A large Sword, the Hilt, which is of Wood, with an Iron Pomel, is above half a Yard long, and the Cross-bar above 1 ½ Foot, the Blade is four Foot in Length, and two Inches broad; it seems to be used about K. Edw. the 3d's Time. The Gift of Mr. Godfrey Haddon of Leedes. Another with the Year 1444 engraven upon it, which was during the victorious Henry the 6th's Reign, who was crowned at Paris, An. 1431, but has been altered since, the gilt Basket-Hilt being not near so ancient. An old fashioned Wheel-lock Pistol, the Stock and large Pomel curiously inlaid with Ivory: Given me by Sam. Atkinson of Leedes Gunsmith. A Gantlet faced with Velvet, the Studs gilt. Don. D. Is. Blackburn. It is more pliable (tho' of Iron) than a Leather Glove, near two Foot long to secure the Arm: It is very strong, full half Inch thick. A Belt, or Girdle of Needle-work, Variety of Colours, lined with Velvet. Don. D. Brian Dickson. An antique Stirrup, but short of the Abbot of Kirkstal's, of which elsewhere.

95. His Grace my Lord Archbishop of Yorke's most accurate Treatise, I. Of the Silver Coins of England; wherein, 1. Of the several Pieces; 2. Of the Fineness of our English Coins: 3. Of the different Weight of our Coins of the same Denomination in the several Reigns, arising from the Increase of the Price or Value of Silver. 4. Of the Impresses or Stamps upon our Coins. 5. Of the Inscriptions. 6. How to distinguish the Coins of the several Kings of the same Name (as two Williams, eight Henrys, six Edwards, and three Richards.) II. Observations on the Golden Coins of England; 1. Of their Fineness, which we call the Standard; 2. Of the Proportions between Gold and Silver, with Respect to their Values; 3. Of the several Pieces from the first Coining of Gold to the Reign of K. Henry VIII. 4. Of the Stamps and Inscriptions of the foregoing Pieces. 5. Of the several Pieces from the first of Hen. VIII. to this Time: 6. A farther Account of those Pieces as to the Impresses and Inscriptions. 7. A Table of the present Rates of Gold for the more easily finding the Value of the old Pieces. III. Observations on the Scots Money; 1. Of the Scots Weights and Standards: 2. Of the Scots Sums compared with the English, and the different Proportions they bore to one another in the several Reigns; 3. Of the several Scots Pieces. IIII. Of the Irish Coins, to K. James IId's inclusive. Don. R. R. DD. Archiepiscopi Ebor. To this may be added what I had the Honour to receive from another Noble Lord, the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Pembroke, viz. An Account of the fourteen distinct Sorts of the Silver Monies of England, from a Farthing to the Twenty Shillings Piece; and who are said by our Historians to coin the first of each Sort; with what particular Exceptions are in his Lordships inestimable Musæum: For Example, whereas K. Edw. Ist. 3d. and 6th. are said to Coin the first Silver Farthings, Groats and Crowns, his Lordship hath a round Farthing (not the 4th Part of a Penny broken, as had been usually currant before) of K. Hen. 3d's. A Groat of Edw. I. and an English Crown of Henry VIII.

103. A Latin Treatise about the Law, writ about K. Edw. 3d's Time, but is imperfect.

In the Original Bead-roll of Roger Norreis, Abbot of Lilleshull temp. Ed. 3. (Don. Rev. Geo. Plaxton Rectoris de Berwic in Elmet) may be seen a great Variety of Hands, writ in the same Age, there being in a large Parchment Scroll, the distinct Titulus of above 180 Religious Houses; some curiously engross'd, others so miserably writ, as to be scarce legible; but all agree in Writing Dompnum for Dominum, as some ancient Authors insert p in sumpsit.

A Deed of Gift of Lands to the Church at Haxey. (Don. Jac. Torr Arm.) with all the Essentails of a Deed, in less than eight Lines, and those scarce half as many Inches in Length, and not two in Breadth; Hæc fuit candida illius ætatis fides, & simplicitas, quæ pauculis lineis omnia fidei firmamenta posuerunt. The Date of Deeds Antiquity often omited, faith Sir E. Coke, but they were commonly added in the Reigns of K. Edw. 2. and E. 3. and ever since (Inst. I. p. 6.) But in this Collection are several in the Reign of K. Edw. I. and some in Henry the 3d's, particularly one relating to Kirkstal-Abbey, An. 1239. In all these the Names of the Witnesses are entred in the Continent of the Deed, after the Words Hiis Testibus, writ with the same Hand that the Deed is: Of which here are several Instances in every Reign (except R. 3.) from Edw. I. to Hen. 8. inclusive. When a Deed required a Counter-part, it was engross'd twice in one Parchment, with a Space between, wherein the Word Chirograph, or part of the Alphabet, was writ in Capital Letters, and then either indented or cut directly through the midst of the Letters: Here are Instances of both. In some the Terms Forinseco servitio & fossato, (of which see Dr. Kennet's instructive Glossary) are expresly mentioned: Also the Word Gersuma, Earnest of a Bargain yet called in those Northern Parts Arls, from the Saxon Aꞃ æs, Brass or Copper, given in Hand to confirm the Contract.