)

EL 8271-8279

Facsimiles: EL 8271-8279

Missing items: EL 8278 Answer of Sir Spencer to Francis Randolfe, plaintiff, 1651. Note: this item may be EL 8274b (Randolph v. Spencer. Answer of the defendant as to debts of the first Earl of Bridgewater)

Box 207

EL 8280-8317

Facsimiles: EL 8280-8317

Changed call numbers: EL 8280 removed to EL 8310a; EL 8281 removed to 8284a

Box 208 (EL 8318-8341)

EL 8318-8341

Facsimiles: EL 8318-8341

EL 8342-8370 Epitaphs, Certificates, Occasional Verse, etc.

Scope and Content Note

View descriptions of items EL 8342-8370 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 4 (pages 753-755) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 208 (EL 8342-8370)

EL 8342-8370

Facsimiles: EL 8342-8369

EL 8371-8395 and many unnumbered Miscellaneous Literary Manuscripts

Scope and Content Note

Chiefly individual volumes, grouped here for convenience into the following general categories:

Literature
Politics and Government
Religious and Devotional Literature and Sermons
Miscellaneous

View descriptions of items EL 8371-8395 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 4 (pages 755-757) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 208 (EL 8371-8373)

EL 8371-8373

Religious and Devotional Literature and Sermons

EL 8372 [FACSIMILE] A preparatory Prayer before receiving the Lord's Supper.

EL 8373 [FACSIMILE] Sermon at the burial of Henry Egerton, son of Ld. Bridgewater. 1656 July 1

Separated volumes

Literature

EL 8371 (35/C/15) "The Character of a Trimmer," by George Savile, 1st Marquis of Halifax.

Box 209

EL 8374-8376

Religious and Devotional Literature and Sermons

Removed or Separated Material

Item transferred to the Rare Books Department due to fragility of binding: EL 8/G/8 Egerton, Elizabeth Cavendish, 1626-1663. [Meditations on the severall chapters of the Old Testament]: [manuscript] (Call number: 297343).

EL 8374 (35/C/16) [FACSIMILE] Meditations on the generall Chapters of the Holy Bible, by the Right Honble Elizabeth, Countess of Bridgewater, who died the 14th of June in ye year of our Lord, 1663.

EL 8375 (35/B/31) [FACSIMILE] "The morality of the fourth Commandment" treatise by Samuel Wilson.

EL 8376 (35/B/35) [FACSIMILE] "True Coppies of certaine loose Papers left by the Right Honble Elizabeth, Countesse of Bridgewater. Collected and transcribed together here since her death, anno Dni 1663."

Box 210

EL 8377-8391

Literature

EL 8379 Latin Epitaph to Abraham Cowley by George, Duke of Bucks. 1667

EL 8380 Latin verses.

EL 8381 [FACSIMILE] Ode to the Nightingale in Latin and Greek, sent by Brackley to his father, Lord Bridgewater.

EL 8382 [FACSIMILE] A piece of Greek prose. Also A Latin dissertation on filial obedience.

EL 8385 (35/B/69) "Certaine Observations or Maxims of State by the late Marq.of Hal---x." With "A Supplement by Mr. Cha. M--."

Religious and Devotional Literature and Sermons

EL 8377 (35/B/36) [FACSIMILE] "True Coppies of certaine loose Papers left by the Right Honble Elizabeth, Countesse of Bridgewater [another copy of EL 8376].

EL 8387 A French religious poem.

EL 8388 (35/B/38) [FACSIMILE] A seasonable Discourse to the Clergy and Laity in a Visitation Sermon, by G B [George Burhope], a Priest of the Church of England.

EL 8389 (35/B/39) [FACSIMILE] A Sermon preached at Ashridge before Lord Bridgewater, by Robert Hitchcock.

Politics and Government

EL 8383 "Jeffereidos". A political satire on Jeffry, an Ambassador. (temp. Chas. II)

EL 8384 (35/B/70) "A Catt may look at a King" [a dissertation on the English Kings, concluding that England ought to be a Commonwealth].

Miscellaneous

EL 8379a (34/A/23) [FACSIMILE] A Catechism translated out of Latin into English- "by sonne J.B." [in the 1st Earl of Bridgewater's hand].

EL 8386 "Ejaculationes consolatoriae in praesentem statum . . . Principis Jacobi Ducis Monmouthiensis compilatae per Thomas Ramsaeum".

EL 8390 A paper on the meanings of can, will and may.

EL 8391 [FACSIMILE] Catalogue of a Collection of Coins.

Separated volumes

Politics and Government

EL 8378 (35/B/37) "The state of Christendom" by Sir Henry Wotton. 1657

Box 211 (EL 8392-8395)

EL 8392-8395

EL 8395 (35/C/18) A comedy called "The Banish'd Shepherdess" [a poem dedicated to the Dowager Queen by Cosmo Manuche]. [Approximately 1659]

Separated volumes

Literature

Box 304

EL 20/E/16 [FACSIMILE] French translation of the life of Alexander Severus of Aelius Lampridius by "J. Brackleus" (John Egerton, afterward 2nd Earl of Bridgewater).

EL 34/B/13 "Paedantius" [or "Pedantius"] a Latin play by Dr. Thomas Beard

Politics and Government

EL 8392 (35/C/17) "Judicature in Parliament" by John Selden.

EL 8393 (35/C/17a) "Judicature in Parliament" by John Selden.

EL 8394 (35/C/17b) "Judicature in Parliament" by John Selden.

EL 41/D/22 Carolina Threnodia by Sir Thomas Herbert.

EL 3/I/6 Tabulation of the duties of a Counsellor by "T. Kinge".

Religious and Devotional Literature and Sermons

EL 34/B/1 Sermon on Luke 9.55 - "Ye know not what manner of Spirit you are of." by "Mr. Fowler."

EL 34/B/16 Book of Devotion including: 1. A Treatise on private Prayer. 2. Confession of a penitent sinner to the Trinity. 3. A Service to God the Father. 4. A Service to the Son. 5. A Service to the Holy Ghost. 6. A Service to the Trinity. 7. A Service of the Incarnation. 8. A Service of the Passion..

EL 34/C/2 Miscellanea.

Consists of

1. Advt to his Matie of his Journey into Scotland 1616 - a Cassandra like address (22 folios)
2. Mr Thos Moore's Sermon at Ashridge 19 Aug 1627 (22 folios)
3. Sermon on 2 Sam. 12-14. Nathan’s Judgment on David (18 folios)
4. "The Assumption is denied" - A Polemic in some papistical controversy. There is a Catalogue of Martyrs attached (6 pages)
5. Sermon preached in Ashridge Chapel 29 July 1627 on Matthew 7. 24 - on building on a rock
6. Sermon on 1 Cor: 11. 18 & 19 (14 folios) 7. Sermon on Psalms 4. 2 (10 folios).
8. Sermon 1 Cor: 11 - 18 & 19 (20 folios).
9. Sermon (a) "Of ye Remission of Sinnes" (3 folios - Ld. Bridgewater's handwriting), (b) "Of ye Power of ye Keyes" (3 folios), (c) "Of ye Sufferings of Christe" (4 folios).
10. "Instructions about Ceremonies" - For the Coronacion of a Kinge (22 folios, many blank, Ld. Bridgewaters handwg).
11. A Journal & Relation of the Action wch by his Mats commandment Edward Lord Cecil Baron of Putney & Viscounte Wimbledon Admirall and Lieutenant Generall of his Maiesties forces did vhdertake vpon the Coaste of Spaine 1625 (2 folios).
12. Dr Fletcher's Sermon at suthering haye - Psalm 85 - 10 (10 folios).
13. Sermon in Latin by Tobie Matthews (? afterwards Arch-bishop of York) on Oct. 8. 1581 (13 folios).
14. Mr Goodman's Sermon on 1st Sept. 1585 on Phill: 5 Ch & Mr Nicolls his Inuectiue against it (8 folios).

Miscellaneous

Box 304

EL 22/F/39 [FACSIMILE] Godly Meditations upon the Most Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper &c. MS By Christopher Sutton. 1632, 1686-1701

Printed (London, 1632). With notes and dates of births, marriages and deaths of members of the Bridgewater Family in the handwriting of the 2nd and 3rd Earls of Bridgewater about religion and the family.

EL 34/A/4 A Book of Arms, enlarged & corrected by the second Earl of Bridgewater. Well drawn and illuminated. Begins with the Arms of Charles II & includes the Bridgewater Arms without the engrailed bordure. 1669 June 11

Box 304

EL 34/A/6 [FACSIMILE] Les Instructions du Cheualier Gvaltier Raleigh a son Fils et a la Posterité [a copy by the 2nd Earl of Bridgewater of Sir Walter Ralegh's advice to his son].

EL 34/B/2 "The Rt Honble Richard [Vaughan] Earle of Carbery his Advice to his Soun" - Golden Grove (a copy). 1651 September 30

Box 304

EL 34/B/15 [FACSIMILE] Harvaeomnema Anniversarium Oratio Habita in Collegio Medico Londinensi Julij 22o 1658o. Quo Die V C Gulielmo Harvaeo Anniversario Ritu Parentabatur [an oration given by Dr. Henry Stanley in London on the occasion of the anniversary of the death of William Harvey]. 1658

Box 304

EL 34/B/18 [FACSIMILE] "A Collection of all those places of the Holy Scriptures which may be found in more bookes of the Holy Bible then one" [in the hand of the 2nd Earl of Bridgewater].

EL 34/B/63 The description and Use of His Maties Dialls in White-Hall Garden.

Box 304

EL 35/B/62 [FACSIMILE] "The Vision" (a poetical description of Ashridge) by Miss Marie Burhope, daughter of the Vicar of Ashridge.

Official Papers

EL 8396-8446 Parliamentary Affairs

Scope and Content Note

Notes, memoranda, copies and extracts from official documents, letters, etc., dealing with post-1660 parliamentary affairs, in particular the impeachment proceedings against Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (EL 8402-8405), and Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby (afterward 1st Duke of Leeds) (EL 8423-8432); notes and extracts concerning proposed bills and other legislation; notes on proceedings in Parliament January-February 1674 (EL 8410), July and August 1680 (EL 8426-8428), March 1681 (EL 8430), and August 1685 (EL 8429).

