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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 137
Title:: Draft treaty between England, Spain and the Spanish Netherlands, 1604
Scope & Content:: Original draft of the Treaty of London (1604) between James I of England, Philip III of Spain, and the Archdukes Albert and Isabella governors of the Spanish Netherlands, with corrections and alterations (ff. 1-26). Followed by individual articles with titles provided by Ralph Starkey, former o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1604
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 138
Title:: George Treheyron, Treatise on forest laws
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r*recto: A title (‘The Lawes of a Forreste’) inscribed on a parchment strip. ff. 1r-42v: George Treheyron, Treatise on forest laws.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 139
Title:: Transcripts of historical material relating to Chester written by Laurence Bostocke
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-v: Title page with signature of Ralph Starkey. ff. 2r-11r: Index. ff. 12r-221v: Transcripts of historical material relating to Chester written by Laurence Bostocke between 1566-1575. ff. 222v-228v: Index. f. 228v: Note from the Keeper of Manuscripts that parts of the MS wer...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1566-1575
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 140
Title:: Catalogue of rolls from the time of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-344v: Calendarium literarum patentium Regis Henrici VIII. f. 348v: An inventory of possessions, beginning ‘A greate Chest’. ff. 349r-392r: Calendarium concessionum plurimarum Regis Henrici VIII. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 393r: A ‘memorandum’ about blan...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 141
Title:: Description of and treatises related to Wales
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page, ‘Discription of the Dominion of Wales & 2 other treatises of it’. f. 1r: Pen-trialling, added in the 16th century. ff. 1r-21v: ‘Description of the Dominion of Wales’. ff. 25r-27r: A treatise entitled ‘Cornwalls Case’ [French]. ff. 28r-85r: ‘Dialo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 142
Title:: Account of the lands belonging to Glastonbury Abbey concealed from the Crown
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-23v: A title-page, ‘A Booke of Concealed landes belonginge to the late Monastery of Glastonbury’; beginning on f. 2r: ‘An abstract or brief noat taken owt of Mr Nicholas Raies Courte bookes and Courte rolles The laste of November in the xxiiijth yere of the raigne of our sovere...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1581
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 143
Title:: Liber computorum et conventionum Roberti Ashefelde de Stowe Langtoft, tempore Henrici VI
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r- 23v: Liber computorum et conventionum Roberti Ashefelde de Stowe Langtoft, tempore Henrici VI.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 144
Title:: Rental of Kirkstead Abbey
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: ‘Rental of the demeanes late belongyng to the monastery of Kirksted and letten to diverse persons as hereafter doth folowe from the first day of May anno xxix h viij unto the first day of May thence next folowyng’. ff. 3r-4r: ‘Demaynes of Kirkestedde’. ff. 5r-24r: ‘Surve...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1538-1539
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 145
Title:: John de Fordun, Scoticronicon
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-56r: John de Fordun (b. 1360, d. c. 1384), Scoticronicon.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 146
Title:: Account book of Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Two titles written on parchment strips: ‘This booke contaynethe T'entries of everye privie seale passing from the Quenes majestie for divers hir officers for money that hath byne dewe unto them begonne the 8th or Maye 1568 in the tenthe yeare of hir majesties Raigne’; and ‘Exp...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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