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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1657
Title:: Accounts of the Board of the Kings Works, 1662-1663
Scope & Content:: Manuscript office-book in folio containing monthly accounts of all charges for works and reparations done at the Tower of London, Whitehall, Westminster, St. James’s House, Greenwich, and Hampton Court, together with the accounts of all allowances to Officers of the Works, for six months from De...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1662-1663
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1658
Title:: Accounts of the Board of the Kings Works, 1666-1667
Scope & Content:: Manuscript office-book in folio containing monthly accounts of all charges for works and reparations done at the Tower of London, Whitehall, Westminster, St James’s House, Snowell [or Snow-well or Snow-will] near Berkshire House, Hampton Court, and Greenwich, together with the accounts for ridin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1666-1667
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1767
Title:: Tracts on law and equity, and proceedings against Coke
Scope & Content:: Collection of tracts on law matters written continuously, in a single hand. Flyleaf: ‘Bought of Mr. Noble’. ff. 1-14r: Notes and observations on the state of Magna Carta, chapter XXIX, and other statutes concerning the proceedings in Chancery in courses of equity and conscience. Collected by L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4125
Title:: Copy of the 1579 charter of the Eastland Company
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto (parchment pastedown): 'Coppie of the Eastland companie their Charter dated the 17th of August the xxjth of Queen Elizabeth Anno Domini .1568. [sic: should be 1579]'. ff. 2*recto-2*verso: 'The Principall Heads, and Contents of the Charter'. ff. 1r-21v: The 'Eastland Chart...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1579-c 1625
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6215
Title:: Archeion, or the high Court of Justice in England
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-21v: An English treatise, entitled: ‘Archeion, or the high Court of Justice in England’.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 302
Title:: Notes and memoranda relating to abuses in the Royal Navy
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume containing, under various headings, a large number of facts, notes and memoranda relating to abuses done and committed in the Royal Navy. The manuscript appears to have been used by the House of Commons, or Committees within the House, when drawing out charges, either dur...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 428
Title:: George Cavendish, Thomas Wolsey, Late Cardinall, his Lyffe and Deathe
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-74v: George Cavendish (b. 1597, d. c. 1562), Thomas Wolsey, Late Cardinall, his Lyffe and Deathe, here entitled ‘The Discourse of the Lyffe and Deathe of Cardynall Woolsey’.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1094
Title:: Copies of Visitations of Northamptonshire and Rutlandshire by John Withie
Scope & Content:: Heraldical book copied and drawn by John Withie (1593-c. 1678), arms painter. Includes copies of the Visitation book of Northamptonshire and Rutlandshire 1618 and 1619, with numerous additions not found in other copies, and incorporating information from an earlier Visitation, probably the Visit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5832
Title:: Pedigrees of Buckinghamshire from the Visitation Book of William Harvey
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-76r: Pedigrees of Buckinghamshire with arms, tricked, deeds and grants; transcribed out of the Book of Visitation of William Harvey (b. 1510, d. 1567), Clarenceux King of Arms, 1566, by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Rouge Dragon; with additions up to 1656. ff. 77r-77v: A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1097
Title:: Copies of Visitation books of Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire and Lincolnshire, with additions
Scope & Content:: Heraldical book written and tricked by different hands. Contents: ff. 1*-10: Copy of the arms and pedigrees entered at the Visitation of Oxfordshire 1566 by William Hervey, Clarenceux. Includes drawings of the seal of Oxford, the arms of the borough of Woodstock and the seal of Banbury (f. 1v)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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