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361. Harley MS 819

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 819
Title:
An Ordinary of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Tables of Blazoning most Coates of Armes of all Families in Eng[land]’. ff. 1r-97v: An Ordinary of Arms, with the arms of English families in blazon. Decoration: A coat of arms with a design in brown ink (some with colours) at the centre of the top marg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

362. Harley MS 820

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 820
Title:
A table of contents for an heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-32v; 34r-43v: A table of contents for an heraldic manuscript, organised alphabetically according to surnames of English nobility and gentry; from the Conquest to the time of Elizabeth I: ‘A table wherbie to finde oute everie perticuler name contained in this booke accordinge un...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

363. Harley MS 825

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 825
Title:
Letters of Ephraim Pagitt, author of Christianography, 1635, to the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem, one jointly and one each individually, in Greek and Latin drafts and one draft in English (with four other letters). Partly autograph (ff. 4, 8, 10, 16, 22, 26) and partly scribal copies with autograph corrections.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
1638
Extent:
1 item

364. Harley MS 827

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 827
Title:
Tracts on prohibitions, statutes and law cases
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: ‘The Civilians Peticion to his Maiestie touching Prohibitions’. f. 1v: 'The clergies Peticion to his Majestie touchinge Prohibitions’. ff. 2r-16v: ‘Certaine Articles of Abuses which are desired to be reformed in graunting of Prohibitions with the Judges severall Answear...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

365. Harley MS 828

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 828
Title:
Miscellaneous ecclesiastical texts
Scope & Content:
‘Collections and Compositions out of diverse Authors, of sundry Pointes, specially the Controversies of the Church of England’. Contents: ff. 1*-1*v, 43r-43v: Fragments of a glossary of plant names (‘B’-‘C’), written in the 13th century. ff. 1-15: Excerpts from Matthew Sutcliffe’s De vera Chris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

366. Harley MS 829

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 829
Title:
Collection of texts, mostly concerning law
Scope & Content:
Manuscript volume containing mostly legal texts of different authors, in many different hands. Contents: ff. 1-17v: ‘A little Treatise of Baile and Mainprise, written at the request of Sir William Heydon by Sr. Edward Cooke’. ff. 18-28v: ‘Lectio Magistri Nowell, sur le Statute de Willes’. ff. 2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

367. Harley MS 830

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 830
Title:
Historical, political and legal manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Historical, political and legal manuscripts in different hands, bound together. Contents: ff. 1-5: ‘Duke of Buckingham’s Relation’: report by the Duke of Buckingham to Parliament on his negotiation in Spain over the proposed marriage match between Charles, Prince of Wales, with the Infanta Mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

368. Harley MS 831

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 831
Title:
George Puttenham, An Apology or True Defence of Her Majesty's Honourable and Good Renown
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: 'An apologie, or true defence of her Maiesties honor and good renowne against all such as haue unduelie sought or shall seek to blemish the fame, with any injustice, crueltie, or other unprincely behaviour in any parte of her Maiesties proceedings against the late Scotish Queene, Be it fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

369. Harley MS 832

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 832
Title:
The process in the Court of the Exchequer against The Collectors of St Antholins
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing the proceedings against the Feoffees of Impropriations, also known as the Collectors of St Antholins in the Court of the Exchequer. The Feoffees of Impropriations was an organisation of Puritans which raised money in order to purchase impropriations and advows...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1633
Extent:
1 volume

370. Harley MS 833

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 833
Title:
Parliamentary Journal, January 1629-March 1629
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume, titled 'A true relation of every daies proceedings in the last Session of Parliament beginning the xxth of January 1628 [1629] until ye dissolution thereof [10 March 1629]'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1629
Extent:
1 volume

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