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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6700
Title:: Copies of the Book of Knights’ Fees of Leicestershire; catalogue of the market and fair towns; Spiritual Receipts and Escheators and Inquisitors of Leicestershire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-17r: ‘Computus Johannis Saunderstedd, vicecomitis Leicestrensis, Philippi Polwill, et Willielmi Nevill de Rearefbie, collectorum rationabilis auxilii in comitatu praedicto, domino regi Edwardo tertio concessi ad primogenitum filium suum militem faciendum, anno regni ejusdem reg...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1601
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6707
Title:: Proceedings in the King's Bench and Exchequer from the time of the reign of Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: The manuscript's former binding is now stored separately as Harley MS 6707/1. Contents: ff. 1r-110v: Proceedings in the King's Bench and Exchequer from the time of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; written in Law French. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 75v: Latin saying: 'Gutta c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6716
Title:: Inventory of the charters of Stanley Abbey
Scope & Content:: Repertorium of the muniments of Stanley Abbey, with pressmarks. The order of the entries differs from that of the pressmarks. Contains additions throughout in the right-hand column, left vacant apparently for this purpose. ff. 1v–2r: Added glossaries to legal terminology, ‘Exposiito quorundam v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1245-1270s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6718
Title:: Collection of sermons; tract on the Pater Noster from William of Nassyngton’s Speculum Vitae; treatise on making testaments
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of three distinct parts that were produced separately in England in the 15th century. Part 1 (ff. 2-15) contains a collection of Latin sermons with occasional quotations in Middle English. Part 2 (ff. 16-33), contains a Middle English verse commentary on th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6725
Title:: Lists of judges, counts, lords and bishops of England; a treatise in law French
Scope & Content:: f. 1r: A table of contents. ff. 2r-3v: Catalogus summorum Angliae Justiciarorum a conquestu eiusdem anno 1066 ad obitum regis Henrici tercij anno domini 1272, quo tempore eorum auctoritas cessavit deinde. ff. 3v-5v: Capitalium Justiciariorum ad placita coram rege tenenda ad annum dominum 159...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1590-c 1625
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6727-6744
Title:: Diary of Mr Hodges
Scope & Content:: Diary spanning the years 1700 to 1709, written chiefly in Latin, partly in English, including accounts of dreams and mystical words related to judicial astrology. British Museum spine label attributes the diary to Mr Hodges, described in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Mus...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1700-1709
Extent:: 18 volumes

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