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1. Add Ch 76671-76767

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Add Ch 76671-76767
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PORTLAND CHARTERS: charters acquired with the Portland Papers (Add. MSS. 70001-70523), allocated to the British Library by H.M. Treasury in May 1987, having previously been on deposit in the British Library as Loan MS. 29. The Portland charters contain a significant group of early 12th-13th century charters chiefly associated with Fountains Abbey (Add. Ch. 76710-76718) as well as two important collections of early Scottish charters (Add. Ch. 76696-76709; 76747-76763). For a calendar of Add. ...
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Portland Papers: Harley family; Earls of Oxford: Papers of the Harley and related families: 9th-mid 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
12th century-18th century
Extent:
97 items

2. Add Ch 76708

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Add Ch 76708
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(29/242{12}). NOTIFICATION by Alexander [Stewart], Duke of Albany and Earl of March, that he has taken his cousins Sir John of Swyntoune and John his son and heir apparent into his maintenance and protection. Dat. at Dunbar, 6 Nov. 1475. Calendared in H.M.C. Portland, II, pp. 2-3. Scots. Paper...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Scots
Date Range:
6 Nov 1475
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 32646-32657

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Add MS 32646-32657
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OFFICIAL correspondence and state papers relating to transactions between England and Scotland during the latter part of the reign of Henry VIII., from 1532 to 1545; and (in the last volume) a few similar letters of the beginning of the reign of Edward VI., in 1548, and the correspondence of Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary of State, with Edward Wotton, Ambassador to Scotland in 1585. Twelve volumes. A large portion of the series relates to the embassy of Sir Ralph Sadler to Scotland in the...
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Marches of England and Scotland: Official correspondence and papers relating to: 1532-1545, 1548, 1585. Hamilton State Papers: Transactions between England and Scotland: 1532-1548, 1585. England General Chronicles and History: Transactions between England and Scotland: 1532-1548, 1585.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, Scots, and Spanish
Date Range:
[7 Mar 1532]-27 May 1590
Extent:
12 items

4. Add MS 48000-48196

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THE YELVERTON MSS
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Correspondence and papers chiefly of Robert Beale, Clerk of the Council (b. 1541, d. 1601), together with additions of the 17th century, including manuscripts of Sir Henry Yelverton, Justice of the Common Pleas (b. 1566, d. 1629), Beale's son-in-law, Sir Christopher Yelverton, Justice of the Kin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Scots, Spanish, and Welsh
Date Range:
[1100-1899]
Extent:
197 items

5. Add MS 48032

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LEGAL TREATISES, etc., including 'Regiam Majestatem' and 'Quoniam Attachiamenta'. Partly compiled, c. 1570, by 'M. G.', whose hand occurs in artt. 5, 8, 15 and 16. 1. f. 3b. 'Expositiones quorundam vocabulorum'. Latin. Beg. 'Soke hoc est secta de hominibus . . . '. Harley 4700, ff. 210b-211. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
c 1570
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 48032-48033

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Add MS 48032-48033
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SCOTS LEGAL TREATISES AND STATUTES, etc.; late 16th cent. Mostly Latin and Scots. For other MSS. In which the contents occur, especially Harley MS. 4700 (15th cent.), see APS, i, pp. i-xxxvi. The present MSS. May derive in part from Glasgow University MS. Murray 548, which includes most of their contents and also the two dated colophons in 48032, art. 16, and 48033, art.4. Occasional notes by Beale passim.
Scope & Content:
Elizabeth I of England: Papers of R. Beale, Clerk of the Council: 16th cent. Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council: Correspondence and papers.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
2 items

7. Add MS 48033

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Add MS 48033
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STATUTES AND TREATISES. 1. f. 1. Chapters of 'Quoniam attachiamenta', numbered lxxxj-lxxxiii, as 48032, f. 235. Latin. 2. ff. 1b-5. 'Incipit quoddam notabile de maritagio. Tractatus immediate post Regiam Maiestatem.', in 18 chapters. Latin and Scots. As 48032, art. 8. 3. f. 5b. Laws of Malc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1184-1599
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 48050

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Add MS 48050
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DIGEST OF SCOTS LAW in seven books; 16th cent. (after 1555, see f. 72b). Latin and Scots. See The Practicks of Sir James Balfour of Pittendriech, ed. P. G. B. McNeill, Stair Soc., xxi, xxii, 1962, 1963, vol. 1, p. lviii and n.47, where the present MS. and another, National Library of Scotland Ad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 49199-49285

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Add MS 49199-49285
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The Stanmore Papers. Correspondence and papers of Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore, colonial governor, (b. 1829, d. 1912); 1841-1912, with Supplementary Aberdeen Papers; 1803-1861. Further Papers of Stanmore as Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick are in the possession of the University of New Brunswick. He wrote Wilderness Journeys in New Brunswick (1864), Story of a Little War, 1876 (1879) and other works noted below, in which he published many documents from the following volum...
Scope & Content:
Sir Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore; formerly Gordon; GCMG: Correspondence and papers: 1841-1912.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, Fijian, French, Latin, Maori, Rarotongan, Scots, Spanish, and Turkish
Date Range:
1841-1912
Extent:
87 items

10. Add MS 49270-49272

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Add MS 49270-49272
Title:
F. LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
[1835-1910]
Extent:
3 items