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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7312
Title:: Miscellany of satirical poetry, and a copy of the play 'Sodom, or The Quintesence of Debauchery'
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume. Contents: p. 1*: Table of Contents. pp. 1-2: 'Prologue'. First line: 'Gentle Reproofes have long been try'd in vaine'. pp. 2-4: 'The Hypocrite'. First line: 'Thou'rt more unconstant, then the wind or sea'. pp. 5-10: 'Observacons on Tunbridge Wells' [By John Wilmot, 2nd ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7315
Title:: Miscellany containing mostly political poetry
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume containing various verses and prose in two parts, by two or more professional scribes. The first part (ff. 1-149) is indexed (ff. 150-151). The second part (ff. 152-303) contains a table of contents at the front. Contents: ff. 1-7v: 'The second Advice to a Painter for dr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1703
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7337-7342
Title:: 'A Collection of the most celebrated Services and Anthems used in the Church of England from the Reformation to the Restauration of K. Charles II. Composed by the best masters, and collected by Thomas Tudway, D.M., Musick-Professor to the University of Cambridge, a.d. mdccxv.'
Scope & Content:: Services and anthems collected by Thomas Tudway, D.M., Musick-Professor to the University of Cambridge, 1715, and afterwards brought down to the end of Queen Anne's reign. In score. In six volumes. In a short introduction addressed to Edward, Lord Harley [2nd Earl of Oxford, 1724], for whom the ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1715-1720
Extent:: 6 volumes (196, 254, 244, 268, 294, 383 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7343
Title:: Words of the morning service, evening service and three anthems composed by Thomas Tudway for the consecration of Lord Harley's chapel at Wimpole
Scope & Content:: ff. 2-8, 12-14. Words of the Morning Service (Te Deum, Jubilate, and Kyrie) and Evening Service, from music composed by Dr. Thomas Tudway for the consecration of Lord Harley's chapel at Wimpole, in 1721. For the music, see Add MS 36268, ff. 3b-52b, 62-68. ff. 9-11, 15-16v. The words of three An...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1724
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7361
Title:: List of the House of Commons 1702
Scope & Content:: ‘A List of the Kts. Citizens & Burgesses of Parliamt. Call’d to meet at Westminster the 20th of Augt. 1702. And which was Dissolv’d the 5th of April, 1705. Together with a List of the Kts. Citizens & Burgesses of Parliamt. Called to meet By Writt. bearing Test. The 2d May 1705. And retur...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1702-1705
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7363
Title:: Statutes of Shrewsbury Grammar School, with Catalogue of books at Lincoln’s Inn
Scope & Content:: Statutes of the Grammar School at Shrewsbury, and other documents relative to it. Catalogue of books at Lincoln’s Inn, taken in September 1646.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7364
Title:: Book of military tactics
Scope & Content:: A book of tactics, very fairly transcribed, apparently in the time of Charles I. Divided into six chapters, with many large diagrams. Chapter 1: ‘Of the ordering of a file of a Bodie of Men or Company. And of the Duties of the Souldiers in their files’. Chapter 2: ‘Of Distances’. Chapter 3...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7365
Title:: General survey of the Post Office 1685, by T. Gardiner
Scope & Content:: T. Gardiner’s general survey of the Post Office, 1685, presented by the author to James, Duke of York. Includes route diagrams. Inscribed by Lord Oxford: ‘This Book did belong to King James, I had it from Coll. Grahame’.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1685
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7367
Title:: 'The Humorous Lovers, A Comedy' by William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Scope & Content:: Fair copy manuscript of the play 'The Humorous Lovers, A Comedy' by William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle. This play was first performed in 1667 by the Duke of York's company, and the text was first printed in 1677. In the lower right corner of folio 1 is inscribed 'Humores, Mores, Res, jud...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1667
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7368
Title:: The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore, by Anthony Munday and others, possibly including William Shakespeare
Scope & Content:: A collaborative manuscript play concerning the life of Sir Thomas More (1478–1535), Lord Chancellor, humanist and martyr. Likely to have been written in the 1590s, primarily by Anthony Munday (bap. 1560, d. 1633), playwright and translator, possibly aided by Henry Chettle (d. 1603-07), printer a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1590-1604
Extent:: 1 volume

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