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91. Harley MS 246

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Harley MS 246
Title:
A collection of heraldic and historical notes copied from older manuscripts and rolls
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A brief chronicle of the history of the world in Latin, beginning with an entry for Pope Gregory the Great, who first called himself the ‘servant of the servants of God’ (dated to 592); the source for this information is identified as a chronicle printed at Antwerp by Joha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1607-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume

92. Harley MS 247

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 247
Title:
A collection of transcripts from various historical works
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–225r: A collection of transcripts from various historical works. ff. 1r–3v: Collections from Book VII of Livy's History by M. Valerio Corvino. ff. 4r–5v: A tattered fragment of a brief and imperfect chronicle, which begins with a translation of Books II––V of Bede's Ecclesiastical Histo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

93. Harley MS 248

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 248
Title:
Collection of English historical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-74r: Excerpts from rolls of the reign of Henry III. ff. 75r-95r: An ‘oration perswading a lymittacion of succession to the heires of the French Queene’. ff. 95v-98r: A treatise entitled ‘That the Lymittacion of the Succession of the Crowne, should be for the Queenes majesti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

94. Harley MS 249

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 249
Title:
A collection of papers concerning political and legal affairs in the time of Henry VIII to James I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-118v: A large collection of papers concerning political and legal affairs in the time of Henry VIII-James I, including transcripts and originals. The originals date to about 1546-1608. The collection opens with 'The confession taken of twentie and thre of th ecrediblest Forsath...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1546-1608
Extent:
1 volume

95. Harley MS 250

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 250
Title:
Transcripts of historical tracts and papers
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-94: Life of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, during the reign of Henry VIII. Imperfect. It begins on folio 8v, line 20 of the Arundel MS 152. ff. 95-142: Account of the levying and collecting of the aid for King James I for knighting his son Henry, Prince of Wales. Dated at Whithall, Feb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

96. Harley MS 252

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 252
Title:
A collection of English historical, political and legal papers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v: A fragment concerning the issuing of subpoenas from the Court of Chancery, without Bills of Complaint; imperfect. f. 3r: A crossed-out 17th-century text. ff. 3v-4v: ‘Heare followeth the Coppy of the Assignatyon of suche Landes and Revenewes as weare appoynted for the Su...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1555-1645
Extent:
1 volume

97. Harley MS 253

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 253
Title:
Volume of historical papers, mostly relating to naval matters, collected by Ralph Starkey
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-9r: 'Certaine reasons to approove the menes that fostered and contynued all the abuses Comitted in the office of the Shippes' ff. 9r-10r: 'The forme of a Privy Seale, for tounage of a Nue Shippes at 5s the tonne, to incourage others to builde Shippes of great Burthen'. f. 10...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

98. Harley MS 255

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 255
Title:
Papers on numismatics, with letters of Sir Simonds D’Ewes and others
Scope & Content:
Loose papers relating to numismatics, mostly very rough notes in the hand of Simonds D’Ewes. Written on the back of letters or papers on other subjects. Contents: ff. 1-24: Rough notes on British coinage, written on the back of recycled letters. Heading: ‘Prolegomena ad Thesaurum Numarium Brit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

99. Harley MS 256

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 256
Title:
Acts of the Privy Council, 1545 and 1546
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the acts of the Privy Council between 1545 and 1546. Originally, it may have been bound together with Harley MS 169, ff. 1-31, containing the acts of the Privy Council from 1558. Contents: ff. 1r-292r: Acts of the Privy Council, 1545-1546, beginning ‘A Book of the Act...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

100. Harley MS 257

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 257
Title:
The Lives of the Bishops of Lindisfarne and Durham
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-63r: The Lives of the Bishops of Lindisfarne and Durham, from Aidan to Thomas Hatfield (19 Edward III), beginning 'The Church of holy lland through the most servent faith in Crist of the glorious king in times past of Northumberland and the pretious martir Oswald did take the b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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