Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Language: English - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

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

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

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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6727-6744
Title:: Diary of Mr Hodges
Scope & Content:: Diary spanning the years 1700 to 1709, written chiefly in Latin, partly in English, including accounts of dreams and mystical words related to judicial astrology. British Museum spine label attributes the diary to Mr Hodges, described in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Mus...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1700-1709
Extent:: 18 volumes

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