University of Virginia Library

The Reading of Joseph Carrington Cabell: "A List of Books on Various Subjects Recommended to a Young Man . . . ."
by
H. Trevor Colbourn

The variety of source material available to the scrupulous historian is enormous, but for writers on aspects of modern history the greatest reliance has long been upon letters and written documents. Occasionally a biographer might mention that his hero owned a library and could read, but generally the tendency has been to ignore an historical source frequently as revealing a personal correspondence. It should be obvious that to some historical figures a library was fully as personal a thing as a diary — and potentially more honest since many diaries are aimed deliberately at posterity. Certainly it is remarkable that only in the past decade have historians become really conscious of the importance of books as reflecting not only the tastes of a person or an age, but also suggesting much of the origin of ideas and ideals.

The most encouraging evidence of such an awakening is perhaps found in the recent Three Presidents and their Books, in which Arthur Bestor looked enquiringly at the reading of Jefferson, David Mearns sought hopefully for the reading interest of Lincoln, and Jonathan Daniels observed the magpie-like reading habits of Franklin Roosevelt. Arthur Bestor was fortunate in having the material to indicate some of the significance of Jefferson's bibliomania, and was immensely aided in this by the prodigious Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson compiled by Millicent Sowerby.[1]

Catalogues, expertly compiled, can be both revealing and instructive to the careful scholar, but taken alone they can be as misleading as the

slanted diary. Few people are without unread books on their shelves, and ownership of an unread volume means little. But there are other ways of assessing the importance of books in advising and forming the ideas of the reader: marginalia, or separate note-taking; the bodily transplanting of a passage from a favored book to support a political argument. Franklin, for example, indulged in extensive and critical marginal comments on some of his books;[2] John Adams was occasionally guilty of plagiarism;[3] Jefferson revealed his literary indebtedness in other ways, including protracted notes in his Commonplace Books,[4] and comments and recommendations for reading offered to his correspondents.

The worthy recipient of two of Jefferson's book lists was a young fellow Virginian, Joseph Carrington Cabell. Cabell actually received four lists of books for his educational guidance in 1800, and while these lists have long reposed in the Cabell Deposit at the University of Virginia's Alderman Library, none have hitherto been published.

Cabell, who has born in Amherst County, like Jefferson attended the College of William and Mary, and was to become best known for his work with Jefferson in securing vital legislative aid for the successful establishment of the University of Virginia. A post-revolutionary Virginia intellectual, Cabell's reading has high relevance to his later career of public service, and it is interesting to note that many of the books he read were also included in the first library of the new University at Charlottesville. Of course, there is an obvious common denominator here: Jefferson (with Madison) largely determined the contents of his University's library, and Jefferson also offered advice to Cabell on books to be read.

The first of the Cabell lists of books came from the Virginia jurist, St. George Tucker, who in 1800 was beginning his tenure of three years as professor of law at the College of William and Mary. The Tucker list, as fits its legal origin, leans heavily on the standard law books of the time, volumes studied with varying diligence by all would-be lawyers at the end of the eighteenth century. There is nothing unusual about the volumes cited: everyone knew the writings of Sir Edward Coke, Jean Jacques Burlamaqui, Samuel Pufendorf, and William Blackstone. Alongside the body of reliable legal works, Tucker recommended

to young Cabell some interesting and significant political selections. Locke's Essay on Civil Government was a natural choice for an eighteenth-century gentleman, but more curious and revealing was the inclusion of James Burgh's Political Disquisitions, and De Lolme's Constitution d'Angleterre, volumes frequently passed over by scholars unaware of the true political perspective of this revolutionary generation.

These same volumes, with many others of similar outlook, are to be found in the two lists sent Cabell by Thomas Jefferson. These lists supply a fascinating insight into the legal, political, and particularly the historical ideas that Jefferson admired and wished others to subscribe to. This is not to suggest that Jefferson wanted to indoctrinate others so that they might share his democratic faith, but rather that he wanted others to be suitably educated so that their reason would be free to recognize the merit of his ideals. Often this Jeffersonian attitude made for a situation perilously akin to propaganda, but in fairness Jefferson was relying ultimately on the exercise of reason—properly equipped—for the right outlook.

