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901. Harley MS 5240

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5240
Title:
A Latin formulary with indentures on various legal subjects for persons in Oxfordshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-66v, 68r-100v: A formulary with indentures on various legal subjects for persons in Oxfordshire. The formulary is mostly written in Latin, but various indentures in English were added at the end. The manuscript contains several additions: ff. 1*verso-3*recto: Practice inden...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

902. Harley MS 566

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 566
Title:
Praecedents of Barronyes by wrytte descendinge with the Lands to the heirs males and not the heris Females
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: A tract entitled ‘Praecedents of Barronyes by wrytte descendinge with the Lands to the heirs males and not the heris Females’. Decoration: Genealogies in brown and red ink throughout.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

903. Harley MS 762

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 762
Title:
Liber sive codicellus collectus de evidentijs extractis de libris feodorum militum, et alijs memorandis tam scaccarij quam cancelarie
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-17r: Liber sive codicellus collectus de evidentijs extractis de libris feodorum militum, et alijs memorandis tam scaccarij quam cancelarie; continens in se nomina et tenuras omnium et singulorum dominorum, maneriorum, et terrarum in comitatu Herefordiensis tentorum de domina re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1558-1559
Extent:
1 volume

904. Harley MS 791

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 791
Title:
Instructions for monastic visitations and ecclesiastical properties by Henry VIII; account book of George Montaigne of the Hospital of Savoy; account of the baptism of Charles I; Articles of the Church of England; William Austen, Poem on the Passion; John Milton, Hobson's Epitaph; Sir Walter Raleigh, Speech on the Scaffold; English poems by William Herbert, John Donne, Richard Corbett, Ben Jonson and John Grange; Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of at least eight parts that were produced at separate times in the 16th and 17th centuries, and were bound together at an unknown stage before reaching the Harleian Library. Only the first three parts date to the 16th century. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-4v: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1540-c 1630
Extent:
1 volume

905. Harley MS 1323

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1323
Title:
Political tracts including speeches of King James, copies of Elizabethan letters, and documents related to the Spanish match
Scope & Content:
Composite volume of political tracts in different hands. Contents: ff. 1-12: King James’s speeches on the state of the kingdom, supply in warfare and the defence of the kingdom, etc. Declaration of the Lords and Commons delivered to the King by the Archbishop of Canterbury, 13 March 1633, on ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1580s-1630s
Extent:
1 volume

906. Harley MS 3627

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3627
Title:
George Owen, Of the Antiquity, Ampleness, and Excellency of the Common Laws of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-116r: George Owen (b. c. 1573, d. 1617), Of the Antiquity, Ampleness, and Excellency of the Common Laws of England; chapters 1-6 (out of 20 chapters), here anonymous, but with the title: 'Of fhe Antiquitie, Amplenes, and Excellencie of the Common Lawes of England'. Owen wrote t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1614-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume

907. Harley MS 4004

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4004
Title:
Collection of English law cases; indentures of John Estrete; formulary of English Civil Law
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were produced separately and written by different hands. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-107v: Collection of English law cases; written in Law French in the last quarter of the 15th century or 1st quarter of the 16th century. Part 2: ff. 108...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

908. Harley MS 5417

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5417
Title:
Jean Poingdestre, Caesarea or A Discourse of the Island of Jersey in two Parts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-44v: Jean Poingdestre (b. 1609, d. 1691), Caesarea or A Discourse of the Island of Jersey in two Parts: The First, An Accompt of It as It Is at Present; The second, Some Historical Observations Relating to Antiquity.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

909. Harley MS 118-121

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 118-121
Title:
School exercise books of Simonds D’Ewes
Scope & Content:
Four manuscript exercise books of Sir Simonds D’Ewes as a child, now bound together. Chiefly Latin exercises and translations from Latin authors into English.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1615-1618
Extent:
1 volume

910. Harley MS 339

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 339
Title:
Papers of Sir Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
Quarto manuscript volume containing various papers of Sir Simonds D'Ewes. Contents: ff. 1-2v: 'A breife meaning of God's law', seemingly written by Simonds D'Ewes as a school boy to his mother, along with other notes in English and Latin. ff. 3-3v: Part of a letter from Simonds D'Ewes to a cler...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1547-1650?
Extent:
1 volume

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