Author: ANON / HEARNE / RUSSELL
Title: Exemplar Vetusti Codicis Ms
Description: London, White. 1774, Editio Altera. Full-Leather. A00005809, An incomplete copy of "Liber Niger Scaccarii, Nec Non Wilhelmi Worcestrii Annales Rerum Anglicarum, Cum Praefatione Et Appendice Thomae Hearnii Ad Editionem Prima Oxoniae Editam Accedunt Chartae Antiquae Et Opuscula Varia Historiam Et Antiquitates Angliae Spectantia; Et Ante Hac Inedita ". This item has been annotated in ink by "S.R." { believed to be Sambrook Nicholas Russell }. Front endpaper bears inscription "The following volume contains the Liber Feodorum Militum printed by T Hearne. It is here detached from the other miscellaneous tracts, which that Antiquary printed with it , & is interleaved to afford me an opportunity of writing notes upon so important & obscure a part of the Anglonorman constitution." S.R. 9 July 1789. There is no praefatio, the first page "Exemplar Vetusti Codicis Ms. [Nigro Velamine Cooperti] In Scaccario Penes Rememoratorem Regis Conservati, Certificationes Feodorum Militum , Quae Per Mayores Huius Regni Barones, Aliosque De Rege In Capite Tenentur, De Quibus Auxilium Ad Matildam, Regis Henrici Secundi Filiam, Henrico Romanorum Imperatoei Maritandam, Levatum Erat, Praecipue Continens." is followed by xli;xlii;xliii;xliv.; then pp. 55/6; 51/2; 53/4; 49/50; 57 - 340.Boards detached & somewhat worn.Russell's annotation in ink throughout, in the text as well as the interleaves. Poor/No Jacket.

Keywords: History, Law, Constitution