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561. Harley MS 3499

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3499
Title:
'The State of Christendom'
Scope & Content:
An essay on Christendom, by an ‘exile’ (f. 2r). Printed in 1657 as ‘The State of Christendom’, attributed to Sir Henry Wotton, diplomat and writer (1568-1639). Composed c. 1594, as indicated by references to King Philip II of Spain, the plot of Roderigo Lopez to poison Queen Elizabeth I, her a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

562. Harley MS 3642

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3642
Title:
The process against the Anglican bishops Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-30r: The process against the Anglican bishops Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer, copied from the original and attested by William Whyte, with his notary signature (ff. 29r-30r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1555-c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

563. Harley MS 3821

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3821
Title:
The Vocation of John Bale
Scope & Content:
Copy of The vocacyon of Johan Bale, by John Bale (1495–1563), bishop of Ossory, evangelical polemicist, and historian. First published in 1553. f. 1r: Title, partly cut off. ‘The Vocation of John Bale to the bishopricke of ossorie in Irelande his preservations in the same and finall deliverance...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1552-1553
Extent:
1 volume

564. Harley MS 3918

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3918
Title:
Manuscript miscellany of treatises and poems by Robert Whitehall and Mary More
Scope & Content:
An octavo manuscript miscellany containing treatises and poems by Robert Whitehall (bap. 1624-d. 1685), fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and the writer and artist Mary More (d. c. 1713). Also includes other miscellaneous verses and recipes for 'Jelly of Hartshorn' (ff. 39v and 45v) and a treatm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1670-c 1674
Extent:
1 item

565. Harley MS 4000

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4000
Title:
An epistolary discourse in defence of the Protestant religion
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: Note suggesting that this work came from the Queen's closet due to the markings E R A F H ('Elizabetha Regina Angliae Franciae Hiberniae') on the original vellum binding that has been pasted onto f. 2r and f. 77v. ff. 3r–4r: An explanation of the contents, written in the same hand as the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1567
Extent:

1 volume

566. Harley MS 4217

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4217
Title:
An inventory of King Henry VIII’s wardrobe at London
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: An inventory of King Henry VIII’s wardrobe at London (12 Henry VIII), with a title inscription on a parchment pastedown on f. 1r: ‘The boke of all the Kynges reche stuf remaignyng in his standinge warderobe of robes within the Towre of London delyvered unto the sure and sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1520-1521
Extent:
1 volume

567. Harley MS 4292

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4292
Title:
Sanctuary book of Beverley Minster
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–35v: Register recording those seeking sanctuary at Beverley, alternating between lists of names and entries of petitions. Written in many different hands, and seemingly compiled as petitions were made.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1478-1540
Extent:

1 volume

568. Harley MS 4698

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4698
Title:
Jewels received by Elizabeth I, 1572–1586
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–32v: A descriptive account of jewels received by Queen Elizabeth at New Year and delivered to Mrs Katherine Howard, one of the gentlewomen of her privy chamber, for the 14th–28th years of her reign (1572–1586). Marginal notes record gifts Elizabeth made of these jewels, and if she lost the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1572-1586
Extent:
1 volume

569. Harley MS 4718

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4718
Title:
An inventory of the rarities of King Charles I in the Privy Gallery at Whitehall
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-85v: An inventory of the rarities of King Charles I (b. 1600, d. 1649) in the Privy Gallery at Whitehall, in the King’s new erected Cabinet Room, beginning: ‘By the King’s Especial command his Pictures & rarities which he had kept at St James’ in the Cabbenett Room were tra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1625-1649
Extent:
1 volume

570. Harley MS 4760

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4760
Title:
A Treatise of the true Causes of the Prævarication of Churches Liberties of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*verso: A title inscription: ‘A Treatise of the true Causes of the Prævarication of Churches Liberties of England’; followed by two initials ‘S [?] G’ (perhaps the treatise’s author). ff. 1r-48v: A treatise in five chapters on King Henry VIII’s marriages, jurisdiction over the C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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