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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 845
Title:: Index to a book of law precedents
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume containing an index to a book of law precedents, compiled by Thomas Cole of the Court of Wards and Liveries. Inscribed on f. 1: 'A Table to my Booke of Presedents marked Cole. B.'. The location of this book is not known.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1250
Title:: Copies and drafts of various parliamentary papers
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume. Contents: f. 1: Incomplete table of contents. ff. 2-27: An Act to punish mutiny, sedition and desertion in soldiers; for preventing false musters; and concerning soldiers’ pay. To take effect from 10 January 1691 [1692?]. ff. 29v-74: Copy of a Bill for regulating the co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1690s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1990
Title:: A view of Staffordshire, by Sampson Erdeswicke
Scope & Content:: Manuscript account of Staffordshire by Sampson Erdeswick (d. 1603) of Sandon, with marginal annotations and indexes, in various hands. ff 2-8: Index of places. ff. 9-117: ‘A veiw [sic] of Staffordshire, containing the antiquities of the same countie; written by Sampson Erdeswicke of Sandon near ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mid 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 764
Title:: Register of orders, warrants and petitions, in the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume containing a register of all orders, warrants, petitions, etc. in the office of Francis, Lord Cottington, Chancellor of the Exchequer, from 2 February 1628 [1629] to 1 July 1632. An index of names can be found at the front of the volume.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1629-1632
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1867
Title:: The Creation of the World [Cornish play]; and John Davies, ‘Adagia Britannica’. With other papers.
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1: Letter from Edward Lhwyd to Nathaniel Lloyd. 29 November 1708. ff. 2-58: The Creation of the World: Cornish play, copied from the manuscript written out by William Jordan, 1611, in the Bodleian Library Oxford (MS Bodl. 219), with parallel English translation by John Keigwyn, da...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cornish, English, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:: Mid 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 430
Title:: Register of the petitions to the Viceroy [Lord Deputy] of Ireland
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume containing a register of the petitions to Thomas Wentworth, Viscount Wentworth, Lord Deputy [Lord Lieutenant] of Ireland, 4 July 1637-20 March 1638, along with the orders given by the Lord Deputy in response. Contents: ff. 2-8v: Alphabetical index of the petitioners name...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1637-1638
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1655
Title:: Accounts of Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, Treasurer of the Navy
Scope & Content:: Manuscript volume, containing the accounts for 1632 of Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, Treasurer of His Majesties Navy. Payments include the ordinary charge of all His Majesties Ships and Vessels in Harbour, as well as 8 gunners serving in His Majesties Castle of Upnor. Also included is the ent...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1632
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6104
Title:: William Dugdale, Visitation of Staffordshire, 1663-64, and Visitation of Derbyshire, 1662-63
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1**recto: A title-page: ‘The Visitation of Staffordshire Taken in the year of our Lord on Thousand six hundred sixty three by William Dugdale Esquire Norroy King at Armes – Received in Anno 1664’. ff. 2*recto-2**recto: An alphabetical index of the names of families included in th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1664
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5363
Title:: A Prosopoeia, fiction, or devise, bringing in the Piramis or pillar of the Pallace of Parris, speaking for itself, and advertisinge others
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a previously unnoticed work by Thomas Wilcox (b. c. 1549, d. 1608), Church of England clergyman, dedicated to Henry Frederick (b. 1594, d. 1612), Prince of Wales. Wilcox also revised Sir Philip Sidney's English translation of Philippe de Mornay's Traité de la vérité de l...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1605
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5801
Title:: Peter Le Neve, Pedigrees of Knights made by King Charles II to Queen Anne (Volume 1)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-201r: Peter Le Neve, Pedigrees of Knights made by King Charles II to Queen Anne (Volume 1), entitled on f. 6r: 'A Catalogue of the Knights made from the first year of the reign of King Charles the 2nd during all his reign those of James the 2nd, King William and Queen Mary with...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1696-1714
Extent:: 1 volume

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