Precedents,

A composite volume containing precedents in the form of copies of grants, letters patent, warrants, etc., Elizabeth-Charles II, relating to bishoprics, deaneries, officers of the royal household, etc. (e.g. congé d'elire, letter recommendatory to elect a bishop, oath of allegiance for a bishop's homage, instalment of first fruits of a bishopric, commendams, presentations, grants to royal musicians, grants of annuities and pensions, grants of offices, baronet's patent, dispensations, directions from the signet, indentures, etc., etc.); a brief account, in French, of the Portuguese revolution of 1 December, 1640; a report, in reply to a questionnaire, on the length, depth, security, etc., of His Majesty's mole at Tangier, written on board H.M.S. the Mountagne, 13 October, 1683; pedigrees of the royal house of Portugal; forms of addresses used by the King to his subjects; styles of noblemen and otehrs; lists of cathedral churches and of their prebends; dedications of cathedral churches, etc.

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Title based on contents.

Formerly known as Phillipps 8768.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 10778E.

The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Part XIX, 245-6.

October 2008.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compiilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961);

The volume belonged to Peter Le Neve, rouge croix pursuivant, in 1695, and was subsequently purchased by George Nayler, York herald, at the sale of the books of George Townshend, 1st marquis Townshend.

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