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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1840
Title:: 'Necessary Considerations, touching ye Election of Members to serve in Parliament...' A copy of a pamphlet by James Drake.
Scope & Content:: Quarto volume, containing a manuscript copy of the pamphlet 'Necessary Considerations, touching ye Election of Members to serve in Parliament, offer'd to all true Church-of-England Men, & all Modest Protestant Dissenters, who intend to live quietly under ye Present Government' by James Drake...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1702
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 373
Title:: Letters of Paul D’Ewes and members of his family, 1617-1630
Scope & Content:: Family correspondence of Paul D'Ewes, father of Simonds D’Ewes. Includes letters to Sisillia (his first wife), Simonds D’Ewes (their son), Mary Prince (whom Paul D’Ewes courted), Elizabeth Denton (his second wife), and Martin Stuteville (Elizabeth Denton’s brother). Includes letters from his wiv...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1617-1630
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1882
Title:: How to perfume gloves, to make perfumes and swete waters with divers other sundrie preservatives as they be made in Spanie and Portugall translated forthe of a written Spannishe booke of the Duches of Ferias
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-22r: A collection of 87 recipes, entitled: 'Howe to perfume gloves, to make perfumes and swete waters with divers other sundrie preservatives as they be made in Spanie and Portugall translated forthe of a written Spannishe booke of the Duches of Ferias'; Jane Dormer (b. 1536, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2271
Title:: A collection of forms or precedents of instruments made by a Devonshire lawyer towards the end of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-7v: An alphabetical table for the ensuing tract. ff. 8r-91v: A collection of forms or precedents of instruments made by a Devonshire lawyer towards the end of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign; several of these were drawn up according to the usage and custom of the city of Exeter.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4131
Title:: Register of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford; rental of King Henry VIII's lands in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire; jury presentments for Gloucestershire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-363v: Register of the Causes of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1628 to 1633. ff. 364v-477v: Rental of the royal lands in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire in the 30th year of the reign of King Henry VIII (1538/9). ff. 478r-571v: Jury presentments at quarter ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1538-1633
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4243
Title:: Collection of historical tracts and letters from the reigns of Henry VIII, Mary I and Philip II, and Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: List of payments. f. 1r: 'The chardge of a toun of wine'. f. 1v: 'The accompt of all the rentes and revenues of King Phillip yerelie due to him as they were given up Anno domini 1562'. f. 1v: The great expenses of King Phillip Anno domini 1562'. ff. 2r-2v: Lists of paym...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1589
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 455-457
Title:: Papers relating to the Treaty of London and the Council of Peers in York
Scope & Content:: Three manuscripts bound together, concerning the Treaty of London and the Council of Peers in York, 1640-1641. Harley MS 455 was owned by Sir John Burroughs or Borough, and annotated by him. Harley MS 456-457 contain minutes in the hand of Sir John Burroughs or Borough.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1640-1641
Extent:: 1 volume (3 items)

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1052
Title:: Heraldry book of William Penson, Lancaster Herald, with additions by John Saunders, arms painter
Scope & Content:: Heraldic book compiled by William Penson, Lancaster Herald 1613-1637, in the first half of the 17th century, with numerous pedigrees and descents. Includes some later material in other hands, and additions by John Saunders, arms painter (died c. 1687). Contents: f. 1*r: Flyleaf inscribed ‘Pe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 584
Title:: ‘The Kings Right of Indulgence in Spirituall Matters; with the Equity thereof; Asserted by one of his Faithfull Subjects, A Protestant’
Scope & Content:: Octavo manuscript volume, containing a transcription of a work by Arthur Annesley, Earl of Anglesey, published in London in 1688 with the title ‘The King’s Right of Indulgence in Spiritual Matters, with the Equity thereof, Asserted by A Person of Honour, and Eminent Minister of State lately Dece...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century-1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2036
Title:: Collection of law cases argued in Westminster Hall or extracted from the Plea Rolls from the reign of Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-157r: Collection of law cases argued in Westminster Hall or extracted from the Plea Rolls from the reign of Elizabeth I (up to 33 Elizabeth I [1590-1591]); written in Law French. The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. [iv]recto-[iv]verso: Fragment of a (?) Latin legal document, w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1590s-1600s
Extent:: 1 volume

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