found they were really very good and just So after this he slackned much of his former Strictness of refusing to meddle in Causes upon the ill Circumstances that appear'd in them at first In his pleading he abhorred those too common faults of misreciting Evidences quoting Presidents or Books falsly or asserting things Confidently by which ignorant Juries or weak Judges are too often wrought on He Pleaded with the same sincerity that he used in the other parts of his Life and used to say it was as great a dishonour as a Man was capable of that for a little Money he was to be hired to say or do otherwise than as he thought All this he ascribed to the unmeasurable desire of heaping up Wealth which corrupted the Souls of some that seem'd to be otherwise born and made for great things When he was a Practitioner differences were often referr'd to him which he setled but would accept of no reward for his Pains though offered by both Parties together after the agreement was made for he said in those cases he was made a Iudge and a Iudge ought to take no Money If they told him he lost much of his time in considering their Business and so ought to be acknowledged for it his answer was as one that heard it told me Can I spend my Time better than to make People friends must I have no time allowed me to do good in He was naturally a quick man yet by much Practise on himself he subdued that to such a degree that he would never run suddenly into any Conclusion concerning any Matter of Importance Festina lente was his beloved Motto which he ordered to be Ingraven on the Head of his Staff and was often heard say that he had observed many witty Men run into great Errours because they did not give themselves time to think but the heat of Imagination making some Notions appear in good Coolours to them they without staying till that cooled were violently led by the Impulses it made on them whereas calm and slow Men who pass for dull in the common estimation could search after Truth and find it out as with more deliberation so with greater certainty He laid aside the tenth penny of all he got for the Poor and took great care to be well informed of proper Objects for his Charities And after he was a Judge many of the Perquisites of his Place as his Dividend of the Rule and Box-money was sent by him to the Jayls to discharge poor Prisoners who never knew from whose hands their Releif came It is also a Custom for the Marshall of the Kings-Bench to present the Judges of that Court with a piece of Plate for a New-years-gift that for the Cheif Justice being larger than the rest This he intended to have refused but the other Judges told him it belonged to his Office and the refusing it would be a prejudice to his Successors so he was perswaded to take it but he sent word to the Marshall that instead of Plate he should bring him the value of it in Money and when he received it he immediately sent it to the Prisons for the Releif and discharge of the poor there He usually invited his poor Neighbours to Dine with him and made them sit at Table with himself And if any of them were Sick so that they could not come he would send Meat warm to them from his Table and he did not only releive the Poor in his own Parish but sent Supplies to the Neighbouring Parishes as there was occasion for it And he treated them all with the tenderness and familiarity that became one who considered they were of the same Nature with himself and were reduced to no other Necessities but such as he himself might be brought to But for common Beggars if any of these came to him as he was in his Walks when he lived in the Country he would ask such as were Capable of Working why they went about so idly If they answered it was because they could find no Work he often sent them to some Field to gather all the Stones in it and lay them on a Heap and then would pay them liberally for their Pains This being done he used to send his Carts and caused them to be carried to such places of the High-way as needed mending But when he was in Town he dealt his Charities very liberally even among the Street-Beggars and when some told him that he thereby incouraged Idleness and that most of these were notorious Cheats he used to answer that he beleived most of them were such but among them there were some that were great Objects of Charity and prest with greivous Necessities and that he had rather give his Alms to twenty who might be perhaps Rogues than that one of the other sort should perish for want of that small Releif which he gave them He loved Building much which he affected cheifly because it imployed many poor People but one thing was observed in all his Buildings that the changes he made in his Houses was always from Magnificence to Usefulness for he avoided every thing that looked like Pomp or Vanity even in the Walls of his Houses he had good Judgement in Architecture and an excellent faculty in contriving well He was a Gentle Landlord to all his Tenants and was ever ready upon any reasonable Complaints to make Abatements for he was Merciful as well as Righteous One instance of this was of a Widow that lived in London and had a small Estate near his House in the Country from which her Rents were ill Returned to her and at a Cost which she could not well bear so she bemoaned her self to him and he according to his readiness to assist all poor People told her he would order his Steward to take up her Rents and the returning