Separate volumes include: a collection of records concerning the impeachment of the Earl of Clarendon (EL 8405); a record of proceedings in Parliament 7 November 1689 through 24 April 1690 (EL 14/E/9); "Remembrances for Order and Decency to be kept in the Upper House of Parliament by the Lords when his Majesty is not there ..." (the "Lords Standing Orders"), ca. 1700 (EL 8445); a 17th-century copy of the "Modus Tenendi Parliamentum," noted as being a description of the way in which Parliament was held in the time of Edward the Confessor, prepared at the command of William the Conqueror (EL 8446).

View descriptions of items EL 8396-8446 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 4 (pages 758-764) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 211 (EL 8396-8440)

EL 8396-8440

Separated volumes

EL 8405 (35/C/19) "A collection of Proceedings in the House of Commons about Impeaching the Earl of Clarendon late Lord Chancellor, with Debates and Speeches concerning that matter. As also severall weighty Argumts concerning the nature of Treason by Mr. John Vaughan Sergeant Maynard, the then Sollr Generall, etc. in the moneths of Octor, Novr, and Decemr in the year 1667."

Box 212 (EL 8441-8446)

EL 8441-8446

Separated volumes

EL 8446 (35/C/42) "Modus Tenendi Parliamentum." A description of the way in which Parliament was held in the time of Edward the Confessor. This description was the one prepared at the command of William the Conqueror for his own use.

EL 14/E/9 Proceedings of Parliament beginning the 7th of November 1689 and ending ye 24th of April following.

EL 8447-8507 Foreign Affairs

Scope and Content Note

Letters, notes, and other papers concerning foreign ambassadors and relations with Spain (EL 8506-8507), the British siege of Tangiers (including 33 reports on the siege from Sir Palmer Fairborne, 1680) (EL 8467-8504), and the Dutch Wars (including several letters to the 2nd Earl of Bridgewater from C. Herbert) (EL 8449-8455).

View descriptions of items EL 8447-8507 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 4 (pages 764-770) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 212 (EL 8447-8490)

EL 8447-8490

Box 213 (EL 8491-8507)

EL 8491-8507

EL 8508-8517 Trade

Scope and Content Note

Petitions to Parliament and other papers concerning economic legislation; copies of the letters patent appointing Commissioners for the Council of Trade (of which 2nd Earl of Bridgewater was one), October 1668, with instructions for the Commissioners; account (in French) of grievances concerning English trade in Sweden, with notes by Sir Leoline Jenkins; a volume containing a petition to the House of Commons by the laboring porters of London concerning competition from other societies of porters, 1620 (EL 8515).

View descriptions of items EL 8508-8517 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 4 (pages 771-772) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 213 (EL 8508-8517)

EL 8508-8517

Separated volumes

EL 8515 (35/B/44) Petition of the labouring porters of London to the House of Commons on the subject of the encroachments of other societies of porters.

EL 8518-8532 Militia

Scope and Content Note

Letters, accounts, and miscellaneous papers concerning the Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire militia and the 2nd Earl of Bridgewater's Lord-Lieutenancy of those two counties, temp. Charles II and James II. Separate volumes include a Book of Orders of the Deputy-Lieutenants for the Buckinghamshire militia, 1677-1715 (EL 8525), a muster book for the county of Buckinghamshire, 1673 (EL 20/F/5), and an "Index to the Act for the ordering the forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom, made 14to Caroli 2di ..." (EL 8518).

View descriptions of items EL 8518-8532 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 4 (pages 772-773) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 213 (EL 8518-8532)

EL 8518-8532

Items removed to Seals Box 9: EL 8528

Separated volumes

EL 8525 (35/C/43) Bucks. Militia Book of Orders.

EL 20/F/5 Muster Book of the County of Bucks.

EL 8533-8537 Admiralty

Scope and Content Note

Lists of English ships during the Dutch Wars, ca. 1665-1666, including "The Order of ye Battle of his Maties fleet May 15th 1665"; considerations re the appointment of the Duke of York (later James II) as Lord High Admiral (EL 8537). Includes a small volume listing the wages of naval officers and men, the cost of victuals, the weight of ordnance, and an estimate of the ordinary charges of the Royal Navy, June 1660-June 1661 (EL 56/B/28).

View descriptions of items EL 8533-8537 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 4 (page 774) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 213 (EL 8533-8537)

EL 8533-8537

Separated volumes

EL 56/B/28 [Small volume listing the wages of naval officers and men, the cost of victuals, the weight of ordnance, and an estimate of the ordinary charges of the Royal Navy].

EL 8538-8546 Dissenters

Scope and Content Note

Petitions, articles and miscellaneous papers concerning Thomas Porter, parson of Whitchurch, Shropshire, and his attacks on the government, 1654; copies of letters and official papers concerning non-conformist ministers.

View descriptions of items EL 8538-8546 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 4 (pages 774-775) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 213 (EL 8538-8540)

EL 8538-8540

Box 214 (EL 8541-8546)

EL 8541-8546

EL 8547 Recusants

Scope and Content Note

An account of proceedings in Parliament, January 8, 1673/74, against recusants.

View description of item EL 8547 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 4 (page 775) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 214 (EL 8547)

EL 8547

EL 8548-8557 Ecclesiastical Affairs

Scope and Content Note

Letters, notes, and papers re individual livings; notes of acts for "better securing the Protestant Religion" and for "composing differences in Religion"; an account of the examination of Henry Compton, Bishop of London, re his proceedings against John Sharp; brief poems on transubstantiation and on a clerical "cabal" (EL 3/G/8b-c); a report of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 1688 (EL 3/G/8a).

View descriptions of items EL 8548-8557 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 4 (pages 776-777) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 214 (EL 8548-8557)

EL 8548-8557

Separated items

Box 303

EL 3/G/8a Ecclesiastical Affairs Commissioners Report 1688 August 18

Box 303

EL 3/G/8b The Clericall Caball.

Box 303

EL 3/G/8c Upon Transubstantiation

EL 8558-8562 Ireland

Scope and Content Note

Copy of the protest by 2nd Earl of Bridgewater and others, 1667, against a bill to restrain the importation of cattle from Ireland (EL 8558); drafts of letters to be signed by Charles II concerning "the transplanted persons in Conoght" (EL 8559); instructions for the "Viewers" sent to the "Dyery" to consider a plan for plantations there, with their answer (EL 8560); compilation of extracts from official records, Edward I-Henry VI, concerning English interest and jurisdiction in Ireland (EL 8561); undated suggestions of the Queen's Solicitor for Ireland (Sir John Davies?) re collecting revenue, land tenure, accounting, etc. (EL 8562).

View descriptions of items EL 8558-8562 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 4 (page 777) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 214 (EL 8558-8562)

EL 8558-8562

EL 8563-8564 Wales

Scope and Content Note

Two unsigned letters of complaint concerning abuses and corruption of the law courts at Ludlow, 1665.

View descriptions of items EL 8563-8564 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 4 (page 778) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 214 (EL 8563-8564)

EL 8563-8564

EL 8565-8566 Subsidies

Scope and Content Note

Notes on the value of annual subsidies and on levying them (EL 8565); a commission for the collection of the subsidy in Buckinghamshire, 1671 (EL 8566).

View descriptions of items EL 8565-8566 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 4 (page 778) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 214 (EL 8565-8566)

EL 8565-8566

EL 8567-8570 Coinage and the Mint

Scope and Content Note

Three accounts of trials of the pyx, 21 January 1673, 14 February 1674, and 14 June 1679 (EL 8567-8569); undated account of value of various foreign coins, temp. Charles I? (EL 8570).

View descriptions of items EL 8567-8570 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 4 (pages 778-779) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 214 (EL 8567-8570)

EL 8567-8570

EL 8571 The Poor

Scope and Content Note

Undated proposal for dealing with poverty by providing more responsible vestrymen.

View description of item EL 8571 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 4 (page 779) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 214 (EL 8571)

EL 8571

EL 8572 Mines

Scope and Content Note

Copy Privy Seal for an annuity to Sir George Charnock for discovering royal interest in "aalome" mines at Mulgrave and elsewhere, 1675.

View description of item EL 8572 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 4 (page 779) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 214 (EL 8572)

EL 8572

EL 8573 Colonies

Scope and Content Note

One printed item transferred to the Rare Books Department.

View description of item EL 8573 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 4 (page 780) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Items transferred to RB department: EL 8573 (35/B/40) Egmont, John Perceval, Earl of, 1711-1770. To the King's most excellent majesty, the memorial of John Earl of Egmont, [printed, London, 1764] (Call number: 48045)

EL 8574-8596 Miscellaneous Papers

Scope and Content Note

An abstract of a petition to Parliament re Lincolnshire fens, temp. Charles I or Commonwealth; account of the ceremonies at creation of Knights of the Bath, April 1661; account of a legal case involving Thomas White's pursuit of a privateer, on board which were discovered William Penn and other gentlemen; account of the case of William Bishop, discharged by Charles II from post of Serjeant at Arms; copy letter from 2nd Earl of Bridgewater to Sir Francis North, with North's reply, concerning the return from Brackley and Scarborough respecting the Act for regulating corporations, 1680; a few bonds, receipts, and accounts for 2nd Earl of Bridgewater and Lady Alicia Hastings; a volume containing an alphabetical list of towns in Buckinghamshire, by hundreds, 1662; miscellaneous notes and papers.

View descriptions of items EL 8574-8596 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 4 (pages 780-782) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 214 (EL 8574-8596)

EL 8574-8596

Facsimiles: EL 8587-8591, EL 8593

Items removed to Seals Box 9: EL 8575

Changed call numbers: EL 8592 removed to EL 9985d; EL 8594 removed to EL 8318a; EL 8595 removed to EL 8273a; EL 8596 removed to EL 8284b; EL 8597 removed to EL 8379a

Separated volumes

EL 8578 (35/B/41) Alphabetical List of Towns in Com. Bucks., by Hundreds.

