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51. Harley MS 139

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 139
Title:
Transcripts of historical material relating to Chester written by Laurence Bostocke
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-v: Title page with signature of Ralph Starkey. ff. 2r-11r: Index. ff. 12r-221v: Transcripts of historical material relating to Chester written by Laurence Bostocke between 1566-1575. ff. 222v-228v: Index. f. 228v: Note from the Keeper of Manuscripts that parts of the MS wer...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1566-1575
Extent:
1 volume

52. Harley MS 140

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 140
Title:
Catalogue of rolls from the time of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-344v: Calendarium literarum patentium Regis Henrici VIII. f. 348v: An inventory of possessions, beginning ‘A greate Chest’. ff. 349r-392r: Calendarium concessionum plurimarum Regis Henrici VIII. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 393r: A ‘memorandum’ about blan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

53. Harley MS 141

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 141
Title:
Description of and treatises related to Wales
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page, ‘Discription of the Dominion of Wales & 2 other treatises of it’. f. 1r: Pen-trialling, added in the 16th century. ff. 1r-21v: ‘Description of the Dominion of Wales’. ff. 25r-27r: A treatise entitled ‘Cornwalls Case’ [French]. ff. 28r-85r: ‘Dialo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

54. Harley MS 142

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 142
Title:
Account of the lands belonging to Glastonbury Abbey concealed from the Crown
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23v: A title-page, ‘A Booke of Concealed landes belonginge to the late Monastery of Glastonbury’; beginning on f. 2r: ‘An abstract or brief noat taken owt of Mr Nicholas Raies Courte bookes and Courte rolles The laste of November in the xxiiijth yere of the raigne of our sovere...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1581
Extent:
1 volume

55. Harley MS 144

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 144
Title:
Rental of Kirkstead Abbey
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: ‘Rental of the demeanes late belongyng to the monastery of Kirksted and letten to diverse persons as hereafter doth folowe from the first day of May anno xxix h viij unto the first day of May thence next folowyng’. ff. 3r-4r: ‘Demaynes of Kirkestedde’. ff. 5r-24r: ‘Surve...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1538-1539
Extent:
1 volume

56. Harley MS 146

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 146
Title:
Account book of Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Two titles written on parchment strips: ‘This booke contaynethe T'entries of everye privie seale passing from the Quenes majestie for divers hir officers for money that hath byne dewe unto them begonne the 8th or Maye 1568 in the tenthe yeare of hir majesties Raigne’; and ‘Exp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

57. Harley MS 147

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 147
Title:
Copies of letters concerning the Treaty of the Hague 1614-1615
Scope & Content:
Includes: f. 1: Copy of the King’s Commission to treat, granted to Sir Henry Wooton, Ambassador Extraordinary to the States of the United Provinces, Clement Edmonds Esq., clerk of his Privy Council, Robert Midleton and Morris Abbott, City of London merchants. Dated 29 November 1614. Heading: ‘Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1614-1615
Extent:
1 volume

58. Harley MS 151

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 151
Title:
The Establishment of Barwick and Instructions to Roberte Bowes Threaforer there
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page, 'The Establishment of Barwick and Instructions to Roberte Bowes Threaforer there - June 1576'. ff. 1r-5r: A 'Trewe Establishmente and order made by the Quenes most excellente majestie aswell of all manner of Officers, Captens, and Souldiours that shalbe of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1576
Extent:
1 volume

59. Harley MS 153

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 153
Title:
Rithmus de Sancto Goderico; Reginald of Durham; Vita et Miracula Sancti Godrici
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-3v: Rithmus de Sancto Goderico. ff. 4r-74v: Reginald of Durham, Vita et Miracula Sancti Godrici; including St Godric’s hymn to the Virgin Mary (f. 26r) and St Godric’s prayer (f. 31r) in early Middle English. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [iii]verso: A note ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1590-1684
Extent:
1 volume

60. Harley MS 154

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 154
Title:
Genealogical and heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-90v: Genealogies of noble families. ff. 91r-93r: An index of names. Decoration: Coats of arms (‘tricks’) in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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