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71. Harley MS 164

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 164
Title:
Journal of the House of Commons, by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, Volume 3
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing a journal of the House of Commons which was collected and gathered, for the most part, by Sir Simonds D’Ewes. The journal begins on 3 February 1640 [1641], and ends 27 June 1643. The dates within the volume are not sequential.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1641-1643
Extent:
1 volume

72. Harley MS 165

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 165
Title:
Journal of the House of Commons and parliamentary papers of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Volume 4
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing parliamentary papers of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, and a journal of the House of Commons, compiled and partly written by Sir Simonds D’Ewes. Contents: f. 1: Copy of a letter of summons written by Mr Henry Elsinge to Mr Henry Starky of Darley, Cheshire, to appear befo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1641-1643
Extent:
1 volume

73. Harley MS 166

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 166
Title:
Journal of the House of Commons and Parliamentary Papers of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Volume 5
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1-274: Continuation of the journal of the House of Commons compiled and partly written by Sir Simonds D’Ewes. Some of this has been written on scrap paper, including printed sheets. 13 February 1643 [1644]-3 November 1645. ff. 275-275v: Ordinance of Parli...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1644-1648
Extent:
1 volume

74. Harley MS 167

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 167
Title:
An English miscellany containing texts relating to naval matters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-202v: A large collection of tracts and letters, primarily concerning naval matters. The manuscript contains documents on the victualling of ships, navigating, shipments, prices of goods, the custom system (taxes for good exported and imported through ports). The manuscript feat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

75. Harley MS 180

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 180
Title:
Printed and manuscript tracts on royal marriages, collected by Sir Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
This is a collection of four tracts, the first two printed and the last two in manuscript, on royal marriages between 1555 and 1624. A Supplicacyon to the quenes maiestie [1555], an attack on the marriage of Queen Mary I to Philip of Spain (later King Philip II), was written by a Protestant ex...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1555-1627
Extent:

1 volume

76. Harley MS 181

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 181
Title:
Ars Notoria
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains three texts of the Ars Notoria, including a set of prayers, holy and angelic names, diagrams and rituals used to gain knowledge and understanding by supernatural revelation, apparently as revealed by God to Solomon. Contents: ff. 1r-17v: Ars Memorativa, beginning: 'Yf ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

77. Harley MS 182

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 182
Title:
Notebook of Simonds D’Ewes
Scope & Content:
Manuscript notebook of Simonds D’Ewes. Collected extracts from Latin authors, and passages in Latin, including some draft letters. Contents: ff. 2-21: Draft indexes, each folio marked into 3 columns, with letter headings in alphabetical order (apparently unrelated to the text of the notebook)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1618?
Extent:
1 volume

78. Harley MS 185

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 185
Title:
Latin verse and prose by Simonds D’Ewes, with some goods inventories of Paul D’Ewes
Scope & Content:
Various Latin poetic works, essays, and exercises written by Simonds D’Ewes as a boy, with some Greek. Includes a section of inventories of household goods in the hand of his father, Paul D’Ewes (ff. 39-44). Contents: f. 1: Decorative title page for Acta Apostulorum, a Latin poem on the Acts of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1615-1618
Extent:
1 volume

79. Harley MS 188

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 188
Title:
‘A discourse touching the diminution of the subsedie & how it may be justly raised’
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the diminution of the subsidy, by William Tooker, Dean of Lichfield, 1553/4-1621. Dedicated to the Earl of Northampton, Henry Howard, 1540-1614, and signed at end ‘William τοχήρ’. In the hand of William Tooker, according to A G Watson (The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), page 3...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

80. Harley MS 193

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 193
Title:
Pocket Latin Bible (1627) bound with the English singing Psalms (1628) and manuscript extracts by Simonds D'Ewes from the Book of Common Prayer
Scope & Content:
Printed Bible and Psalms with handwritten transcripts of most of the Morning and Evening Services from the Book of Common Prayer, made by Simonds D’Ewes. Contents: f. 1: Flyleaf inscribed with passages from Ephesians 1:4, and 2:10., D’Ewes library shelfmark and Harley MS number. f. 2v: Hebrew...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

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