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I ri KINGL)k)M. R 4.V.P 0 RTS cA:r . Paper af Thurscify.] / • FROM THE StLtpl • COMMITTEE OF THE 140u$,E. kiF COMMON'S AP:'OINTED T 4 INQT.T,IR€ iNTO THE -STATE OF 'THE FLiIII,IC RECORDS OF THE stilly, - The most. essential of 'all these measures, ft.r• the purpose of laying open t. the Public a full knowledge of the cOntents . of these;vaiious and extensive Repositories,' would be • unquestion ablY to pin some of the-principal calendars and Indexes, and also ,such of the original•ReCorda hi chirto- unpublished, -as are the most important in their nature, and the most pet-left:in theirkind. The Selo - lion which your Committee ,have to propose, does not rest wholly upon their own jU4errieni. They, hate thought it their duty to consult persons of the greatest learning.and exye-: rience upon' these subjects,' who, upon a Review• of the - eee.ral Returns laid- before yogi' Committee, end after deliberate consideration; have proposed the followirt which youi- Committee • entirely. concur, szrorig:y recommending them to the attention aE the;liouse„ Of C,alendars and, Indexes„.they recommend the 1011(4-wing to be printed, , whieh are already.fit for the press. , • • - At the. Chapter loose...there: is an index a ,,to Doomsday, which, nevertheless; it may be proper to enlarge ; and :is the 'original . -volumes were•puh, Jished without any.; title- or glossani, it would ;be 'very desirable that this oppcnityshoultibetaken, of supplying thine defetls; A proper •Title .and Table of Contents were in fact prepared -sever4l years , by, the. 'President and Council of the Society of AntiquaricS, at the instance of tie Lords COriunissioners of the Trea ', sury„ -which should now, be printed, Anti your C omm it t e e very rgUtAi.approve of the . plan for a Glossary, which the present Keeper File Records at the Chapter flottse • has judiciously. yointed out in his very elaborate and,satisfziaory Return; by-. whit:h it also appears; that the jLi IgQ England . , s 6 long the reign Of Edward the Third', stated their-oiwrinabilty to interpret some Paits v 1 this kecord cAlendati to the-earliest Records 'af Curia Regis,. rid Court of King'.-S Beneh, 'which are pre- Served - ,atAgChaprer ., _liouse, Viz. the- fOrmer, • • giraiipg 'Wit) tenet RittliAdlf:':fild . the !at,- ter, from tWEdw.ardl. to , 4tid!.Ca lcnilars. to the ,ketOrds `'of 'the Common Pleas, from Ist • Echir.ardq.., ; toEdward T.: shoirldhe 7ngether with ;Ali index fo the Placitg .Exertitus i in the z.t.th year of - thezeigu Ofld‘iidrd -• • ; At -the,Tower, the. Indexes . 7to- the-Patent, Close, and Charter RollsThould'be -printed. And also the Chroriolozicai Indexes to. the inquisitions PostgOr /em, to ( wltich• might be . addedi• . continuation of, the same subjen, thoSe which are at the Rolls, and in the Duchy Offite of -Lancaster. • At the Rolls, the foll Owing 'lndexes should be printed, namely, the Office initex to the Charter, Pa- . rent and ConiiiinUtion RollS, together with the Fine Roils, the indeit to Private `:elections from the Close. Rolls, and ft -he Officer's. Private Index to the Live. ! int! the 01 . 5,:•e Index to the Escheat Bundles,' thC Carair.al's &miles, and the Parliament Returns. At the - Augtnenration Office, the Indexes deserv., ing Publication are rhose to the Conventual Leases, to the Leases' made,' by the Crown, and to the Deeds . of Pin - clilise and g.Xchange. • All - these for the salve of uniformity and conve ' nienee; it be prOper to 42 rint of the same size as- the-Rolls and Journals of Tarliammt, and in a.. type like the Sessional Index to the Journals. of this House. Youz-comtnittet.haye direded. 