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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 779
Title:: Copies of surveys of the manors of East Molesey and West Molesey
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-68r: Copies of surveys of the manors of East Molesey ['East Mulsey'] alias Mulsey Priors and of West Molesey ['West Mulsey'] alias Mulsey Matham in Surrey.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 846
Title:: A book on offices in and the making of a military camp
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: ‘Office of the most Charge Apperteyning unto A Campe withe declaracyon of the Generall dewtyes incidente unto Every of the tem Enseweth’. ff. 2r-5v: ‘Office of the Highe Marshall in the ffyellde or Campe with the dewtyes belongyng’. ff. 6r-8v: ‘Offyce of the Provest Marshal...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 898
Title:: Summary of writs issued during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1589-1593
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-246r: Summary of writs issued during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1589-1593; in Latin, but featuring some English on f. 136r. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘De Annis 36. 37. 38. 39. 40 & 41 Elizab.’; added in the 17th or 18th cen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1589-1593
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 951
Title:: A genealogy of English kings, from Alfred the Great to Henry III
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. [1]recto-[3]recto: ‘A Genealogie of Kings from Alfred to Henry the Third’; probably copied from a medieval genealogical roll. Decoration: Roundels in brown ink.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 roll

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1786
Title:: Thomas Fairfax’s Short memorials, and an epitaph by the Duke of Buckingham
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-15: Copy of a tract by Sir Thomas Fairfax, Parliamentary Commander-in-Chief, Short memorialls of some things to be cleared during my Command in the Army. ff. 16-48r: Copy of another tract by Sir Thomas Fairfax, A short Memoriall of the Northern Actions during the War there, from the Yea...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4222
Title:: Collection of orders and laws for the management of the Royal Mint
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-69r: Collection of orders and laws for the management of the Royal Mint, written in different hands. Includes instructions for making money (ff. 1r-20r), 'An ordinaunce for measures and weightes owte of magna carta' (f. 21r); a document relating to Martin Bowes (b. 1496/7, d....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 16th century-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6076
Title:: Coats of arms of mayors and sheriffs of the City of London
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-6v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 7r-98v: Coats of arms of mayors and sheriffs of the City of London until the year 1668, beginning with the note: 'Since the 1st Maiors of London to the yeare 1668 is 479 years'. The manuscript contai...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1668
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 246
Title:: A collection of heraldic and historical notes copied from older manuscripts and rolls
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A brief chronicle of the history of the world in Latin, beginning with an entry for Pope Gregory the Great, who first called himself the ‘servant of the servants of God’ (dated to 592); the source for this information is identified as a chronicle printed at Antwerp by Joha...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1607-c 1625
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1374
Title:: Coats of arms and blazons of arms of Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-10v: Blazons of arms of the gentry of Northumberland from the Visitation Book made by Sir Richard St George, Norroy King of Arms, and Henry St George, Bluemantle Pursuivant, in 1615. ff. 11r-14v: Blazons of the arms of gentry from the Visitation Book of Cumberland and Westmor...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5888
Title:: Knights made by King James I and King Charles I, 1603 to 1636
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title inscription: ‘Knights made by King James and King Charles, From 1603, to 1636: With an Alphabetical Table by Sir Richard St George’. ff. 2r-38r: A ‘List of such Knights as have bene made by King James in the times of his Most happy Reigne – Rolle of all the Knights ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603-1636
Extent:: 1 volume

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