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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1115
Title:: Heraldry book, with grants of arms by William Camden and others
Scope & Content:: Heraldry book written in several hands. Contents: f. 1*: Parchment title cut from old binding: ‘Camdens Gifts & Others with Som Frish Coats’. f. 1: Alphabetical table of surnames in the following tract. ff. 2-38: Grants or confirmations of arms or crests, varying in detail and draw...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1236
Title:: Journal of the transactions in the House of Commons, November 1685
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume containing a journal of all the transactions in the House of Commons from 9 November 1685 to 20 November 1685, when the Parliament was prorogued. In this volume you can find the Kings Speech, the address of the House to His Majesty, with his answer, along with several de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1685
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1784
Title:: Four sermons of Mr Mather preached December 1693 to February 1694
Scope & Content:: Manuscript volume containing four sermons by Mr Mather (possible Cotton Mather or Increase Mather). f. 1*: ‘Four Sermons Preached by Mr Mather’. ff. 1-17: ‘A Sermon Preached by Mr Mather December the 24th 1693’. ff. 17-24r: ‘Another Sermon preached Decem[ber] 31 1694’ [i.e. 1693]. ff. 24v-3...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1693-1694
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7363
Title:: Statutes of Shrewsbury Grammar School, with Catalogue of books at Lincoln’s Inn
Scope & Content:: Statutes of the Grammar School at Shrewsbury, and other documents relative to it. Catalogue of books at Lincoln’s Inn, taken in September 1646.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 156
Title:: William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum; Chronicle of Thomas Rudburne Monke of Winchester
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-184v: William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum; translated into English. ff. 185r-279r: ‘The Chronicle of Thomas Rudburne Monke of Winchester'; translated into English. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 279v: Doodles of antropomorphic and zoomorphic figures; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 290
Title:: Papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–283v: A collection of papers, some original, relating to Mary Queen of Scots and William Davison. ff. 1r–5v: Tract in Latin on the marriage between Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VI), and Mary Queen of Scots (undated, but must date from around the time of the Treaty of Greenwich i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher, English, and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 16th century-mid 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 603/1
Title:: Detached former binding of Harley MS 603
Scope & Content:: Detached former leather 19th century half-bound binding with three flyleaves, previously attached to Harley MS 603 (the 'Harley Psalter') and now stored separately.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Detached former leather binding

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 617
Title:: Issues of arms by the Ordnance, 1558-1574
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-31v: The ‘Issue of the saide office conteyninge the charge of redie money for all Provisions delivered only by warrant from the Quenes majestie and her honorable Counsell for her service in sundrie her highnes Townes, Castles, Fortes, and Bulwarkes, as well within the Realme, a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1057
Title:: Heraldry book of John Withie and others
Scope & Content:: Several tracts and fragments on heraldry bound together. By John Withie (1593-c1678), arms painter, and others. Contents: ff. 1-2: Indexes of names of Devonshire, Warwickshire, and Shropshire gentry, perhaps extracted by John Withie from visitations of 1620, 1619 and 1623 respectively. ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1110
Title:: Pedigrees and descents collected by William Penson
Scope & Content:: Heraldry book in the hand of William Penson, Lancaster-Herald, with numerous pedigrees collected to illustrate his family’s descent. For a detailed description of the contents, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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