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Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Add. C. 125. Paper. i+25 folios. 1677 [Certified copies in Latin, made in March 1676/7, of three Patent Rolls relating to the Philosopher's Stone which was to transmute baser substances into gold and silver.]
1. f1 Patent Roll, March 9, 1446 (24 Hen. vi), pt.2, membr. 14: to Sir Edm. de Trafford and Sir Thomas Assheton.
2. f4 patent Roll, May 31, 1456 (34 Hen. vi), membr. 7: to John Fauceby, John Kirkeby and John Rayny.
3. f18 Patent Roll, March 9 1456/7 (35 Hen. vi), pt 1, membr. 6 : a commission to Thomas Hernei an Austin friar, Robert Glaselay a Cambridge Dominican, William Atclyf the Queen's physician, Henry Sharpe master of St Lawrence Pountenay College in London, and six others, to examine into and report on the Philosopher's Stone.
There are endorsements of each paper in a hand not unlike that of Peter Le Neve.
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