Part IV: John, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater, 1686-1701

Domestic and Personal Papers

EL 8597-8947 Letters and Miscellaneous Personal Papers

Scope and Content Note

Few letters to and from the 3rd Earl of Bridgewater and his family and circle on personal, family, and financial matters and re patronage; draft of death certificate and of memorial inscriptions for Elizabeth Cranfield Egerton, 1st wife of the 3rd Earl of Bridgewater (EL 8598-EL 8603); bills and receipts for personal, household, and some estate expenses of 3rd Earl of Bridgewater and his family; a checkroll of servants' names and quarterly wages of the household of (the 3rd Earl?), September 29, 1690 (EL 8656); court rolls for the manor of Wollaston, Northants., 1693, 1695-1698, and 1702-1603 (EL 8726); miscellaneous deeds and other documents concerning the descent, tenure, and rents of Bridgewater House at the Barbican in London, chiefly 1650-1693 (EL 8928-8947); a polling book for Buckinghamshire, 1698 and 1700 (EL 8629a); a volume containing a copy of the motion in the House of Commons by Robert Price concerning the grant of the lordships of Denbigh, Bromfield, and Yale (EL 8725).

Numerous literary manuscripts, chiefly political and occasional verse, including four commonplace books of political and satiric verse, temp. Charles II, James II, and William and Mary (EL 8727-8769, EL 8770, EL 8774-8853, EL 8854-8926); sermons by George Burhope, chaplain to the 3rd Earl, preached at the opening of the new chapel at Ashridge, 1699 (EL 8619), and by "Mr. Moore" on Acts 24:16 (EL 34/B/62). Other separate volumes include: a consolatory discourse written by George Burhope for the 3rd Earl upon the death of his two eldest sons in London, 1687 (EL 8614b), and "The Compleat Keeper or The Young Woodman's Guide" by Patrick Bamford (EL 34/C/3).

View descriptions of items EL 8597-8947 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 783-817) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 214 (EL 8597-8600)

EL 8597-8600

Facsimiles: EL 8598-8600

Changed call numbers: EL 8597 removed to EL 8379

Box 215

EL 8601-8671

Facsimiles: EL 8601-8605, EL 8608-8614b, EL 8617, EL 8619, EL 6826, EL 8628-8629, EL 8630, EL 8631-8671 (note EL 8629a and 8630a are not facsimiles)

Changed call numbers: EL 8620 removed to EL 8178; EL 8621-8625 removed to EL 8178a-8178e

Items removed to Seals Box 10: EL 8606; EL 8607; EL 8627

Separated volumes

EL 8629a (35/C/20) Polling book for Bucks.

Box 216

EL 8672-8760

Facsimiles: EL 8672-8723

Items removed to Oversize Box 6: EL 8726

Separated volumes

EL 8725 (35/C/44) A motion made by Mr. Robert Price in the House of Commons "that an Address be made to His Majesty to stop the Grant that is passing to the Earle of Portland of the Lordshipps of Denbigh, Bromfield and Yale: and other Lands in the Principallity of Wales and that the same be not granted but by consent of Parliament.

Box 217

EL 8761-8851

Separated volumes

EL 8770 (35/B/43) "A Collection of the best Poems, Lampoons, Songs & Satyrs from the Revolution 1688 to 1692."

Box 218

EL 8852-8930

Box 219

EL 8931-8944

Items removed to Seals Box 10: EL 8933; EL 8934; EL 8935; EL 8936; EL 8938; EL 8940

Box 220 (EL 8945-8947)

EL 8945-8947

Separated volumes

EL 34/A/2 "Remembrance for Order & Decency to be kept in the Upper House of Parliamt by the Lords when his Matie is not there leaving the Solempnities belonging to his Maties coming to be marshalled by those Lords to whom it more properly appertaines". Some notes or regulations and extracts from Journals of the House.

EL 34/B/62 Sermon on text Act 24.16. "And herein I endevour myself to have alwayes a cleare conscience towards God and towards man". Mr Moore in Lord Bridgewater's handwriting.

EL 34/C/3 "The Compleat Keeper or The Young Woodman's Guide. A Treatise of the most materiall points of the Ancient fforest Laws & the Acts & Statutes now in force Together with Observations & Descriptions of the Nature of Beasts of Venery & Chace In three Parts, Faithfully collected & Compiled for the benefitt of all Gentlemen".

EL 8948-8950a The Herbert Papers

Scope and Content Note

Copy of the will of Henry Herbert, 4th Baron Herbert of Cherbury, 1690, and a note concerning its effect; deed of settlement and note on settlement at marriage of the Hon. Alice Herbert with John Burrard, 1696.

View descriptions of items EL 8948-8950a in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (page 817) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Related Material

See also Part II, Personal, Letters (EL 6309-6666) for other Herbert Family papers.

Box 220 (EL 8948-8950a)

EL 8948-8950a

EL 8951-9014 The Bolton Papers

Scope and Content Note

Letters, legal documents, and other papers concerning the affairs of Charles Paulet, 1stt Duke of Bolton, the father-in-law of the 3rd Earl of Bridgewater. In particular: sixteen letters from the 1st Duke of Bolton to the 3rd Earl of Bridgewater concerning politics, his own health, and personal and family matters, 1693-98; letters from the 2nd Duke of Bolton to Scrope Egerton, later 1st Duke of Bridgewater; a copy of the 1st Duke's will; the various suits and countersuits re the settlement of the Duke of Bolton's estate, especially those between the Countess of Bridgewater and her brother Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton; the marriage settlement of Lord William Paulet.

View descriptions of items EL 8951-9014 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 818-823) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 221

EL 8951-8954

Box 222

EL 8955-8975

Items removed to Oversize Box 3: EL 8975

Box 223 (EL 8976-9014)

EL 8976-9014

EL 9015-9091 The Wrey Papers

Scope and Content Note

Manorial papers (accounts, rentals, surveys, memoranda, etc.) of the estates of the Wrey family in Cornwall, Devon, and Caernarvonshire, and of the estates of Sir William Williams in Caernarvonshire and Anglesey, including rentals and accounts for the Vaynol Estate (Caern.), 1697-1701, Wanting (Berkshire), 1696-1701, Worlington (Devon), 1696, and the Williams estates, 1698-99; papers relating to the lawsuits between Wrey and Williams, Wrey and the Earl of Bridgewater, and Lauze and Wrey, including copies of the will of Sir William Williams, 1695; financial and estate papers relating to the affairs of Sir Bourchier Wrey (the 3rd Earl of Bridgewater was apparently one of the trustees of his will), including a copy of Wrey's will, 1694, and of the will of an ancestor, Sir Christopher Wrey, 1589; correspondence between Lady Wrey and the 3rd Earl concerning her son, ca. 1697-1700, and correspondence between Bridgewater and others of the Wrey circle.

View descriptions of items EL 9015-9091 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 823-828) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 223 (EL 9015-9033)

EL 9015-9033

Box 224

EL 9034-9088

Items removed to Oversize Box 3: EL 9057

Box 225 (EL 9089-9091)

EL 9089-9091

Official Papers

EL 9092-9413 Admiralty

Scope and Content Note

Official papers stemming from the 3rd Earl of Bridgewater's offices as First Lord of the Admiralty, 1699-1701, and as president of the commission for hearing Admiralty appeals, including: petitions to the 3rd Earl, the Admiralty, or the Crown concerning naval affairs; the 3rd Earl's notes and memoranda on Admiralty affairs and particularly on individual cases brought before the commissioners for hearing Admiralty appeals, chiefly 1692-93; notes and papers concerning the protest of the 3rd Earl and others to the Admiralty's directions to Sir George Rooke, 1694; reports, lists, memoranda, etc. re officers, seamen, ships, and the general conditions of the Navy, chiefly 1699-1701; reports to the Admiralty from Peregrine Osborne, Marquis of Carmarthen (afterward 2nd Duke of Leeds) during the summer of 1695 concerning actions at Plymouth, Kinsale Harbour, Cork Harbour, and elsewhere at sea. Includes a volume of drafts of forms of warrants, commissions, record books, instructions for different officials, accounts of naval officials, etc., temp. 3rd Earl of Bridgewater and later.

View descriptions of items EL 9092-9413 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 829-854) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 225 (EL 9092-9131)

EL 9092-9131

Box 226

EL 9132-9185

Box 227

EL 9186-9240

Facsimiles: EL 9196

Box 228 (EL 9241-9413)

EL 9241-9413

Separated volumes

EL 9256-9413 (35/C/24) Book of drafts of warrants, instructions for different officials, accounts, &c. relating to the Navy.

EL 9414-9439 Recusants

Related Material

See also the Militia section (EL 9440-9570).

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence of the 3rd Earl of Bridgewater (chiefly in his capacity as Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire?) concerning the seizure of the arms and horses of Catholics, 1695, Catholics who would not take the Oath of Allegiance, 1696, and the general affairs of Catholics in Buckinghamshire.

View descriptions of items EL 9414-9439 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 854-857) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 228 (EL 9414-9439)

EL 9414-9439

EL 9440-9570 Militia

Related Material

See also the Recusants section (EL 9414-9439).

Scope and Content Note

Letters and papers stemming from the 3rd Earl of Bridgewater's office as Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire during the 1690s, including: circular letters and other instructions to deputy-lieutenants, chiefly concerning Catholics and impressed seamen; lists of officers and men of the Buckinghamshire militia and of deputy-lieutenants; orders for payment, and receipts for pay, to Buckinghamshire militia officers and men, with some receipts for payments for goods; a few Privy Council letters of instruction to the 3rd Earl concerning a plot to kill the King, the seizure of arms and horses of Catholics, and the impressment of seamen.

EL 9482-9528 (previously EL 10110, nos. 1-47) includes circular letters of instruction from the Privy Council Office to justices of the peace, and from the 1st Duke (as Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire) to his deputy lieutenants, re seizing the arms and horses of Catholics, especially in 1705, and re tendering the Oath of Allegiance; reports to the 1st Duke from Buckinghamshire justices of the peace, including lists of men, in accordance with the above instructions; and appointments by the 1st Duke to commission in the Buckinghamshire militia, 1715. See also Sect. 2, Recusants, above.

View descriptions of items EL 9440-9481 and EL 9529-9570 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 857-869) in the Huntington Digital Library.

