[Publications] . d had no concern in the foundation of it. Vide Chalmers Hist,of Un. Oxford, p. 405. To the right honorable my very good Lord, Thomas LordEllesmere, Vicount Brackley, Lord Chancelor of England,these. Right honorable,Having lately understood that your Lordshipp hath been pleasedout of your honorable disposition to respect my College in Oxford,and to afford it your honorable countenance when it was enforcedto troubles by such as should rather have laboured to better itthen to undermine it, whereby (were it not for your honorablefavour) it had receyved a great losse without recove
[Publications] . d had no concern in the foundation of it. Vide Chalmers Hist,of Un. Oxford, p. 405. To the right honorable my very good Lord, Thomas LordEllesmere, Vicount Brackley, Lord Chancelor of England,these. Right honorable,Having lately understood that your Lordshipp hath been pleasedout of your honorable disposition to respect my College in Oxford,and to afford it your honorable countenance when it was enforcedto troubles by such as should rather have laboured to better itthen to undermine it, whereby (were it not for your honorablefavour) it had receyved a great losse without recovery, I hold itmy duty (both in respect of this and many other your Lordshippshonorable favours towards me) to make this meane acknowledg-ment of my thankfullnes, beseechinge the continuance of yourLordshipps honorable favour towards my College. And soe, withmy prayers for the encrease of your Lordships honor, health, andhappineSj and with the remembrance of my duty and service Irest Your Lordships to be comaunded,. From Edge, the 28th of January, 1616. NOTES AND CORRECTIONS. Page 1.—The earliest known enumeration of our records occurs in anindenture dated the 9th September, fifth Richard II. by which the recordsthen in the Tower were transferred by a retiring Master of the Rolls to hissuccessor. A translation of that document was published by C. P. Cooper,Esq. in his Account of the Public Records, i. 449. Since the reign ofRichard II. the more ancient records have been transferred from time to timefrom the Rolls Chapel to the Tower, whenever the former repository has be-come over-crowded, and a document of the kind now published was executedupon every transfer, but no one has yet been printed. The transfer alluded toin this document was probably the last but one which has taken place fromthe Rolls. The records of the several kinds here enumerated now in theTower come down to the end of the reign of Edward IV. A warrant wasgranted by Elizabeth to transfer the records of the sam
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