Jefferson's lists to Cabell are longer and more extensive in their scope than that sent by Tucker. The list outlining a course in English History is thorough and enormously valuable in indicating the books Jefferson relied upon for his historical knowledge. There is a useful chronological coverage supplied by the volumes of Lyttleton, Habington, Herbert, Camden, Macaulay, Clarendon, Ludlow, Burnet, Dalrymple, and Belsham. Other books by Rapin and Baxter, on the second longer list, offered a broader survey, and a guaranteed antidote to the tory heresies of David Hume. The net result was not merely a list of history books for Cabell to read, but a list which would supply a very definite and politically partisan view of the past.

Jefferson's historical ideas are not an appropriate topic for extended treatment here,[5] but it must be noted that his reading had led him to a complete adherence to the whig interpretation of history. It was an interpretation deriving from a mistaken reading of Tacitus in part (included in Jefferson's second list to Cabell), where the Roman was found to praise the noble Germans for their simple and democratic existence in the Northern forests. These same Anglo-Saxons then migrated to England, taking along the habits of freedom, and, according to Jefferson's whig historians, would probably have lived happily ever after had it not been for the treachery and subversion of William

the Norman in 1066. From that date on, the whigs claimed that English history rang with oppressions, while the virtuous noble Saxons struggled to regain their liberties. Minor gains were reported from King John with Magna Carta (much exaggerated by Coke), more were secured from Charles I, but were lost at the hands of the military despot Oliver Cromwell, and a final if abortive advance had been made towards the pre-Norman, pre-feudal times, with the Glorious Revolution in 1688. However, according to the whigs, this proved a shortlived victory since political corruption in the eighteenth-century demonstrated that septennial parliaments could subvert the popular will as easily as a divine-right monarch.[6]

For an American, this view of the past held great attraction and significance. Americans in the eighteenth-century regarded themselves essentially as transplanted Englishmen, with the rights of Englishmen. Their law books, such as Coke's Institutes, and Blackstone's Commentaries, gave a clear if academically erroneous outline of an Englishman's legal status. Faced with printed evidence that the ancient democratic rights of their Anglo-Saxon ancestors were still unrestored as of the 1770's, and indeed were suffering grievously at the hands of parliamentary tyranny, Americans enjoyed a comforting historical justification for revolution and independence which received its classic exposition in Jefferson's Summary View of the Rights of British America in 1774. It matters little that modern scholarship has demonstrated the fallaciousness of the whig interpretation. What does matter is that it was believed implicitly by many Americans, and exponents like Jefferson were determined that the new generation, which included Cabell of course, should be properly read in their ancient heritage of freedom. Whig historians dominated the lists of recommended reading Jefferson sent out,[7] and the two lists received by Cabell were clearly no exception.

However, this view of the past was hardly confined to history books. It permeated the philosophizing of Algernon Sidney's Discourses on Government, and James Burgh's Political Disquisitions. Burgh's work is especially interesting since it was published initially in London in

1774, and so impressed American readers that it was promptly reprinted by subscription in Philadelphia. Among its subscribers were most of the Continental Congress, some of whom ordered several of the three-volume sets.[8] Burgh, it might be added, not only preached whig history, but graphically depicted the rottenness of eighteenth-century England as he saw it: he even suggested that if all adulterers in England were flayed alive and their skins cured and sold by the government, the alarmingly large national debt could be paid off forthwith.[9]

The last of the four book lists in the Cabell collection was that supplied by Joseph Priestley, and it is the least rewarding. Priestley's "Course of History" is but roughly sketched out, frequently suggestive and unspecific. There is, interestingly, a heavy emphasis upon early English history, and Tacitus would furnish material of a whig background nature. Priestley's suggestions for study are much less political than Jefferson's, and there is more stress on original sources where available. The general content indicates Priestley's greater political disinterestedness, and his unconcern for recent history is a reflection of his antiquarian leanings. But since the antiquarians supplied so much of the material for the whig histories recommended by Jefferson and the whig lawyers urged by Tucker, it is clear that Priestley was also bolstering the historical perspective already evident from the earlier lists. Common historical denominators remain: Tacitus, Verstegan, Rapin, Horne's Mirrour of Justices, Coke, Blackstone, all led in the same whig direction.

The preceding remarks constitute only a few hopefully suggestive comments on the contents of the Cabell reading lists. The literary variety so generously offered the young Virginian is such that these lists will mean many things to many scholars: indeed the singular significance of the Cabell lists lies in the many clues to the eighteenth-century mind to be thus gleaned. A political scientist might note, for example, that Rousseau's Social Contract is included in the Tucker list, but not in the Jefferson lists. For those concerned with the French influence upon Jefferson, this is helpful. Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws figures in both Tucker and Jefferson lists, which would suggest

something again of the attraction of a systematic study of the past and present legal structures for the builders of a new American nation.

