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51. Add MS 48047

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Treatises on politics and economics
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This volume is part of the Yelverton Manuscripts. The initial pasted on the front, H', points to it belonging to the early core of the collection, the library of Robert Beale (1541-1601), administrator and diplomat. It contains some headings and notes, and one text and (probably) one transcripti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1565-1600
Extent:
1 volume

52. Add MS 48048

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HISTORIES OF SCOTLAND. Copies, late 16th cent. 1. ff. 1-45. History of Scotland 1436-1561 by John Leslie, Bishop of Ross: an incomplete version in English to 1512 only. First line of title by Beale, f. 1. The present MS. is noticed in the first publication of Leslie's original Scots text by T....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century
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1 item

53. Add MS 48049

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Title:
Papers relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1565-c. 1600
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This volume is made up of copies and drafts relating to Mary Queen of Scots and more broadly to Scottish politics in the reign of King James VI (up to c. 1600). The volume forms part of the papers collected by Robert Beale, Clerk of the Council, and there are many endorsements, memoranda and dra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Greek, Ancient, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1560-1605
Extent:
1 volume

54. 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

55. Add MS 48051

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THE FIVE KNIGHTS' CASE, King's Bench; 15-28 Nov. 1627. Also called Sir Thomas Darnell's case, although Sir Thomas Darnell, Bart., withdrew early in the proceedings. The 'five knights', who had been imprisoned on the order of Charles I for refusing to pay the forced loan of 1627, applied for a wr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
[1625-1649]
Extent:
1 item

56. Add MS 48052

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MODUS ET FORMA TENENDI PARLIAMENTUM, Book I, by Henry Elsynge the elder, Clerk of the Parliaments, completed 3 May 1625, see his autograph draft, Harley MS. 1342, f. 157. Partly Latin and French. Contemporary copy. First printed as The ancient method and manner of holding parliaments in England,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
[1625-1649]
Extent:
1 item

57. Add MS 48053

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PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS; 1604, 1610. Copies, temp. Charles I [between 1625-1649]. 1. ff. 1-97b. Commons proceedings for the fourth session of the first parliament of James I; 14 Feb.-23 July 1610. A poor copy of Harley MS. 777, an expanded contemporary version of the official Commo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1625-1649]
Extent:
1 item

58. Add MS 48054

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PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND THE CASE OF SIR JOHN ELIOT; Jan. 1629-Feb. 1630. 1. ff. 2-88b. The 'True Relation', or proceedings in the House of Commons in the second session of the third parliament of Charles I; Jan.-March 1629. The Commons Journal for the period consists only of no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1629-1630
Extent:
1 item

59. Add MS 48055

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WILLIAM LAMBARDE, 'ARCHEION, OR OF THE HIGH COURTS OF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND': preceded by a dedicatory letter to Sir Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury 1605, Lincoln's Inn, 22 Oct. 1591. Copy, 17th cent. Not including the emendations made 1596-1598 (see C. H. McIlwain and P. L. Ward, Archeion . . ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1625-1649]
Extent:
1 item

60. Add MS 48056

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TREATISE ON THE CHANCERY, etc.; c. 1613-1618. See Ward, pp. 270-298. The present manuscript is quoted in W. J. Jones, The Elizabethan Court of Chancery, 1967, (see p. 33, n.1.). Contents table, f. i. 1. ff. 1-6. List of Lord Chancellors, 1046-1618, incomplete and inaccurate, with incomplete ta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1608-1618
Extent:
1 item