Notes and extracts from placita in parliament from the reign of King Edward I.

12 folios: fo. 1: title-page; fo. 2: declaration by the king that the Cortes has granted him permission to sell rights in the cattle tax; fo. 3: conveyance to de la Fuente of income from cattle tax in the town of Añover, province of Toledo, to take effect from 1 January 1644; fo. 9v: signatures of witnesses.

Begins 'By the statute of anno 2 Eliz. 3 ...'; the pleadings and reports are all from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

Pleadings and speeches of the Lords upon giving sentence in the Star Chamber on Bonham Norton for slandering the Lord Keeper (Lord Coventry).

The volume includes (fo. 135v) 'The True Briton's Answer to a farmer's letter, April 8th 1752', and (fo. 261) a treatise on communion. Recipes and accounts are also scattered throughout.

Details of proceedings in the Spiritual Court, before Dr George Oxenden, against Thomas Hastings, for adultery.

Proceedings under a commission of bankruptcy awarded against Thomas Neave of Norwich, hosier, 1666. Also proceedings against Mathew Attmur, of Hockham in Norfolk, grocer, 1667.

The case is between John Owsley and Robert Wilcox, relative to the will of Mary Owsley.

A reading on the statute 23 Henry VIII cap. 5, and other laws concerning sewers. At the end is a copy of a letter from Sir John Popham to Sir Thomas Lambert, about the draining of the Isle of Ely, dated Littlecott, 7th [no month or year]. The reading may be Popham's, who served as chief justice of the King's Bench.

Readings and commentaries (called theoriæ and postillæ) on various portions of the canon law, by Martinus Navarrus.

Readings on various statutes delivered in the Middle Temple by Weston, Bowyer, Savyle, Ross, Johnson, Sherley, Harris, Agmundesham, Gibbes, Williams, Ewens, Marston and Phillips, all of whom, according to Dugdale, were the readers appointed between 1585 and 1596, which years correspond with the dates given in the manuscript. The pages of the last reading, according to a later note, are misplaced: 'This reading is continued at f. 87, and concluded at f. 78'.

86 folios: (fo. i) index; (fos iv-v) index to 'instruments written in the other lytell buike' (scored through); (fos viii-ix) instrument dated 1573 (scored through). Inside the front cover: 'Liber secundus'.

Contains entries from Michaelmas term 1631 to Hilary term 1633.

(1) Regulations and decrees of the court of wards and liveries; (2) 'A brief discourse of the descents and genealogies of all the kings and princes of England from the conquest' to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; (3) 'Questions and answeres tending to discover the impedyments that doe hinder and decay the making and the profitts of the queen's majestie's liveries'.

'Repertorium sive Elenchus Parliamentorum de Annis Edw. III., Ric. II., Hen. IV., Hen. V., Hen. VI., et Edw. IV.' An alphabetical index of the subjects of the statutes passed in those reigns. On the back of the title-page is a list of the sovereigns of England from Henry III. to Charles I.

'The case in chancery of conveying a park [Ridmarley] and mill in Worcestershire, by Bishop Ridley, Bishop of London'; the title is in a more recent hand than the report, which has been headed by the scribe 'Shepside pl. Mountjoye Serle and Stone d[eff.]. A parke called Ridmerly and a mill joyning thereto'. On three waste leaves at the end are a lawyer's bill, some notes relating to the above case, and other memoranda.

There is a hiatus from Hil. 3 to Hil. 4, and from Easter 6 to Hil. 6, James I.

The book is imperfect in some places, and the several Terms have not been properly arranged

Reports of Cases argued in the Court of Session in Scotland from February, 1630, to July, 1642. At the end, written with the book reversed, are, a Case and Opinion on a question of marriage, an Act of the Generall Assemblie at Montrose in 1595, two Acts of the same at Edinburgh, in 1650 and [?], and an Order in Council for the administration of justice in 1655.

The arguments are sometimes given at considerable length, with the names of the arguers. On ff. 145-148, 'Lectura touchant Coppiholds.'

Reports of cases decided in the King's Bench from Easter Term, 1 Charles I., to Hilary Term, 3 Charles I., with the Case of the King v. Eaton in the Duchy of Lancaster Chamber, Hil. 2 Charles I., and the Cases of Sir Edmund Bacon, and Whitmore v. Porter, in the Exchequer, Mich. 3 Charles I., at considerable length.

Brief reports of cases in King's Bench, Mich. 1663 to Mich. 1664, probably taken at first hand, including a few 'Chequer Chamber' cases. There is also an alphabetical table of the names of cases.