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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 851
Title:: Letters from Henry Hastings and William Bowes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2v: A letter from Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon and Lord Lieutenant of all the Northern Counties, to Thomas Scrope, 10th Baron Scrope of Bolton, Lord Warden of the Western Marches concerning the inconveniences relating to his wardenship, Scots abroad and subjects at home;...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1590s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 860
Title:: Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-197r: An Alphabet of Arms; with the arms of English gentry and aristocracy, blazoned.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 869
Title:: Collection of English statutes, including Ralph of Hengham, Hengham Magna and Hengham Parva, and Britton
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 5r-6r: Chapter lists for English statutes. ff. 7r-8v: Magna Carta. ff. 8v-9v: Carta de Foresta. ff. 9v-10r: Statutum de Foresta. ff. 10r-10v: Consuetudines Foreste. ff. 10v-11r: Confirmacio Cartarum per Regis Edwardi I. ff. 11r-11v: Sententia lata super Cartas (1253)....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 871
Title:: English miscellany of tracts and letters from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents ff. 1r-6v: ‘The Last Will and Testament of Sir Walter Myldmay Knight Secundo die aprilis 1589’. ff. 7r-64r: The proceedings of the Early of Essex and other of Queen Elizabeth's ministers following the discovery of a plot to poison Queen Elizabeth I, dated 1593-1594. ff. 65r-70v: A d...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1590s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 898
Title:: Summary of writs issued during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1589-1593
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-246r: Summary of writs issued during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1589-1593; in Latin, but featuring some English on f. 136r. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘De Annis 36. 37. 38. 39. 40 & 41 Elizab.’; added in the 17th or 18th cen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1589-1593
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 904
Title:: An English translation of Tommaso Fazello's De Rebus Siculis Decades Duae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-396v: An English translation of Tommaso Fazello's De Rebus Siculis Decades Duae (History of Sicily).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 918
Title:: Theological miscellany
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains works and excerpts from various Protestant theologians. The inclusion of a work by William Twisse, published in 1632, provides a terminus post quem for the manuscript. Contents: ff. 1r-44v: Guillelmus Estius [Willem Hessels van Est], Domini Guillelmi Estii in quatuor ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 923
Title:: Notes on Common Law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Notes on Common Law, featuring extracts from the Plea Rolls; additions with the date 1598 on f. 29r.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 925
Title:: Notes on Common Law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-86v: Notes on Common Law, featuring law cases from the courts of 6 Henry VIII to 21 Elizabeth I (1578/1579).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1579
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 935
Title:: Prayer book
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v and ff. 107r-108v: Calendar; The calendar is imperfect and has been misbound: February (ff. 1r-1v); March (ff. 2r-2v); October (ff. 3r-3v); November (ff. 4r-4v); April (ff. 107r-107v); September (ff. 108r-108v). ff. 5v-6v: The Seven Penitential Psalms, imperfect at the end....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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