Extracts from public records and heraldic notes, Written in the later 17th century by Sir William Dugdale

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MS. Dugdale 22

Held at the Weston Library

Extracts from public records and heraldic notes:

Fol. 1. summonses to Parliament, from the close rolls 49 Hen. iii-20 Ed. ii, followed by copies of writs of summonses for military service, 7 Hen. vi
Fol. 41. excerpts, 1066-1272, from a Cotton MS. entitled 'Annales a nativitate Christi ad annum 1272, incerto auctore', beg. 'anno ab incarnatione domini 1066 Willelmus dux Normannorum contractus a partibus transmarinis'
Fol. 47. short lives of the founders of monastic orders, beginning with st. John the Baptist
Fol. 51. 'Divers particulars relating unto each respective degree of honour from a gentleman upwards: as also of titles, attributes, ensignes of honour, sealing of charters, dates of deeds etc., precedency, and surnames'
Fol. 79v. three concurrent lists of sheriffs and those to whom castles were committed, 34 Hen. iii -22 Ed. iv, 47 Hen. iii to 31 Ed. iii (fol. 173v) and to 22 Ed. i (fol. 197)
Followed by extracts from close (fols. 209, 222) and patent rolls (fols. 217-34), 13th-17th centt., and Parliament rolls, 14th-15th centt. (fol. 345)

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