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111. Harley MS 699

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 699
Title:
Robert Vawdrey, Knights' Fees in Cheshire and Flintshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: An introduction, entitled: ‘The forme and order of this booke breiflie sett fourth by Robert Vaudray of Chester Collectour thereof to thentent to instructe the Reader to the true and perfecte knowledge of the making and meanynge of the same booke’. ff. 2r-70r: Book of Knight...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1555-1557
Extent:
1 volume

112. Harley MS 703

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 703
Title:
State papers and tracts relating to the county of Sussex
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a large collection of state papers and tracts, many relating to the county of Sussex, dating between 1583 and 1627, apparently compiled around 1627 for Sir Walter Covert (b. c. 1544. d. 1632), High Sheriff of and Deputy Lieutenant in Sussex, and Member of Parliament for ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1583-1627
Extent:
1 volume

113. Harley MS 705

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 705
Title:
Revenues of Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7v: An account-book entitled ‘The Quenes Majesties Revenewes 1559’. ff. 8r-38v: An account-book entitled ‘The Revenewes lately annexed to the Exchequyte’. Decoration: Calligraphically decorated initials throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1559
Extent:
1 volume

114. Harley MS 711

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 711
Title:
Mathew Hale, History and Analysis of the Common Laws of England; The Alteration Amendment or Reformation of the Lawes of England; Reflections by the Lord Cheife Justice Hale on Mr Hobbes his Dialogue of the Lawe
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2*r-186r: Sir Mathew Hale (b. 1609, d. 1676), 'The History and Analysis of the Common Law of England Copyed from the Originall of the Lord Cheife Justice Hale in his own hand'. ff. 187r-232r: Sir Mathew Hale, 'Of the Alteration Amendment or Reformation of the Lawes of England'. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

115. Harley MS 727

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 727
Title:
Copies of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of King Henry VI
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: ‘Rot. Parl. 33. 34. 38. & 39 Hen. 6’. ff. 1r-223v: Parliamentum Anno xxxiijtio Regis Henrici Sexti; with the added note: ‘Convenit cum Recordo fra. Nilles [or ‘Milles]’. ff. 224r-332v: Rotulus Parliamenti tenti apud Coventre anno Regni Regis Henrici sexti post Conqu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

116. Harley MS 737

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 737
Title:
A collection of political papers, largely concerning the King's right to impose taxes without parliamentary consent
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: ‘A Remonstrance delivered to his Majesty in writeing after the Inhibicion given by him to the lower howse of Parliament as well by word of mouth as by letters not to proceede in the examining his right to impose without essente of Parliament’. ff. 3r-31r: ‘The Questiones ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1637-1641
Extent:
1 volume

117. Harley MS 774

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 774
Title:
Pedigrees of English families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-40v: Pedigrees with some coats of arms, going up to 1604-1609. ff. 41r-44r: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. The manuscript contains an addition: ff. 2*recto-3*verso: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, fragments of books 19 and 20; written...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

118. Harley MS 775

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 775
Title:
A catalogue of rolls in the library of Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-9r: A catalogue of rolls in the library of Simonds D'Ewes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

119. Harley MS 776

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 776
Title:
Bartholomew de Cotton, Historia Anglicana (Book 2); Tractatus de Archiepiscopis et Episcopis Angliae (Book 3); letter of Pope Gregory X to the bishops of London and Ely; The Siege of Caerlaverock
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-31v: Bartholomew de Cotton, Historia Anglicana scilicet Liber secundus de Regibus, Anglis, Dacis, et Normannis; according to an introduction ‘Extracted out a auncient MS [Cotton MS Nero C V] written about the latter ende of the yeere 1298’. ff. 32r-45v: Tractatus de Archiepis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

120. Harley MS 791

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 791
Title:
Instructions for monastic visitations and ecclesiastical properties by Henry VIII; account book of George Montaigne of the Hospital of Savoy; account of the baptism of Charles I; Articles of the Church of England; William Austen, Poem on the Passion; John Milton, Hobson's Epitaph; Sir Walter Raleigh, Speech on the Scaffold; English poems by William Herbert, John Donne, Richard Corbett, Ben Jonson and John Grange; Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of at least eight parts that were produced at separate times in the 16th and 17th centuries, and were bound together at an unknown stage before reaching the Harleian Library. Only the first three parts date to the 16th century. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-4v: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1540-c 1630
Extent:
1 volume

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