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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 788
Title:: A collection of transcripts relating to the history of Christ Church Priory, Canterbury
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-321v: A collection of transcripts relating to the history of the priory of Christ Church, Canterbury.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 791
Title:: Instructions for monastic visitations and ecclesiastical properties by Henry VIII; account book of George Montaigne of the Hospital of Savoy; account of the baptism of Charles I; Articles of the Church of England; William Austen, Poem on the Passion; John Milton, Hobson's Epitaph; Sir Walter Raleigh, Speech on the Scaffold; English poems by William Herbert, John Donne, Richard Corbett, Ben Jonson and John Grange; Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of at least eight parts that were produced at separate times in the 16th and 17th centuries, and were bound together at an unknown stage before reaching the Harleian Library. Only the first three parts date to the 16th century. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-4v: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1540-c 1630
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 806
Title:: Baronagium Angliae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-120r: Baronagium Angliae (Diagrams of the English Peerage). [ff. 1-2 are blank]. Decoration: Numerous heraldic arms and genealogical diagrams.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1587
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 810
Title:: English pedigrees and heraldry
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-20v: Pedigrees of Leicestershire from the Visitation of 1564. ff. 21r-33v: Pedigrees and arms of Warwickshire. ff. 34v-114r: Pedigrees and arms of Lincolnshire. ff. 115r-116v: Pedigrees of Digby of Tilton in Rutlandshire. f. 117v: Pedigree of Attkirke of Lincolnshire. f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1530-1564
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 812
Title:: Elizabethan miscellany of records and letters
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Forms of indentures in English from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. ff. 9r-60v: Transcripts from public records and rolls of Parliament, from the time of King Edward II to that of Queen Elizabeth I (Latin and English). ff. 61r-63r: Letters Patent by Queen Elizabeth I, s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 814
Title:: A book on forests
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A treatise on ‘A Forest’. ff. 2r-2v: A treatise on ‘A Chase’. ff. 2v-4v: The ‘differences betwene beasts of the forest and beast of the chace’. ff. 4v-6v: A treatise ‘Of Verte’. ff. 6v-8r: A treatise on the 'Swanimote'; ff. 8r-17r: A treatise on 'Matters taken out...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 817
Title:: Henry of Bratton [Bracton], De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-236r: Henry of Bratton [Bracton], De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 1v-3v and 236v-239r: Annotations on the text and explanations of various terms, featuring a Middle English inscription that seems to have accompanied a map of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 819
Title:: An Ordinary of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Tables of Blazoning most Coates of Armes of all Families in Eng[land]’. ff. 1r-97v: An Ordinary of Arms, with the arms of English families in blazon. Decoration: A coat of arms with a design in brown ink (some with colours) at the centre of the top marg...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 821
Title:: Names of men in service under Edward III; escheatorships under Edward I, Edward II and Edward III
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-11v: Nomina eorum qui de Rege Edwardo tertio tenuerunt in capite per servicium militare aut in Socagio ad terminum vite vel in Burgagio. ff. 12r-25v: Escheatorships under Edward I. ff. 26r-41v: Escheatorships under Edward II. ff. 42r-43r: Escheatorships under Edward III; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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