them should cost her nothing But after that when there was a falling of Rents in that Country so that it was necessary to make abatements to the Tenant yet he would have it to lie on himself and made the Widow be paid her Rent as formerly Another remarkable instance of his Iustice and goodness was that when he found ill Money had been put into his hands he would never suffer it to be vented again for he thought it was no excuse for him to put false Money in other Peoples hands because some had put it in his A great heap of this he had gathered together for many had so far abused his Goodness as to mix base Money among the Fees that were given him It is like he intended to have destroyed it but some Thieves who had observed it broke into his Chamber and stole it thinking they had got a Prize which he used to tell with some pleasure imagining how they found themselves deceived when they perceived what sort of Booty they had fall'n on After he was made a Iudge he would needs pay more for every Purchase he made than it was worth
THE Life and Death OF Sir Kt. SOMETIME LORD CHIEF IUSTICE OF His Majesties Court OF KINGS BENCH Written by GILBERT BURNETT D.D. LONDON Printed for William Shrowsbery at the Bible in Duke-Lane 1681. THE PREFACE NO part of History is more instructive and delighting than the Lives of great and worthy Men The shortness of them invites many Readers and there are such little and yet remarkable passages in them too inconsiderable to be put in a general History of the Age in which they lived that all people are very desirous to know them This makes Plutarch's Lives be more generally Read than any of all the Books which the ancient Greeks or Romans Writ But the lives of Hero's and Princes are commonly filled with the account of the great things done by them which do rather belong to a general than a particular History and do rather amuse the Reader 's fancy with a splendid shew of greatness than offer him what is really so useful to himself And indeed the Lives of Princes are either Writ with so much flattery by those who intended to merit by it at their own hands or others concerned in them Or with so much spite by those who being ill used by them have revenged themselves on their Memory that there is not much to be built on them And though the ill nature of many makes what is Satyrically writ to be generally more read and believed than when the flattery is visible and course yet certainly Resentment may make the Writer corrupt the truth of History as much as Interest And since all Men have their blind sides and commit Errors he that will industriously lay these together leaving out or but slightly touching what should be set against them to ballance them may make a very good Man appear in very bad Colours So upon the whole matter there is not that reason to expect either much truth or great instruction from what is written concerning Hero's or Princes for few have been able to imitate the patterns Suetonius set the World in writing the Lives of the Roman Emperours with the same freedom that they had led them But the Lives of private Men though they seldom entertain the Reader with such a variety of passages as the other do Yet certainly they offer him things that are more imitable and do present Wisdom and Virtue to him not only in a fair Idea which is often look't on as a piece of the Invention or Fancy of the Writer but in such plain and familiar instances as do both direct him better and perswade him more And there are not such temptations to biass those who writ them so that we may generally depend more on the truth of such relations as are given in them In the age in which we live Religion and Virtue have been proposed and defended with such advantages with that great force of reason and those perswasions that they can hardly be matched in former times yet after all this there are but few much wrought on by them which perhaps flows from this among other reasons that there are not so many excellent Patterns set out as might both in a shorter and more effectual manner recommend that to the World which discourses do but coldly The wit and stile of the Writer being more considered than the argument which they handle and therefore the proposing Virtue and Religion in such a Model may perhaps operate more than the perspective of it can do and for the History of Learning nothing does so preserve and improve it as the writing the Lives of those who have been eminent in it There is no Book the ancients have left us which might have informed us more than Diogenes Laertius his Lives of the Philosophers if he had had the art of writing equal to that great Subject which he undertook for if he had given the World such an account of them as Gassendus has done of Peiresk how great a stock of knowledge might we have had which by his unskilfulness is in a great measure lost Since we must now depend only on him because we have no other or better Author that has written on that Argument For many Ages there were no Lives writ but by Monks through whose writings there runs such an incurable humour of telling incredible and inimitable passages that little in them can be believed or proposed as a pattern Sulpitius Severus and Jerom shewed too much credulity in the Lives they writ and raised Martin and Hilarion beyond what can be reasonably believed after them Socrates Theodoret Sozomen and Palladius took a pleasure to tell uncouth stories of the Monks of