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Title: A treatise concerning ye nobility: according to ye lawes of England /by Mr. William Birde.
Creator: Bird, William, active 17th century.
Contributor: Grosvenor, Richard Grosvenor, Earl, 1731-1802, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: mid-17th century
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript copy of William Bird's Treatise concerning the nobility, which was published with some alterations as Magazine of honour in 1642. This version adheres very closely to the published text, though it contains marginalia not present in the printed version. This text is bound together with Sir John Borough's Observations concerning the nobility of England auncient and moderne and John Selden's The Priviledges of the Baronage of England, which all appear to be written in different, yet roughly contemporary hands.
Condition: Contemporary plain sheep binding with triple-ruled border in blind; contemporary metal clasps; printer's waste in binding.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Bookplates (Provenance)
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Extent: [1], 104, [4], 17, [1], 92, [1] leaves, bound ;30 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1z61v
f MS.1968.011
Subject: Nobility--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
Place: England
Provenance: Armorial bookplate of "Sr Richard Grosvenor of Eaton in Com. Cheshire, Bart." on rear paste-down endpaper with later pink printed book label from Eaton Hall, with shelfmark "Case XXI, no. 13."
Location: CLUW

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