View descriptions of items EL 9482-9528 (previously EL 10110, nos. 1-47) in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 930-933) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 228 (EL 9440-9450)

EL 9440-9450

Items removed to Seals Box 10: EL 9440

Box 229

EL 9451-9510

Box 230

EL 9511-9555

Box 231 (EL 9556-9570)

EL 9556-9570

EL 9571-9872 Colonies

Scope and Content Note

Letters and papers stemming from the office of the 3rd Earl of Bridgewater as President of the Board of Trade, 1696-1699, including: notes by the 3rd Earl on a wide range of colonial affairs (chiefly concerning North America and the West Indies) such as trade, fishing, piracy, colonial and English military activity and preparedness, French military activity, colonial governors and government, and complaints against it, the disposition of ships at sea, and the proposed union of New York and New England; legal papers concerning cases arising in the colonies and appealed to England; notes and papers, including depositions, many sent by or through Governor Sir Francis Nicholson of Maryland, concerning privateers and runaway seamen in the American colonies, with correspondence between Nicholson and the Board of Trade; reports to the 3rd Earl from colonial governors Nicholson, Nathaniel Blakiston, and Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellamont, and from other colonial officials; a few notes concerning trade in Europe. Includes a volume of copies of various documents concerning transactions between England and France relating to Hudson's Bay (EL 9611).

View descriptions of items EL 9571-9872 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 869-899) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 231 (EL 9571-9600)

EL 9571-9600

Box 232

EL 9601-9650

Separated volumes

EL 9611 (35/C/21) Transactions between England and France relating to Hudson's Bay. Copies of the papers touching his Majesty's right to Hudson's Bay, with Answers of the French Commissioners.

Box 233

EL 9651-9700

Box 234

EL 9701-9750

Box 235

EL 9751-9810

Box 236

EL 9811-9870

Box 237 (EL 9871-9872)

EL 9871-9872

EL 9873-9881 Trade

Scope and Content Note

Notes, reports, drafts, etc. dealing with the state of English trade.

View descriptions of items EL 9873-9881 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 899-900) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 237 (EL 9873-9881)

EL 9873-9881

EL 9882-9886 Ireland

Scope and Content Note

Miscellaneous papers relating to Ireland including: James II's speech to Parliament in Ireland, May 15, 1689 (EL 9882); an agreement re the surrender of Limerick, 1691 (EL 9983); a notice to the King by Parliament of abuses in Ireland, 1692 (EL 9884); charges by the Earl of Bellamont and James Hamilton (?afterward 6th Earl of Abercorn) concerning abuses in Irish administration, 1693 (EL 9885).

View descriptions of items EL 9882-9886 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 900-901) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 237 (EL 9882-9886)

EL 9882-9886

EL 9887-9890 Foreign Affairs

Scope and Content Note

Miscellaneous papers including: a letter to William III from the Spanish Ambassador, Don Pedro Ronquillo, informing him that the French had entered Luxembourg, 1687/88 (EL 9887); report by Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, 1689, on the Anglo-Dutch treaty and progress of the war (EL 9888); an account of an Anglo-Dutch naval engagement against France, June 30, 1690 (EL 9889).

View descriptions of items EL 9887-9890 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 901-902) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 237 (EL 9887-9890)

EL 9887-9890

EL 9891-9895 Law Courts

Scope and Content Note

Copies or drafts of an act, temp. William and Mary, for regulating the royal household and the courts of justice (EL 9892-9893); copy of "Orders for regulateing proceedings in the Courts of Equity and for the better ascertaininge of the law," temp. William and Mary (EL 9891); a volume containing some pages of accounts by Charles Morgan, 1694-1696, and particulars of fees, offices, oaths and duties of all the officials of the Exchequer (EL 9895).

View descriptions of items EL 9891-9895 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 902-903) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 237 (EL 9891-9895)

EL 9891-9895

Changed call numbers: EL 9894 removed to 3042a.

Separated volumes

EL 9895 (35/B/46) Book containing some pages of accounts by Charles Morgan, and then particulars of fees, offices, oaths and duties of all the officials of the Exchequer.

EL 9896-9900 Coinage

Scope and Content Note

Two reports of trials of the pyx, 1697, 1699 (EL 9897-9898); letter from William Bridgeman to the 3rd Earl giving notice of a Council meeting and the trial of the pyx, 1697 (EL 9896); a list of "Coynes wanting" (EL 9899), and a list of coins with their values (EL 9900).

View descriptions of items EL 9896-9900 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 903-904) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 237 (EL 9896-9900)

EL 9896-9900

Facsimiles: EL 9989-9900

EL 9901-9902 Ecclesiastical Affairs

Scope and Content Note

A note of alterations in the Prayer Book (EL 9901); copies of proceedings at vestry meetings for St. James' Westminster regarding the rebuilding of the church, January 1695-1696 (EL 9902).

View descriptions of items EL 9901-9902 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 904) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 237 (EL 9901-9902)

EL 9901-9902

EL 9903-9904 London Waterworks

Scope and Content Note

Notes on the case of Craven Howard concerning the new waterworks in London, 1694-1698 (EL 9903-9904).

View descriptions of items EL 9903-9904 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (page 904) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 237 (EL 9903-9904)

EL 9903-9904

EL 9905-9908 Office of Land Credit

Scope and Content Note

A list of the Lords Visitors of the Office of Land Credit (one of whom was the 3rd Earl of Bridgewater) (EL 9905); notes of meetings and an explanation of the intentions of the Undertakers in the Office of Land Credit, 1696 (EL 9906-9908).

View descriptions of items EL 9905-9908 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (page 905) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 237 (EL 9905-9908)

EL 9905-9908

EL 9908a-9930a Parliamentary Affairs

Scope and Content Note

A brief account of speeches of the King and the Lord Chancellor at the prorogation and dissolution of Parliament (EL 9908a-9908b); notes concerning the legality of acts of the Convention Parliament, 1690 (EL 9909); copies of the Declaration of Right and other parliamentary acts (EL 9910-9913); notes on the trial for murder of Charles Mohun, 5th Baron Mohun, 1693 (EL 9915-9918); copy of a speech by John Sheffield (afterward 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby) on a bill concerning freedom of elections and impartial proceedings in Parliament, 1692 (EL 9914); notes on a speech on the Triennial Bill intended to have been given by John Smith, 1694 (EL 9920); a volume containing the speech of the Attorney-General in the House of Commons against the bill charging Sir Charles Duncombe, ca. 1698 (EL 9929); a copy of the Lords Standing Orders, ca. 1697 (EL 45/E/14).

View descriptions of items EL 9908a-9930a in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 905-908) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 237 (EL 9908a-9920)

EL 9908a-9920

Removed or Separated Material

Items transferred to the Rare Books Department: EL 9919 (35/C/25) The arguments of the Lord-Keeper (Call number: 78429).

Changed call numbers: EL 9908a-b removed to EL 2591-2592.

Box 238 (EL 9921-9930a)

EL 9921-9930a

Separated volumes

EL 45/E/14 Lords' Standing Orders.

EL 9931-9937 Jersey and Guernsey

Scope and Content Note

Notes and documents in the legal case of Daniel Messeruy v. Charles Dumaresq and James Corbet concerning debts on the estate of the late Maximillian Messeruy, ca. 1690s (EL 9932-9934), and notes re other cases involving inhabitants of the island of Jersey temp. William III (EL 9935-9937); notes re the 1693 Order in Council concerning customs in Guernsey (EL 9931).

View descriptions of items EL 9931-9937 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 908-909) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 238 (EL 9931-9937)

EL 9931-9937

EL 9938-9985d Miscellaneous

Scope and Content Note

A series of thirty-six anonymous newsletters sent to the 3rd Earl of Bridgewater at Ashridge, June-November 1694, chiefly political in nature (EL 9950-9985); miscellaneous notes on legal cases; a pay warrant for royal huntsmen and the Master of the Hounds, etc., 2 William and Mary (EL 9940).

View descriptions of items EL 9938-9985d in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 909-915) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 238 (EL 9938-9980)

EL 9938-9980

Box 239 (EL 9981-9985d)

EL 9981-9985d

Facsimiles: EL 9985d

Changed call numbers: EL 9985a removed to EL 6054; EL 9985b removed to EL 7044; EL 9985c removed to EL 8586.

Part V: Scrope, 4th Earl and 1st Duke of Bridgewater, 1701-1745

Domestic and Personal Papers

EL 9986-10080 Letters and Miscellaneous Personal Papers

Scope and Content Note

Estate and financial letters and papers re the affairs of Scrope Egerton, 4th Earl and 1st Duke of Bridgewater, and his family, including mortgages, marriage settlements, deeds, papers concerning building at Bridgewater House in London, documents concerning the Bolton Estate Trust; letters and a few accounts concerning the family, domestic, and financial affairs of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Baron Gower, and his son John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower; legal and genealogical papers concerning in part the claim of the Duke of Atholl to the Barony of Strange, ca. 1736 (EL 10066-10073); includes an account book for Lady Gower and Lady Cheyne, 1718-1719 (EL 28/B/1), and an inventory of the household goods of Jane (Paulet) Egerton, Dowager Countess of Bridgewater (EL 10053).

View descriptions of items EL 9986-10080 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 916-925) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 239 (EL 9986-10030)

EL 9986-10030

Facsimiles: EL 9986a, EL 9989-9991, EL 9994-9995, EL 9999-10000, EL 10002, EL 10005-10008

Changed call numbers: EL 9986 removed to EL 8614a

Items removed to Seals Box 10: EL 9987; EL 9988; EL 10003; EL 10004

Box 240

EL 10031-10070

Facsimiles: EL 10053-10062, EL 10064-10065

Box 241 (EL 10071-10080)

EL 10071-10080

Facsimiles: EL 10074, EL 10077-10079

Separated volumes

Box 304

EL 28/B/1 [FACSIMILE] Account book with entries for Lady Gower and Lady Cheyne. 1718-1719

Official Papers

EL 10081-10096 Jacobites and the Militia

Scope and Content Note

Lists of justices of the peace and deputy lieutenants for Buckinghamshire, ca. 1700 and 1702 (EL 10081-10083); nine letters of instruction from the Privy Council to the 1st Duke of Bridgewater as Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, re impressed seamen, seizing arms and horses of Catholics and other potentially disaffected persons, and the expected Jacobite invasions of 1708 and 1715.

