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991. 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

992. Harley MS 6007

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6007
Title:
Thomas Barlow, Advice to students; Hugh Cholmeley, Account of the affairs of West Barbery
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–4v: Thomas Barlow, ‘To a friend who desired the names of some bookes; which might be fitt to furnish a library for young (yet academicall) scholars.’ Copied from St John’s College, Cambridge, MS K.38, pp. 163–196. ff. 5r–9r: Thomas Barlow, ‘Ἀνάλεκτα Sacra. Novitiis Theologiæ Candidatis a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

1 volume

993. Harley MS 6401

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6401
Title:
Certayne observacions upon a libell published this present yeare of 1502 Intituled A declaracion of the true causes of the great troubles presupposed to be intended against the Realme of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64r: ‘Certayne observacions upon a libell published this present yeare of 1502 Intituled A declaracion of the true causes of the great troubles presupposed to be intended against the Realme of England’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1502
Extent:
1 volume

994. Harley MS 911

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 911
Title:
Notebook of Richard Symonds containing movements of the royal army, April-August 1645, and church notes
Scope & Content:
Notebook of Richard Symonds written while accompanying the King and the royal army, from leaving the King’s winter quarters at Oxford in April 1645, passing through the Midlands and Wales, up to their arrival in Yorkshire in August. Records the progress of the army and principal events, includin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1645-Aug 1645
Extent:
1 volume

995. Harley MS 1456

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1456
Title:
Heraldic achievements of the English nobility, living about the 16th year of King Charles I
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing the heraldic achievements of the English nobility, painted in colour, in the hand of John Withie, painter-stainer.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640?
Extent:
1 volume

996. 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

997. Harley MS 68

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 68
Title:
Richard Birkhead, A brief discourse for the mayntenaunce, exercise, and trayning of a convenient nombre of Englishemen wherby they may be the Soner made Souldiours for the redier diffence of this realme of Englande
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7v: Richard Birkhead, A brief discourse for the mayntenaunce, exercise, and trayning of a convenient nombre of Englishemen wherby they may be the Soner made Souldiours for the redier diffence of this realme of Englande.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

998. Harley MS 563

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 563
Title:
John of Worcester, Chronicon ex chronicis; Asser, Vita Alfredi; Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris; Annales sex Regum Angliæ
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-49r: John of Worcester [here attributed to Florence of Worcester], Chronicon ex chronicis; with a continuation; translated into English by Raphael Holinshed [Hollingshead] (b. c. 1525, d. 1580 [?]) for John Stow; dated 1572. ff. 51r-119v: Asser, Vita Alfredi; with a continuat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

999. Harley MS 6556

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6556
Title:
'A Compendious Treatise of Pleasure’; 'Of the Minde of Manne, his Reasone, and Will'; English prayers to God; a prayer for Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: The opening of ‘A Compendious Treatise of Pleasure’, beginning ‘Of Pleasure, what it is, and how to bee trulie understanded according to the minde of God in the best parte: the Glorie also of the same, and where it chiefelie resteth in Manne: As also of the Pleasure, which to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1000. Harley MS 1379

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1379
Title:
Coats of arms of the Knights of the Garter from the time of King James I
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Nobility of England their Creations and Armes’. f. 2v: A full-page drawing of the coat of arms of King James I (r. 1603-1625), circumscribed by the Garter. ff. 3r-24r: Coats of arms of Knights of the Garter from the time of King James I and later, beginning w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1628
Extent:
1 volume

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