MS 175
Liber pacis. manuscript.
England, circa 1613 - circa 1616.
1 volume (74 leaves) : paper ; 41 x 17 cm.
List of justices of the peace for the counties of England and Wales.
Devised title: taken from similar records at The National Archives and elsewhere.
Date of production inferred from internal evidence. The volume was examined by Henry Maxwell Lyte in 1904, and a note of his conclusions is tipped in. He notes that the volume includes Sir Francis Bacon as Attorney General (a position to which he was appointed in 1613) and Sir Julius Caesar as Chancellor of the Exchequer (a position he resigned in the autumn of 1614). Additions of names appear to have continued into 1616.
Written in secretary hand, with margins defined by creases in the paper.
Marginal symbols are used to indicate those justices who were of the Quorum, and the president or chairman.
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on front pastedown.
Previous shelfmarks: Bo.7.24, Bl.a.4, Bl.5.2.
M.R. James, 174.
Contemporary English vellum case binding; some staining; traces of green ties; yapp edges; five sewn bands; red sprinkled edges.
Justices of the peace England Early works to 1800.
Justices of the peace Wales Early works to 1800.
Lyte, H. C. Maxwell Sir.
England
lat
B46564