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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1198
Title:: Sermons of Obadiah Sedgwick
Scope & Content:: Quarto manuscript volume titled 'The some of certaine sermons preached by Mr Obadiah Sedgwicke in Anno Dom. 1630 written by Thomas Gillibrand'. Contains 10 sermons, preached between 3 October 1630 and 9 January 1630 [1631].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1630
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1199
Title:: Collection of historical texts
Scope & Content:: Quarto manuscript volume, containing a collection of extracts from printed historical texts. Contents: ff. 1-54v: Collections from some English chronicles, containing passages relating to the times of the Britons, Romans, Saxons and Danes, as well as extracts regarding various Kings and Queens ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1200
Title:: Collection of legal tracts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-80v: 'Prohibitions granted upon this position that the Interpretation of all Statutes belonged to the Judges of the temporall Courts'. ff. 81r-87v: 'De magno Cancellario Angliae et Cancellaria ac Condicionibus ejus et Authoritate eorundem'. ff. 88r-89v: The Petition of the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1690
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1201
Title:: Treatise on the use of law
Scope & Content:: Quarto manuscript volume containing a treatise titled 'The use of the Lawe' in secretary hand. At the front of the volume is an unfinished index, in a different hand. This treatise was first published in 1629, with no author ascribed. In later editions it was attributed to Sir Francis Bacon. I...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1202
Title:: The history of the amours of Comtesse d'Olonne
Scope & Content:: Quarto manuscript volume, containing an English translation of part of the book Histoire amoureuse des Gaules by Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, concerning Madame Catherine Henriette, Comtesse d'Olonne. This text does not match the English translation published in 1684, 'The History of the Am...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1209
Title:: A collection of English sermons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-153v: A collection of English sermons; dated on f. 156v: 'October 1 Anno 1631 London'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1631
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1217
Title:: Account of state papers in the Paper Office
Scope & Content:: Brief descriptions of papers preserved in the Paper Office. Contents: f. 1: Title page: ‘An Abstract of remarkable things lying in the Paper Office’. Dated 7 February 1697. ff. 2-24: Letter describing the papers, under the following headings: Admiralty; goods brought from a friendly count...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1697
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1218
Title:: Impeachment of the Earl of Clarendon and other political tracts
Scope & Content:: Composite volume of political tracts in several hands. Parliamentary debates and other papers on the impeachment of the Earl of Clarendon, the deposition of King James II and the accession of William of Orange, etc. f. 1v: Contents list. ff. 2-8r: Articles of High Treason and other heinous mis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1220
Title:: Political tracts
Scope & Content:: Composite volume of political tracts in several hands. ff. 1-6: Concerning the decay of rents, and how to improve them. Headed ‘Decay of Rents’. ff. 7-9: Proposals for the better ordering the poor of an unidentified parish. ff. 10-20: Proposals for settling the peace of England, both in Ch...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1221
Title:: Moral, literary, and political tracts
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous collection of essays, verse, speeches, and political papers. Includes two printed tracts on the death of Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex. Contents: f. 1*: Contents list ff. 1-12v: Copy of A System of Ethicks, by Charles Morton (1627-1698), minister and teacher at Newington Green Dis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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