Even a superficial glance at the Cabell lists indicates among other things that the study of history and law went hand in hand with the abstractions of political theory. Further study of the books read and recommended by America's revolutionary generation can supply substantial insights into both the intellectual origins of the American Revolution and the pitfalls consciously avoided by its leadership.

COURSES OF READING ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS

• A System of reading on the Subjects of Politics & Law recommended by Mr. Tucker, Professor of Law & Politics in the College of William & Mary.
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• Rutherforth's Institutes of Nat: Law.
• Turnbull's on same.
• Burlemaqui on same.
• Puffendorf's law of Nature & Nations.
• Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws.
• Grotius on War & peace.
• Vattel's Law of Nations.
• Locke on Civil Government.
• Rousseau's Social Contract.
• De Lolme on the British Const:
• Burgh's Political Disquisitions.
• Taylors Elements of Civil Law.
• Justinian's Institutes by Harris.
• Domat's Civil Law.
• Smith's Wealth of Nations.
• Beccaria on Crimes & Punishment
• Stuarts Political Oeconomy.
• Brown on Equality.
• Godwin's Political Justice.
• Price on Civil Liberty & his political works in general.
• Priestley's political works.
• Publius on the American Const:ns
• Mackintosh on the French Const:n
• Jeffersons notes on Virginia.
• Paine's Works.
• Dickenson's Farmers Letters.
• Adams's Defence of the Am: Const:
• Laws of the U. States.
• Laws of Virginia viz:
• — Purvis's Eds: . . . . . . 1684.
• Park's . . . 1733.
• Hunter's. 1753.
• Rind & Purdie's 1769.
• Nicholson & Prentis's. 1785.
• Davis's. 1794.
• Sessions Acts from 177 to 1794 inclusive.
• Blackstone's Commentaries.
• Hargrave's Coke upon Littleton.
• Coke's Inst: 2d 3d & 4th parts.
• Hales History of the Common Law.
• ----- pleas of the Crown.
• Sheppard's Touchstone.
• Woods Inst: of Common Law.
• Doctor & Student.
• Coke's Reports by Wilson.
• Plowden's reports — in English.
• Hobart's reports.
• Carthew's reports.
• Comberbatch's reports.
• Sir Thomas Raymond's reports.
• Shower's reports.
• Cases in H. B. William 3.
• Salkeld's reports.
• Lord Raymond's reports.
• Strange's reports.
• Hardwicke's cases.
• Wilson's reports.
• Burrow's reports.
• Blackstones reports.
• Cowper's reports.
• Douglas's reports.
• Durnford & Easts reports.
• Bacon's Abridgment.
• Jacob's Law Dictionary.
• Treatise of Equity.
• Maxims in Equity.
• Equity Cases abridged. 2 vol:
• Vernon's reports.
• Peere Williams reports.
• Vezeys reports.
• Atkyns reports.
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• 1st of Decr 1800.

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A course of English History — recommended by Mr. Jefferson.

• Rapin to the end of Stephen.
• Ld Lyttleton's Henry II.
• Rapin's R. I. John. 3. E 1.
• Edward 2. by E. F. by Sr Thos More.
• E. 3. R. 2. H. 4. 5. 6. Rapin.
• E. 4. Habington.
• E. 5. R. 3. Sr Thos Moor.
• R. 3. Rapin.
• Henry VII. Ld Bacon.
• Henry 8. Ld Herbert of Cherbury.
• E. 6. his own journal.
• E. 6. Mary. Bp of Hereford.
• Eliz. Cambden.
• the Stewarts. McCaulay.
• Claredon.
• Ludlow.
• Wm & Mary Burnet.
• Dalrymple.
• Wm & M. to Q. 3. Belsham.
• Geo: 3. first 10 years. Burke.
• Scotland. Robertson.
• Ireland. Warner.

A List of Books on various subjects recommended to a young man by Mr Jefferson.

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Ancient History.

• Potter's antiquities of Greece 2 v. 8vo
• Histoire Ancienne de Milot. 4 vol. 12mo
• Voiages d'Anacharsis. 8 v. 8vo
• Livy.
• Sallust.
• Caesar.
• Florus.
• Plutarch.
• Cornelius Nepos.
• Middleton's life of Cicero.
• Tacitus.
• Suctonius.
• Xiphilinus.
• Herodian.
• Gibbon's history. 12 v. 8vo
• Vie privee des Romains par D'arnay. 12mo
• Kennet's antiquities
• Mallet's Northern Antiquities. 2 v. 8vo
• Priestley's historical Chart.
• Priestley's biographical Chart.
• Dictionnaire historique par Lavocat 4 v. 12mo

Modern History.

