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 lo2 THE CORDWAINEKS AND CORVESORS OF OXFORD. alphabet. They present under different forms an account of its affairs and proceedings from the first year of the reign of Richard III. down to the present time ; that is, for upwards of three centuries and a half. The minutes of the general annual meetings, with the election of officers, settlement of accounts, and admission of new members made at them, form, as may be imagined, a prominent subject ; while, in other parts, appear transcripts of a few of their documents, orders, lists of members by name, notices of fines and amer- ciaments, and particulars of some of their dinners. The minutes of their earliest meetings, called " Curie " or Courts, are kept in Latin up to the 23rd year of Henry VII.,^ and correspond in form with the records of a manor court, while the absentees are amerced in the same manner. Book A. In parchment cover, 9 inches by 6 ; 92 pages. Minutes of Courts, &c., from 1 Richard III. to 27 Henry VIII. B. 4to, bound in wooden boards,^ 1 1 inches by 8 ; 202 jDages, ditto, ditto, from 13 Henry VIII. to 1649, (24 Charles I.) C. Small 4 to, bound in old and written vellum, with flap and ties, 8 inches by 6; 180 pages. Miscellanea, from 1G25 to 1643. D. A small folio, bound with parchment, 12 inches by 8; no paging. Minutes of Courts, Lists of Members, Admissions, &c., from 1614 to 1711. E. A small foho, bound in parchment, 11^ inches by 9 ; no paging. Proceedings and Accounts, from 1646 to 1758. F. A small folio, bound as the last, 13 inches by 8 ; no paging. Minutes of Court, Orders, and Lists of Members by name, from 1710 to 1789, and some transactions of the following year ; which are continued to the present time in a book, 15^ inches by 10, bound in leather, and about the same thickness as Book D. The accounts are continued from Book E to the present time in a volume of rather smaller dimensions. " Book A., p. 61 . Tlie form is — Et sic (or, sunt) omnia pacifica. Curia Cordiwanorum et Corvcsariorum '■* This is l;ound in old stamped leather, tenta Oxo" die lune proximo post festum and supposed to be the volume mentioned sci luce evangeliste et an" re<;ni Regis, &c. in Book E. in the accounts, anno 1676, Ad hanc curiam vcnerunt scctatores viz. : curie, videlicet, 6cc. &c. IV p'' for byndeing y* old booke And at the conclusion of the mmutes of & a new cover . . .Is. 6cZ. many Courts, are the words —