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1401. Harley MS 7371

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7371
Title:
Miscellany of English historical papers
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a miscellany of historical papers in English, French and Latin, written in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. They were part of two separate manuscripts (ff. 1-77; and ff. 80r-184v) that were joined together at a later point. The volume also contains fragments of a 13th-c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1402. Harley MS 7376

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7376
Title:
An inventory of the jewels of Queen Mary I; accounts on the hundreds of Sussex and Kent
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains three parts: an inventory of jewels delivered to Queen Mary I (ff. 1r-42v); an early 14th-century description of the hundreds in Sussex and Kent (ff. 44r-58v); and a 16th-century inventory of tax payments from the hundreds in Kent (ff. 63r-220v). The three part...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1312-c 1553
Extent:
1 volume

1403. Harley MS 7382

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7382
Title:
Robert Cooke, A Baronage of England from the Conquest
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 8r-44r: Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms (1567-1592/3), A Baronage of England from the Conquest; up to the 14th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1572 [English]. ff. 44v-46r: A continuation of the Baronage of England for King James VI and I [Latin]. The manuscript ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1404. Harley MS 7389

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7389
Title:
Monastic lands donated and exchanged, 1545-1549
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-51v: An account of ‘Monastery lands given and exchanged to and with sundry persons by the king Henry 8 and Edward 6 - vidilicet a 16 Novembris Anno 37 Henrici 8 usque 27 Junij Anno 2. Edwardi 6’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 52r: A note and the coats of arms o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

1405. Harley MS 7390

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7390
Title:
Account book of the Steward of William Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-124v: The account of the Steward of William Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath, of weekly expenses for several years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1 February 1566/7-2 October 1580). The manuscript contains an addition: ff. 125r-125v: A medieval end-leaf, traken from a 15th-cen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1406. Harley MS 7397

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7397
Title:
Baronage of England to the time of Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-45v: Baronage of England to the time of Queen Elizabeth I.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1407. Harley MS 7482-7493

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7482-7493
Title:
Survey of Stores, 1693-1694
Scope & Content:
Surveys of the stores in the yards at Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham, Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Sheerness. The first six items in this series are surveys of stores, one for each of the yards listed above, in 1693. They are bound individually. The second six items in this series have been bound to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1693-1694
Extent:
7 volumes (12 items)

1408. Harley MS 7505

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7505
Title:
Humfrey Wanley, Facsimile copies of charters and inscriptions
Scope & Content:
f. 1v: Alphabet by Wanley, imitating two biblical fragments (which originally followed the page, according to his note, but are no longer present). f. 2r–v: Charters copied by Wanley in facsimile of the originals. ff. 3r–8v: Inventory of goods (including some books), 1464, of the Collegiate Ch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1689-1691
Extent:

Parchment codex

1409. Harley MS 7506

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7506
Title:
An Account of the Quakers’ Sufferings, upon Statutes made against the Papists, 1676-1679
Scope & Content:
An account of Quakers’ sufferings 1676-1679, addressed to the King, and marked as having belonged to King James. Provenance inscription at head of f. 1: ‘This did belong to King James. I had it from Coll. Grahame’. f.1: ‘To the King. The Case of the People called Quakers who are still sufferers...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1680
Extent:
1 volume

1410. Harley MS 7507

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7507
Title:
Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (Bk. III), in an anonymous English translation
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an anonymous English translation of the third book of Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (Discourses on the First Ten of Titus Livy) by the Italian writer and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli (b. 1469, d. 1527). The work is a commentary on the first ten boo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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