'Estimates' to be made -upon the principle, in ordc+ to ascer tai!iffir. magnitude and 6ttent'of such a Publieation, and it appears by them .hat the number of Volumes rie - eirnist exceed Sixteen. pr:seventeen upon' that cal culaiion. • _ Besides these, it-is represented to your Comrnit tee,' that it highlk_proper:thai the Catalo&ue of aliz.C9ttonian MSS. in thc,British Museurri,...re cently—compiled .by the-principal Librarian, under the - order of the .Trostees; - should be piloted, as it points out :a very:conSideratole.ouniber of itilporunt tioeutnents - unnoticed in the former Catalogue, and . may C99 tr 1 k greatly . .o tila,trate rnaiv stances essentially eQrin'eclej with the History, Laws; and Constitution of this Country, • • • . Tn~re 3 selef.tion• of Qriginal Records • 9 and wers to:be - printed,:yourCornwittee have also. Proceeded with the same advice. and delilit:r4tioni.. And - the following sorts of bocturients'.appearto be (:;eservir, tytmely, Political Sur-, vet's, Ectlesia , ,:ical Surveys, Judicial Proceediyas, , Unedited Statutes,Tarliainentary Proceedings, and State Papers. 011'i:ticked Surveys : unpublished, :there are seve ral extant of 1..t..at antiquity. The Hundred Roils of the' reign' ot Edward the First, containing a very' full and nimpte survey in the. Nature of Doomsday. The ,Extthta same reign, (both of whieli,are 7irc ay described by-your'Connittee); and the:-Testa de Nevii, which vas a Survey of Kr4lit's Es*cheats, and Scrries.., in the reigns of Hem)? the Third, and - Edward the Fist. respeft. to these three, yoirr,.Committec are of opi nion--; that listS of the two former,, 1 , ,,nd a Table of the Concept's of the latter s!1. printed, ; %cid ) a spetiiindi from each original, stleding from each Os nearly- •as in ly be the same Oundred,. Manor:, or - Places . , in order to'sliw more clearly the peculiar nature of the..e. siz.v - eral Records, and the d e gree in which they- eonj6,intly to iilustrate the starc:of:Piopetly and u)anrwr: at - .that period of our hist(); y.• :The:: Ar , ,,-11;•ra ri/Piram, • of which'? Copy is ,excan . r the. 1V.u•;e1.71 - n - , - containing the Sheriffs pair e..if;of the Hundreas the r posses sor; in•eac.hCounty, lieginning figin 9 I-a:Alward the . Se'cont, alid" (.ortintre(l ibra con- • sideraLle period,. nl4 be a proper.suVeOt -of publi •c;it-iot'in form t.-4get-liti-i` . with arlother P.ceoi. l 4. Ll•a.f 'o;Ece, beiciiii . !;',the same title,: sonn Adstoratiorr, and contAi,i'q oF-th•_• - alitTl'S of ihill#,orties and Fri • . • • • vtleges I.):yr ? I:\:lanors, and Francliiii& a .to•tileTrc'sent tithe; • 5,..u . :t.u5 they kve '• . .• been clainled upon oath in the Exchequer. Your Committee cannot forbear to observe von this head, that even in modern times some County W. gistraet, at their Sessions; have adually recorded the names ofe - Very Parish,. Township, and I)istria within their jurisdietion; and the' pra6tical advan tages-of such apr-oceeding, if more generally carried into effea, are obvious. - The - Ecclesiastical Surveyi, which have been pre-: served from the ravages Of time, Are Pope Nicholas's Taxation, executed about the zoth year of the' reign of Edward I. anno 1291, the Nonx Rolls of the I:ethy Edward III: anno 134. r, the Surveys of King HenryiVlll. and the Parlia mentary Surveys during the Usurpation. The TOcation of. Pope Nicholas is a roost important Re cord;. because all the Taxes, as well to our Kings as to the Pope, Were regtilated by it, till the Sur , "vey made'in the 26th of Henry VIII. and beeause the Statutes of Colleges which were founded before the Reformation are also interpreted by this cri terion,.aecording :to which their Benefices under a certain value are exempted from .the restriCtion in: the Statute 21 Henry VIII, concerning Pluralities.. Your Committee beg leave to refer very particu larly. to the account 'Which they have received of the most perfeCt copies of this Record; and they re_ commend it to be printed from the Books, in the Exchequer, collated with such of the original Rolls 'as remain there, and with the ancient. Manuscript in the Cottonian Library. at the British Museum ; be_ sides which - it _may. be proper to cornimre these Books with Sir Henry Speltnan's copy,: now in the • possession of Thomas - Astle, Es 