• Histoire moderne de Milet. 5 v. 12mo
• Tablettes Chronologiques de l'histoire universelle par Langlet du Fresnoy. 2 v. 8vo
• Marianna's history of Spain.
• Revolutions de Portugal de Vertot. 12mo
• Histoire de France de Millot. 3 v. 12mo
• Davila's history of France.
• Memoires de Sully, 8 v. 12mo
• Robertson's Charles. V.
• Watson's Philip II. 3 v. 8vo
• Ceuvres de Frederic roi de Prusse. 17. v. 8vo

British.

• Baxter's history of England. 1 vol: 4to
• Hume's hist: of England. 8 v. 8vo
• Macauley's hist. of the Stewarts.
• Ld Clarendon's revolution. 6 v. 8vo
• Ludlow's memoirs. 3 v. 8vo
• Burnet's history of his own times 6 v. 8vo
• Belsham's history of Wm Anne, & the Brandenburgs. 5 v. 8vo
• Burke's hist: of G III. 8vo
• Ld Orrery's history of England. 2. v. 12mo
• Robertson's history of Scotland. 2 v. 8vo

American.

• Robertson's history of America. 2. v. 8vo
• Douglass's Summary of the British Settlements of America. 2. v. 8vo
• Gordon's history of the Am: War. 4. v. 8vo
• Ramsay's history of the Am: revn 2. v. 8vo
• Belknap's hist: of N. Hampshire. 3. v. 8vo
• Trumbull's hist: of Connecticut
• Williams's Natl & Civil history of Vermt 8vo
• Smith's history of N. York. 8vo
• Smith's history of Jersey. 8vo
• Proud's history of Pensylva. 2. v. 8vo
• Stith's history of Virginia. 8vo
• Keith's history of Virginia. 4to
• Beverley's history of Virga 12mo
• Williamson's hist: N. Carolina (not yet pub:)

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• Hewett's history of S. Carolina. 2. v. 8vo

Physics.

• Dr Franklin's philosophical works. 4to

Agriculture

• Dickson's husbandry of the ancients. 2. v. 8vo
• Tull's husbandry. 8vo
• Ld Kaim's Gentleman farmer. 8vo
• Young's Rural economy. 8vo
• Kirwan on Manures & soils. 8vo

Chemistry

• Lavosier. 2. v. 12mo
• Fourcroy. 4. v. 12mo

Surgery.

• Water's abridgment of Bell's Surgery. 8vo

Medicine.

• Cullen's Materia Medica. 2. v.
• the newest London Dispensatory. 8vo
• Tissot's advice. 8vo
• Buckan's domestic medicine. 8vo
• Cullen's Practice of Physic. 4. v. 8vo
• Cheselden's Anatomy. 8vo

Nat1 history

• Linnaei systema naturae. 4. v. 8vo
• Histoire naturel de Buffon, & cepede. 75. v. 12mo
• Adams on the Microscope. 8vo

Botany.

• Linnaei Philosophia botanica. 8vo
• Linnaei Genera plantarum. 8vo
• Linnaei Species plantarum. 2. v. 8vo
• )
• )latest editions
• )
• Clayton's Flora Virginica. 4to

Minerals.

• Cronstedt's Mineralogy by Magellan. 2. v. 8vo
• Dachosta's elements of Conchology. 8vo

Ethics.

• Locke's essay on the human unders: 2. v. 8vo
• Stewart's Philosophy of the human mind.
• Ceuvres de Helvetius. 5. v. 8vo
• Progres de l'esprit humain par Condorcet. 8vo
• Ld Kaim's Natural religion. 8vo
• Puffendorf des devoirs de l'homme et du citoyen. 2. v. 12mo
• Ruines de Volnay. 8vo
• Locke's Conduct of the mind in search after truth. 12mo
• Cicero de officiis.
• Senecae philosophica.
• Les moralistes anciennes par Leveque. 18 v. petit format.
• Les maximes de Rochfoucault. 12mo
• Oeconomy of human life. 12mo
• Gregory's legacy. 12mo
• Gregory's comparative view. 12mo
• Ld Bacon's essays. 12mo

L. of

• Vattel. Droit des gens. 4to

Nations.

