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The Libraries of George III

George III was a keen bibliophile

    THOMAS BLOUNT (1618–79)

    Fragmenta Antiquitatis : Antient Tenures of Land, and Jocular Customs of Some Mannors

    1679

    16.5 x 11.0 x 2.2 cm (book measurement (conservation)) | RCIN 1073273

    A seventeenth-century work that lists some of the strange manorial byelaws and customs that have existed across England.

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