The David Stather Library

Essex - High OngarDeed of Feoffment, for £4 and services to the chief lord, by Hugh de Panda to John Page, son of Silvester de Westwode for his se...

Fabyan (Robert)The Chronicle of Fabian, whiche he nameth the concordaunce of histories, newly pe-rused. And continued from the beginnyng of Kyng H...

Falstaffian Bar BillManuscript Board and Lodgings Account, for Capt. Fleming, who from February 12th to 16th March, 1684, consumed a great deal of...

[Ferguson (Robert)]A Representation of the Threatning Dangers, Impending Over Protestants in Great Britain, Before the Coming of His Highness the ...

Fielding (Henry)The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling, In Four Folumes.A Millar, 1749, [third edition], duodecimo, four volumes, each title page i...

French AlmanacAlmanach Royal, Annee MDCCLXVI .... Paris, Chez Le Breton, 1766, octavo, 532 pages, monthly tables interleaved with blanks, occasion...

French RevolutionPaine (Thomas), Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution, Parts I and II, J.S. Jordan, 1791-...

French Royal DedicateeOffice de la Semaine Sainte, En Latin & en Francois a l'usage de Rome & de Paris .... Paris: Chez la Veuve Mazieres et Garni...

Frith (John)A Boke made by Johan Fryth, prysoner in the Towr of London, answering unto M. Mores letter, which he wrote against the fyrst lytle tre...

Froissart (Jean)Here begynneth the first volum of sir Iohan Froyssart: of the cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Breta...

Fuller (Thomas)The History of the Worthies of England. Printed by J.G.W.L. and W.G., 1662, folio in fours, portrait frontis, irregular pagination ...

Gloucestershire - Inventory'A Schedule or Inventory indented or made this 27th day of March 1700, ?expressing particularly all such Goods and Impl...

Godfrey (Sir Edmond Berry)Manuscript deposition statement signed Edm: B: Godfrey, relating to Charles, late Duke of Richmond and Lenox, testifying...

Grafton (Richard)A Chronicle at large and meere History of the affayres of Englande, and Kinges of the Same, deduced from the Creation of the worl...

Grand TourManuscript compilation of extracts from eighteenth century travel books including Edward Boyle's 'Letters from Italy', Wraxall's Tour, M...

Grose (Francis)The Antiquities of England and Wales. S. Hooper, 1773-77, first editions, folio, five volumes including Supplement, bound as two, e...

Guillermus (Parisiensis) edit.Postilla super epistolas et evangelia.Ulm: Conrad Dinckmut, 1486, folio in sixes and eights, 212 leaves, first leaf ...

Hakluyt (Richard)The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English nation, made by Sea or over Land, to the most remote and farth...

Hale (Sir Matthew)Historia Placitorum Coronae, The History of the Pleas of The Crown, In the Savoy: printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, ......

Hall (Edward) The union of the two noble and illustrate famelies of Lancastre & Yorke beeyng long in continual discension for the croune of this n...

Hall (Jos.) A Recollection of such Treatises as have bene heretofore severally published, and are nowe revised, corrected, and augmented, with add...

Henry VIII (King of England) et alA Necessary Doctrine and Erudition for any Christen man, set furthe by the kynges maiestie of Englande &c. ['The...

Henry VIII (King of England)Anno primo Henrici Octavi. The kynge our soveraigne lorde Henrie the eight after the conquest ....., at his parliament...

Heraldry Guillim (John), A Display of Heraldry: Manifesting A more easie access to the Knowledge thereof than hath been hitherto published by any,...

Heylyn (Peter)Ecclesia Restaurata; or, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England: Containing the Beginning, Progress, and Successes ...

Heywood (Thomas)Gynaikeion: or, Nine bookes of Various History. Concerning Women; Inscribed by ye names of ye Nine Muses. Writted by Thomas Heywoo...

HistoryA large collection of books, predominantly English history, including historical biographies and diaries, witchcraft, religious persecution...

Holinshed (Raphael)The First and Second volumes of Chronicles, comprising 1, The description and historie of England, 2, The description and histo...

Holinshed (Raphael)The Laste volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, with their descriptions. Conteyning The Chronicles of E...

Holy Bible [Geneva]The Bible Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best Translations .....Imprinted ... by Robert B...

Holy Bible[The Great Bible] The Byble in Englishe, that is, the olde and new Testament, after the translation appoynted to bee read in the Churche...