• Droit des gens moderne. par martens. 2 v. 12mo

Religion.

• Paley's evidences. 8vo
• Middleton's Miscell: works. 5. v. 8vo
• Priestley's Hist: of the corruptions of
• Christianity. 2. v. 8vo
• Sterne's sermons.
• Enfield's sermons.
• &c. &c. this article is ad libitum.

Politics.

• Locke on government. 8vo
• Sidney on government.
• Beccaria on crimes & punishmts 12mo
• Chipman's sketches on the principles of government. 12mo
• Priestley's principles of govt 12mo
• Montesquieu.
• De Lolme sur la constitution D'angl: 12mo
• Ld Bolingbroke's works.
• Burgh's political disquisitions. 3. v. 8vo
• Callendar's Political progres of B. 8vo
• Junius's letters. 2. v. 12mo
• Hatsell's Precedents in parlm: 3. v. 8vo
• Petty's Political Arithmetic. 8vo
• The Federalist. 2. v. 12mo
• Debates in the conventions of Massachusetts, Pensylva., N. York. Virga. 4. v. 8vo
• Franklin's political works. 8vo
• Anderson's history of Commerce. 6. v. 8vo
• Smith's Wealth of Nations. 3. v. 8vo
• Distribution de richesses par Turgot. 8vo
• Hume's essays. 4. v. 12mo
• Vie de Turgot par Condorcet. 8vo

Mathematics.

• Pike's Arithmetic. 8vo
• Cours de mathematiques pour la marine, de Bezout. 5. v. 8vo

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• Histoire de Math: par Montuela. 2. v. 4to
• Euclid.
• Love's surveying. 8vo
• Hutton's Mathematical tables. 8vo

Physica Mathem:

• Nicholson's Nat: philosophy. 2. v. 8vo
• Mussenbrock. Cours de Physique par Sigaud. 3. v. 4to
• Lettres d'Euler de Physique par Condorcet. 3. v. 12mo
• Ferguson's mechanics. 8vo
• Smith's Wealth of Nations. 3. v. 8vo
• Distribution de richesses par Turgot. 8vo
• Hume's essays. 4. v. 12mo
• Vie de Turgot par Condorcet. 8vo

Mathematics.

• Pike's Arithmetic. 8vo
• Cours de mathematiques pour la marine, de Bezout. 5. v. 8vo
• Histoire de Math: par Montuela. 2. v. 4to
• Euclid.
• Love's surveying. 8vo
• Hutton's Mathematical tables. 8vo

Physica Mathem:

• Nicholson's Nat: philosophy. 2. v. 8vo
• Mussenbrock. Cours de Physique par Sigaud. 3. v. 4to
• Letters d'Euler de Physique par Condorcet. 3. v. 12mo
• Ferguson's mechanics. 8vo

Astronomy.

• Ferguson's Astronomy. 8vo
• Astronomie de De la Lande. 4. v. 4to

Geography.

• Busching's geography. 6. v. 4to
• Atlas portatif de Grenet. 4to
• Guthrie's geographical Gramr: 8vo
• Morse's Am. Geography. 8vo
• Travels ad libitum.

Poetry.

• ad libitum.

Oratory.

• Blair's lectures in rhetoric. 3. v. 8vo
• Sheridan's on elocution. 8vo
• Mason on Poetical & Prosaic numbers. 8vo

Criticism.

• Dictionaries. Grammars &c. ad lib:

Polygraphics

• L. Encyclopedie de Diderot et Dalambert, eds: de Lausanne 39. v. 8vo
• Owen's dictionary of Arts & Sciences. 4. v. 8vo
• Ceuvres de Rousseau. 31. v. 12mo
• Ciceronis opera.

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• 8vos about 7/.
• 4tos about 18/. Sept: 1800
• folios about 30/. in France they are about 1/5 cheaper.

