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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 684
Title:: William Somner, Commentary and glossary on the laws of Henry I
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Gulielmi Somneri Commentarius in Leges Henrici I cum Glossario’. ff. 1r-55r: William Somner (bap. 1598, d. 1669), antiquary and Anglo-Saxon scholar, Commentary on the laws of Henry I; dedicated to Roger Twysden (b. 1597, d. 1672), second baronet, antiquar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 699
Title:: Robert Vawdrey, Knights' Fees in Cheshire and Flintshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: An introduction, entitled: ‘The forme and order of this booke breiflie sett fourth by Robert Vaudray of Chester Collectour thereof to thentent to instructe the Reader to the true and perfecte knowledge of the making and meanynge of the same booke’. ff. 2r-70r: Book of Knight...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1555-1557
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 701
Title:: Possessions of dissolved monasteries in England
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 2r: A title-page: ‘Monasteria dissoluta in comitatibus Norff. Suff. Cantabr. Hunt. Hertf. Essex. Midd. et Civitat. Londone. Anno xxxvjto Henrici viij [...] .1544.’. ff. 3r-97v: ‘Valores omnium et singulorum Dominiorum, Maneriorum, Rectoriarum, Pensionum, Porcionum, ac aliarum te...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1544
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 703
Title:: State papers and tracts relating to the county of Sussex
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a large collection of state papers and tracts, many relating to the county of Sussex, dating between 1583 and 1627, apparently compiled around 1627 for Sir Walter Covert (b. c. 1544. d. 1632), High Sheriff of and Deputy Lieutenant in Sussex, and Member of Parliament for ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1583-1627
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 705
Title:: Revenues of Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-7v: An account-book entitled ‘The Quenes Majesties Revenewes 1559’. ff. 8r-38v: An account-book entitled ‘The Revenewes lately annexed to the Exchequyte’. Decoration: Calligraphically decorated initials throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1559
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 711
Title:: Mathew Hale, History and Analysis of the Common Laws of England; The Alteration Amendment or Reformation of the Lawes of England; Reflections by the Lord Cheife Justice Hale on Mr Hobbes his Dialogue of the Lawe
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2*r-186r: Sir Mathew Hale (b. 1609, d. 1676), 'The History and Analysis of the Common Law of England Copyed from the Originall of the Lord Cheife Justice Hale in his own hand'. ff. 187r-232r: Sir Mathew Hale, 'Of the Alteration Amendment or Reformation of the Lawes of England'. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 714
Title:: Copies of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Edward II
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains copies of the Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Edward II. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), p. 423, the manuscript also contained an unbound paper with a text concerning the Parliament, but this item has not been found in cataloguing the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 715
Title:: Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament for the reign of Edward III
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-544v: Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament during the reign of Edward III (4-6, 13-15, 17, 18, 20-22, 25, 27 Edward III).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 716
Title:: Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Edward III
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-544v: Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of King Edward III (28-29, 36-38, 40, 42-43, 45-47, 50-51 Edward III).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 717
Title:: Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Richard II
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-568v: Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of King Richard II (1-6 Richard II).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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