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1071. Harley MS 825

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 825
Title:
Letters of Ephraim Pagitt, author of Christianography, 1635, to the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem, one jointly and one each individually, in Greek and Latin drafts and one draft in English (with four other letters). Partly autograph (ff. 4, 8, 10, 16, 22, 26) and partly scribal copies with autograph corrections.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
1638
Extent:
1 item

1072. Harley MS 132

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 132
Title:
Sir Walter Raleigh, 'A Militarie discourse: Whether it be better to geve an Invador present battaile, or to temporize and deferr the same'
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-17v: Sir Walter Raleigh, 'A Militarie discourse: Whether it be better to geve an Invador present battaile, or to temporize and deferr the same'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1073. Harley MS 6220

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6220
Title:
Instructyons yeven by the king of England to his trustie and welbeloved son Arthur shewinge howe they shall order themselves when they shall come to the presens of the olde Queene of Naples and the younge Queene her daughter
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-6r: A treatise entitled ‘Instructyons yeven by the king [of] England to his trustie and welbeloved son [Arthur] shewinge howe they shall order themselves when they shall come to the presens of the olde Queene of N[aples] and the younge Queene her daughter’. The manuscript con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1074. Harley MS 1577

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1577
Title:
A book of heraldry, written and tricked by Richard Mundy
Scope & Content:
Heraldic manuscript volume, in folio, all written and tricked in pre-printed tables by Mr Richard Mundy, a painter-stainer. Contents: ff.1*-11*: An alphabetic index of surnames. ff. 1-33: A copy of a collection of arms by Thomas Jenyns, gentleman. ff. 33v-113: Various arms belonging to families...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1075. Harley MS 4827

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4827
Title:
The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (extended version to 1419)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-157r: The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (extended version to 1419), entitled: 'Here bigynneth a booke whiche is callid Brute the Cronicles of Englond'; beginning: 'This boke treteh and telleth of þe kynges & principal lordes' The manuscript contains several later additio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1419-c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

1076. Harley MS 4898

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4898
Title:
Inventory of goods owned by King Charles I, sold 1649-1652
Scope & Content:
Inventory of household goods, jewels, plate, and paintings owned by King Charles I and sold by order of the State between 1649 and 1652. With descriptions of items, places, valuations, and buyers. 18th century copy. f. 1r Title page: ‘An Inventory of The Household Goods, Jewells Plate &c, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume.

1077. Harley MS 7028

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7028
Title:
Account of St John’s House and St John’s College, Cambridge
Scope & Content:
An account of St John’s House and St John’s College, Cambridge, with occasional accounts of University affairs and private colleges which communicated with the old House or College, collected 1707. Volume 1 of the collection of Thomas Baker (1656-1740), of St John’s College, Cambridge. Preli...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1707-1717
Extent:
1 volume

1078. Harley MS 71

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 71
Title:
A survey of all royal manors, honours, castles, lordships, tenements and other hereditaments in the counties of Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Warwickshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-80r: William Homberton (‘Esquire surveyor of the possessions’) and John Harwar (‘deputie receyvour’), survey of all royal manors, honours, castles, lordships, tenements and other hereditaments in the counties of Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Warwickshire; writte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1558-1559
Extent:
1 volume

1079. Harley MS 360

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 360
Title:
Papers on the persecution and toleration of Catholics during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-126v: A collection of original tracts and other papers relating to religious affairs, dated to 1558-1625; mostly including tracts on the persecution and toleration of recusants and clergymen during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1558-1625
Extent:
1 volume

1080. Harley MS 737

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 737
Title:
A collection of political papers, largely concerning the King's right to impose taxes without parliamentary consent
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: ‘A Remonstrance delivered to his Majesty in writeing after the Inhibicion given by him to the lower howse of Parliament as well by word of mouth as by letters not to proceede in the examining his right to impose without essente of Parliament’. ff. 3r-31r: ‘The Questiones ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1637-1641
Extent:
1 volume

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