4. Keeper of the Records in the Tower, and collated by him with the ancient' Transcripts lodged in that Repository. The Non Rolls are also • very, valuable, as they shew the alterations which had taken, place, in the _value of-. each Benefice, after an . interval of 'fifty .years from the prior valuation ; a calendar to these should be printed, together with an explanatory account of them, and specimens of sotte one of the most complete . in each Diocese. :The Surveys of Henry VIII, and the Parliamentary Surveys are ex.: tremely. curious and interesting ; but they -are-¢o voluminous, and at the same time so accessible to the 'Public,: that it would not be adviseable to print•them.- The, Judicial .Proceedings ofrthe earliest dates are'tNos.eof the Curia Regis, commencing in the reign,of Richard I. the 'Placita Foresta, , and the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas; begin ning from the reign of Edward I. - Some of. he most turioin and instruaive Records of the Curia, Rezii have been-already published by Madox in his Notes to his History of the Exche quer ;. others of them are probably contained in the Abstraas and Transcripts preserved at the Chap, ter }louse, and in the Libraries of some of the Inns of Court; and with regard to• the rest, it is very. doubtful whether they are sufficiently perfed for publication, Of the Placita foresta, which are dispersed in so many different Repositories, it might be useful to print one genet-tat Catalogue. The 'SpecTal Judgments — of the Common Law. Courts in ;he reign of Edward the First, are highly commended by. Lord Hale, who says, That- the Reason of the Law upon which the Court proceeded, is raany - times_ exl4.essly deliVered upon the Record itself,"- And the va;ue which he set .upon them appeats..by the large selettions and copies from them which he obtained, anti bequeathed with. his other MSS, tolhe Society of Lincoln's Inn, It moy be desirable therefore that 'his SeleEfioti should be printed, and . that such other seletlions should be made, as were suggested by the Keeper of the Chapter House Records in r 732 ; or, that the Abstrad now pteserved in the Chapter House, and specified by _the present Officer in his return upon ;his sui)jea ; or 'the book mentioned. in the return from the Society , of the Middle Temple, Should be, printed ; accordingly, as it may appear upon a.care= ful inspe4ion and comparison of them all, that any' of these latter compilations can be substituted for Lord Hale's, if. his: cannot be obtained for the or perhaps be made supplementary to it, if they should_ appear .to take in larger compass of time, As. these Records would he particularly service able in illustrating the-Year Books, a subject (US'- cussed with great erudition and ability, in a return mate. from the F,ociety of .Lincoln's Inn, your Con'nnittee strongly recommend, that the,. series, of those books from Edward the Firsr, to Henry the Eighth,., should be completed, by printing those hitherto unpublished, of which there are several extant in' the Libraries 'of Lincoln's Inn, the inner Temple - , and the Briti=sh Museum . ; and ars° by re printing the rest from more ported copies, as those 'which arc already in print are known to be in many instances incorre‘.`.l and erroneous. A General ri dex• to the whole would be a very necessary addi tion to such a work, «which forms so valuable a mo nument of our Practical Jurisprudence in its earliest, ages, • • _ _ _ - Together with the preceding articles, it is light-, ly suggested in the very learned,return front the. So- , mety of Lincoln's Inn, that an uniform and syste matic edition might be given of all the anc i ent Law Writers, as more perfeo copies are known to exist_. in MSS. than those which have-hitherto been pub- . irons•lisbed. And at the same' time your Committee , have to. submit the propriety of printing irons the' Red Book of the. Exchequer, the ancient regula-: tions, intitled Ordjnwioves.Scaccarii, as a stipple !Dent