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6732. Harley MS 6360
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6360
- Title:
- Astrological texts; texts on high treason
- Scope & Content:
- This composite manuscript consists of two separate parts. The first part (ff. 3r-31r) contains astrological texts copied in the 16th century; the second part (ff. 4r-133r) contains texts concerning high treason that were most likely copied in the late 16th century. Contents: ff. 3r-8v: Astrol...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6733. Harley MS 6362
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6362
- Title:
- William Roper, The lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 2r: A title-page: ‘The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore sometyme Chancellor of Englande written by the sonne in lawe William Roper of Eltham in the Counye of Kente esquier’. ff. 3r-47v: William Roper (b. 1495x8, d. 1578), The lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, here entitled: ‘The Lyfe of...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- c 1600
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6734. Harley MS 6363
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6363
- Title:
- A description of London; with a list of mayors and sheriffs from 1190-1588
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-52r: A ‘Breeff Description of the Famous Cittie of London Capitall Cittie of this Realme of England et caetera Anno 1588’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 53r: Notes about London, beginning: ‘Shoreditch Place otherwise called Inglerowe’; added in the 17th centur...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1588
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6735. Harley MS 6368
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6368
- Title:
- John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 'A Treatise towchinge the Right title & intrest of the Most excellent princesse Marie, Queene of Scottland, & of the most Noble Kinge James, her graces sonn to the Succession of the Crowne of England'
- Scope & Content:
- John Leslie [Lesley] (1527-1596), Bishop of Ross, was the leading polemicist of the right of Mary Queen of Scots to the English throne. His arguments were made in a number of printed versions in English, Latin, French and Spanish, and also survive in significant numbers of manuscript copies. The...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1584
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6736. Harley MS 6369
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6369
- Title:
- William Davison on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 1r–10r: A late 16th or early 17th-century copy of William Davison's declaration to Francis Walsingham concerning the beheading of Mary Queen of Scots. f. 1r: title page ('Secretarie Davisons declar[ation] to Secretarie Walsingham of his innocencie touching the Skotish Queene beheadinge'). ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- c 1600
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6737. Harley MS 6371
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6371
- Title:
- The Diariey of Robert Birrell Burgess of Edinburgh - Containing Diverse Passages of State, and uthers Memorable Accidents - From the 1532 Zeir of Our Redemption, Till the Beginning of the Zeir 1605
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 1r-77r: The Diariey of Robert Birrell Burgess of Edinburgh - Containing Diverse Passages of State, and uthers Memorable Accidents - From the 1532 Zeir of Our Redemption, Till the Beginning of the Zeir 1605.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Scots
- Date Range:
- 1605
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6738. Harley MS 6382
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6382
- Title:
- A Treatise contayninge the lyfe and manner of death of that most holy prelat and constant martyr of christ John ffisher Bishop of Rochester and Cardinall of the holy church of Rome
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-118r: A ‘Treatise contayninge the lyfe and manner of death of that most holy prelat and constant martyr of christ John ffisher Bishop of Rochester and Cardinall of the holy church of Rome’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- c. 1536-c. 1599
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6739. Harley MS 6391
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6391
- Title:
- A Relation of Prince Henryes noble and vertuous Disposition
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-8v: An anonymous author's account of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), entitled: ‘A Relation of Prince Henryes noble and vertuous Disposition and of Sundry his wittie and pleasant Speeches diverted to the right honourable the Lord Lumley and his Lady’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- c 1605
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6740. Harley MS 6395
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6395
- Title:
- Jests and curious stories of Nicholas L’Estrange
- Scope & Content:
- A book of 606 jests and anecdotes compiled by Nicholas L’Estrange (1604-1655), with unnumbered additions in a different hand. Anecdotes from L’Estrange’s own knowledge are identified by the initials S.N.L., while others are attributed to friends and relatives, including his brothers, Hamon L'Est...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and French
- Date Range:
- 1630s-1650s
- Extent:
- 1 volume