Holy BibleThe Bible that is, The Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament ....Imprinted at London by Christopher Barkar [Barker], ...

Holy BibleThe Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly translated out of the originall Tongues ....Joh. Field, 1648, quarto in e...

Homilies and SermonsLatimer (Hugh), Frutefull Sermons Preached by the right reverend father and constant Martyr of Jesus Christ M. Hugh Latymer ne...

Homilies[Taverner (Richard) edit.], Postilles or Homilies upon the Epistles and Gospels from Ester untyll Trinitie sondaye, wyth certayne other fr...

Horsley (John)Britannia Romana: or the Roman Antiquities of Britain .... John Osborn and Thomas Longman, 1732, folio, [6], xxxii, 355, [1], 353-52...

House of Commons - ManuscriptCallendar or Abstract of the Journals of the House of Commons from the year 1660 to the Year 1710. Bound manuscript, ...

House of Commons - ManuscriptJournal of the House of Commons, 1st January 1691 - 26th September 1692.Veneris 1 die January 1691 to Lunae 26 die Se...

House of Commons - ManuscriptJournal of the House of Commons, May - Nov 1685. 'Parliamentum inchoat et tent apud Civtatem Westmonaster die Martis ...

House of CommonsJournals of the House of Commons, From November the 8th 1547, In the First Reign of King Edward the Sixth to March the 2d 1628. In...

House of Lords - ManuscriptA Collection of all the Protestations Entred in the Journals of the House of Lords, 1641 - 1736. Bound manuscript in ne...

House of Lords - ManuscriptJournal of the House of Lords, March 1645 - April 1646, 'Die Mercurij Il Martii 1645' to 'Die Lunae 13 Aprilis 1646', i...

House of Lords - ManuscriptRemembrances for Order & Decency to be kept in the Upper House of Parliament by the Lords when His Majesty is not there...

IndenturesThe Marriage agreement ... made & agreed upon now .... performed on the Marriage of John Davison of Blaikstone in ye County of Durham Es...

Jacobite Confession - ManuscriptThe Whole Precedings in the House of Lords upon the Bill of Attainder against Sr John Fenwick. Together with his S...

James I (King of England)The Workes of the Most High and Mightie Prince, James, By the Grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, D...

Jerome (Saint) [translated into English by William Caxton][Vitas Patrum]. Here foloweth the right devoute moche lowable recomendable lyff of the o...

[Johnson (Richard)]The Famous History of the Seven Champions of Christendom. St. George of England, St. Denis of France, St. James of Spain ... Th...

Johnson [Captain Charles]A General History of the Pyrates, from Their first Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present Time. ...

Judge JeffreysJeffreys (George, 1st Baron of Wem), Indenture of a lease of a mansion in the parish of St. Mary Aldermanbury in the City of London,...

Law ReportsA good collection of seventeenth and eighteenth century Law Reports, comprising: John Aleyn (1688); Richard Brownlow and John Goldesbor...

Law[Henry VIII, King of England], Anno primo Henrici octavi. The Kyng our Soverayn lorde Henry the VIII....Imprinted in Fletestrete at the Sygne o...

Law[Saint German (Christopher)], The Dialogue in English, betweene a Doctor of Divinitie, and a Student in the Lawes of England: Newly corrected a...

LawBlackstone (Sir William), Reports of Cases Determined in the several Courts of Westminster-Hall, From 1746 to 1779. Printed by His Majesty's La...

LawDalton (Michael), The Countrey Justice, Containing the Practise of the Justices of the Peace out of their Sessions ....Societie of Stationers, ...

LawGrotius (Hugo), Of the Rights of War and Peace, in Three Volumes; In which are explain'd The Laws and Claims of Nature and Nations ..... Printe...

LawTreason, A Collection of the several Statutes, and Parts of Statutes, Now in Force, relating to High Treason, and Misprision of High Treason.Pr...

Lilburn (John)The Legal Fundamentall Liberties of the People of England, Revived, Asserted and Vindicated ....London, 'Printed in the grand yeer o...

Locke (John)An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, In Four Books. A and J. Churchill and Samuel Manship, 1710, sixth edition, two octavo volume...

London Charity School - St Margaret's Hospital - 'The Green Coat School' A small archive of 17th and 18th century manuscripts relating to the Lond...