to the celebrated Dialogue de.Sweario, con tained in the same book. They have upon the present occasion thofight fit to subjoin :to this Re.. port, a collettion of all the Oaths of Office, , con: twined in the Red Book, and in the Black Book of the Exchequer of Receipt, and on the Rolls of the ,Petty Bag, and . of-the Clerk of the Crown in Chan_ eery ; for it is not less true than extraordinary, that no perfa ior authOrifzed copy has , yet been published of these recorded'evidences of the obliga dons unposed upon, alid undertaken by the 4eV , q . at Public Officers, who are sworn to discharge the va., rious funs ions conncaed with the administration of our Laws ,arid 'Government. Many 'Statutes and .Ordinances , recorded rtie ROIIS of Parliament, and others ; which : are ?xtant, upon the Statute Roll, are -..not inserted in the. Statute Books, which, are only comniidtiois by private' hands your Committee. t r lietefote • \Vt. this morning . received, AY EXPRESS, Paris Papers to the 27th inst. They bring us little of im portance,. The only new fad we learn is, that not only the new Russian Ambassador, M. de MAItKow, is on his road to Paris, but that Prince DALGO- Rowszy has been also sent thither on' a special Mission, The politeness shewn to Dtta"Oc by PRINCE CONSTANTINE, affords the MO nitiur an opportunity of commending him for his humanity. he French Tiers Consolide, which had reached 48j, has declined to 471. The. Huntingdon Militia marched into Dpver from the Isle of Wight On Wednesday : they con sist of only two Companies, and are to be entirely attached to the Artillery, on .which account they are to he stationed in. -the Castle, and Archcliff Fort. In addition to this reinforcement, the ,Gar rion is composed. of the following Troops, viz.• the Royal Attidety, two Companies, commanded- by Major liorroN ; Royal Engineers, a detachment, Colonel Twtss ; T-st Dragootm, one Troop, Major WYNDHAM ; Royal North,Olourester Militia, Co lonel' Kr Ncscort ; -Northampton Militia; Colonel BRooKE ; besides detacho;cnts of the Waggon and Commissary Corps, Yesteiday a court of Directors was Lela at the India 1:1?use, when the following Persons were each permitted to build a Ship of soc? Tons, Tor the Company's Service ; Messrs. P. and W. Mg!.l.lsfrt, Mr. C Aalloc.K., Mr. NT. 13aRgr, li.f.akritTsom, i'And the undermentioned to build each a Ship of 500 Tons : Messrs. °. .r.AlPi.Qii, HvGH 4#J, Mr. j. %Vt :.l6 A Nfs, and am! REi;l4y, Mr. OHN Woo.i.moar, 'Mr. WU. 11.:04ILT04, . ".2 Sliips. The Court aajourneLl till Wednesday next. Yesterday the Pursers of the following East India 'Ships attended at the fndia-HoU3e, and received their final Dispatches for the several Governments in India, which they immediately conveyed to Ports mouth, to• join their . respealive Ships, viz. For Sr. HE LEN A and BLNG A Princess Mary, Capt. .Andrew Grieve. • For Bo maAY ;—The Northampto'n, Captain 'Robert Barker ; and the Sovereign,. Captain Gilbert Mitchell. For M4nR AS .—The Caledonian, Captain 'John Craig.; the General Stuart, Captain Robert Anon. Mash; the Mc, nal - 0, Captain Thoina4 Mortimer ; and the Ann, Captain Alexander Sinclair. , Fur BE NGAL . --LThe Cornet,. Captain Thornas. Larkins,; and' the Sarah Christiana, Captain. Charles Graham. For CEYLON and BENGAL.—The Manship, Captain JOhn Logan. • PASSENGERS PER MANSHIP Messrs.-Charles ManaF, William Carrington, lohrt Doyley, John 111‘Dowal, Rictiard Bourne,. John DavAlson. W. skirte Campbell, Williaut it. I'. 