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1501. Harley MS 1221

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1221
Title:
Moral, literary, and political tracts
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous collection of essays, verse, speeches, and political papers. Includes two printed tracts on the death of Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex. Contents: f. 1*: Contents list ff. 1-12v: Copy of A System of Ethicks, by Charles Morton (1627-1698), minister and teacher at Newington Green Dis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1502. Harley MS 1222

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1222
Title:
Political and legal tracts
Scope & Content:
Various tracts bound together: ff. 1-23: Sir John Davies (1569-1626), ‘Charge to the jurors of the Grand Inquest at York, 1619, for the mainteyning and contynueing the publique Peace by the Execution of Justice’. ff. 24-52: ‘A Catt may look at a King’. Tract on the tyranny of kings from Kin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1503. Harley MS 1223

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1223
Title:
Papers on trade and coinage
Scope & Content:
Composite volume of tracts on trade, coinage, taxation and national finance, by Charles Davenant and others. Contents: 1*: List of contents ff. 1-6: Tract on the decay of foreign trade. ‘Some Remarks on the Decayes of that so useful trade the England had before the year 1661, to Newfound L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

1504. Harley MS 1224

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1224
Title:
Alphabet of Acts of Parliament, with an index to the journals of the House of Lords
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 2-91: Alphabet to the calendar of the Acts of Parliament in the Parliament Office, containing acts from 12 Henry VII [1496/1497] to 32 Charles II [1680/1681]. ff. 92-117: Index to the journals of the Lords, for the first, second and third Parliaments of Ch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1680?
Extent:
1 volume

1505. Harley MS 1225

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1225
Title:
Treatise on wills and executors; treatise on 'Parsons Law'
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A table of contents for the manuscript, entitled: ‘Manuscript Collections’. ff. 2*recto-246v: ‘A Treatise: Of wills and Executors directorie to Testators in the choyse of theire Executours and contrivance of theire Wills, and to Executors in the execution of theire offic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1506. Harley MS 1226

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1226
Title:
Treatise concerning the court of the Star Chamber
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing a treatise written by William Hudson of Gray's Inn, in the hand of his son Christopher Hudson, concerning the court of the Star Chamber. The treatise is divided into three parts: Concerning the court itself i.e. the judges, officers and ministers. Concerning t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1621-1635
Extent:
1 volume

1507. Harley MS 1227

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1227
Title:
Collections of legal precedents
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-66r: Collection of precedents for pleadings etc. in the Court of Chancery. ff. 66r-69: Table to the above collection. ff. 70-180: Collection of precedents, such as conveyances, bonds, leases, assignments, useful to counsellors, attorneys etc. Including: The Style of George Villie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1508. Harley MS 1229

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1229
Title:
Missal
Scope & Content:
This Cistercian missal was written in England around 1200, possibly at the Cistercian abbey St Mary the Virgin at Waverley (Surrey): the abbey, founded in 1128, was the first Cistercian monastery in England. The missal’s size indicates that it was probably intended for use at the high altar. The...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

1509. Harley MS 1230

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1230
Title:
Henri, Duc de Rohan, Mémoires sur les choses qui se sont passées en France and other treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-101r: ‘Memoires du Duc de Rohan Sur les choses advenues en France depuis la mort de Henry le Grand iusques a la paix faicte avec les Reformes Au mois de mars Anno Domini 1628’. ff. 101v-134r: ‘Divers Discours ou traittes du Duc de Rohan Sur Divers Subiects’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1510. Harley MS 1231

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1231
Title:
A copy of the testament of John Rudston, Lord Mayor of London, with an inventory of his goods, funeral expenses, and other arrangements made following his death
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6r: A copy of the testament of John Rudston (b. 1480, d. 1531), Lord Mayor of London in 1528-1529, dated 1530. ff. 7v-13v: The ‘bying of pewkes and blakes Clothes for gownes whiche were gevyn And bequethede be Sir John Rudstone late knyght And Alderman of London whiche discea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1530s
Extent:
1 volume

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