the civil and domestic, and was much more extensive than it hath been since the constitution of many offices for the execution of part of its duty, for it was one of the royal treasuries for the receipt of the revenues of the Crown. The Society has printed and published this valuable Record.

A folio Manuscript, on vellum, similar to the above, containing the Wardrobe Account of the tenth year of King Edward the Second.

A folio Manuscript, similar to the above, containing the Wardrobe Account of the eleventh year of King Edward the Second, on vellum.

Another Folio Manuscript, on vellum, similar to the above, containing the Wardrobe Account of the 18th year of King Edward II.

A Manuscript, on vellum, in quarto, in curious old binding, with a border of red velvet, being the Domesday Book for the City of Winchester, made in the reign of King Henry I, dated A. D. 1148.

A small folio Manuscript, on vellum, being an old Register of Peterborough Abbey: the entries in hand writing of different dates. It was presented to the Society by the late Earl of Exeter.

A thin folio Manuscript, presented by George Allan, Esq. intituled, "The Ordinances for the Government and ordering of the household of King James the First," written on vellum; the King's signature occurs in several pages. A transcript of this has been printed by the Society in the collection of Royal Establishments.

A large Manuscript, in folio, on paper, with the following title, on vellum, at the beginning; "1553, A Booke of Fees and Offices; primo die Augusti, Anno primi Regine Marie." This may be called the Royal Establishment for that year.

Also, a thin folio Manuscript, with a covering of vellum,

intituled on the back, "The Names of the Tenants that pay Castle Ward Rent to Dover Castle." Date, the second of August, in the first year of King Edward IV. This contains collections of other Miscellaneous Records respecting the County of Kent.

There are also in the said Library, authentic Manu. script copies of original Records, of which the following is a List.

A large thick folio Manuscript, on Paper, being an "Inventory of the Juelles, Plate, Stuff, Ordenance, Munition, i.c. Ammunition, and Military Stores in the several Royal Castles and Fortresses), and other goods belonging to our late Sovereigne Lord King Henry the Eight, &c. of the King's Ships in the charge of the officers of the Admiralty, with the names of the several Ships, Gallies, Pinnaces, and Row Barges, with their Tonnage and number of Soldiers, Mariners, and Guns, as also the places where they nowe be; of Armories in the charge of Sir Thomas Darcye, Knt. Master of the same; of the Stable, in the charge of Sir Anthony Browne, Knt. Master of the same, of the Vestry, in the charge of Ralph Tapping, Serjeaunt of the same; of the Revelles, in the charge of Thomas Cawarden Knt. Master of the same; and of the Tentes, in the charge of the same, &c. taken by virtue of a commission from King Edward VI, bearing date the 14th of September, in the first year of his reign.". The above is a transcript from the original.

A thin Manuscript, in quarto, intituled " A Declaration of the State of the Revenues of Fraunce, Normandie, and the Countie of Mayn, Hare Court, and Dreux, in the tyme of John, Duke of Bedford, Regent of France, from the first daye of October, 1427, untill the last daye of September, 1428."-A transcript from the original.

A folio Manuscript, written on paper, intituled on the cover," The Boke of Dayly Percellis, begonne the 20 Yeare

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of Kyng Edward the Fourth," &c. as also," Rekenyngs for the goying into Skotland."

A folio Manuscript, intituled on the back, "M. S. Collect. Brevium, Temp. Hen. ****" The hand writing not older than the time of Henry the Sixth.

A folio volume of Manuscripts and Blazonings, found in a joint collection of the late Sir Nathan Wrighte, Lord Keeper, and Sir Joseph Jekyll, Master of the Rolls, containing a transcript of the Liber Niger Book in the Exchequer, printed by Hearne ; presented by Joseph Jekyll, Esq. M. P. &c.

A small folio Manuscript, written on vellum, intituled on the back," Anno Decimo Quarto Regis Caroli. A Booke of all Compositions, from each several Countie, for the yearely expense of his Majesty's Household."

A thin folio Manuscript, being a Book of Knights' Fees for the county of Kent; a transcript from the original Book in the Exchequer.

A thick folio Manuscript, intituled and containing Proclamations about Coin, from 1528 to 1600."

A thin folio Manuscript, intituled " Extract of the Council Books, concerning Money and Coinage, from the time of the Restoration of Car. II. ending July 9th, 1730."

In one of eleven large folio volumes, of Royal Proclamations, &c. are many very interesting Manuscript Proclamations, concerning Coin and Coinage, in the time of King Henry VIII.

The above Records are lodged in a room in part of the front of Somerset House, and are in general in a good state of preservation; they are placed on shelves, guarded by wired folding doors, and are blended promiscuously, at present, with the other Manuscripts of the Society. There is only a general Catalogue of the printed Books and Manuscripts of the Society, and in many of the Manuscripts there are tables of contents at the beginning.

An Account of the Records, Registers, and other Documents, preserved in the Manuscript Library at Lambeth. By JOHN TOPHAM, Esq. Manuscript Librarian to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.

(From the Appendix to the Report on the Public Records of Great Britain.] I. THE REGISTERS OF THE ARCHBISHOPS Of CANTERBURY. ·

These Registers contain entries of acts relating to the temporalties of the Archbishops; Homages; Popes' Bulls; Letters to and from Popes, Cardinals, Kings, Princes, and others: Commissions and Proxies, Dispensations, Appeals; Marriages; Divorces: Institutions; and Collations to Benefices; Appropriations of Livings; Regulations in Religious Houses; Inrolment and Registration of Wills and Testaments; Processes; Sentences; and a multitude of other judicial acts and instruments of various kinds, passing under the cognizance of the Archbishops throughout the whole province of Canterbury.

The Registers of the See of Canterbury do not go so far back as those of some other Sees. Archbishop Kilwardby (who became Archbishop in the year 1272, and resigned this See, in 1279, on being made Cardinal and Bishop of Portua) is said to have carried the Registers of this See with him to Rome. The oldest Register, now deposited in the Library at Lambeth, is that of Archbishop Peckham, which begins in June, 1279.

The following is a List of the Registers now deposited in the Manuscript Library at Lambeth, with the names by which they are called, and the time of their respective continuance, viz.