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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 803
Title:: Yorkshire notes: Agbrigg Wapentake
Scope & Content:: Notes on the history of towns, villages and hamlets within the wapentake of Agbrigg, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Notes extracted from the collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), now in the Bodleian Library. Chiefly in the hand of Mr Tilleyson or Tillotson. Contents: f. 1*: Inscripti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 804
Title:: Yorkshire notes: Staincliff and Ewcross Wapentakes
Scope & Content:: Notes on the history of towns, villages and hamlets within the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Notes extracted from the collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), now in the Bodleian Library. Chiefly in the hand of Mr Tilleyson or Tillotson. The first part...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 805
Title:: Notes on Yorkshire families, extracted by Mr Jennyngs
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume which appears to be part of a larger work of Mr Jennyngs, extracted from the collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654). Consists of notes on Yorkshire families, with some genealogical tables, entered in alphabetical order A-G. Some entries apart from name heading (for ex...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 808
Title:: Visitation of Oxfordshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto-2*recto: An index of family names. f. 2*verso: The ‘Armes of the Cittie of Oxenforde’. f. 3*recto: The seals of the ‘Towne and Borough of Whitney’ and ‘Burforde’. f. 3*verso: A description of the ‘Colledges in the Universetie of Oxforde’. ff. 1r-47v: The ‘Visitacio...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1574
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 809
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto-43r: A collection of the arms of English gentry, tricked. ff. 44r-49r: A table of family names.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 810
Title:: English pedigrees and heraldry
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-20v: Pedigrees of Leicestershire from the Visitation of 1564. ff. 21r-33v: Pedigrees and arms of Warwickshire. ff. 34v-114r: Pedigrees and arms of Lincolnshire. ff. 115r-116v: Pedigrees of Digby of Tilton in Rutlandshire. f. 117v: Pedigree of Attkirke of Lincolnshire. f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1530-1564
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 812
Title:: Elizabethan miscellany of records and letters
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Forms of indentures in English from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. ff. 9r-60v: Transcripts from public records and rolls of Parliament, from the time of King Edward II to that of Queen Elizabeth I (Latin and English). ff. 61r-63r: Letters Patent by Queen Elizabeth I, s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 813
Title:: Collection of tracts on political and other matters
Scope & Content:: Volume of tracts in different hands bound together. Contents: ff. 1-3r: ‘An Answer unto the Quaeres propounded by certain Ministers concerning the Oath’. Folios 1-13 are in the same hand. f. 3v: English translation of part of a letter from Father Paul Sarpi to the Abbot of St Medard in Fr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 814
Title:: A book on forests
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A treatise on ‘A Forest’. ff. 2r-2v: A treatise on ‘A Chase’. ff. 2v-4v: The ‘differences betwene beasts of the forest and beast of the chace’. ff. 4v-6v: A treatise ‘Of Verte’. ff. 6v-8r: A treatise on the 'Swanimote'; ff. 8r-17r: A treatise on 'Matters taken out...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 816
Title:: Sir Robert Cotton, An aunswer made by Command of Prince Henry, to certaine propositions of Warr and Peace deliuered to his Highnes by some of his Millitarie Servants
Scope & Content:: King James I and VI commissioned Sir Robert Cotton to write this fourteen-point treatise based on classical authorities and recent historical examples. It refutes the claims made in the pamphlet entitled 'Arguments for Warre', produced by Prince Henry's military advisors in 1608. These works cam...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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