Thebais and Nitria and those who came after them scorned to fall short of them but raised their Saints above those of former Ages so that one would have thought that undecent way of writing could rise no higher and this humour infected even those who had otherwise a good sense of things and a just apprehension of Mankind as may appear in Matthew Paris who though he was a Writer of great Iudgement and fidelity yet he has corrupted his History with much of that Alloy But when emulation and envy rose among the several Orders or Houses then they improved in that art of making Romances instead of writing Lives to that pitch that the World became generally much scandalized with them The Franciscans and Dominicans tried who could say the most extravagant things of the Founders or other Saints of their Orders and the Benedictines who thought themselves possest of the belief of the World as well as of its wealth endeavoured all that was possible still to keep up the dignity of their Order by outlying the others all they could and whereas here or there a Miracle a Vision or Trance might have occurred in the Livâ—s of former Saints now every page was full of those wonderfull things Nor has the humour of writing in such a manner been quite laid down in this Age though more awakned and better enlightned as appears in the Life of Philip Nerius and a great many more And the Jesuits at Antwerp are now taking care to load the World with a vast and voluminous Collection of all those Lives that has already swelled to eleven Volumes in Folio in a small Print and yet being digested according to the Kalender they have yet but ended the Month of April The Life of Monsieur Renty is writ in another manner where there are so many excellent passages that he is justly to be reckoned amongst the greatest patterns that France has afforded in this age But while some have nourished Infidelity and a scorn of all sacred things by writing of those good Men in such a strain as makes not only what is so related to be disbelieved but creates a distrust of the authentical writings of our most holy faith others have fallen into another extream in writing Lives too â—ejunely swelling them up with trifling accounts of the Childhood and Education and the
the immoral and irreligious Principles and Practices that had so long vexed his Righteous Soul And therefore began a great design against Atheisme the first part of which is only Printed of the Origination of Mankind designed to prove the Creation of the World and the truth of the Mosaical History The Second part was of the Nature of the Soul and of a future State The Third part was concerning the Attributes of God both from the abstracted Idea's of him and the Light of Nature the Evidence of Providence the notions of Morality and the voice of Conscience And the Fourth part was concerning the Truth and Authority of the Scriptures with Answers to the Objections against them On writing these he spent Seven years He Wrote them with so much Consideration that one who perused the Original under his own hand which was the first draught of it told me he did not remember of any considerable Alteration perhaps not of twenty words in the whole Work The way of his Writing them only on the Evenings of the Lords Day when he was in Town and not much oftner when he was in the Country made that they are not so contracted as it is very likely he would have writ them if he had been more at leisure to have brought his thoughts into a narrower Compass and fewer words But making some Allowance for the largeness of the Stile that Volum that is Printed is generally acknowledged to be one of the perfectest pieces both of Learning and Reasoning that has been Writ on that Subject And he who read a great part of the other Volumes told me they were all of a piece with the first When he had finished this Work he sent it by an unknown hand to Bishop Wilkins to desire his Judgment of it But he that brought it would give no other Account of the Authour but that he was not a Clergy man The Bishop and his worthy Friend Dr. Tillotson read a great deal of it with much pleasure but could not imagine who could be the Author and how a Man that was Master of so much Reason and so great a variety of Knowledge should be so unknown to them that they could not find him out by those Characters which are so little Common At last Dr. Tillotson guessed it must be the Lord Cheif Baron to which the other presently agreed wondring he had been so long in finding it out So they went immediately to him and the Bishop thanking him for the Entertainment he had received from his Works he blushed extreamly not without some displeasure apprehending that the Person he had trusted had discovered him But the Bishop soon cleared that and told him he had discovered himself for the learning of that Book was so various that none but he could be the Author of it And that Bishop having a freedom in delivering his opinion of things and Persons which perhaps few ever managed both with so much plainness and Prudence told him there was nothing could be better said on these Arguments if he could bring it into a less Compass but if he had not leisure for that he thought it much better to have it come out though a little too large than that the World should be deprived of the good which it must needs do But our Iudge had never the opportunities of revising it so a little before his Death he sent the first part of it to