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561. Harley MS 6660

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6660
Title:
Commentary on the Book of Revelation, chapters 12-13
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a commentary on the Book of Revelation in English, dedicated to William Cecil (b. 1520/1521, d. 1598), 1st Baron Burghley, and perhaps given to him on his anniversary or appointment as Lord High Treasurer in 1572. Contents: ff. 1r-31r: Commentary on the Book of Revelat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Syriac, Classical, and Welsh
Date Range:
1572
Extent:
1 volume

562. Harley MS 6689

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6689
Title:
Copies of deeds and indentures to Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and his exchange of lands with King Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-31r: Copies of deeds and indentures relating to grants of honours, castles, lordships, manors, lands, tenements, rents, reversions, franchises, liberties, and other Hereditaments to Charles Brandon (b. c. 1484, d. 1545), 1st Duke of Suffolk, and of the exchange of lands between...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1539-c 1596
Extent:
1 volume

563. Harley MS 6691

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6691
Title:
Journal of the proceedings of the assizes held at Sarum, Exeter and throughout South-West England, 7-42 Edward III
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-70v: Journal of the proceedings of the assizes held at Sarum, Exeter and throughout South-West England, 7-42 Edward III. Written in Law French with headings in Latin in a 15th-century script. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r (inner margin): A list of place nam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

564. Harley MS 6697

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6697
Title:
Survey of the manors, lands and tenements of Edmund Tirrell, lord of the manor of Beaches in Rawreth, Essex
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-27r: Survey of the manors, lands and tenements of Edmund Tirrell [Tyrell] (b. c. 1510, d. 1576), lord of the manor of Beaches [Beches] in Rawreth, Essex, made by Israel Amyce [Ames] in 1597, entitled: 'The survaye of all and singular the Manors, Landes, Tenementes (and other H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1597
Extent:
1 volume

565. Harley MS 6698

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6698
Title:
Copies of indentures for leases of estates let and taken by John Wylde of Canterbury
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-15v: Copies of indentures in English and Latin, recording leases of estates let and taken by John Wylde of Canterbury (fl mid-16th century), a surveyor and auditor, during the reigns of Edward VI (r. 1547-1553) and Mary I (r. 1553-1558). f. 16r: an added inscription in a lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

566. Harley MS 6700

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6700
Title:
Copies of the Book of Knights’ Fees of Leicestershire; catalogue of the market and fair towns; Spiritual Receipts and Escheators and Inquisitors of Leicestershire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-17r: ‘Computus Johannis Saunderstedd, vicecomitis Leicestrensis, Philippi Polwill, et Willielmi Nevill de Rearefbie, collectorum rationabilis auxilii in comitatu praedicto, domino regi Edwardo tertio concessi ad primogenitum filium suum militem faciendum, anno regni ejusdem reg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1601
Extent:
1 volume

567. Harley MS 6745

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6745
Title:
Proceedings in the Queen's Bench, 35-38 Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-216v: Proceedings in the Queen's Bench from the 35th, 36th, 37th and 38th years of the reign of Elizabeth I; written in Law French. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 1*recto-2*recto: Alphabetical index of cases; written in the late 16th or early 17th centur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1592-1596
Extent:
1 volume

568. Harley MS 6746

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6746
Title:
Collection of letters, grants, indentures and accounts concerning trading goods
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Copies of bonds and obligations in English and Latin, beginning: ‘Be it knowne to all men by theise present that I ffrancis Th. of London ydoun have remised released’, dated 16, 20, 22, 28 Elizabeth I. f. 4v: A list of payments, beginning ‘ffor the warrant of attourney’, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1580s
Extent:
1 volume

569. Harley MS 6776

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6776
Title:
A genealogy of the De Vere family
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-16v: A genealogy of the De Vere family in English and Latin, entitled: 'The Genalogy of the most Ancient and Illustrious Family of the Veres, Earles of Guisnes in Normandy, and of Oxford, and Lord great Chamberlands of England, being descended from the Kings of the Argives, Duk...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1676
Extent:
1 volume

570. Harley MS 6780

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6780
Title:
Indices of English family names for heraldic manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-63v: A large index of family names, organized in columns by county and in alphabetical order [featuring the dates 1634 and 1635 on f. 60r]; undoubtedly originally belonging to or intended for a heraldic manuscript. ff. 64r-8r: A large index of families with ‘quartred coats’, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1635
Extent:
1 volume

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