View descriptions of items EL 10081-10096 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 926-928) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 241 (EL 10081-10096)

EL 10081-10096

EL 10097-10100 Foreign Refugees

Scope and Content Note

Privy Council letter to the 1st Duke, and his answer, re ordering charitable assistance for German Protestant refugees, 1709 (EL 10097-10098); two reports to the 1st Duke from Buckinghamshire justices of the peace on the same topic (EL 10099-10100).

View descriptions of items EL 10097-10100 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (page 928) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 241 (EL 10097-10100)

EL 10097-10100

EL 10101-10109 Prince George of Denmark

Scope and Content Note

Orders and other papers concerning the funeral procession of Prince George of Denmark, the consort of Queen Anne, 1708 (EL 10101-10108); an "appraisment" of the value of the horses of the late Prince (EL 10109).

View descriptions of items EL 10101-10109 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (page 929) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 241 (EL 10101-10109)

EL 10101-10109

EL 10110 (35/B/47) Militia

Removed or Separated Material

Note: EL 10110, nos. 1-47, were incorporated into EL 9482-9528 and are described in that section of this finding aid.

Scope and Content Note

Consists of a volume containing schedules of British forces in Minorca, Gibraltar, Annapolis Royal, and Placentia, with the King's orders for their establishment at certain rates, 1731.

View descriptions of item EL 10110 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (page 930) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Separated volumes

EL 10110 (35/B/47) Book containing schedules of the forces in Great Britain, Minorca and Gibraltar, Annapolis Royal and Placentia, with the King's orders for their establishment, at certain rates. 1731.

EL 10110a-c Frampton Papers

Scope and Content Note

A deed of agreement between the Duke of Newcastle and John Asgill re the enclosure of Eighthundred Fen, 1706 (EL 10110a); two deeds re the holdings therein of Jane (Paulet) Egerton, Dowager Countess of Bridgewater, 1706 (EL 10110b-c).

View descriptions of items EL 10110a-c in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (page 934) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 241 (EL 10110a-c)

EL 10110a-c

EL 10111-10259 Miscellaneous

Scope and Content Note

Estate and personal papers including: approximately 130 household and estate vouchers for, and accounts of, monies received for heriots and tithe rents, spent on Court dinners, victuals, tradesmen and laborers, newspapers, postage, clothes and books, household furnishings, etc., for the 1st Duke of Bridgewater and his family, 1700-1743 (chiefly 1712-1729) (EL 10123-10239); a recommendation from several Buckinghamshire gentlemen of Sir Edmond Denton and Mr. Hamden as parliamentary candidates, 1712/13 (EL 10114); copy of an undated letter from the Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk (?Robert Paston, 1st Earl of Yarmouth) concerning shire elections (EL 10116); copies of a few letters concerning the feud between George I and the Prince of Wales (EL 10118); account of entry fines at three of the 1st Duke of Bridgewater's manorial courts (at Whitchurch, Doddington, and Marbury), 1727-1728 (EL 10121); a summary of profits from rents, etc. due from the executrix of Alexander Duncombe, Mich. 1728 (EL 10122); a check roll of servants for one half year, 1714 (EL 10180); a steward's account for April 1722 (EL 10249), and another household account for October-December 1714 (EL 10150).

View descriptions of items EL 10111-10259 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 934-946) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 241 (EL 10111-10114)

EL 10111-10114

Box 242

EL 10115-10230

Facsimiles: EL 10123-10230

Box 243 (EL 10231-10259)

EL 10231-10259

Facsimiles: EL 10231-10259

Part VI: Francis, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, 1745-1803

EL 10260-10313 Miscellaneous Letters and Papers

Scope and Content Note

Various personal and financial papers concerning the 2nd and 3rd Dukes of Bridgewater and their families, including: papers re the settlement of the estate of the 1st Duke (EL 10260-10264); a few letters concerning the 3rd Duke's canal project and his dispute with Sir Richard Brooke over lands for the canal, 1775 (EL 10265-10269); rolls of officers and monthly returns of the Sutherland Fencible Regiment and other volunteer regiments, 1797 (EL 10271-10280); a series of 22 receipts for special rates allowed tenants in Chertsey, Surrey, for repairing their parish church (1806-1807) (EL 10294-10313); a catalog of engraved gems or intaglios and an inventory of the Duke's plate (EL 10285, EL 10286); a statement of the expenses of Sutton's Hospital (Charter-house, 1754-1765) (EL 10287).

Also five brief volumes of accounts (chiefly for domestic repairs and upholstery, in London and elsewhere) for Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquis of Stafford, and his son George Granville Leveson-Gower (afterward 1st Duke of Sutherland), 1798-1805 (EL 10288-10291a).

View descriptions of items EL 10260-10313 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 947-952) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 243 (EL 10260-10290)

EL 10260-10290

Facsimiles: EL 10260-10269, EL 10281-10283, EL 10285-10286, EL 10288-10290

Box 244 (EL 10291-10313)

EL 10291-10313

Facsimiles: EL 10291-10313

EL 10314-10316 Parliamentary Affairs

Scope and Content Note

A copy of the Poll Book of the hundred of Culteston, Staffordshire, 1747 (EL 10314). Two printed copies of parliamentary acts (EL 10315, EL 10316) were transferred to the Rare Books Department.

View descriptions of items EL 10314-10316 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (page 953) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 244 (EL 10314-10316)

EL 10314-10316

Items transferred to the Rare Books Department:

EL 10315 (35/B/58) Laws, statutes, etc. (George III) [12th Parliament, 5th session, pp. 851-855], 1766 (Call number: 194001)
EL 10316 (35/B/59) A bill intituled An act to abolish church briefs, &c. [printed, 1828] (Call number: 194005)

EL 10317-10329 Canals

Scope and Content Note

Chiefly notes and papers re the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater's parliamentary bill for a canal across the Irwell, and the clash with the previously existing Mersey and Irwell Navigation canal; notes of examinations of witnesses in the Committee of the Commons on the Duke's bill for a canal to the Hempstones, 1762 (EL 10324-10327).

View descriptions of items EL 10317-10329 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 953-955) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 244 (EL 10317-10329)

EL 10317-10329

Facsimiles: EL 10317-10329

EL 10330-10333 Foreign Affairs

Scope and Content Note

Minutes of a Privy Council meeting concerning Minorca, 1770 (EL 10333), and a "memorial" (in Spanish) attributed to Thomas Townshend concerning poverty in that island (EL 10332); a letterbook of diplomatic dispatches, chiefly from Sir Benjamin Keene, the British envoy to Portugal, addressed to the Duke of Newcastle and the Duke of Bedford, with copies of related letters and documents, 1748 (EL 10330); a letterbook of diplomatic dispatches, chiefly from Sir James Gray, British resident at Venice, to the Duke of Bedford and then to Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holdernesse, with copies of related letters and documents, 1751 (EL 10331).

View descriptions of items EL 10330-10333 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (page 955-969) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 245

EL 10330

Box 246

EL 10331

Box 247 (EL 10332-10333)

EL 10332-10333

EL 10334-10388a Waldegrave Papers

Scope and Content Note

Papers arising from the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater's trusteeship (with the 1st Duke of Sutherland and Thomas Gilbert) of George Waldegrave, 5th Earl Waldegrave, ca. 1789-1791, including: correspondence between Thomas Gilbert and Lady Waldegrave re the Trust; letters and documents concerning the 1791 Act for draining and dividing lands at Sedgmoor, Somerset; deeds and other estate papers, chiefly for Navestock, Essex (including two rentals, 1719 and 1766 [EL 10358-10359]) and lands in Somerset (including a rental for Radstoke, Somerset, 1789-1790 [EL 10386]).

View descriptions of items EL 10334-10388a in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (pages 970-973) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 247 (EL 10334-10380)

EL 10334-10380

Items transferred to the Rare Books Department:

EL 10350 An Act for draining, dividing, and inclosing, certain moors, commons, or waste lands ... in the county of Somerset. [printed, London, 1790] (Call number: 194003)
EL 10351 An act for draining and dividing King's Sedgmoor, co. Somerset, [printed, 1791] (Call number: 194002)

Items removed to Oversize Box 3: EL 10355; EL 10357

Box 248 (EL 10381-10388a)

EL 10381-10388a

Separated volumes

EL 10386 A Rental Book for Radstoke.

EL 10389-10433 Marine Square Papers

Scope and Content Note

Abstracts of title deeds, rentals, accounts, and other miscellaneous papers relating to Marine Square (Wells Close Square) in Middlesex, chiefly 1740s-1750s; includes a copy of the will of Thomas Wilkins, 1747 (EL 10393).

View descriptions of items EL 10389-10433 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (page 973) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 248 (EL 10389-10410)

EL 10389-10410

Box 249 (EL 10411-10433)

EL 10411-10433

EL 10434-10439 Vouchers

Scope and Content Note

Bills for wine, brickmaking, and farm repairs, 1760s.

View descriptions of items EL 10434-10439 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 5 (page 974) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 249 (EL 10434-10439)

EL 10434-10439

Facsimiles: EL 10434-10439

[UNCATALOGED] Privy Seals

Scope and Content Note

Approximately 1,000 Privy Seal warrants from the tenure of the office of Keeper of the Privy Seal by Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Gower and 1st Marquis of Stafford, in 1755-57 and 1784-94.