the Press In the beginning of it he gives an Essay of his Excellent way of Methodizing things in which he was so great a Master that whatever he undertook he would presently cast into so perfect a Scheme that he could never afterwards Correct it He runs out Copiously upon the Argument of the Impossibility of an Eternal Succession of Time to shew that Time and Eternity are inconsistent one with another And that therefore all Duration that was past and defined by Time could not be from Eternity and he shews the difference between successive Eternity already past and one to come So that though the latter is possible the former is not so for all the parts of the former have actually been and therefore being defined by Time cannot be Eternal whereas the other are still future to all Eternity so that this reasoning cannot be turned to prove the possibility of Eternal Successions that have been as well as Eternal Successions that shall be This he follows with a Strength I never met with in any that Managed it before him He brings next all those Moral Arguments to prove that the World had a beginning agreeing to the Account Moses gives of it as that no History rises higher than near the time of the Deluge and that the first Foundation of Kingdoms the Invention of Arts the Beginnings of all Religions the gradual Plantation of the World and Increase of Mankind and the Consent of Nations do agree with it In managing these as he shews profound Skill both in Historical and Philosophical Learning so he gives a Noble Discovery of his great Candor and Probity that he would not Impose on the Reader with a false shew of reasoning by Arguments that he knew had Flawes in them and therefore upon every one of these he adds such Allays as in a great measure lessened and took off their force with as much Exactness of Judgment and strictness of Censure as if he had been set to Plead for the other Side And indeed Sums up the whole Evidence for Religion as impartially as ever he did in a Tryal for Life or Death to the Iury which how Equally and Judiciously he always did the whole Nation well knows After that he Examines the Ancient Opinions of the Philosophers and inlarges with a great variety of curious Reflections in answering that only Argument that has any appearance of Strength for the Casual production of Man from the origination of Insects out of putrified Matter as is commonly supposed and he concluded the Book shewing how Rational and Philosophical the Account which Moses gives of it is There is in it all a sagacity and quickness of Thought mixed with great and curious Learning that I confess I never met together in any other Book on that Subject Among other Conjectures one he gives concerning the Deluge is that he did not think the Face of the Earth and the Waters were altogether the same before the Universal Deluge and after But possibly the Face of the Earth was more even than now it is The Seas possibly more dilated and extended and not so deep as now And a little after possibly the Seas have undermined much of the appearing Continent of Earth This I the rather take notice of because it hath been since his Death made out in a most Ingenious and most Elegantly Writ Book by Mr. Burnet of Christ's Colledge in Cambridge who has given such an Essay towards the proving the possibility of an universal Deluge and from thence has Collected with great Sagacity what Paradise
If it had been but a Horse he was to Buy he would have out-bid the Price and when some represented to him that he made ill Bargains he said it became Iudges to pay more for what they bought than the true Value that so those with whom they dealt might not think they had any right to their favour by having sold such things to them at an easie rate and said it was sutable to the Reputation which a Iudge ought to preserve to make such Bargains that the World might see they were not too well used upon some secret Account In Sum his Estate did shew how little he had minded the raising a great Fortue for from a Hundred pound a Year he raised it not quite to Nine Hundred and of this a very Confiderable part came in by his share of Mr. Selden's Estate yet this considering his great Practice while a Counsellour and his constant frugal and modest way of Living was but small a Fortune In the share that fell to him by Mr. Selden's Will one memorable thing was done by him with the other Executors by which they both shewed their regard to their dead Friend and their Love of the Publick His Library was valued at some Thousands of pounds and was believed to be one of the curiousest Collections in Europe so they resolved to keep this intire for the Honour of Selden's Memory and gave it to the University of Oxford where a noble Room was added to the former Library for its Reception and all due respects have been since shewed by that Great and Learned Body to those their worthy Benefactors who not only parted so generously with this great Treasure but were a little put to it how to oblige them without crossing the Will of their dead Friend Mr. Selden had once intended to give his Library to that University and had left it so by his Will but having occasion for a Manuscript which belonged to their Library they asked of him a Bond of a Thousand pound for its Restitution this he took so ill at their hands that he struck out that part of his Will by which he had given them his Library and with some passion declared they should never