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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 115r-115v
Title:: A Puritans Grace before Meat and Grace after Meat
Scope & Content:: A Puritans Grace before Meat and Grace after Meat, incipit: 'Lord of the all-frameing...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6907
Title:: 'A Ballad To the Tune of a Begging we will go' by Matthew Prior
Scope & Content:: A ballad by Matthew Prior, poet and diplomat, in the hand of his secretary Adrian Drift. First line: 'That, I'm an humble Pris'ner'. The date given on f. 1, '1715', likely refers to the date the events recorded in the ballad took place, when Matthew Prior was in prison after being impeached. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1715
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 165
Title:: Journal of the House of Commons and parliamentary papers of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Volume 4
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume containing parliamentary papers of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, and a journal of the House of Commons, compiled and partly written by Sir Simonds D’Ewes. Contents: f. 1: Copy of a letter of summons written by Mr Henry Elsinge to Mr Henry Starky of Darley, Cheshire, to appear befo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1641-1643
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 5r-9v
Title:: Correspondence between Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and Sir Francis de Vere.
Scope & Content:: Includes a letter from Henry Percy (b. 1564, d. 1632), Earl of Northumberland, to Sir Francis de Vere (b. 1560/61, d. 1609), and De Vere's reply, see Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3: With addenda 1547-65 (1870), Queen Elizabeth - Volume 283: April 1602: Letter from Henry Perc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century, after 1602
Extent:: 4 folios; followed by a flyleaf (f. 10).

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 11r-44r
Title:: A Discourse of the Buisines of Ambyona in Anno Domini 1624
Scope & Content:: A Discourse of the Buisines of Ambyona in Anno Domini 1624,relates to the Ambyona massacre of 1623 in which ten Englishmen in the service of the British East India Company were tortured and executed by agents of the Dutch East India Company on Ambon Island (now Indonesia).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century, after 1624
Extent:: 34 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 166
Title:: Journal of the House of Commons and Parliamentary Papers of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Volume 5
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1-274: Continuation of the journal of the House of Commons compiled and partly written by Sir Simonds D’Ewes. Some of this has been written on scrap paper, including printed sheets. 13 February 1643 [1644]-3 November 1645. ff. 275-275v: Ordinance of Parli...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1644-1648
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 116r-121r
Title:: George Rawe, Description of the river Ems from the sea to Emden
Scope & Content:: George Rawe, Description of the river Ems from the sea to Emden.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 18
Title:: Transcripts and extracts from the Parliament Rolls from the time of Richard III and Henry VII. Volume 1.
Scope & Content:: Transcripts and extracts from the Parliament Rolls from the time of Richard III in the Chapel of the Rolls in Chancery Lane London, compiled by Simonds d’Ewes. The transcripts are not in D’Ewes’s hand, but he has added running titles and original folio numbers and devised the title pages appeari...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 19
Title:: Transcripts and extracts from the Parliament Rolls from the time of Richard III and Henry VII. Volume 2.
Scope & Content:: Transcripts and extracts from the Parliament Rolls from the time of Henry VII in the Chapel of the Rolls in Chancery Lane London, compiled by Simonds d’Ewes. Transcripts in this volume are in Ralph Starkey's hand. D’Ewes’s has added running titles and original folio numbers and devised the title...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 61r-64v
Title:: Francis Bacon, A breefe Discourse touching the happy Union of the Kingdoms of Engand and Scotland
Scope & Content:: A breefe Discourse touching the happy Union of the Kingdoms of Engand and Scotland. composed by Francis Bacon in 1603.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century, after 1603
Extent:: 4 folios.

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