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The following articles are printed in pursuance of the address of the house of commons, and by command of his majesty, under the inspection of the rt. hon. the commissioners of public records.

I. REPORTS from the select committee appointed to inquire into the state of the public records of the kingdom, with plates, large folio.

This report is particularly interesting to those who have occasion to search after the records of the kingdom, and contains much im portant and truly valuable information. Ordered to be printed by the house of commons 1800, by the house of lords 1801.

II. COMMISSION and abstract of annual reports of the commissioners on the public records of the kingdom, with a statement of the measures executed, or in progress under the authority thereof; ordered by the house of lords to be printed, 16th April 1807.

III. REPORT of searchers for originals, records, and manuscript copies of charters and statutes, in England and Ireland,

with observations on the public records of Ireland. By order of the commissioners upon the public records of the kingdom.

Ordered by the house of lords to be printed, 30th June 1807, with an appendix of charters, statutes, and documents. See C. xxiv. IV. PROCEEDINGS of the commissioners for the arrangement and preservation of the public records of the kingdom, 1806, 1808, so far as relates to Scotland; ordered by the house of, lords to be printed, 11 Ap. 1808.

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VI. CALENDARIUM Rotulorum Patentium in Turri Londinensi, from the reign of K. John to Edw. IV. inclusive, with two tables of names of persons and places, large folio, 1802.

The patent rolls in the Tower of London are described by Thomas Astle, esq. keeper of the records, as containing grants of offices and lands, restitutions of temporalities to bishops, abbots, and other ecclesiastical persons-Confirmations of grants made to bodies corporate, as well ecclesiastical as civil-Grants in fee-farm -Special liveries-Grants of offices-Patents of creations of peers, and licences of all kind's which pass the great seal; and on the backs of these rolls are commissions to justices of sewers, and all commissions which pass the great seal.

This calendar is only a selection; various entries appear on the patent rolls which are not here described; and therefore, though this work will be found to yield abundant information, no one is to be deterred from an examination of any record referred to elsewhere, as being on the patent roll, because it is not to be discovered here.

VII. TAXATIO Ecclesiastica Ang. et Walliæ; auctoritate P. Nicholai IV. circ. A. D. 1291, large folio, 1802.

The taxation of Pope Nicholas is a most important record, because all the taxes, as well to our kings as the popes, were regulated by it, until the survey made in the 26 Hen. VIII. and because the statutes of colleges which were founded before the Reformation are also interpreted by this criterion, according to which their benefices, under a certain value, are exempted from the restriction in the statute 21 Hen. VIII. concerning pluralities.

VIII. CATALOGUE of the manuscripts in the Cottonian library, with a prefatory account by J. Planta, and an alphabetical index, large folio,

1802. IX. CALENDARIUM Rotulorum Chartarum et Inquisitionum ad quod damnum, from the reign of King John to Edward IV.

1483, with two tables of names of persons and places, large folio.

1803.

The charter rolls in the Tower of London are thus described by Thomas Astle, esq. keeper of the records :

They contain royal grunts of privileges to cities, towns, bodies côrporate, and private trading companies belonging to those cities and towns; grants of markets, fairs, and free-warrens; grants of creation of nobility, from the 11th of Edw. II. to the end of Edw. IV. ; grants of privileges to religious houses, &c.

The Inquisitiones ad quod damnum, commence with the first year of Edw. II. 1307, and end with the 38th of Hen. VI.

These records were taken by virtue of writs directed to the éschëator of each county; when any grant of a market, fair, or other privilege, or licence of alienation of lands was solicited, to inquire by a jury whether such grant or alienation was prejudicial to the king or to others, in case the same should be made, &c.

X. ROTULORUM Originalium in Curia Scaccarii Abbreviatio, temporibus regum Hen. III. Edw. I. Edw. II. et Edw. III. 2 vols. large folio, 1805, 1807.

The general nature of the records of the court of exchequer, called Originalia in the lord treasurer's remembrance office, was thus stated by Sir Rich. Heron, in his return. "The Originalia are the estreats transmitted from the court of chancery into this office, of all grants of the crown, inrolled on the patent and other rolls, whereon any rent is reserved, any salary payable, or any service to be performed, which estreats commence about the beginning of Hen. III. and are continued to a late period.

XI. CALENDARIUM inquisitionum post mortem sive escaetarum, temporibus regum Hen. III. Ed. I. Ed. II. et Ed. III. 2 vols. large folio, 1806, 1808.

The records in the Tower of London, called Inquisitiones post mortem, or as they are sometimes called escheats, commence with the early part of Henry III. and end with the third year of Richard III.

Of the nature of these records, the following account was given by the late Tho. Astle, esq. keeper of the records in the Tower:

"These records are preserved in bundles chronologically arranged; they were taken by virtue of writs, directed to the escheators of each county or district, to summon a jury on oath, who were to inquire what lands any person died seised of, and by what rents or services the same were held, and who was the next heir, and of what age the heir was, that the king might be informed of his right of escheat or wardship; they also show whether the tenant was attainted of treason, or was an alien, in either of which cases they were seized into the king's hands; they likewise show the quantity, quality, and value of the lands of which each tenant died seised, &c.