have it The Executors stuck at this a little but having considered better of it came to this Resolution That they were to be the Executors of Mr. Selden's Will and not of his Passion so they made good what he had intended in cold Blood and past over what his Passion had suggested to him The parting with so many excellent Books would have been as uneasie to our Iudge as any thing of that nature could be if a pious regard to his friends Memory had not prevailed over him for he valued Books and Manuscripts above all things in the World He himself had made a great and rare Collection of Manuscripts belonging to the Law of England he was Forty years in gathering it He himself said it cost him about fifteen Hundred pounds and calls it in his Will a Treasure worth having and keeping and not fit for every Mans view These all he left to Lincoln's Inn and for the Information of those who are curious to search into such things there shall be a Catalogue of them added at the end of this Book By all these instances it does appear how much he was raised above the World or the love of it But having thus mastered things without him his next Study was to overcome his own Inclinations He was as he said himself naturally passionate I add as he said himself for that appeared by no other Evidence save that sometimes his Colour would rise a little but he so governed himself that those who lived long about him have told me they never saw him disordered with Anger though he met with some Tryals that the nature of Man is as little able to bear as any whatsoever There was one who did him a great Injury which it is not ncecssary to mention who coming afterwards to him for his Advice in the settlement of his Estate he gave it very frankly to him but would accept of no Fee for it and thereby shewed both that he could forgive as a Christian and that he had the Soul of a Gentleman in him not to take Money of one that had wronged him so heinously And when he was asked by one how he could use a Man so kindly that had wronged him so much his Answer was he thanked God he had learned to forget Injuries And besides the great temper he expressed in all his publick Imployments in his Family he was a very gentle Master He was tender of all his Servants he never turned any away except they were so faulty that there was no hope of reclaiming them When any of them had been long out of the way or had neglected any part of their Duty he would not see them at their first coming home and sometimes not till the next day least when his displeasure was quick upon him he might have chid them indecently and when he did reprove them he did it with that sweetness and gravity that it appeared he was more concerned for their having done a fault than for the Offence given by it to himself But if they became immoral or unruly then he turned them away for he said he that by his place ought to punish disorders in other People must by no means suffer them in his own House He advanced his Servants according to the time they had been about him and would never give occasion to Envy among them by raising the younger Clerks above those who had been longer with him He treated them all with great affection rather as a Friend than a Master giving them often good Advice and Instruction He made those who had good places under him give some of their profits to the other Servants who had nothing but their Wages When he made his Will he left Legacies to every one of them But he expressed a more particular kindness for one of them Robert Gibbon of the middle Temple Esq In whom he had that Confidence that he left him one of his Executors I the rather mention him because of his noble Gratitude to his worthy Benefactor and Master for he has been so careful to preserve his Memory that as he set those on me at whose desire I undertook to write his Life So he has procured for me a great part of those Memorials and Informations out of which I have Composed it The Iudge was of a most tender and compassionate Nature this did eminently appear in his Trying and giving Sentence upon Criminals in which he was strictly careful that not a circumstance should be neglected which might any way clear the Fact He behaved himself with that regard to the Prisoners which became both the gravity of a Iudge and the pity that was due to Men whose Lives lay at Stake so that nothing of jearing or unreasonable severity ever fell from him He
Iurisdiction of the House of Lords Quarto 19. Of the Iurisdiction of the Admiralty 20. Touching Ports and Customs Fol. 21. Of the Right of the Sea and the Armes thereof and Customs Fol. 22. Concerning the advancement of Trade Quarto 23. Of Sheriffs Accounts Fol. 24. Copies of Evidences Fol. 25. Mr. Seldens Discourses Octa. 16. Excerpta ex Schedis Seldenianis 27. Iournal of the 18 and 21 Iacobi Regis Quarto 28. Great Common place Book of Reports or Cases in the Law in Law French Fol. In Bundles ON Quod tibi fieri c. Matth. 