Course of History recommended by Priestley

• Herodotus.
• + Thucydides, Xenophon, Diodorus Siculus, Quintus Curtius, arrian, Justin, Plutarch, Cornelius Nepos.
• + Dionysius Halicarnssensis, Livy, Polybius, Appian
• + Sallust, Caesar, Hirtius, Dio Cassius, Paterculus, Suetonius, Tacitus.
• + Aurelius Victor, Herodian, Scriptores, Romani, Eutropius, Zozimus, Zonaras, Jornandes, Ammianus Mariellinus, Procopius, Agathias, Nicetas Acominatus, Nicephorus Gregoras, Johannes Cantacuzenes. Use of books of Antiquities, Writers who have explained Coins and inscriptions. Use of a knowledge of the Civil Law. Of Modern Compilations of History. The universal history. Hooke's Roman History.+
• Of the method of studying the English History. Original writers recommended. Gildas. Bede. Nennius. Hoel Dha's laws. Geoffrey of Monmouth. Caradocus. Roman writers of English Affairs. Their defects how supplied. Fulness of English History from the time of Christianity accounted for. Saxon Recorders. Saxon Chronicle. Asser Menevensis. Ethelward. Verstegen. Sheringham. What foreign Histories are useful to a knowledge of the English affairs in early Times. Of the Danish, Islandic, German, and Norwegian Antiquities.
• —The English History from the Conquest. Ingulphus of Croyland, Marianus Scotus. Florentius Bravonius, Eadmerus, William of Malmsbury, Simeon of Durham, Eealred, Henry of Huntington, William of Newbury. Gervase of Ganterbury, Roger de Hoveden, Ralph de Diceto, Mathew Paris, Chronicle of Mailros, Thomas Wicks, Nicholas Trivet, Roger

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  Castrensis, John Brompton, Walter of Hemingford, Ralph Higden, John Vicar of Tinmouth, Mathew of Westminster, Henry Knighton, Froissart, Thomas of Walsingham, William Caxton, and John Ross.
• —Robert Fabian, Polydore Virgil, Edward Hall, Hollingshead, Stow, Speed, Baker, Clarendon, Whitlocke, and Ludlow. Burnet, Rapin, Hume, Robertson. Parliamentary History. Greys Debates. Use of private Letters, Memorials, and other Remains of men in public Character.
• —Histories of particular lives & Reigns. Of William the Conqueror by William of Poictiers. Of Edward 2, by Thomas de la More. Of Henry 5. by Titus Livius. Of Edward 4. by Haddington. Of Edward 5 by Sir Thomas More. Of Henry 7. by Sir Francis Bacon. Of Henry 8. by Lord Herbert of Cherbury. Edward 6th's own Diary. Of Eliabeth by Camden. Lives written by Harris & others.
• —Light thrown upon the Civil History of England by the ecclesiastical Writers. Odericus Vitalis. & b. Burnet's History of the Reformation. Cranmers Memorials published by Strype. An Acquaintance with the Old English Law-books useful to an English Historian. Coustumier de Normandy. Glanville, Bracton, Fleta, Hengham's Horn's Mirrors de Justice, Breton, Novae Narrationes, Fortescue de laudibus legum Angliae, Statham's Abridgement of Reports, Littleton and Coke, Doctor and Student, Fitzherbert de Natura Brevium. Year Books, Reports &c. Blacstone's Commentaries.
• — Of the English Records. Royal Proclamations. Dispatches and Instructions for Foreign Ministers. Leagues, Treaties, Memorials &c. where to be found. Records of the Old Court of Chivalry. Agards Collections. Cotton's Library. Records of Foreign States. Rymer's Foedera. The Green Cloth. Acts of Parliament. Rastal's Collection. Prynne's Abridgement & others. Journals of both Houses. Summons of the Nobility in Dugdale. Records in the Courts of Westminster. Disposition of the Records in the Tower.
• —The petty Bag. office. The Master of the Rolls. Registrum de Cancellaria, Lower Exchequer. The pipe office. The Several Remembrancers. Doomsday Book. The Red Book of the Exchequer. The Black Book. Testa Nevilli. Records of the inferior Courts. Those kept by the Secretary of the Admiralty. The office of Ordnance. The Libraries and Museums of Nobelmen & private Gentlemen. Use of the British Museum. What Records have been published. Formulare Anglicanum. Pedigrees of Anciet Families. Old accounts of Expenses and Disbursements in Families. Ledger Books, and other Domestic Records. Monasticum Anglicanum by Dugdale. Notitia Monastica by Tanner. Univer[si]ty Monuments. Historiola Oxoniensis. Wood's History and Antiquities of Oxford. Black Book of Cambridge. Lives of English Writers by Leland and others. Registers in Ecclesiastical Courts.
• —Historians of other Nations. Accounts of them to be looked for in such writers as Wheare and Rawlinson. What sufficient for an Englishman. Heinault's History of France. Use of the Universal History. Thuanus, Guicciardini, Davila, Bentivoglio's history of the wars of the Netherlands, Giannone's Hist: of Naples, Voltaire's general History. Lives. Travels & Voyages. Suites of Histories.

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