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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 141
Title:: Description of and treatises related to Wales
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page, ‘Discription of the Dominion of Wales & 2 other treatises of it’. f. 1r: Pen-trialling, added in the 16th century. ff. 1r-21v: ‘Description of the Dominion of Wales’. ff. 25r-27r: A treatise entitled ‘Cornwalls Case’ [French]. ff. 28r-85r: ‘Dialo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 615
Title:: Genealogies of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Shropshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-6r: An index of names. ff. 7r-243r: Genealogies of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Shropshire, copied by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Heralds, at his Visitation of 1569; made at the order of Alexander Evesham. The manuscript contains a few later addi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1138
Title:: William Harvey, The Visitation of Northamptonshire (1564)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6r: A table of surnames of pedigrees in this manuscript. ff. 7r-63v: The Pedigrees of the Northamptonshire Gentry with their arms, blazoned, by William Harvey, Clarencieux King of Arms, at his Visitation in 1564. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, in brown ink throughout th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1306
Title:: List of the Acts of Parliament, 1483-1625
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume containing a list of Acts of Parliament. Inscribed on f. 1 is the title 'An exact collection or Cathologue of all such Actes of Parliament, both publique & private, as have bene at sundry tymes, either delivered by the Clarke of the Parliament, or els removed by Writ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: after 1625
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1621
Title:: Commentary on the Tenures of Judge Littleton
Scope & Content:: Commentary on the Tenures of Judge Littleton by an unidentified writer living in the reign of James I.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1652
Title:: Port of London Customs officers and servants
Scope & Content:: List of officers and servants in the Port of London Customs, with their salaries for the quarter to midsummer 1685. Approved and signed by Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, Lord High Treasurer.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1685
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1673
Title:: Ordinances for the Chancery and other matters
Scope & Content:: Tracts relating to the Chancery in a single hand. Contents: f. 1: Start of Francis Bacon’s ‘Ordinances in Chancery’. 1st ordinance only. 1618. f. 2: Francis Bacon, inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617. ff. 3-5: John Williams, Lord Bishop of Lincoln Elect, inaugural speech as ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1888
Title:: A record of parliamentary proceedings for 1592
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-118r: A record of parliamentary proceedings for 1592, titled 'A Journall of the Parliament holden at Westminster in Anno 35 Reginae Elizabethae Anno Domini 1592' (f. 1*r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1592-1593
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1993
Title:: Heraldic book by Thomas Barneston and others
Scope & Content:: Manuscript book of coats of arms, many painted, in several hands. The name Thomas Barneston inscribed below the large coats of arms on ff. 2 and 4. Contents: f. 1v. ‘The valuation of the bushopricks in the Queen’s Bookes, 1600’. Waste leaf lining the former cover of the manuscript, in the ha...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3364
Title:: Edward Paynton, Discourse of Court and Courtiers
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-65v: Edward Paynton, Discourse of Court and Courtiers, 1633; dedicated to James, Duke of Lennox. Decoration: Small initials with penwork decoration in brown ink.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1633
Extent:: 1 volume

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