Shelfmark
MS 175
Title
Liber pacis. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, circa 1613 - circa 1616.
Physical description
1 volume (74 leaves) : paper ; 41 x 17 cm.
Note
List of justices of the peace for the counties of England and Wales.
Note
Devised title: taken from similar records at The National Archives and elsewhere.
Note
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.
Note
Written in secretary hand, with margins defined by creases in the paper.
Note
Marginal symbols are used to indicate those justices who were of the Quorum, and the president or chairman.
Note
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on front pastedown.
Note
Previous shelfmarks: Bo.7.24, Bl.a.4, Bl.5.2.
Citation/references note
M.R. James, 174.
Binding
Contemporary English vellum case binding; some staining; traces of green ties; yapp edges; five sewn bands; red sprinkled edges.
Subject
Justices of the peace England Early works to 1800.
Subject
Justices of the peace Wales Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Lyte, H. C. Maxwell Sir.
Added entry--place
England
Language code
lat
Identifier
B46564