Custodial History | Found adjacent to Gregory papers in 2006 and probably belongs with them. |
Description | 1st. leaf: Essay in Latin apparently on the use of slaves in warfare with classical examples, much abbreviated. Black ink.
2nd. leaf: starts 'Comprisinge', and lists notes on comprising as a legal term. Brown ink.
3rd. leaf: alphabetical list of legal terms and their meanings, beginning 'Absentes rei publicae causa' 21 leaves, brown ink, A to W ['finis']
24th. leaf: 'Ane abridgment of the most materiall acts of Parliament selected according to the order of the Alphabet by Sir Andrew Gilmore advocat Knight and Barronet anno 1662', beginning again with the same alphabetical list as above, but in a different hand. Brown ink. 16 leaves, A to W.
40th. leaf: Medical recipes taken from some other work, as follows:
Chap. 138: Ane oyr experimental medicene for to ripen any boylls …
Bladder Chap. 139: Ane exelent good medicine to purge the bladder of one yt cannot piss perfitly
Chap. 144 Another for the same
Chap. 145 [another for the same]
Chap. 148 Ane oyr good medicen to cause one to piss yt cannot
Chap. 151 Ane oyr good medecine to cause one to piss yt cannot
Chap. 162 Blood stanching, Another forr the Same
Chap. 168 A werie good medicine to stanch blood qn nothing else will doe it
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