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331. Harley MS 776

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 776
Title:
Bartholomew de Cotton, Historia Anglicana (Book 2); Tractatus de Archiepiscopis et Episcopis Angliae (Book 3); letter of Pope Gregory X to the bishops of London and Ely; The Siege of Caerlaverock
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-31v: Bartholomew de Cotton, Historia Anglicana scilicet Liber secundus de Regibus, Anglis, Dacis, et Normannis; according to an introduction ‘Extracted out a auncient MS [Cotton MS Nero C V] written about the latter ende of the yeere 1298’. ff. 32r-45v: Tractatus de Archiepis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

332. Harley MS 777

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 777
Title:
Proceedings of the House of Commons, 1610
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing a journal of the proceedings of the House of Commons between 14 February 1609 [1610] and 23 July 1610.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1610
Extent:
1 volume

333. Harley MS 779

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 779
Title:
Copies of surveys of the manors of East Molesey and West Molesey
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-68r: Copies of surveys of the manors of East Molesey ['East Mulsey'] alias Mulsey Priors and of West Molesey ['West Mulsey'] alias Mulsey Matham in Surrey.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

334. Harley MS 780

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 780
Title:
A debate between 'Fayrefax' and 'Browne' about the succession to the Crown of England after the death of Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-44r: A debate between 'Fayrefax' and 'Browne' about the succession to the Crown of England after the death of Elizabeth I. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1v: An indenture between John Curle and John Hall of Rochester, dated to 1598.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

335. Harley MS 781

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 781
Title:
Register of Petitions made to the Prince of Wales, 1617-1625
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume, containing a register of all petitions made to Prince Charles, Prince of Wales [later Charles I], with their respective answers, from 14 November 1617 to 20 February 1624 [1625].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1617-1625
Extent:
1 volume

336. Harley MS 786

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 786
Title:
Legal arguments about ship money
Scope & Content:
Collection of legal arguments about ship money. The final folio is incomplete, suggesting the volume is unfinished. f. 1*: Title: ‘The Judges Arguments concerninge shippe money’. f. 1: First and second certificates of Sir John Denham, one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer, concerning s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1638
Extent:
1 volume

337. Harley MS 789

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 789
Title:
Controversies against Papists
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: 'Controversies Against Papistes'; erased: 'Controversies Against Papists alias Roman Catholics'. ff. 1r-112v: The ‘sixte questione of the firste controversye which is of the perfectione of the scripture againste mennes traditiones’ [17 Chapters]. ff. 113r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

338. Harley MS 790

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 790
Title:
History of the Mughal emperors Humayun, Akbar, and Jehangir
Scope & Content:
History of the Mughal emperors Humayun, Akbar and Jehangir. Translation or partial translation of a Dutch account by Francisco Pelsaert, factor of the Dutch East India Company, 1626-1627 (Netherlands Archives VOC 4095 and 4096).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

339. Harley MS 791

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 791
Title:
Instructions for monastic visitations and ecclesiastical properties by Henry VIII; account book of George Montaigne of the Hospital of Savoy; account of the baptism of Charles I; Articles of the Church of England; William Austen, Poem on the Passion; John Milton, Hobson's Epitaph; Sir Walter Raleigh, Speech on the Scaffold; English poems by William Herbert, John Donne, Richard Corbett, Ben Jonson and John Grange; Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of at least eight parts that were produced at separate times in the 16th and 17th centuries, and were bound together at an unknown stage before reaching the Harleian Library. Only the first three parts date to the 16th century. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-4v: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1540-c 1630
Extent:
1 volume

340. Harley MS 793

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 793
Title:
Yorkshire notes: Hang West, Hang East and Hallikeld Hundreds and the Diocese of York
Scope & Content:
Notes extracted from the collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), now in the Bodleian Library. Sections of the manuscript have been misplaced in this volume, as the original foliation indicates. Concordance of original and British Library foliation at front of volume. Contents: ff. 2-18, 61...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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