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281. Harley MS 249

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 249
Title:
A collection of papers concerning political and legal affairs in the time of Henry VIII to James I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-118v: A large collection of papers concerning political and legal affairs in the time of Henry VIII-James I, including transcripts and originals. The originals date to about 1546-1608. The collection opens with 'The confession taken of twentie and thre of th ecrediblest Forsath...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1546-1608
Extent:
1 volume

282. Harley MS 250

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 250
Title:
Transcripts of historical tracts and papers
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-94: Life of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, during the reign of Henry VIII. Imperfect. It begins on folio 8v, line 20 of the Arundel MS 152. ff. 95-142: Account of the levying and collecting of the aid for King James I for knighting his son Henry, Prince of Wales. Dated at Whithall, Feb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

283. Harley MS 252

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 252
Title:
A collection of English historical, political and legal papers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v: A fragment concerning the issuing of subpoenas from the Court of Chancery, without Bills of Complaint; imperfect. f. 3r: A crossed-out 17th-century text. ff. 3v-4v: ‘Heare followeth the Coppy of the Assignatyon of suche Landes and Revenewes as weare appoynted for the Su...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1555-1645
Extent:
1 volume

284. Harley MS 253

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 253
Title:
Volume of historical papers, mostly relating to naval matters, collected by Ralph Starkey
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-9r: 'Certaine reasons to approove the menes that fostered and contynued all the abuses Comitted in the office of the Shippes' ff. 9r-10r: 'The forme of a Privy Seale, for tounage of a Nue Shippes at 5s the tonne, to incourage others to builde Shippes of great Burthen'. f. 10...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

285. Harley MS 254

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 254
Title:
Catalogues of coin collections of Simonds D’Ewes and Robert Cotton
Scope & Content:
Catalogues of Simonds D’Ewes coin collections (ff. 1-156), in his hand. The rest of the manuscript is a catalogue of Cotton’s coins, arranged and annotated by D’Ewes, and some Anglo-Saxon coin inscriptions. Contents: ff. 1-24: Catalogue of Greek coins of Simonds D’Ewes.ff. 24-30: Catalogue of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

286. Harley MS 255

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 255
Title:
Papers on numismatics, with letters of Sir Simonds D’Ewes and others
Scope & Content:
Loose papers relating to numismatics, mostly very rough notes in the hand of Simonds D’Ewes. Written on the back of letters or papers on other subjects. Contents: ff. 1-24: Rough notes on British coinage, written on the back of recycled letters. Heading: ‘Prolegomena ad Thesaurum Numarium Brit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

287. Harley MS 256

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 256
Title:
Acts of the Privy Council, 1545 and 1546
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the acts of the Privy Council between 1545 and 1546. Originally, it may have been bound together with Harley MS 169, ff. 1-31, containing the acts of the Privy Council from 1558. Contents: ff. 1r-292r: Acts of the Privy Council, 1545-1546, beginning ‘A Book of the Act...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

288. Harley MS 257

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 257
Title:
The Lives of the Bishops of Lindisfarne and Durham
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-63r: The Lives of the Bishops of Lindisfarne and Durham, from Aidan to Thomas Hatfield (19 Edward III), beginning 'The Church of holy lland through the most servent faith in Crist of the glorious king in times past of Northumberland and the pretious martir Oswald did take the b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

289. Harley MS 259

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 259
Title:
The names of sheriffs of England organised by county and chronologically, extending to 4 Charles I
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-142r: ‘Nomina vicecomitum saepius tamen malefida collecta ex Rotulis Magnis Pipae per Jo. Alington clerico ibidem tempore Jacobi Regis’. ff. 143r-143v: ‘Nomina quorundam Vicecomitum temp. Regis Johannis et H. 3. collecta ex Rot. Pat.'. ff. 145r-194v: ‘Nomina vicecomitum collecta ex Rot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

290. Harley MS 260

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 260
Title:
Letter-Book of Francis Walsingham as Ambassador to France, 26 Jan 1571-1 April 1573, with the reply to the French Ambassador, 20 Aug 1573
Scope & Content:
This is a scribal copy of the letter-book of Francis Walsingham covering most of his period as English Resident in Paris between early 1571 and spring 1573. The period covers the marriage negotiations of Queen Elizabeth I with two of the brothers of the King of France: Henri, Duke of Anjou (late...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1619-1628
Extent:
1 volume

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