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4192. Harley MS 6216
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6216
- Title:
- Annals for English kings, from Edward I to Henry V
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Memorandums or Annals of several Kings Reignes from 1273’. f. 1v: A table of contents: ‘Comone places for toe be observed in the affayres of the Estate of England’. ff. 2r-23r: Annals from Edward I to Henry V; beginning: ‘All Contributions and the Causes whe...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4193. Harley MS 6217
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6217
- Title:
- A history of the reign of King Edward III
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 3r-21v: A history of the reign of King Edward III. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘An historical relation of certain passages about the end of Kind Edward the 3rd & of his death’; added in the (?) 17th century; followed by a pencil note that st...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4194. Harley MS 6218
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6218
- Title:
- A copy of the will of King Henry VIII
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘H: 8th Will’; ‘King Henry the 8ths Will’. ff. 2r-7r: A copy of the will of King Henry VIII, beginning: ‘In the name of God and of the glorious and blessed virgyn our Lady St Mary and of all the holy Company of heaven we Henry by the grace of god kinge of Englan...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4195. Harley MS 6219
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6219
- Title:
- The life and acts of William the Conqueror; fragment of a history of Scotland (1291); Metrical History of the Deposition of Richard II
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 2r-4r: A tract on the acts of William the Conqueror, beginning: ‘These thynges whiche folow of the lyfe and actes of the gloryous William Duke of Normandye , and victoryous Kynge of Englande were detracted out of a certen auncyent boke of the monasterye of St Stephen of Cane [Abbe...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4196. Harley MS 6220
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6220
- Title:
- Instructyons yeven by the king of England to his trustie and welbeloved son Arthur shewinge howe they shall order themselves when they shall come to the presens of the olde Queene of Naples and the younge Queene her daughter
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 3r-6r: A treatise entitled ‘Instructyons yeven by the king [of] England to his trustie and welbeloved son [Arthur] shewinge howe they shall order themselves when they shall come to the presens of the olde Queene of N[aples] and the younge Queene her daughter’. The manuscript con...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4197. Harley MS 6221
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6221
- Title:
- An account of the voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1585; documents relating to Francis Drake's proceedings against Thomas Doughty
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 2r-6v: An account of the voyage of Sir Francis Drake (b. 1540, d. 1596) in 1585, entitled: ‘Sir Frauncys Drakes voyage’. ff. 7r-13r: Documents relating to Francis Drake's proceedings against Thomas Doughty (b. 1545, d. 1578); written in a different 16th-century hand.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4198. Harley MS 6222
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6222
- Title:
- Petition of Richard Troughton, Bailiff of South Witham, Lincolnshire, to the Privy Council in the reign of Queen Mary, relating to the share taken by him in the Duke of Northumberland's Plot
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A letter by Richard Throughton, beginning: ‘To the Kinge and Quenes maiesties moste honorabili councell’; ending ‘Uppon mundaye beffor The Duke of Suffolk’; ending with a declaration: ‘I was never in any commocion or otherwise against the Crowne of Englond in all my liffe b...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and French
- Date Range:
- 1555
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4199. Harley MS 6223
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6223
- Title:
- Arthour and Merline (excerpt); History of England
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 2r-2v: A transcript of the first 62 lines of Arthour and Merline by John Stow (b. 1524/1525, d. 1605), beginning: ‘[H]e that made withe his honde / wynde wode watar and londe’. ff. 3r-21r: A transcript of a history of England ‘Taken out of the cronicle that sumtyme belongyd to ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4200. Harley MS 6224
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6224
- Title:
- Extracts from letters relating to occurrences in the Low Countries and Germany, 1562-1566
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 2r-41v: Extracts from letters relating to occurrences in the Low Countries and Germany, dated 1562-1566. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Breviats of lettore sente out of the Lowe Contreys and Jarmany of Accorrants about Anno 1615’; added by Ralph ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume