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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 770
Title:: Extracts from the Journal of the House of Commons, 1689
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume containing extracts copied from the Journal of House of Commons, 1689. Contents: ff. 1-2v: Articles 4 and 5, followed by separate articles, of the Treaty between England and Holland concluded at Westminster on 3 March 1677. 26 March 1689. ff. 3-17v: Reports from committe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1689
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 771
Title:: Sea Laws of Scotland
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-17r: The Sea Laws of Scotland; here entitled ‘Sea Lawis’. ff. 18r-26r: The 'ordour of the Chancellarie'. ff. 27r-32v: The 'Instructiones given to Commissaris of the Edinburgh'; dated to 1563. ff. 33r-37r: The 'Lawis maid be certane Kingis of Scotland, as is contened in t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1563
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 772
Title:: The arms of aristocracy and towns in Suffolk, tricked
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-26r: The arms of aristocracy and towns in Suffolk, tricked. ff. 27r-28r: A table of contents. Decoration: Coats of arms (tricked), many with crests, in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 773
Title:: Formulary
Scope & Content:: A composite manuscript of 15th century legal and administrative documents copied to serve as models for a scribe. Contents: f. iir is a scrap of paper pasted onto an unfoliated modern endleaf, bearing the note: '12 Nou: 1661 / at the shop agst Mr Littlebury'. ff. iiir-v is a scrap of parchmen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 774
Title:: Pedigrees of English families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-40v: Pedigrees with some coats of arms, going up to 1604-1609. ff. 41r-44r: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. The manuscript contains an addition: ff. 2*recto-3*verso: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, fragments of books 19 and 20; written...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 775
Title:: A catalogue of rolls in the library of Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-9r: A catalogue of rolls in the library of Simonds D'Ewes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 776
Title:: Bartholomew de Cotton, Historia Anglicana (Book 2); Tractatus de Archiepiscopis et Episcopis Angliae (Book 3); letter of Pope Gregory X to the bishops of London and Ely; The Siege of Caerlaverock
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-31v: Bartholomew de Cotton, Historia Anglicana scilicet Liber secundus de Regibus, Anglis, Dacis, et Normannis; according to an introduction ‘Extracted out a auncient MS [Cotton MS Nero C V] written about the latter ende of the yeere 1298’. ff. 32r-45v: Tractatus de Archiepis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 777
Title:: Proceedings of the House of Commons, 1610
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume containing a journal of the proceedings of the House of Commons between 14 February 1609 [1610] and 23 July 1610.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1610
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 778
Title:: Summons to Parliament, 1265-1542
Scope & Content:: Summons to Parliament from 49 Henry III (1264/5) to 21 Henry VIII (1529/30), taken from the close rolls in the Tower written for Henry Bourchier, 5th Earl of Bath. Preceded by several tables and lists. ff. 1-6: Table of summons from 49 Henry III to 34 Henry VIII. ff. 7-14: Alphabetical tabl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 779
Title:: Copies of surveys of the manors of East Molesey and West Molesey
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-68r: Copies of surveys of the manors of East Molesey ['East Mulsey'] alias Mulsey Priors and of West Molesey ['West Mulsey'] alias Mulsey Matham in Surrey.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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