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Certificate of Edward Mountague, earl of Manchester, the chancellor of the university of Cambridge , and master and scholars of the same, that in 1659 Richard Perrott was admitted to the degree of S.T.B. Dated 11 June, 1661.

Letters testimonial of Matthew, bishop of Ely, to Thomas Hall, M. A., on his ordination as priest in the church of Haddenham, 11 March, 1665. Signed and sealed, 12 March, 1665.

Licence of Thomas Hall by the university of Cambridge as a preacher under the authority of the act of parliament of 13 Eliz. Dated at Cambridge, 4 Nov. 1669.

CAMBRIDGE (University of). Licence of John Boilston, B.D., by the university of Cambridge as a preacher under the act of parliament of 13 Eliz. Dated at Cambridge, 4 Nov. 1643.

CAMBRIDGE. Diploma of the admission of Thomas Witherley M.D. as honorary fellow of the College of Physicians. Dated 6th Cal. July, 1665.

Indenture dated 1 April, 16 James I, by which the right honourable Henry, earl of Huntingdon, &c., in consideration of the good services of Edward Carpenter , servant of the said earl, have granted to him for his life and three years after, a messuage and tenement standing upon part of the parsonage of Mesam, co. Derby, for an annual rent of 20s.

Indenture made 5 Feb., 11 James I, by which Robert, bishop of Hereford , leases to Anne Doughtie wife of the ... and her sons, and others the mansion, canon house in Hereford, to hold the same during the life of the said parties at an annual rent of six shillings and eightpence.

MYMS (North). Bond given by Philip Conyngesbye of Twigmore, co. Lincoln , to sir Ralph Conyngesbye of North Myms, co. Hertford, kt., to secure payment of £40. Dated 18 June, 8 Jas. I.

Letters patent dated at Westminster 28 June, 4 James I, granting to Robert Hunnywood, esq. the whole of the wood, underwood and wood land called Downewood, containing 95 acres lying within the manor of Charring, to hold the same for 31 years, at an annual rent of £9 6s.

WOODCHURCH, BRENSETT, BILSINGTON, MERSHAM, MIDLY IVY CHURCH, OLD ROMNEY, and NEW ROMNEY. An exemplification of a fine made in the court of common pleas, dated upon the day of the three weeks of St. Michael, in the year of our Lord, 1659, by which George, lord Eure, Horatio Eure , Sampson Eure, gent., Ralph Eure, gent., William Kayes, clerk, and Elizabeth his wife, and John Pickering and Deborah his wife, acknowledge certain messuages, gardens, and lands in the above villages to be the right of Charles Lambert, gent., and Joshua Pordage, gent. Dated at Westminster, 24 Oct., 1659.

Exemplification of a recovery inrolled at Westminster, Michaelmas, 22 Chas. II (roll 60), between Theodore Grene and Edward Chapman , plaintiffs, and George Grene and Theophilus Grene, gentlemen, defendants, concerning one messuage, 2 gardens, 10 acres of land, one acre of meadow, 8 acres of pasture and common of pasture for all cattle and appurtenances in Foxton. Dated at Westminster, 28 Nov., 22 Chas. II.

PACKINGTON, co. LEICESTER, and MEASHAM, co. DERBY. Exemplification of a decree between Henry, earl of Huntingdon, plaintiff, and Thomas Pestell, clerk, defendant, concerning the claim to the tythes of the parsonages of Packington on the heath, and Mesam, in the counties of Leicester and Derby. Dated at Westminster, 29 January, 4 Chas. I.

Commission from the Court of Admiralty to George Lilborne and others, impowering them to recover the cargo, &c., of the ship 'God's Guyfte,' of London, wrecked near Newcastle, from the inhabitants of the places adjacent. Dated at London, 12 October, 1646.

Letters patent of King Charles II, dated at Westminster, 18 February, 13th year of his reign, granting to Honora Harding an annuity of £300 per annum from the exchequer.

Letters patent of King Charles II, tested at Westminster, 25 Jan., 30 of his reign, granting to sir Gabriel Sylvius, kt., a licence of denization.

Copy [2 Nov. 1670] of the will of Edward Gardiner, citizen and iremonger of St. Botolph's without Aldgate, London . Dated 1655. Probate, dated 23 November, 10 November, 1655.

BROMLEY ST. LEONARDS. An exemplification of a fine levied at Westminster, Hillary Term, 18 and 19 Chas. II, by which Gerard Whorwood and Jane his wife acknowledge the right of William Whorwood, gent., to and in a messuage, garden, and an acre of land, in the parish of Bromley St. Leonards. Dated at Westminster, 12 February, 19 Chas. I.

The will of James Knowles of Wandosis Green, Fulham, gent. Dated 18 January, 1613. With probate dated 27 April. Five sheets of parchment. .

Appointment by the Governors of the Charterhouse of William Sancroft, archbishop of Canterbury , to be a governor. Dated 10 Jan., 1679. Signed by Finch, Lord Thene &c. 7 others .

HALE alias HOLME HALE. Presentation by K. Charles I, of Dudley Hopper, clerk, S.T.B., to the church of Hale alias Holm Hale. Dated at Westminster, 30 Nov., 15 Chas. I.

STIFFKEY. Letters patent of King James I, dated at Westminster, 4 Feb., 1st of his reign, granting to Nicholas Bacon of Stifkey, co. Norfolk, esq., a general pardon.

STURSTONE. Indenture made 5 January, 14 Chas. I, by which sir Henry Bedingfield of Oxburgh, co. Norfolk , demises to sir Lyonell Tollemach of Helmingham, bart., and others a moiety of the rectory of Sturstone for 99 years, without payment of any rent.

WIGHTON. Admission of Richard Lewthwatt, M.A., to the vicarage of Weighton, co. Norfolk, by Clement Corbett, LL.D., 1646, 27 Feb. 23 Chas. I.

Letters patent of K. James I, dated at Westminster, 1 Sept., 10 of his reign, granting a licence of alienation to Dabridgcourt Belcher, esq., Elizabeth his wife, and Christiana Belcher, widow, for a messuage, garden, &c., in Guilsborrowe, to Richard and William Gardner .

Letters patent of King Charles II, dated at Westminster, 6th October, 35 of his reign, conferring the deanery of Worcester upon George Hicks, S.T.P., vacant by the promotion of William Thomas to the bishopric of St. David's.