Direction for search of records remaining in the Chancerie, Tower, Excheqver, with the limnes thereof viz. The Kings remembrancer. Lord Treasurers remembrancer. Clarke of the extreats. Pipe. Auditors. The first fruits. Augmentation of the reueune. Kings bench. Common pleas. Records of courts Christian. For the clearing of all such titles, and questions, as the same may concerne. With the accustomed fees of search: and diuerse necessarie obseruations
A 1622 London guide by Thomas Powell, printed by B. Alsop for Paul Man, explaining how to search the royal records held in the Chancery, Tower and Exchequer for legal and property questions. It is aimed at lawyers and record-seekers and sets out search fees and practical notes. The two pictures are small decorated initial letters: an H with interlaced foliage and scrollwork in twin panels, and a W set in a square frame with a small face and ornament. A designer could take from them the compact, letter-filling ornament typical of early seventeenth-century English printing.