1., Layard, Writers, for Ceylon. • • t.F.itrnopmacit. Thomas Oakes, Esq. Senior Merchant for Madras; 'Mrs Maria I-liming. PER COMET. Captain George Dick, proceeding to Bengal ; and the Rev. Henry Peter Stacy, Chaplain, appointed - to the Presidency of Bengal, and family. PER SARAH CHRISTIANA: Mrs. Bridget Lawson, Mrs. Harriet' lopes, Captain -James ' Collier, Messrs. Gunn, Randall, Skene, Anderson; i'arker, Grant, Rowning, 'Walker, - Bird,' kVollett,. Aveline, and Thomas, Cadets. , . The passeogers who arrived iii .the last Packet from Hamburgh were, COloOels CRAtlroup, A udi DALE, and families ; Messrs. ST.OR AC E, PARISH, dL EY, F.:611 LTO ,'LEWIS, LtirY, At the isle of Man the harvest is earlicr.than.it has generally been,, and. the crops abundant. A field of oats (trce acres), belonging to Mr; Wrn. Ray, • ofiKirk Michael, was.cut on the 3d instant. He has sold several bolls at a very, reduCed price, equal to five shillings in the Cumberland bushel. I .Mdamoi , :elle de MONACO CONDIt . has been struck ,out s cif the List 'of Emigrants. The late Et.go-rem of CoLocnr: left two millions sterling at his dead:. Although of all the Princes of Germany, it . wns he who treated. the Emigrants the v,'orst after the . Campaign of . 17.92, yet he be h:tc'ed very generously to the French Clergy who tnok rvfage in his Bishopric of Munster. He set_ tied a pension of 6001. on two Bishops who reSided: at Munster, and assigned means of subsistence to a great•lfutriber' of Eccic:ia-:ties. spread over that •. ' FR4NCE. PARIS, AUG. 27. THE Et PEROR ALEXANDER has been much 43' tisficd with the Mission of General SPILENGPORTO to Paris-; and, in order to testify this to him, he has bestowed on him the high Order of Sr. Alexander ; anti' as 'a - particular favour, he has re ceived the decoratibns in .diamonds. All the Officers , who accompanied him have been promoted, and placed in advantageous situations; the greater part of them at Court. Prince DALOOROWSKY set out for Paris on the Eith of August, with a special mission. M. DE MARKow, the new Amba ssa do r a t Paris', set out on his journey on' tlze 29th July, and must soon reach Paris. Prince CONSTANTINE, Colonel of a fine Regi' merit of Hussars, paid' particular ,attention to Du' MC, and made his Regiment manmUvre before `him.—The esteem which this young and brave Prince preserves fOr the French Nation .and Arm!: is nutual . . on the part of the French Troops. There is- not a Soldier who Floes not recolleft the humanity and kindness he sheaved towards our wounded - and prisoners. This is the distinvishiiig charaCter of. great hearts : Brave and terrible in Battle, they are mild and humane in the moment . They write from Brtst, under date of the that on the t6th seVe.,ral English Frigates ana Vessels stationed between Isle Bas and the Partial Rocks, attempted to,land Forces in the Gut-of Go sal•-riia, with an intention probably of carrying di cattle. The Batteries of nriernie and of Pontus.vab seconded by the Inhabitants of the Coast, succeed ed in preventing the • disembarkation, ,-- so n the first news of this Attack, - Mnre than :500 'Troops marched from '-ffrest• . and the :: Camp of St. Renaio . At seven in the morning, they were more than hall way On 'their road, when a second Express .brough t an account of the Enemy having been- repulsed, 3' o their presence being no longer' necessary. While LAToticH E and NELSON , were engage d before Bordopre, an exchange of Dispatches and • Fhigs of Truce took place between Dover and Calaill so that there were not more than eight - leagues be tween the 'horrors of War and the expre§4iops ° C Peace, , . HAou Atrc great number of heavy Artillery, from the Auenal of Ddjt, has' Passed through OR -place, on its. way to the different points of the Coast which are most threatened• q. Att c • ----W. have rectihirca. gene from Otranto, that an English' privateer 0 ; z 8 guns, entered that Port, and surrendered to th e French, after a very serious difference between the Crew and the Captain, on the subjeft 0%1'14 0 ', money. -- . - The Sailors Iltut put their Cartaitl arrest; If we may believe an article in the last Ilambrg h Mail, our Navy has obtained another Port in the which: washes the coast opposite to Italy. We haver it is said, taken.posscision of the Isle of &nu, 0 0 _ of the most important of the -Seven United Islands/ which, .under the protetlion of Russia and the Porter have formed a small State from the wreck of. tits Republic of