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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1222
Title:: Political and legal tracts
Scope & Content:: Various tracts bound together: ff. 1-23: Sir John Davies (1569-1626), ‘Charge to the jurors of the Grand Inquest at York, 1619, for the mainteyning and contynueing the publique Peace by the Execution of Justice’. ff. 24-52: ‘A Catt may look at a King’. Tract on the tyranny of kings from Kin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1223
Title:: Papers on trade and coinage
Scope & Content:: Composite volume of tracts on trade, coinage, taxation and national finance, by Charles Davenant and others. Contents: 1*: List of contents ff. 1-6: Tract on the decay of foreign trade. ‘Some Remarks on the Decayes of that so useful trade the England had before the year 1661, to Newfound L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1224
Title:: Alphabet of Acts of Parliament, with an index to the journals of the House of Lords
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 2-91: Alphabet to the calendar of the Acts of Parliament in the Parliament Office, containing acts from 12 Henry VII [1496/1497] to 32 Charles II [1680/1681]. ff. 92-117: Index to the journals of the Lords, for the first, second and third Parliaments of Ch...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1680?
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1225
Title:: Treatise on wills and executors; treatise on 'Parsons Law'
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A table of contents for the manuscript, entitled: ‘Manuscript Collections’. ff. 2*recto-246v: ‘A Treatise: Of wills and Executors directorie to Testators in the choyse of theire Executours and contrivance of theire Wills, and to Executors in the execution of theire offic...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1226
Title:: Treatise concerning the court of the Star Chamber
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume containing a treatise written by William Hudson of Gray's Inn, in the hand of his son Christopher Hudson, concerning the court of the Star Chamber. The treatise is divided into three parts: Concerning the court itself i.e. the judges, officers and ministers. Concerning t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1621-1635
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1227
Title:: Collections of legal precedents
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-66r: Collection of precedents for pleadings etc. in the Court of Chancery. ff. 66r-69: Table to the above collection. ff. 70-180: Collection of precedents, such as conveyances, bonds, leases, assignments, useful to counsellors, attorneys etc. Including: The Style of George Villie...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1231
Title:: A copy of the testament of John Rudston, Lord Mayor of London, with an inventory of his goods, funeral expenses, and other arrangements made following his death
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6r: A copy of the testament of John Rudston (b. 1480, d. 1531), Lord Mayor of London in 1528-1529, dated 1530. ff. 7v-13v: The ‘bying of pewkes and blakes Clothes for gownes whiche were gevyn And bequethede be Sir John Rudstone late knyght And Alderman of London whiche discea...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1530s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1233
Title:: Heraldic miscellany
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous collection of pedigrees and descents, with some anecdotes and other material, in various hands. Contents: f. 1v: A Jest of the Duke de Joyeuse on King Henri IV of France himself, and other Lords present. Account of a great treasure revealed to Christian Duke of Brunswick by th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1234
Title:: Extracts from heraldic Visitation books of various counties
Scope & Content:: Heraldic tracts copied from various county Visitations of Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Sussex, Westmorland and Cumberland, by John Withie (1593-c. 1678), arms painter, and others. Including arms tricked and in blazon. ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1236
Title:: Journal of the transactions in the House of Commons, November 1685
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume containing a journal of all the transactions in the House of Commons from 9 November 1685 to 20 November 1685, when the Parliament was prorogued. In this volume you can find the Kings Speech, the address of the House to His Majesty, with his answer, along with several de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1685
Extent:: 1 volume

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