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1051. Harley MS 830

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 830
Title:
Historical, political and legal manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Historical, political and legal manuscripts in different hands, bound together. Contents: ff. 1-5: ‘Duke of Buckingham’s Relation’: report by the Duke of Buckingham to Parliament on his negotiation in Spain over the proposed marriage match between Charles, Prince of Wales, with the Infanta Mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1052. Harley MS 831

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 831
Title:
George Puttenham, An Apology or True Defence of Her Majesty's Honourable and Good Renown
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: 'An apologie, or true defence of her Maiesties honor and good renowne against all such as haue unduelie sought or shall seek to blemish the fame, with any injustice, crueltie, or other unprincely behaviour in any parte of her Maiesties proceedings against the late Scotish Queene, Be it fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1053. Harley MS 832

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 832
Title:
The process in the Court of the Exchequer against The Collectors of St Antholins
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing the proceedings against the Feoffees of Impropriations, also known as the Collectors of St Antholins in the Court of the Exchequer. The Feoffees of Impropriations was an organisation of Puritans which raised money in order to purchase impropriations and advows...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1633
Extent:
1 volume

1054. Harley MS 833

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 833
Title:
Parliamentary Journal, January 1629-March 1629
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume, titled 'A true relation of every daies proceedings in the last Session of Parliament beginning the xxth of January 1628 [1629] until ye dissolution thereof [10 March 1629]'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1629
Extent:
1 volume

1055. Harley MS 834

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 834
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-44v, 46v-51vr: Part of an ordinary of arms, organised according to heraldic device. ff. 52r-58v: ‘The whole discourse of Thomas Duke of Norffolke his arrainement the xijth day of January 1571’. ff. 59r-62v: ‘The arraygnement of Philip Howard Late Earle of Arundell [1589]’. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1056. Harley MS 835

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 835
Title:
Legal annals from the first to the thirteenth years of the reign of Edward II (1307-1320)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-152r: Legal annals from the first year unto the thirteenth year of the reign of Edward II (1307-1320); written in French. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A Latin memorandum concerning a 'Johannus Sace' of Wombourne, South Staffordshire; dated to the 1s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1057. Harley MS 836

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 836
Title:
The Last Enstructions which the Emperour Charles the fiveth gave to his soune Philippe before his death
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-61v: A ‘copie of the Last Enstructions which the Emperour Charles the fiveth gave to his soune Philippe before his death translated out of Spanish’; preceded by an introduction by Henry Howard (b. 1540, d. 1614), 1st Earl of Northampton, addressed to Queen Elizabeth I.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1058. Harley MS 837

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 837
Title:
Miscellaneous collection of poetry and historical texts
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1*-48v: Extracts from Plutarch's Lives. ff. 49-61v: A letter of Mr John Goodwin, Minister in Coleman Street, at the request of a friend, concerning points of religion. f. 62: Inscription: 'A Booke of versee', in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’. Above thi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1059. Harley MS 838

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 838
Title:
Collection of heraldic and genealogical works, including Mirabilia Orientis, Mirabilia Anglie, and a Middle English translation of Christine de Pizan's Epistre d'Othéa; Annales Cambriae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of two distinct parts that were copied separately and joined together at an unknown point before the manuscript reached the Harleian Library. The first part (ff. 1r-95r) contains heraldic works, chronicles and other historical items, and one of the two extant independen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1060. Harley MS 839

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 839
Title:
Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-49v: An Alphabet of Arms; blazons organized alphabetically according to family names; f. 43, containing the blazoned arms of the princes of the royal house of Plantagnet, appears to have been misbound. ff. 50r-51v: Arms of Salisbury; Companies; Sir Christopher Hatton and Sir ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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