Fake. The inhabitants had, it J ° added, called in our Troops. The possession of tl ) ' s Island would be of some value, if that were tole/ Which we do not however believe, that the Ext. titO s of GER mArt.r had consented to shut the Ports i f ' the Adriatic against our Ships. It is not a little, glorious to the inhabitants `i Porto "'errata to have resisted all the efforts ° the French Troops at a moment when a dom was falling beneath, we Will not say thef t boWs, but their threats. It . is needless. mark, that the praise of Sir JOHN BORLASE \VAP' REN is not confined to having bestowed that ay' sistanee to' heroisni to which it• - was so, highly eo: titled, but that he has also rendeted an esenti 3b service to his Country. While the French lord i c over the whole extent of the two Seas of Italy, tr, Isle of Elba.-is an anchoring place which we oug . ' not , to negieft, and which compensates, in SO" degree, for the . loss'of the Port of Leghorn. The interposition of the Emperor - At.txAN i % .. in bringing about a Peace between France and 'Country, is powerfully relied, upon. After givi? an account of the amicable disposition of the iv; scan Emperor towards the Chief Consul, the I° h '; 11,11 Delenseurs says, if he should not succeed • his interposition in bringing about a Peace betwe e ,: the two Countries, he will preserve the strit es e Neutrality. Vast plans, says the' same Paper, been proposed to him to induce him to take ae atlive• part in favour of France ; but so"much 1 1- 1 desirous is he of playing the glorious p a rt of a P" c *; ficator, that he turns a deaf car to all such proposo.' and will take no offensive steps, unless Great Btv rain decidedly refuses 'a Pacification.. It is pro fs , bly to this or some such cause that the late extri°, dinar,' rise in the Frencti Funds is to be attribute' The Chapter of Canons Of the Cathedral of ti ELfiCTORATE - of COLCiGNE) 'meet on the fio, - o lc i next month, for the ptirpTe ,of choosing a l' e d Arehbishop, at Arensbargb ; and the Chaptet ue Munster, in Westphalia; on the 15th of ,the sa l o month,• to elea a new Prince Bishop. As sou`' o f the latter heard of .the death of the 4Et-roit CoLooks, they immediate dispatched . a Courier to rier7sna, to offer the dignity of Prince-Bishop to o ARCHDUKE ANTIION r, - Brother : to the Ebirsgw i 4 l,_, it in 115 Re .R 4 has Ina I\ll, rzlr 114 Zit! # , T) 8 414 COI bui . "4 and -the think it highly expedient for the bonotir of the Na:. and The bead it of all His Majesty's Subjects, iliac aComplete and authoritative edition of all the 2tatutes . s.hould be printed. .Much assistance may be. derived occasionally from a knowledge even of those. which were enaded for temporary purposes, and .Are since expired and in' the prosecution of such a work, it will be proper to consult the most ancient and perfiA manuscript copies „preserved in the Exchequer„ and the several Public Libraries of the Inns o Court, the Universities, and the British Museum. It might alsO be very useful for many purposes - of Government and Legislation, to sele et and print the Reports made by Committees of either House of Parliament upon great Public Questions.; and the same reasons which induced'this House to order a selealon of Its own Repot-Ps to be printed in the . ye# t 773, may now render it proper to continue the series. The State Palters published together in Rymees Fcedera, form a most valuable colleCtion; They commence from the reign of Henry I. anno A i 1 .44 but they do not - come lower in date than the first six years of Charles the Second, during the usurp ation ; and it appears to your Committee, that it - may be very desirable to have this work completed by a supplementary selcaion 'of such other import-, ant Papers .as were omitted by the original Com pilers, and also to have it continued to the Revolu,- tinn, or even to the Accession of th e House of j-ianover. [To be contljturi, j THE SUN. SOLiNI QUIS DICERS F.LSLUA AUtiZA ? LONDON, AUGUST 29, tScl.