7.12 Touching Punishments in relation to the Socinian Controversy Policies of the Church of Rome Concerning the Laws of England Of the amendment of the Laws of England Touching Provision for the Poor Upon Mr. Hobbs his Manuscript Concerning the time of the abolition of the Iewish Laws In Quarto QUod sit Deus Of the State and Condition of the Soul and Body after Death Notes concerning matters of Law To these I shall add the Catalogue of the Manuscripts which he left to the Honourable Society of Lincolns-Inn with that part of his Will that concerns them ITem As a testimony of my Honour and Respect to the Society of Lincolns-Inn where I had the greatest part of my Education I give and bequeath to that Honorable Society the several Manuscript Books contained in a Schedule annexed to my Will They are a Treasure worth having and keeping which I have been near Forty years in gathering with very great Industry and Expence My desire is that they bekept safe and all together in remembrance of me They were fit to be bound in Leather and Chained and kept in Archives I desire they may not be lent out or disposed of Only if I happen hereafter to have any of my Posterity of that Society that desires to transcribe any Book and give very good caution to restore it again in a prefixed time such as the Benchers of that Society in Councill shall approve of then and not otherwise only one Book at one time may be lent out to them by the Society so that there be no more but one Book of those Books abroad out of the Library at one time They are a Treasure that are not fit for every Mans View nor is every Man capable of making use of them Only I would have nothing of these Books Printed but intirely preserved together for the use of the industrious learned Members of that Society A Catalogue of the Books given by him to Lincolns-Inn according to the Schedule annexed to his Will PLacita de tempore Regis Iohannis 1 vol. stitcht Placita coram Rege E. 1. two vol. Placita coram Rege E. 2 one vol. Placita coram Rege E. 3 three vol. Placita coram Rege R. 2 one vol. Placita coram Rege H. 4. H. 5. one vol. Placita de Banco E. 1. ab anno 1 ad annum 21. one vol. Transcripts of many Pleas coram Rege de Banco E. 1. one vol. The Pleas in the Exchequer stiled Communia from 1 E. 3. to 46 E. 3 five vol. Close Rolls of King Iohn verbatim of the most material things one vol. The principal matters in the Close and Patent Rolls of H. 3. transcribed verbatim from 9 H. 3. to 56 H. 3. five vol. velome marked K. L. The principal matters in the Close and Patent Rolls E. 1. with several Copies and abstracts of Records one vol. marked F. A long Book of abstracts of Records by me Close and Patent Rolls from 1 to 10 E. 3 and other Records of the time of H. 3 one vol. marked W. Close Rolls of 15 E. 3. with other Records one vol marked N. Close Rolls from 17 to 38 E. 3. two vol. Close and Patent Rolls from 40 E. 3. to 50 E. 3. one vol. marked B. Close Rolls of E. 2. with other Records one vol. R. Close and Patent Rolls and Charter Rolls in the time of King Iohn for the Clergy one vol. A great Volum of Records of several natures G. The Leagues of the Kings of England tempore E. 1. E. 2. E. 3. one vol. A Book of ancient Leagues and military provisions one vol. The Reports of Iters of Derby Nottingham and Bedford transcribed one vol. Itinera Forest de Pickering Lancaster transcript ex Originali one vol. An ancient Reading very large upon Charta de Foresta and of the Forest Laws The Transcript of the Iteâ— Foresta de Dean 1 vol. Quo Warranto and Liberties of the County of Glocester with the Pleas of the Chace of Kingswood one vol. Transcript of the Black Book of the Admiralty Laws of the Army Impositions and several Honours one vol. Records of Patents Inquisitions c. of the County of Leicester one vol. Muster and Military provisions of all sorts extracted from the Records one vol. Gervasius Tilburiensis or the Black Book of the Exchequer one vol. The Kings Title to the pre-emption of Tin a thin vol. Calender of the Records in the Tower a small vol. A Miscellany of divers Records Orders and other things of various natures marked E. 1 vol. Another of the like nature in leather Cover 1 vol. A Book of divers Records and Things relating to the Chancery one vol. Titles of Honour and Pedigrees especially touching Clifford one vol. History of the Marches of Wales collected by me 1 vol. Certain Collections touching Titles of Honour one vol. Copies of several Records touching Premunire 1 vol. Extract of Commissions tempore H. 7. H. 8. R. and the proceedings in the Court Military between Ray and Ramsey one vol. Petitions in Parliament tempore E. 1. E. 2. E. 3. H. 4. three vol. Summons of Parliament from 49 H. 3. to 22 E. 4. in three vol. The Parliament Rolls from the beginning of E. 1. to the end of R. 3. in 19 Volums viz. one of E. 1. one of E. 2. with the Ordinations two of E. 3. three of R. 2. two of H. 4. two of H. 5. four of H. 6. three of E. 4. one of R. 3. all Transcribed at large Mr. Elsings Book touching proceedings in Parliament 1 vol. Noye's Collection touching the Kings Supplies 1 vol stitcht A Book of various Collections out of Records and Register of Canterbury and Claymes at the Coronation of R. 2. one vol. Transcript of Bishop Ushers Notes principally concerning Chronology three large vol. A Transcript out of Dooms-day-Book of Glocester-shire and Hereford-shire and of some Pipe-Rolls and old Accompts of the Customs one vol. Extracts and Collections out of Records touching Titles of Honour one vol. Extracts of Pleas Patents and Close-Rolls tempore H. 3. E. 1. E. 2. E. 3. and some old Antiquities of England one vol. Collections and Memorials of many Records and Antiquities one vol. Seldeni Calender of Charters and Records in the Tower touching Gloucester-shire Collection of Notes and Records of various natures marked M. one vol. Seldeni Transcript of the Iters of London Kent Cornwall one vol. Extracts out