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1401. Harley MS 3511

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3511
Title:
Verse miscellany of Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex
Scope & Content:
A quarto verse miscellany of Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex (1631-1683), Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1627-1677) and First Lord of the Treasury (1679). Containing various poems, many by anonymous authors. Cited in the Index of English Literary Manuscripts as the 'Capell MS'. f.1* contains an ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1402. Harley MS 6987

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6987
Title:
Royal letters and warrants, 1621-1624
Scope & Content:
Royal letters and warrants, from the end of the reign of King James VI and I, 1621-1624. ff. 1r-2v: Letter from King James VI and I to Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex and Lord Treasurer. Sending a reminder to furnish George Villiers, Marquess of Buckingham, with 10,000 l. for his wife’s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1621-1624
Extent:
1 volume

1403. Harley MS 6999

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6999
Title:
Letters and state warrants, 1580-1581
Scope & Content:
Letters and state warrants, from the years 1580-1581. ff. 1r-2v: List of contents. f. 3r: Letter from Robert Bowes to Francis Walsingham. Reporting on the case of James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, and his adherents, and requesting advice as to whether he should travel to London to answer the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher and English
Date Range:
1580-1581
Extent:
1 volume

1404. Harley MS 6910

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6910
Title:
Elizabethan poetry miscellany
Scope & Content:
Elizabethan poetry miscellany, compiled between 1596 and 1600. Includes copies and extracts of works by: Michael Drayton; Edmund Spenser; George Chapman; Robert Southwell; Sir John Harington; Nicholas Breton; Sir Walter Ralegh; Thomas Lodge; Thomas Nashe; Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford; Wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1596-1600
Extent:
1 volume

1405. Harley MS 4943

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4943
Title:
Orders of the Privy Council, 1570-1580
Scope & Content:
Copies of orders of the Privy Council, principally between 1570 and 1580. Mainly letters from Elizabeth I (1533–1603), queen of England and Ireland. f. 1*r: Flyleaf containing pen-trials, notes in Latin and English, and two names: ‘Xtopher Troughton Julij 1624’; ‘Edw: Pynchon’. ff. 1r-14v: Two...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1570-1580
Extent:
1 volume

1406. Harley MS 180

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 180
Title:
Printed and manuscript tracts on royal marriages, collected by Sir Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
This is a collection of four tracts, the first two printed and the last two in manuscript, on royal marriages between 1555 and 1624. A Supplicacyon to the quenes maiestie [1555], an attack on the marriage of Queen Mary I to Philip of Spain (later King Philip II), was written by a Protestant ex...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1555-1627
Extent:

1 volume

1407. Harley MS 6995

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6995
Title:
Letters on state affairs, 1590–1593
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–184v: Letters on state affairs from many prominent individuals, including William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Sir Thomas Heneage, John Puckering, the Stanhope brothers, and Francis Walsingham, 1590–1593. The bulk of these letters are addressed to John Puckering, in his capacity as Lord Keeper o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1590-1593
Extent:
1 volume

1408. Harley MS 6996

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6996
Title:
Letters on state affairs, 1593–1595
Scope & Content:
Letters on state affairs from many prominent individuals, including William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Sir Thomas Heneage, John Puckering, the Stanhope brothers, and Francis Walsingham, for the years 1593–1595. The majority are addressed to Puckering in his capacity as Lord Keeper. There is a list of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1593-1595
Extent:
1 volume

1409. Harley MS 6997

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6997
Title:
Letters on state affairs, 1595–1596
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–184v: Letters on state affairs from many prominent individuals, including William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Sir Thomas Heneage, John Puckering, the Stanhope brothers, and Francis Walsingham, for the years 1595–1596. The majority are addressed to Puckering in his capacity as Lord Keeper. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1595-1596
Extent:
1 volume

1410. Harley MS 367

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 367
Title:
Historical notes, documents and poems written or copied by John Stowe and others, including poems by George Ripley, John Lydgate, Humphrey Brereton, John Skelton, John Heywood, William Vallans, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Robert Herrick, John Denham, Paul D'Ewes, Tom Coryate, John Hoskyns and others
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: John Stowe's paper against Richard Grafton and his chronicle. f. 4r: Proceedings of John Stowe in surveying the measures in the Ward of Baynard's Castle, 1584. ff. 5r-5v: Declaration of the absues done to John Stowe by William Ditcher, alias Tatford, and his wife. ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
mid 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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