Box Privy Seal 1

Box Privy Seal 2

Box Privy Seal 3

Box Privy Seal 4

Box Privy Seal 5

Box Privy Seal 6

Box Privy Seal 7

Box Privy Seal 8

Box Privy Seal 9

Box Privy Seal 10

Box Privy Seal 11

Box Privy Seal 12

Box Privy Seal 13

Box Privy Seal 14

Box Privy Seal 15

Box Privy Seal 16

Box Privy Seal 17

Box Privy Seal 18

Part VII: Miscellany

EL 10440-11146 Cheyne Papers

Scope and Content Note

Official, legal, financial, estate, and a few family papers of the Cheyne family, and in particular of William Cheyne, Baron Cheyne and 2nd Viscount Newhaven (1657-1738), including: accounts and other papers re the duties and office of Clerk of the Pipe, 1670-1727 (EL 10440-10453, EL 10457-10623), with two of Lord Cheyne's account books and one of his deputy as such, 1703-1706 and 1711-1725 (EL 10455-10456, EL 10756); accounts, correspondence, and other papers concerning Lord Cheyne's trusteeship (with others) of his nephew Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston, ca. 1726 (EL 16025-10692, EL 10749, EL 10752), with reports from Kingston's tutors during a tour of Europe, 1726-1727 (EL 10824-10859); letters and papers relating to elections involving the Cheyne family, and in particular to the Buckinghamshire election campaign of 1713-1714 (EL 10693-10748); deeds and miscellaneous estate papers involving Cheyne lands, chiefly in Buckinghamshire and at Chelsea, Middlesex, including court rolls for Drayton Beauchamp, Bucks., with Willesthorne, Herts. (1690-1721) (EL 10799-10805), and papers re the sale of land to Chelsea Hospital, 1686-1707 (EL 10860-10876).

Also included are: a copy of the will of Sir Thomas Cheyne, 1558 (EL 11064); an account book for Francis Cheyne, sheriff of Buckinghamshire, 1589-1590 (EL 10454); a personal account book for Jane Cavendish, 1635 (EL 11143); a volume containing copies of patents, appointments, etc. re the Customs Office, ca. 1670s (EL 10624); a tax book for Acton, Middlesex, 1672 (EL 10758); an account book of the Customs for the City of London, 1677-1678 (EL 11142); an account of the Buckinghamshire Quarter Sessions for 1702 (EL 10751); and three volumes of personal or estate accounts (1669-1673, 1679, 1707).

View descriptions of items EL 10440-11146 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 6 (pages 975-980) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 249 (EL 10440)

EL 10411-10440

Box 250

EL 10441-10490

Separated volumes

EL 10454 Account Book of Francis Cheyne, esq. sheriff of Bucks., 1589-1590

EL 10455 Account Book of Lord Cheyne, Clerke of the Pipe, 1703-1709

EL 10456 Pipe Office Account Book of Francis Neale, deputy for Lord Cheyne, 1712-1720

Box 251

EL 10491-10570

Box 252

EL 10571-10630

Separated volumes

EL 10624 A book containing copies of patents, 1671, 1673, appointments to offices in the Customs, and relating to tonnage and poondage, &c.

Box 253

EL 10631-10678

Box 254

EL 10679-10740

Box 255

EL 10741-10795

Items removed to Oversize Box 3: EL 10747

Items removed to Seals Box 10: EL 10755

Separated volumes

EL 10749 Book of Minutes and proceedings of the executors of the Duke of Kingston; who were also guardians of the infant Duke, of whom Lord Cheyne was one.

EL 10750 Bois Rent Roll and Account, 1726-1731.

EL 10751 Account of the Bucks. Sessions; Lord Cheyne was keeper of the Rolls for Bucks, 1702.

EL 10756 Account Book of Lord Cheyne: Pype Office Accounts, 1703-1706.

Box 256

EL 10796-10860

Separated volumes

EL 10806 Book of tenancies in the Manor of Drayton and lands adjacent belonging to the Cheyne family, 1725.

EL 10807 Book of receipts and payments at Drayton accounted for to Lord Cheyne by John Robarts, 1706-1730.

Box 257

EL 10861-10930

Box 258

EL 10931-10970

Changed call numbers: EL 10954 removed to EL 10971

Box 259

EL 10971-11050

Box 260

EL 11051-11081

Items removed to Oversize Box 3: EL 11062

Separated volumes

EL 11059 A Particular of the woods and pastures called Merry dales and the Brand, in Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire.

EL 11063 Account Book for Repairs and personal expenses, 1707

Box 261

EL 11082-11086

Box 262

EL 11087-11095

Box 263

EL 11096-11100

Box 264

EL 11101-11106

Box 265

EL 11107-11117

Items removed to Oversize Roll: EL 11108; EL 11109

Items removed to Seals Box 11: EL 11115; EL 11116

Box 266 (EL 11118-11146)

EL 11118-11146

Separated volumes

EL 11142 Account Book of the Customs of London for 1678.

EL 11143 Account Book and Inventories - personal and household, 1635-1636.

EL 11145 Private Account Book.

EL 11147-11633 Miscellaneous Papers relating to Lands

Scope and Content Note

Chiefly deeds (many medieval), with other estate and manorial papers, legal and financial documents, and a few letters and accounts, concerning lands or interest in lands held by the Egerton and other families in Cheshire, Staffordshire (principally Dilhorne and Fossbrook), Warwickshire (principally the lead mines at Hilton and Murton), Wales (principally the manor of Ridley in Denbighshire), and elsewhere.

Also legal notes, briefs, and other papers, chiefly from the time of Lord Chancellor Egerton, relevant to legal cases involving lands (principally in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Hertfordshire).

Includes returns of concealed lands in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Devon, Flint, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Middlesex, Monmouthshire, Somerset, Suffolk, Sussex, Wiltshire, and Yorkshire, 1584-85 (EL 11628-11633); copies of the inquisitions post mortem of Hugh de Redich, 1448 (EL 11263), Sir John Bromley, 1486 (EL 11276), and Agnes Pignot, n.d. (EL 11274); copies of the wills of John Boydell, n.d. (16th century?) (EL 11287) and Thomas Blewitt, 1702 (EL 11350); and an 18th-century poll book for Seisdon Hundreds, Staffs (EL 11548).

EL 11147-11311 Cheshire Deeds

View descriptions of items EL 11147-11311 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 6 (pages 981-1002) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 266 (EL 11147-11153)

(EL 11147-11153)

Items removed to Seals Box 11: EL 11147; EL 11150; EL 11152; EL 11153

Box 267

EL 11154-11210

Items removed to Oversize Box 3: EL 11207

Items removed to Seals Box 11: EL 11156; EL 11157; EL 11160; EL 11164; EL 11166; EL 11170; EL 11172; EL 11173; EL 11175; EL 11177; EL 11178; EL 11182; EL 11184; EL 11185; EL 11186; EL 11187; EL 11188; EL 11189; EL 11190; EL 11191; EL 11193; EL 11197; EL 11202; EL 11206; EL 11208; EL 11210

Box 268

EL 11211-11250

Items removed to Oversize Box 3: EL 11226

Items removed to Seals Box 11: EL 11222; EL 11227; EL 11229; EL 11231; EL 11233; EL 11234; EL 11239; EL 11240; EL 11241; EL 11244; EL 11245; EL 11247; EL 11248; EL 11249

Box 269

EL 11251-11295

Items removed to Oversize Box 8: EL 11286; EL 11287; EL 11288; EL 11289

Items removed to Seals Box 12: EL 11253 (missing as of 12/2016); EL 11254; EL 11256; EL 11257; EL 11259; EL 11267; EL 11268; EL 11269; EL 11270; EL 11271; EL 11272; EL 11273; EL 11277; EL 11278; EL 11279; EL 11283; EL 11284; EL 11285; EL 11294; EL 11295

Box 270 (EL 11296-11311)

EL 11296-11311

EL 11312-11333 Westmoreland Papers

Scope and Content Note

These consist of copies of letters relating to the manors of Hilton and Murton and their boundaries, and a few leases and draft leases of lead mines. (The Dukes of Bridgewater had an interest in a lease of lead mines in these Manors).

Box 270 (EL 11312)

EL 11312-11315

Box 271

EL 11316-11335

Box 271 (EL 11316-11333)

EL 11316-11333

EL 11334-11343 Howe Papers

Scope and Content Note

These consist of Deeds, etc., relating to the manor of Kempley, co. Gloucester. This appears to have been in mortgage to the second Earl of Bridgewater.

Box 271 (EL 11334-11335)

EL 11334-11335

Box 272

EL 11336-11343

EL 11344-11352 Miscellaneous

Scope and Content Note

Deeds relating to properties not belonging to the Bridgewater family.

View descriptions of items EL 11344-11352 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 6 (page 1003) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 273

EL 11344-11352

Items removed to Oversize Box 6: EL 11346

EL 11353-11382a Astley Papers

View descriptions of items EL 11353-11382a in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 6 (pages 1004-1007) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 274

EL 11353-11370b

Items removed to Oversize Box 6: EL 11353

Box 275

EL 11371-11381

Box 276 (EL 11382-11382a)

EL 11382-11382a

EL 11383-11412 Welsh Papers

Includes Caervallogh (EL 11383-11384), Ridley (EL 11385-11394), and miscellaneous (11395-11412).

View descriptions of items EL 11383-11412 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 6 (pages 1008-1011) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 276 (EL 11383-11393)

EL 11383-11393

Box 277

EL 11394-11406

Box 278 (EL 11407-11412)

EL 11407-11412

EL 11413-11549 Dilhorne Papers and Staffordshire Deeds

View descriptions of items EL 11413-11549 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 6 (pages 1011-1027) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 278 (EL 11413-11434)

EL 11413-11434

Box 279

EL 11435-11454

Box 280

EL 11455-11470

Box 281

EL 11471-11496

Box 282

EL 11497-11520

Box 283

EL 11521-11540

Box 284

EL 11541-11549

EL 11550-11609 Shire Papers

Includes documents related to Berkshire (EL 11550-11551), Buckinghamshire (EL 11552-11557), Dorset (EL 11558), Essex (El 11559), Gloucestershire (EL 11560), Hertfordshire (EL 11561-11570), Kent (EL 11571), Lancashire (EL 11572-11573), Leicestershire (EL 11574-11579), Nottinghamshire (EL 11580-11582), Shropshire (EL 11583-11596), Surrey (EL 11597-11598), Warwickshire (EL 11599-11600), Wiltshire (EL 11602-11607), and Yorkshire (EL 11608-11609).

