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the house of lords concerning 
the printing of the ancient re- 
cords of parliament. To the su- 
perintendance of this work he intro- 
duced his father-in-law, Mr. Mo- 
rant; and, on his death, in 1770, 
was himself appointed by the house 
of lords to carry on the work; a 
service in which he was employed 
till its completion, five years after- 
wards. He was then appointed, on 
the death of Henry Rooke, esq. his 
majesty’s chief clerk in the record- 
office in the Tower of London ; and, 
on the decease of sir John Shelley, he 
succeeded to the office of keeper of 
the records. Mr. A. was several 
times on the continent on literary 
pursuits. His publications were, 
In the Archxologia, vol. 1V. p. 195, 
On the events produced in Kng- 
land by the grant of the kingdom 
of Sicily to prince Edmond, with 
remarks on the seal of that prince, 
ef gold, weight eight pennyweights, 
formerly in the earl of Oxford’s 
collection, then of James West, 
esq. whence it passed into that of 
Gustavus Brander, esq. and was 
bought in at 18]. 2s. at the sale of 
his collection, by Mr. Gerrard, Fe- 
bruary, 1790. VII. 348, On the 
radical letters of the Pelasgians, and 
their derivatives. X. 226, Obser- 
vations on a charter in his library, 
indorsed, in a hand coeval with it, 
<< Hee est carta regis Nadgari de in- 
stitutione abbatis Kliensis et dupli- 
catus ;’? which he shews not to be 
~go old as king Edgar. XII. On 
the tenures, customs, &c. of his 
manor of Great Tey, Essex, by _ 
onizell, i. e. ungeld, an arbitrary 
taillage. XIII. 208. Observations 
on stone pillars, crosses, and cruci- 
fixes, from Mr. Anstis’s MS. in his 
library, Ibid. 313. Copy of a 
curious record of pardon in the 
‘ 1 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
Tower of London, 1357, of a wo- 
man indicted for murdering her 
husband, and remaining, withont 
pleading, in prison 40 days without . 
sustenance. ‘¢ The Will of King 
Henry VII. 1775.” Ato. “A 
Catalogue of the MSS. in the 
Cottonian Library; to which are 
added, many Emendations and Ad- 
ditions : with an Appendix, contain- 
ing an Account of the Damage sus- 
tained by the Fire in 1731; and 
also a Catalogue of the Charters 
preserved in the same Library,” 
was communicated by him to S$, 
Hooper,who published them in 1777, 
8vo. ‘¢ The Origin and Progress of 
Writing, as well hieroglyphic as 
elementary ; illustrated by Engray~ 
ings taken from Marbles, MSS. and 
Charters, ancient and modern: also 
some Account of the Origin and 
Progress of Printing, 1784,’? 4to.— 
A new edition was published this 
year, with one additional plate from 
a MS. in the British Museum, mark- 
ed Nero, D. LV. ; and a portrait of 
Mr. A. painted by Howard, and en- 
graved by Shelton, in which the ac- 
cidental loss of an eye when at school 
is concealed. The Will of King 
Alfred, found in a register of New- 
minster, Winchester, in the posses- 
sion of the rey. George North, and 
given by Dr. Lort, his executor, to 
Mr. Astle, 1769; was printed at 
Oxford, with the illustrations of 
Mr. Manning, under the superinten- 
dance of sir H. Croft, 1788, 4to. 
‘¢ An Account of the. Seals of the 
King’s Royal Burghs and Magnates 
of Scotland, with five Plates, 1793,” 
fol. The Calender to the Patent Rolls 
in the Tower of London, reaching 
from 3 John to 23 Edward IV. 
containing grants of offices and 
lands, restitutions of temporalities 
to bishops, abbots, and other eccle- 
siastical 
