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41. Harley MS 1059

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1059
Title:
Common law extracts
Scope & Content:
Collection of extracts relating to English common law. In law French and English. For a detailed description of arguments, pleadings, judgements and cases included, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), pages 526-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

42. Harley MS 1386

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1386
Title:
Mixed heraldry book
Scope & Content:
Heraldic book bought by John Withie (1593-c. 1678), arms painter, from John Guillim (c 1551-1621), Pursuivant of Arms, 14 May 1612. Contents: f. 1*v: Arms of John Guillim from former parchment cover cut out and pasted on verso of f. 1*. f. 1: Front leaf with shelfmarks, provenance inscriptio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

43. Harley MS 1474

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1474
Title:
Descents of baronets
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. [iii]recto: A title inscription: ‘Baronets Discents’. f. 1*recto: A list of payments, entitled: ‘A bill of fees due to the Kings Servants from all persons that receive the Honour of Knighthood’. f. 1*verso: A list of payments, entitled: ‘The ffees of the Severall Offices for a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1660s
Extent:
1 volume

44. Harley MS 1721

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1721
Title:
Proceedings in Parliament
Scope & Content:
Proceedings in the 3rd Parliament of King Charles I, Westminster, 1628-1629. Items dated 17 March-26 June 1628. With a table of contents at the end of the volume. For a detailed list of contents, see printed Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. 2 (1808), pp. 185-187.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1628-1629
Extent:
1 volume

45. Harley MS 1942

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1942
Title:
Constitution of Freemasonry
Scope & Content:
Manuscript constitution, in the form of an address to a new member of the Freemasons, starting with a history of masonry, the Articles to be observed, the New Articles and oath.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1660
Extent:
1 volume

46. Harley MS 1199

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1199
Title:
Collection of historical texts
Scope & Content:
Quarto manuscript volume, containing a collection of extracts from printed historical texts. Contents: ff. 1-54v: Collections from some English chronicles, containing passages relating to the times of the Britons, Romans, Saxons and Danes, as well as extracts regarding various Kings and Queens ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

47. Harley MS 1889

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1889
Title:
'Observations Political and Civil'
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing 'Observations Politicall and Civill', a political treatise in a professional secretary hand. On f. 1*v is the initial 'W.B.'. Humfrey Wanley suggested, as noted in the 1808 printed catalogue of Harley Manuscripts, that the author may be Sir William Boswell. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

48. Harley MS 1963

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1963
Title:
Collection of family crests
Scope & Content:
Manuscript volume containing crests of various families, some in pen, some painted, done in alphabetical order. This manuscript has previously been described as containing crests of families in Cheshire, but in fact contains families from many different counties.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

49. Harley MS 5308

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5308
Title:
Plans of knot gardens
Scope & Content:
Manuscript volume containing hand-drawn designs for knot gardens, neatly drawn in square frames.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:

1 volume

50. Harley MS 72

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 72
Title:
Legal treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-8r: An index. ff. 8r-57r: A ‘reading or declaration of the Auctorytis, Libertis, and offices of a fforest, made upon the Statut called Carta de fforesta by one Treherne’. ff. 58r-75v: ‘Tretice of the Institutes of Peace by Mr ffletwood [but not in printe]’. ff. 76v-106v:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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