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121. Harley MS 300

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 300
Title:
Answer by John Bowdiche to a Bill of Complaint of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, with a catalogue of historical manuscripts in the collection of Sir Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume. On the rectos is the answer of John Bowdiche [Bowditch?] the younger, gentleman, to the Bill of Complaint of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Knight, Complainant. Starting from the back of the volume, on the versos, is a selected index of historical manuscripts found within the col...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

122. Harley MS 302

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 302
Title:
Notes and memoranda relating to abuses in the Royal Navy
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing, under various headings, a large number of facts, notes and memoranda relating to abuses done and committed in the Royal Navy. The manuscript appears to have been used by the House of Commons, or Committees within the House, when drawing out charges, either dur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

123. Harley MS 306

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 306
Title:
Collection of tracts relating to trade in England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-16r: Copy of '[t]he victuellinge of the Kinge and the Queenes Majesties Shippes there [Portesmowth, London and Dovar], beginninge the firste of Januarie, 1556 / And ending the laste of Marche followinge, as well for the Seas as in Harborowe, which Victuallinge was made by Edw...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1580-c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

124. Harley MS 308

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 308
Title:
‘Reeve’ or ‘Melford’ Register of Bury St Edmunds Abbey
Scope & Content:
f. 1*: Inserted slip of parchment, perhaps from a former cover; on the verso in faint red 16th-century book-hand, ‘Dompnus Edmundus Bury vestiarius – 1529; dompnus Edmundus Bury pitanciarius. 1530’. ff. 1r–139r: Indentures (1527–40), in chronological order. Later additions to 1546: leases, manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1517-1546
Extent:

1 volume

125. Harley MS 332

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 332
Title:
Arms of the Knights of the Garter
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: 15 Arms of the Knights of the Garter with titles and mottos. Decoration: Arms and crests in colours; outline of an unfinished coat of arms on f. 5v
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

126. Harley MS 338

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 338
Title:
English historical collection, mainly written by Sampson Erdeswick and John Joscelin
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A request to John Stow for drawing the descent of Herleva by Henry Savile of Banke (b. 1568, d. 1617). ff. 1*verso-1r: Notes on the descent of Herleva [Arlette], mother of William the Conqueror; by Sampson Erdeswicke (d. 1603). ff. 2r, 3r, 4r: Notes on the charter and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1590-1611
Extent:
1 volume

127. Harley MS 339

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 339
Title:
Papers of Sir Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
Quarto manuscript volume containing various papers of Sir Simonds D'Ewes. Contents: ff. 1-2v: 'A breife meaning of God's law', seemingly written by Simonds D'Ewes as a school boy to his mother, along with other notes in English and Latin. ff. 3-3v: Part of a letter from Simonds D'Ewes to a cler...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1547-1650?
Extent:
1 volume

128. Harley MS 352

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 352
Title:
An abridgment of the Acts of the Privy Council of King Edward IV
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume, containing an abridgement of the book of the Acts of the Privy Council of King Edward IV, transcribed by Mr Ralph Starkey, and signed and dated, August 1620, by him on f. 256v. ff. 257-266 contains an index to this volume created by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, which follows the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1620
Extent:
1 volume

129. Harley MS 355

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 355
Title:
Law reports of William Bendlowes, Serjeant-at-Law
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume, containing law reports of William Bendlowes, here written Benlows, Serjeant-at-Law. The reports are indexed at the front of the volume.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

130. Harley MS 357

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 357
Title:
John of Worcester, Chronicon; Eadmer, Historiae novorum in Anglia; Ordo succesionis archiepiscoporum Canutariensis ecclesiae a sancto Augustino Anglorum apostolo; Thomas Stubbes, Historia archiepiscopourm Ebarocensium ad Thomam Wolsey; John Philippson (Sleidanus), Latin abridgement of Jean Froissart’s Chronicles
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-17v, 99*recto-107v: John of Worcester, Chronicon (1057-1118); this copy may originally have been part of the same manuscript as Harley MS 96, ff. 121-180; Harley MS 397, ff. 2-8r; and Harley MS 359, ff. 9-14 (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1966), p. 217 [X.75])....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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