View descriptions of items EL 11550-11609 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 6 (pages 1027-1034) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 285

EL 11550-11553

Box 286

EL 11554-11563

Box 287

EL 11564-11578

Box 288

EL 11579-11596

Items removed to Oversize Box 3: EL 11588

Box 289

EL 11597-11602

Items removed to Oversize Flat Folder: EL 11600

Box 290

EL 11603-11608

Box 291 (EL 11609)

EL 11609

EL 11610-11633 Various Counties

View descriptions of items EL 11610-11633 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 6 (pages 1034-1036) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 291 (EL 11610-11633)

EL 11610-11633

Items removed to Oversize Box 6: EL 11628

Items removed to Oversize Box 7: EL 11626/1-6; EL 11627; EL 11629; EL 11631; EL 11632; EL 11633

EL 11634-11821 Literary and Miscellaneous Manuscripts

Scope and Content Note

Political, satirical, and occasional verse; two plays in heroic couplets ("Henry the Fifth" and "Mustapha") by Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery (EL 11641-11642); sermons, including a short volume titled "The Everlasting Covenant" (a sermon on Romans 10:9) (EL 11635), a volume containing a sermon on 2 Samuel 12:14 (EL 11636), a volume titled "A dutiful advisement to beware of the Puritanes by the Papistes and of the Papistes by the Puritanes, with the names of such 'auctors' and authorities as are used in this booke," (EL 11638); a treatise addressed "To the reader of Doctor Tillesleyes Animadversions one of the historye of tithes" (EL 11639); a volume containing an account of Ashridge College by Browne Willis (EL 8/G/15); a treatise on diseases of horses, translated from the Italian of Romano Merchadine by William Hunnis, titled "Closet for Ferrers" (EL 25/A/65); a three-volume "History of Arms" containing painted coat of arms with brief accounts of families or individuals of Italy and Burgundy, ?19th century (EL 132/D/7-9); a scrapbook compiled in the ?18th century containing engravings of English monarchs and other personalities, chiefly of the 17th century, with drawings of heads, portraits, statues, etc.; and a treatise on Boethius (EL 11741).

Also papers and briefs concerning 19th-century proceedings between Lord Francis Egerton (afterward 1st Earl of Ellesmere) and James Southern (also spelled James Sothern), one of the Bridgewater Trustees, and others (EL 11766-11780a); accounts of, and a few letters concerning estate affairs of George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland, 1787-97, with a note on successive earls of Sutherland (EL 11781-11805); a few miscellaneous letters and legal papers concerning various trusts of the Egerton family (EL 11806-11821).

Also an important series of "English Shrievalty Papers" (EL 11780b) including pricked Sheriff Rolls for 1631, 1632, 1633, and 1635; bills of nomination of sheriffs for 1632, 1634, and 1635, sent to the 1st Earl of Bridgewater as Lord President of the Council in the Marches of Wales; and lists of sheriffs chosen 1636 and 1637.

View descriptions of items EL 11634-11821 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 6 (pages 1036-1055) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 291 (EL 11634-11650)

EL 11634-11650

Facsimiles: EL 11635, EL 11644, EL 11648-11649

Changed call numbers: EL 11647 removed to 6857a.

Separated volumes

EL 11636 (35/B/57) A Sermon on 2 Samuel - 12, 13, 14.

EL 11637 (35/C/39) Copy of Sir Philip Sidney's a metrical version of the Psalms.

Additional Guides

View additional information and links to the digitized images for this item in the catalog record.

EL 11638 (35/B/56) "A dutiful advisement to beware of the Puritanes by the Papistes, and of the Papistes by the Puritans, with the names of such 'auctors' and authorities as are used in this book."

EL 11641 (35/C/45) "Mustapha," a tragedy in five acts, in the heroic couplet, by the Earl of Orrery.

EL 11642 (35/C/46) "Henry the Fifth," an historical play in five acts, written in the heroic couplet, by the Earl of Orrery.

Box 292

EL 11651-11730

Facsimiles: EL 11651-11729

Box 293

EL 11731-11780

Facsimiles: EL 11746-11747; EL 11758-11759; EL 11763-11765a

Missing items: EL 11765b (Diploma of Trinity College, Dublin, conferring Degree of Doctor of Laws upon the First earl of Ellesmere), EL 11766-11780 (Sothern Papers)

Items transferred to the Rare Books Department: EL 11756 (34/A/30) Three Engravings by Bartolozzi of a portrait of John Egerton Bishop of Durham, by Gaussett.

Items removed to Oversize Box 3: EL 11750-11755 (this group of documents was disbound in 1970)

Separated volumes

EL 11757 (1-36) (34/A/31) A volume containing Engravings:- (most of these engravings appear to have been cut out of books).

Box 294

EL 11780a [bundle IV only]

Box 295

EL 11780b-11808

Facsimiles: EL 11781

Items removed to Oversize Box 6: EL 11780b/1; EL 11780b/2

Box 296 (EL 11809-11821)

EL 11809-11821

Separated volumes

EL 3/I/8 Book of English Nobility with coloured coats of arms.

Box 304

EL 8/G/15 [FACSIMILE] Account of (?Ashridge College) by Browne Willis [with handwritten title page: "Willis Browne. Account of Brackley"].

EL 8/H/13 Legal Matters.

EL 20/E/14 Book of Heraldry.

EL 25/A/65 Closet for Ferrers (on the Diseases of Horses) by Romano Merchadine.

EL 132/D/7 History of Arms: Italy Vol. I.

EL 132/D/8 History of Arms: Italy Vol. II.

EL 132/D/9 History of Arms: Burgundy &c.

EL 11822-12047 Wardley Hall Papers

Scope and Content Note

Miscellaneous papers, chiefly financial, legal, and manorial, of the Downes and Sherington families and their circle, including: two commonplace books and an account book of John Downes, ca. 1630 and n.d. (EL 11823-11825); account book of Roger Downes, 1605-1636 (EL 11827) and Ellen Worsley, 1603-1630 (EL 11827); 17th-century deeds involving Roger Downes and others of his family for lands in Lancashire; bills, answers, briefs, petitions, letters, and other supplementary legal papers for lawsuits in the Duchy of Lancaster Court and in Star Chamber between Thurstan Tildisley and Gilbert Sherington over lands in Wardley and elsewhere, 1560s-1590s, and for other related suits involving the Sherington and Tildisley families.

Also includes: a book of Law Reports, 40-41 Elizabeth (EL 12006); a list of Lancashire gentlemen who compounded for knighthood, 1632 (EL 12021); a series of receipted bills and accounts for Thomas Savage, styled Viscount Colchester, for the 1680s (EL 11855); miscellaneous coal accounts, 1683 (EL 12020).

View descriptions of items EL 11822-12047 in the Ellesmere Calendar, Vol. 6 (pages 1056-1084) in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 296 (EL 11822-11825)

EL 11822-11825

Facsimiles: EL 11822-11825

Box 297

EL 11826-11833

Facsimiles: EL 11826-11933

Box 298

EL 11834-11850

Facsimiles: EL 11834-11850

Box 299

EL 11851-11876

Facsimiles: EL 11851-11876

Box 300

EL 11877-11947

Facsimiles: EL 11877-11943, EL 11945-11947

Missing items: EL 11944

Box 301

EL 11948-12010

Facsimiles: EL 11948-11985, EL 11987-12010

Missing items: EL 11986

Box 302

EL 12011-12049

Facsimiles: EL 12011-12024, EL 12026-12049

Missing items: EL 12025

Seals

Box Seals 1

Seals removed from EL 1-1698

This box contains items with seals removed from the following series:

Part I: Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, up to 1617. Domestic and Personal Papers

Appointments & grants to Lord Chancellor Ellesmere

EL 532

The Derby Papers

EL 808

Part I: Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, up to 1617. Official Papers

Crown grants, appointments, etc.

EL 1235; EL 1243; EL 1244; EL 1288; EL 1309c; EL 1310; EL 1311/08; EL 1311/12

Militia

EL 1697; EL 1698

Box Seals 2

Seals removed from EL 1766-1794

This box contains items with seals removed from the following series:

Part I: Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, up to 1617. Official Papers

Manors, etc., in Flint & Denbigh

EL 1766; EL 1768; EL 1769; EL 1770; EL 1771; EL 1772; EL 1773; EL 1774; EL 1775; EL 1776; EL 1777; EL 1779; EL 1781; EL 1782a; EL 1782b; EL 1786; EL 1787; EL 1789; EL 1790; EL 1792; EL 1793; EL 1794

Box Seals 3

Seals removed from EL 1796-1845

This box contains items with seals removed from the following series:

Part I: Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, up to 1617. Official Papers

Manors, etc., in Flint & Denbigh

EL 1796; EL 1797; EL 1798; EL 1799; EL 1800; EL 1801; EL 1802; EL 1804; EL 1805; EL 1805a; EL 1806; EL 1810; EL 1813; EL 1816; EL 1817; EL 1819; EL 1820; EL 1823; EL 1824; EL 1825; EL 1827; EL 1836; EL 1840; EL 1843; EL 1844; EL 1845

Box Seals 4

Seals removed from EL 1846-2485

This box contains items with seals removed from the following series:

Part I: Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, up to 1617. Official Papers

Manors, etc., in Flint & Denbigh

EL 1846; EL 1847; EL 1848; EL 1849; EL 1850; EL 1851; EL 1851a; EL 1851b; EL 1852

Recusants

EL 2081; EL 2159; EL 2161; EL 2164; EL 2166; EL 2167; EL 2168; EL 2169

Subsidies & Taxation

EL 2484; EL 2485

Box Seals 5

Seals removed from EL 2487-6400

This box contains items with seals removed from the following series:

Part I: Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, up to 1617. Official Papers:

Subsidies & Taxation

EL 2487; EL 2489; EL 2490; EL 2491; EL 2493

Parliamentary Affairs

EL 2564

Official matters in law courts

EL 2941

Papers re legal proceedings

EL 5870

Part II: John, first Earl of Bridgewater, 1617-1646. Domestic and Personal Papers:

Letters

EL 6399; EL 6399a; EL 6400

Box Seals 6

Seals removed from EL 6401-7716

Part II: John, first Earl of Bridgewater, 1617-1646. Domestic and Personal Papers:

Letters

EL 6401; EL 6402; EL 6403; EL 6404; EL 6405; EL 6406a; EL 6501; EL 6620

Deeds

EL 6696; EL 6698; EL 6701; EL 6701a; EL 6792; EL 6814; EL 6815; EL 6821; EL 6823; EL 6830a

Part II: John, first Earl of Bridgewater, 1617-1646. Official Papers:

