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172. Harley MS 66
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 66
- Title:
- Transcripts of the Historia Sancti Albani scripta tempore Henrici III; excerpts from a register of Westminster Abbey attributed to Sulcard; excerpts from a cartulary of Abingdon Abbey; charters of the kings of Mercia, from King Oshere to King Alfred the Great; legal documents from the reign of Henry I to James I
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains an early 17th-century collection of transcripts of historical and legal documents ranging from the 9th century to the 17th century. The legal documents are written largely in Latin, but some of the early documents also contain sections in Old English (ff. 61r-61v, 62r, 6...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
173. Harley MS 67
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 67
- Title:
- Regalis Prosapia Anglorum descendens ab Adam
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-75v: Regalis Prosapia Anglorum descendens ab Adam.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1550
- Extent:
- 1 volume
174. Harley MS 68
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 68
- Title:
- Richard Birkhead, A brief discourse for the mayntenaunce, exercise, and trayning of a convenient nombre of Englishemen wherby they may be the Soner made Souldiours for the redier diffence of this realme of Englande
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-7v: Richard Birkhead, A brief discourse for the mayntenaunce, exercise, and trayning of a convenient nombre of Englishemen wherby they may be the Soner made Souldiours for the redier diffence of this realme of Englande.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
175. Harley MS 69
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 69
- Title:
- The booke of certaine triumphes
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-63v: A large collection of tracts, letters, and notes in English and French concerning court affairs and entertainment, jousting and the bearing of coats of arms, known as ‘The booke of certaine triumphes’. Decoration: Full-, half-, and quarter-page drawings of knights joust...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and French
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
176. Harley MS 70
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 70
- Title:
- Accounts of the Leonard estate, with later inventories of Paul D’Ewes
- Scope & Content:
- Manuscript accounts, 1581-1593, of William Leonard of Taunton, with papers relating to administration of his estate, 1598-1603, followed by inventories of goods belonging to Paul D’Ewes, 1618-1626. The entries formerly began at each end of the book, so that folios currently numbered 82-116 were ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1581-1626
- Extent:
- 1 item
177. Harley MS 70 and 7369
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 70 and 7369
- Title:
- Harley MS 70 and Harley MS 7369
- Scope & Content:
- Two unrelated manuscripts bound together.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 16th century-17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
178. Harley MS 71
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 71
- Title:
- A survey of all royal manors, honours, castles, lordships, tenements and other hereditaments in the counties of Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Warwickshire
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-80r: William Homberton (‘Esquire surveyor of the possessions’) and John Harwar (‘deputie receyvour’), survey of all royal manors, honours, castles, lordships, tenements and other hereditaments in the counties of Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Warwickshire; writte...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1558-1559
- Extent:
- 1 volume
179. Harley MS 72
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 72
- Title:
- Legal treatises
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 2r-8r: An index. ff. 8r-57r: A ‘reading or declaration of the Auctorytis, Libertis, and offices of a fforest, made upon the Statut called Carta de fforesta by one Treherne’. ff. 58r-75v: ‘Tretice of the Institutes of Peace by Mr ffletwood [but not in printe]’. ff. 76v-106v:...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
180. Harley MS 73
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 73
- Title:
- ‘The Journals of all the Parliaments during the raigne of Queene Elizabeth, both of the Upper Howse & Howse of Commons in three volumes, A.D. 1630’. Volume 1
- Scope & Content:
- Journals of Parliaments during the reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1601, compiled from original sources by Sir Simonds D’Ewes. First volume, including preface and tables for all three volumes, as well as the journals for 1558-1571. f. 1: Parchment title page, bearing 16 coats of arms of the D'Ewes a...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1630
- Extent:
- 1 volume