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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 338
Title:: English historical collection, mainly written by Sampson Erdeswick and John Joscelin
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A request to John Stow for drawing the descent of Herleva by Henry Savile of Banke (b. 1568, d. 1617). ff. 1*verso-1r: Notes on the descent of Herleva [Arlette], mother of William the Conqueror; by Sampson Erdeswicke (d. 1603). ff. 2r, 3r, 4r: Notes on the charter and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1590-1611
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 339
Title:: Papers of Sir Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:: Quarto manuscript volume containing various papers of Sir Simonds D'Ewes. Contents: ff. 1-2v: 'A breife meaning of God's law', seemingly written by Simonds D'Ewes as a school boy to his mother, along with other notes in English and Latin. ff. 3-3v: Part of a letter from Simonds D'Ewes to a cler...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1547-1650?
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 352
Title:: An abridgment of the Acts of the Privy Council of King Edward IV
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume, containing an abridgement of the book of the Acts of the Privy Council of King Edward IV, transcribed by Mr Ralph Starkey, and signed and dated, August 1620, by him on f. 256v. ff. 257-266 contains an index to this volume created by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, which follows the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1620
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 355
Title:: Law reports of William Bendlowes, Serjeant-at-Law
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume, containing law reports of William Bendlowes, here written Benlows, Serjeant-at-Law. The reports are indexed at the front of the volume.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 356
Title:: William of Malmesbury, De Gestis Pontificum Anglorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-231v: William of Malmesbury, De Gestis Pontificum Anglorum.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 357
Title:: John of Worcester, Chronicon; Eadmer, Historiae novorum in Anglia; Ordo succesionis archiepiscoporum Canutariensis ecclesiae a sancto Augustino Anglorum apostolo; Thomas Stubbes, Historia archiepiscopourm Ebarocensium ad Thomam Wolsey; John Philippson (Sleidanus), Latin abridgement of Jean Froissart’s Chronicles
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-17v, 99*recto-107v: John of Worcester, Chronicon (1057-1118); this copy may originally have been part of the same manuscript as Harley MS 96, ff. 121-180; Harley MS 397, ff. 2-8r; and Harley MS 359, ff. 9-14 (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1966), p. 217 [X.75])....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 359
Title:: Gerald of Wales, Descriptio Cambriae; Expugnatio Hibernica; Topographia Hibernica; and Itinerarium Cambriae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Gerald of Wales [Giraldus Cambrensis], Descriptio Cambriae. ff. 9r-14r: Gerald of Wales [Giraldus Cambrensis], Descriptio Cambriae; excerpts; including references to an exemplar on f. 11r: ‘Ex libro quodam veteri in quo continentur aliqua scripta Gyraldi Cambrensis et nun...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 360
Title:: Papers on the persecution and toleration of Catholics during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-126v: A collection of original tracts and other papers relating to religious affairs, dated to 1558-1625; mostly including tracts on the persecution and toleration of recusants and clergymen during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1558-1625
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 361
Title:: The queries of Sir Edmund Plowden, lawyer, and other legal texts
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1-67v: 'Les Quæres dle Monseiur Edmond Plowden, Apprentice dle Melieu Temple'. The queries of Sir Edmund Plowden, lawyer and legal theorist, of Middle Temple. ff. 68-74v: A judges charge to the jury, on the arraignment of some authors of the Martin Marprel...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: Late 16th century-Mid 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 363
Title:: Cases tried at the Court of Common Pleas
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume, containing reports of cases tried at the Court of Common Pleas, 1624-1625, transcribed by Sir Simonds D'Ewes. Some of the cases are incomplete.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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