Charles I

EL 7716

Box Seals 7

Seals removed from EL 7948a-8221

This box contains items with seals removed from the following series:

Part II: John, first Earl of Bridgewater, 1617-1646. Official Papers:

Re legal proceedings

EL 7948a; EL 7948b

Part III: John, second Earl of Bridgewater, 1649-1686. Domestic and Personal Papers:

Letters

EL 8014; EL 8016; EL 8016a; EL 8027b; EL 8034; EL 8082

Deeds

EL 8190; EL 8191; EL 81921/2; EL 8194; EL 8214; EL 8214a; EL 8221

Box Seals 8

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This box contains items with seals removed from the following series:

Part III: John, second Earl of Bridgewater, 1649-1686. Domestic and Personal Papers:

Deeds

EL 8223; EL 8229; EL 8230; EL 8236a; EL 8236c; EL 8236d; EL 8236e; EL 8236g; EL 8236h; EL 8236i; EL 8236j; EL 8236; EL 8237; EL 8238; EL 8239; EL 8240; EL 8243a

Box Seals 9

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Part III: John, second Earl of Bridgewater, 1649-1686. Domestic and Personal Papers:

Deeds

EL 8254; EL 8257; EL 8258; EL 8270a; EL 8270c; EL 8270d; EL 8270e; EL 8270g; EL 8270h; EL 8270i; EL 8270j; EL 8270k

Part III: John, second Earl of Bridgewater, 1649-1686. Official:

Militia

EL 8528

Miscellaneous

EL 8575

Box Seals 10

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This box contains items with seals removed from the following series:

Part IV: John, third Earl of Bridgewater, 1686-1701. Personal Papers:

Letters

EL 8606; EL 8607; EL 8627; EL 8933; EL 8934; EL 8935; EL 8936; EL 8938; EL 8940

Part IV: John, third Earl of Bridgewater, 1686-1701. Official Papers:

Militia

EL 9440

Part V: Scrope, 4th Earl and 1st Duke of Bridgewater, 1701-1745. Personal Papers:

EL 9987; EL 9988; EL 10003; EL 10004

Part VII: Miscellany

Cheyne Papers

EL 10755

Box Seals 11

Seals removed from EL 11115-11249

This box contains items with seals removed from the following series:

Part VII: Miscellany:

Cheyne Papers

EL 11115; EL 11116

Part VII: Miscellany:

Papers related to land. Cheshire deeds:

EL 11147; EL 11150; EL 11152; EL 11153; EL 11156; EL 11157; EL 11160; EL 11164; EL 11166; EL 11170; EL 11172; EL 11173; EL 11175; EL 11177; EL 11178; EL 11182; EL 11184; EL 11185; EL 11186; EL 11187; EL 11188; EL 11189; EL 11190; EL 11191; EL 11193; EL 11197; EL 11202; EL 11206; EL 11208; EL 11210; EL 11222; EL 11227; EL 11229; EL 11231; EL 11233; EL 11234; EL 11239; EL 11240; EL 11241; EL 11244; EL 11245; EL 11247; EL 11248; EL 11249

Box Seals 12

Seals removed from EL 11253-11295

This box contains items with seals removed from the following series:

Part VII: Miscellany:

Papers related to land. Cheshire deeds:

EL 11253 (missing as of 12/2016); EL 11254; EL 11256; EL 11257; EL 11259; EL 11267; EL 11268; EL 11269; EL 11270; EL 11271; EL 11272; EL 11273; EL 11277; EL 11278; EL 11279; EL 11283; EL 11284; EL 11285; EL 11294; EL 11295

Oversize Items

Box OV 1

Oversize flat items: EL 32; EL 44; EL 49; EL 144; EL 216; EL 223; EL 233; EL 253; EL 410; EL 423-426; EL 428-430; EL 468; EL 478; EL 487; EL 512; EL 520; EL 558; EL 577; EL 595; EL 635m; EL 686; EL 915; EL 937; EL 955; EL 1046; EL 1184; EL 1255

Box OV 2

Oversize flat items: EL 1262; EL 1265; EL 1267; EL 1295; EL 1309b; EL 1311/06; EL 1578; EL 1589f2; EL 1767; EL 1778; EL 1782h; EL 1853; EL 1854; EL 1995; EL 2726; EL 5811; EL 5815-5817; EL 5976; EL 6040; EL 6048; EL 6098; EL 6241

Box OV 3

Oversize flat items: EL 1264b; EL 6650a; EL 6657; EL 6745a; EL 7416; EL 8975; EL 9057; EL 10355; EL 10357; EL 10747; EL 11062; EL 11207; EL 11226; EL 11588; EL 11750-EL 11755

Box OV 4

Rolled oversize items: EL 545; EL 941; EL 1309a; EL 1311/18; EL 1326; EL 1351a; EL 1589a-m; EL 1589o; EL 1589q

Box OV 5

Rolled oversize items: EL 1589n, 1589p, 1589r-w; EL 1915; EL 2495; EL 2496a; EL 2502; EL 6365a; EL 6371; EL 6643; EL 6662

Box OV 6

Rolled oversize items: EL 6748/100-6748/107; EL 6748/109; EL 6748/112; EL 6748/114; EL 6748/115; EL 6748/117-120; EL 6748/137; EL 6748/138; EL 6753; EL 7459; EL 8726; EL 11346; EL 11353; EL 11628; EL 11780b/1; EL 11780b/2

Box OV 7

Rolled oversize items: EL 1260; EL 1264c; EL 1553; EL 1559; EL 1576; EL 1579; EL 1617; EL 2499; EL 11626/1-6; EL 11627; EL 11629; EL 11631; EL 11632; EL 11633

Box OV 8

Extra-large oversize items: EL 2492; EL 2494; EL 2496b; EL 11286; EL 11287; EL 11288; EL 11289

Box OV Roll

Oversize items: EL 11108-11109

Folder Map Files

Oversize folders: EL 593; EL 1351; EL 1530; EL 1531; EL 1535; EL 6661; EL 11600

7 items are housed in oversize flat map drawers due to their size and fragility.

EL 593 Conveyance from Richard Fletcher of Moryley, gent., to John Egerton of Lincoln's Inn, of part of a garden in Bridge Street in the city of Chester. 1602 March 10

EL 1351 Schedule of the concealed lands. 1588

Physical Description: 10 membranes

EL 1530 Particulars of possessions of dissolved monasteries, -the late Earl of Leicester, &c.- being sold for the Crown. 1589-1590

Physical Description: 16 skins

EL 1531 Particulars of crown lands in Leicestershire and Yorkshire. 1585 February.

Physical Description: 6 skins

EL 1535 Particulars of lands of dissolved monasteries, & attainted persons sold by the Crown. 1589-1590

Physical Description: 18 skins

EL 6661 Rolls of Fines and amerciaments assessed at the manor courts of Shuffnall and Idshall. 1632-1633

EL 11600 Sale from Lord Chancellor Ellesmere to Thomas Dilke of Coleshill, of the castle, manor and park of Maxstock. 1599 June

EL n/a Box of bindings [Label: Bindings only from blue leather/gilt 19th c. volumes into which the mss. were once bound; saved from vols. 1-8 only as sample.]

Box 303

Separated manuscripts (miscellaneous)

These manuscript items were previously laid into various printed volumes in the collection.

EL 3/G/8a Ecclesiastical Affairs Commissioners Report 1688 August 18

EL 3/G/8b The Clericall Caball.

EL 3/G/8c Upon Transubstantiation

EL 3/G/30a Hastings family, Bourchier family, and Wriothesley family genealogies.

EL 3/G/30b Genealogy of the Brudenell family. 1627 June 26.

EL 3/G/30c Genealogy of the Hastings family from the origin to the 17th Century [in French]. [16--]

EL 3/G/30d Genealogy of the Hastings family.

EL 3/G/30e Letter from Spencer. Althrop. 1628 August 29

EL 3/G/30f Letter from Francis Fane, 1st Baron Burghersh and 1st Baron Westmorland to Abraham Darcie. Apethorpe. 1627 June 23.

EL 3/G/30g Letter from Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon to Abraham Darcie. Dunnington. 1627 April 4.

EL 52/J/9 Receipt signed by Nathan Dane, Commissioner. 1782 July 30.

EL 53/J/7 Extracts concerning the law in Latin (handwriting of Lord Chancellor Ellesmere). [Late 16th or early 17th century]

EL 16/E/5 Extracts from Yearbook for Henry VI.

Box 304

Separated facsimiles

Note

These items are also listed above in their corresponding series.

EL 8/G/15 [FACSIMILE] Account of (?Ashridge College) by Browne Willis [with handwritten title page: "Willis Browne. Account of Brackley"].

EL 20/E/16 [FACSIMILE] French translation of the life of Alexander Severus of Aelius Lampridius by "J. Brackleus" (John Egerton, afterward 2nd Earl of Bridgewater).

EL 22/F/39 [FACSIMILE] Godly Meditations upon the Most Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper &c. MS By Christopher Sutton. 1632, 1686-1701

EL 28/B/1 [FACSIMILE] Account book with entries for Lady Gower and Lady Cheyne. 1718-1719

EL 34/A/6 [FACSIMILE] Les Instructions du Cheualier Gvaltier Raleigh a son Fils et a la Posterité [a copy by the 2nd Earl of Bridgewater of Sir Walter Ralegh's advice to his son].

EL 34/B/14 [Facsimile] "A Maske Represented before the right Hoble the Earle of Bridgewater Lord President of Wales and the hoble the Countesse of Bridgewater At Ludlow Castle the 29th of September 1634. The chiefe persons in the reprsentacon were - The Lord Brackley, The Lady Alice Egerton, Mr Thomas Egerton, Author Jo: Milton" [a copy of the masque "Comus" by John Milton]. 1634

EL 34/B/18 [FACSIMILE] "A Collection of all those places of the Holy Scriptures which may be found in more bookes of the Holy Bible then one" [in the hand of the 2nd Earl of Bridgewater].

EL 35/B/62 [FACSIMILE] "The Vision" (a poetical description of Ashridge) by Miss Marie Burhope, daughter of the Vicar of Ashridge.