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961. Harley MS 6643

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6643
Title:
The Counterfeit vertu of Sectes together with their entangled discord, about the Ceremonies and other thinges nakedly Uncovered and Declared dialogue Wise in Eight sonder and familiar Parlings or Communications
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-200v: An English treatise, translated from an unidentified German treatise, entitled: ‘The Counterfeit vertu of Sectes together with their entangled discord, about the Ceremonies and other thinges nakedly Uncovered and Declared dialogue wise in Eight sonder and familiar Parling...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

962. Harley MS 2185

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2185
Title:
Tracts relating to and orations held in Parliament in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1558-1563
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A table of contents, indicating that the current manuscript was originally part of a much larger volume of 322 pages, which ran up to the year 1587 (29 Elizabeth I). ff. 2r-48v: Tracts relating to and orations held in Parliament in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1558-1563.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1587-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

963. Harley MS 4136

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4136
Title:
Essex indentures and wills; accounts from a merchant of the Company of the Staple at Calais
Scope & Content:
A composite collection of indentures and last wills relating to Essex, compiled between 1580 and 1612, inter-mixed with copies of account rolls in an earlier hand, and leaves from an English cloth merchant's account book from the early 1540s. The latter's notes indicate that they were a merchant...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1540-c 1612
Extent:
1 volume

964. Harley MS 836

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 836
Title:
The Last Enstructions which the Emperour Charles the fiveth gave to his soune Philippe before his death
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-61v: A ‘copie of the Last Enstructions which the Emperour Charles the fiveth gave to his soune Philippe before his death translated out of Spanish’; preceded by an introduction by Henry Howard (b. 1540, d. 1614), 1st Earl of Northampton, addressed to Queen Elizabeth I.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

965. Harley MS 886

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 886
Title:
William Flower and Robert Glover, The Visitation of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (1569); The Visitation of Staffordshire (1566)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto-38v; 39v-40r: Visitation of Derbyshire, made by William Flower (b. 1497/98, d. 1588), Norroy King of Arms, and Robert Glover (b. 1543/1544, d. 1588), herald of Somerset, 1569; with some additions by Ralfe Brooke (b. 1553, d. 1625), Officer of Arms. ff. 39*recto-39*verso:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1566-1569
Extent:
1 volume

966. Harley MS 1197/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1197/2
Title:
Treatise against Catholic doctrines; statutes, Letters Patent and charters relating to Canterbury; Charles Horn, poem in praise of Edmund Grindal; Johannes Vossius, Encomium in laudem Thomae Wolsey
Scope & Content:
The second of two volumes that comprise Harley MS 1197. The first volume is Harley MS 1197/1. A composite manuscript that consists of four parts that were produced separately in England in the 16th century. Part 1 (ff. 204v-317v) was written in the 1530s-1540s; Part 2 (ff. 318r-384v) was writ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1530-c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

967. Harley MS 361

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 361
Title:
The queries of Sir Edmund Plowden, lawyer, and other legal texts
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1-67v: 'Les Quæres dle Monseiur Edmond Plowden, Apprentice dle Melieu Temple'. The queries of Sir Edmund Plowden, lawyer and legal theorist, of Middle Temple. ff. 68-74v: A judges charge to the jury, on the arraignment of some authors of the Martin Marprel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

968. Harley MS 416

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 416
Title:
Works and correspondence belonging to John Foxe, the martyrologist, vol. 1
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-220v: The first of a set of volumes with collections of works and correspondence belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe (b. 1516/17, d. 1587), including a letter of the German Protestant reformer Urbanus Rhegius (b. 1489, d. 1541) to a 'German Lady' translated into English; o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1529-c 1641
Extent:
1 volume

969. Harley MS 1381

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1381
Title:
List of baronets, with their coats of arms, by John Withie
Scope & Content:
Octavo manuscript volume, containing the names of the 112 baronets created between 1611 and 1619, starting with Nicholas Bacon of Redgrave, and ending with ... Beamond de Colouexton [Thomas Beaumont of Cole Orton]. The first 98 baronets have had their arms painted under their names, another 3 ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

970. Harley MS 2414

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2414
Title:
Pedigrees of Welsh families; Chronicle of England
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were produced separately. The first part (ff. 1r-68v) mainly contains Welsh pedigrees, written in Welsh, largely copied by Llewelyn Sion in the 2nd half of the 16th century. The second part (ff. 70r-102v) contains a Chronicle of England, w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Welsh
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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